Retinopathy in general, diabetic retinopathy in particular is the major concerns of blindness and appearance of hard exudates is one of its early symptoms. Since almost two decades, researchers are striving to develop automated algorithms and systems either to detect or to grade...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20735
Aims: The object of the research is to provide empirical evidence on the Jordanian industrial companies how to measure a value of their non-current assets impairment through analysis of Discount Cash Flows (DCF), to reach evidence that the occurrence of impairments is less depend...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19786
Online retailing, a business activity in e-commerce, is the process of selling physical goods on the internet while online shopping is the process of buying and selling goods and services over the internet. Item recommendations, however, is a business strategy in e-commerce emplo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21466
Aims: The study investigates how local people perceive climate change/variability, its impacts and coping mechanisms in the Bamenda highlands of north western Cameroon Study Design: A household-based descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The Bamenda high...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21818
The renewal of the staff in companies, with no possibilities sometimes for the newcomers to meet experienced workers already retired, is considered by some analysts as a “skills drain”. In such a context, improving the occupational training program is a crucial challenge for any...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21632
Objectives: Neurosurgery Reporting System (NeuroSyRS), innovative information system application designed for healthcare with comprehensive scope. NeuroSyRS is a web-based with costum-made, modular-dynamic design; can be enhanced using cloud. Methods: NeuroSyRS combines the open-...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21545
Agriculture is an important aspect of Nigerian economy in that it provides food, employment, raw material for industries. This sector can affect and can be affected by climate change variations in the area. These effects need to be identified and adaptation strategies ascertained...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21347
A study has been carried to determine the trends in atmospheric circulation forms in the beginning of the current warming in Middle Asia, on the basis of interannual changes of duration of synoptic processes in Middle Asia over the last 60 years. This study was conducted in Uzbek...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20497
The paper aims to clarify the influence of hard and soft power in online purchase decisions. A fundamental property of online social networks is that people tend to have attributes similar to those of their friends. To understand the effects of social power on the influence of op...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21580
With the exponential growth of textual information available from the Internet, there has been an emergent need to find relevant and in-time knowledge about crimes from this huge size of information. The huge size of such data makes the process of retrieving and analyzing texts m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21504
Aims: The aim of this research is to verify the suitability of local gravel aggregates obtained from the Southern part of Akwa Ibom State for designed concrete production in place of crushed granite aggregate sourced from distance places at exorbitant cost. This paper assesses th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20365
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) concept has been practiced in the manufacturing sectors. However, there is no model so far in the service sector to measure its system performance. This paper is therefore tries to develop an Overall Service Effectiveness (OSE) model for serv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19679
Mixed fruit jam was prepared from blends of pineapple, tomato and pawpaw at different ratios while, commercial jam from strawberry served as the control. Jams made from different fruit ratios and the control were examined for their proximate composition, mineral contents as well...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21123
Eigenvalues are a special set of scalars associated with a linear system of equations, that are sometimes also known as characteristic roots. In this work, a Java-based algorithm is developed to find the eigenvalues for Toeplitz matrices using Adomian’s decomposition method (shor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21872
Azanza garckeana fruits, leaves, stem-bark and roots were both quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed to determine the nutritional, non-nutritional, elemental and amino acid content. The nutritional (proximate) analysis reveals the highest and lowest moisture content in the fr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19811