This research aim at investigating the flexible pavement performance of some selected Highways in Orolu Local Government area of Osun State, South-western Nigeria. In order to achieve this, the study involved interview sessions with relevant parties, administering of questionnair...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15172
Rodrigo Stephani, Mariana Ramos de Almeida, Marcone Augusto L. de Oliveira, Luiz Fernando Cappa de Oliveira, Ítalo Tuler Perrone & Paulo Henrique Fonseca da Silva·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2015
This study deals with the evaluation of the behavior of viscosity evolution of the Milk Protein Products (MPPs) solutions in different concentrations used in different conditions of thermal processing by means of Rapid Visco Analyzer (RVA). Skimmed milk powder (SMP), whey protein...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15372
In the future, south Florida will be flush with water due to sea level rise and increased storm intensity, meaning there are three options to deal with this problem – retreat, offshore discharges or finding a use for the water. The first is not an option so the others must be eva...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14046
Aim: This study explores the potential of scatter plots as a tool in validating proposed structures for novel Eudesmane Sesquiterpenes. Methodology: Substituents on the skeletons of several Eudesmane compounds were coded and plotted against the 13C chemical shift values for each...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15724
A software of seismic data collection was developed based on building a surface data base. The software represents a better way to manage seismic exploration data. The Browser/server (B/S) and the Client/server (C/S) are used to realize integrating the function of processing/inte...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14783
Aims: The paper analyzes the impacts of coal mining activities on West Virginia’s environment using GIS. Study Design: Adopted a mixscale appoach. Methodology: The aproach is applied to GIS and primary data connected to descriptive statistics by analyzing the impacts of mining wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7066
This paper gives a brief discussion on the Multinomial coefficients. Using this notion, we obtain generalizations of the Vandermonde’s and the Chu Shih-Chieh’s identities for the Binomial coefficients, respectively. This is done through the use of two known principles in Combinat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15505
The work aims to provide feasible structures for the open processes based thermal cycle as well as the regenerative open processes based thermal cycle characterised by rendering high thermal efficiency at low temperatures. Both cycles differ from the conventional Carnot-based the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13696
Aim: The objective of this work was to produce complementary foods from germinated/fermented sorghum, germinated/roasted soybean and dried roselle calyces. Methodology: Complementary foods were formulated from sorghum, soybean and roselle calyces by varying the processing methods...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14707
Research was conducted at Curtin University (Western Australia) to assess the seedling tolerance of three species Eucalyptus, gomphocephala DC (Myrtaceae) (common name ‘Tuart’), Eucalyptus marginata Sm. (common name ‘Jarrah’) and Corymbia calophylla (Lindl.) K.D. Hill & J. A....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13756
In the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, there is a need to create an aseptic environment. Part of creating an aseptic environment is having HEPA filters installed and working properly. Many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) require strict...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15044
Aims: The aim of this study was to assess Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) levels in liquid and powdered milk and other dairy products in Jordan using ELISA technique and antiaflatoxin M1 (AFM1 reduction) effect of fermentation, high heat treatments and the addition of plant extracts during m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13622
The availability of energy in wood wastes is evaluated in this work. Biomass from seven tropical wood species; Obeche (Triplochiton scleroxylon); Iroko (Melicia excelsa); Danta (Nesogordonia papaverifera); Mahogany (Khaya ivorensis); Omo (Cordia platythyrsa); Mansonia (Mansonia a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/12930
Knowledge of the acid value (AV), peroxide value (PV), iodine value (IV) and iron concentration (quality-index variables) in oils is an indication of the edibility of the oil because these are parameters of oil-deterioration. The semi-processed oil is used to prepare a delicacy c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14691
The effect of residual stress of multiple welding repairs in seamless API 5L X52 on the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) susceptibility was evaluated. Four repairs of the girth weld were evaluated through X-ray diffraction (XRD) on the internal face of the pipe to measure residual...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14931