Manufacturing is the transformation of ideas, designs, materials and information into products for satisfaction of human needs. However, advanced manufacturing technology is the application of advances in production methodologies to increase productivity, improve existing product...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10597
Flours and starches from three Nigeria rice varieties CISADANE (Faro51), OS6 (Faro11) and NERICA 19 were evaluated for their pasting, thermal and gel texture properties. Their thermal properties were evaluated with Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) andpasting properties wer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12273
Aims: Rice husk was chemically treated to be used as bio sorbent for removal of humic substances from peat swamp runoff. The spent bio sorbent was then applied as soil conditioner for enhancing plant growth. Study Design: Randomized Complete Block Design. Place and Duration of St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12572
The present paper involves a detailed comparison between the salt tolerance and physiological responseof three eucalypt species occurring within the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia. Eucalyptus gomphocephala DC (Myrtaceae) (common name ‘Tuart’) is restricted to the calcareou...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11008
The present work is focusing on characterizing the films of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) with various mass fractions of NiCl2/CdCl2 by different techniques. XRD scans revealed the semicrystalline nature of the prepared films and demonstrated that...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12317
Carrier phase measurements are much more precise than pseudorange measurements and can be used to achieve very accurate positioning solutions. However, carrier phase measurements require resolution of integer ambiguities before precise positioning can be achieved. The GPS receive...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11850
Chitin Nanofibril (CN) is the purest crystal form of chitin obtained industrially from fishery and crustacean waste. Characterized by positive charges covering its surface, this natural polymer has the ability to form block copolymeric nanoparticles with electronegative natural o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11181
Tracking moving objects in a video sequence is a critical task in several computer vision applications. A common approach is to perform background subtraction which identifies moving objects in a video frame. The mixture of Gaussians model is one of the most popular techniques fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12093
Today, in the context of product innovation, the environmental dimension takes a new dimension and cannot be separated from other product requirements which make it competitive. Tools are available but unfortunately proficiency levels required for their use are at the expert’s le...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10546
The Black – Scholes (B-S) model is one of the widely used models in the pricing of financial option. The B-S model like most other models hinges on assumptions; one of which is the normality condition. A lot of researches have shown that using the log-return of developed market i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5246
Most flavonoids are known to have anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial and analgesic properties. In this study, the new flavonoids, 7-methoxy-3,3’,4’,6-tetrahydroxyflavone (1) and 2’,7-dihydroxy-4’5’-dimethoxyisoflavone (2) isolated from Streptomyces sp. BT01 inhibited the pro-inflammato...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12049
A new series of polyamides based on diarylidene derivatives were synthesized from 2,5-bis(m-aminobenzylidene)cyclopentanone VIII, 2,6-bis(m-aminobenzylidene)cyclohexanone IX, 2,7-bis(m-aminobenzylidene) cyclheptanone X and bis(m-aminobenzylidene) acetone XI by reaction with diaci...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11067
Aims: To derive an expression for the wavelength/frequency of Hawking radiation emitted by non-spinning black holes in terms of the radius of event horizon (λ=8πRs & v= c/8πRs) using quantum theory of radiation (E= hv) energy of Hawking radiation and the radius of event horiz...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11514
Enzymatic antioxidant was determined to establish a possible environmental impact on toxic metal in fish Danio rerio. Alterations in the antioxidant cellular systems have often been proposed as biomarkers of pollutant-mediated toxicity. This prompted us to investigate the activit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10374
This study investigates the strength properties of paper samples obtained from pulp blend of corn husk and kenaf bark. Soda pulping of kenaf bark and corn husk was carried out using 18% and 7% alkali respectively. Handmade paper sheets were produced from bleached pulp samples com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10745