Heat pipes are widely used as a cooling system in various equipments such as air conditioning systems, electronic boards, etc. To enhance the heat transfer, these pipes can be finned, or increased the air velocity by using a fan. This study aimed at examining the cooling effect o...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18420
This study was conducted to look at factors that may influence young people in rural communities to choose farming as a career. This paper is based on the experiences of some selected young farmers in the Manya Krobo traditional areas of Ghana. Employing one of the occupational c...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17414
The scavenging behavior of the Bengal Monitor (Varanus bengalensis) was studied at Jahangirnagar University campus, Bangladesh, from February 2010 to July 2010 by following focal sampling method. The behavioral patterns that were observed are scavenging, moving, resting, conflict...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18258
Power generation is the means of generating power supply into the society. This paper tells how power is being generated from various sources (nuclear, coal, solar, wind, natural gas, water, geothermal, biomass), its major impacts on the society and the possible solution to probl...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17143
The study was carried out to appraise tomato value chain in order to promote the development of tomato production and processing industry in Nigeria. Currently in Nigeria, about 1.8 Million tonnes of fresh tomato are produced per year, but over 50% of these are lost due to poor s...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16921
Aim: The study assessed the effect of urban construction labour supply on agriculture in Nsukka urban, Enugu State, Nigeria. Study Design: Simple random sampling technique was employed to select respondents for the study. Methodology: The population of the study included all rura...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16262
Addressing disputes of everyday moral diversity in research and related activities embraces concepts-of-right-and-wrong conduct. To transmit scientific information and theories, besieging gaps abound. Various communication tools have been explored to address exchange of informati...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16691
Aim: The present study investigated the effect of operating parameters in modeling the cooling rate of water quenched process. Methodology: A three factor, three levels Box-Behnken design (BBD) of RSM was applied to determine the effects of three independent variables (Time (A),...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/13673
The education domain is one of the business areas with abundant data. Nowadays, most of tertiary educational institutions have dilemmas in identifying probable secondary schools which are considered as feeders for enrollment. The data mining technique of classification has been u...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16940
Aims: This investigation was conducted to manufacture butter oil (samin) from whey and evaluate the product physicochemically and microbiologically during the storage period as well as to study the profitability of it. Methodology: Butter oil (samin) was manufactured from whey le...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17868
Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail, Che Fauziah Ishak, Mohd. Armi Abu Samah, Erneeza Mohd. Hatta & Aini Syuhaida Abdul Wahab·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2015
Soil is a complex matrix and a major reservoir of contamination. It has the ability to bind many potential toxic elements such as heavy metals and they can exist in various forms. Leachate triggered soil contamination in waste landfill through sorption and migration process. This...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15102
A successful oil well drilling depends largely on a good mud Program. During drilling, mud provides sufficient hydrostatic pressure, removes drill cuttings and cools drill bits. Mud additives are always required to provide sufficient hydrostatic pressure to ensure borehole stabil...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15095
Aims: This study addressed the effects of cognitive reasoning ability and prior exposure to content on Upper Basic two (8th grader) students’ retention in Basic Science. This focus was necessitated by the persistent poor performance in science generally and inability to meet up w...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18260
Recently image-based rendering techniques have received much attention as a powerful method to build up 3D world for virtual reality systems. The paper describes one of the new techniques which allow a user to metamorphose a digital image into other image. The approach gives the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17896
Petroleum refining is accompanied by the release of toxicants into the environment, including suspended particulate matter (SPM), poisonous gaseous oxides of carbon (COx), nitrogen (NOx), and sulphur (SOx) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S), ammonia (NH3), volatile organic compounds (VO...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/13627