The paper explained how seasoned timber can be preserved against fungi and insects attack. Types of wood and the causes of wood deterioration is also explained in the paper. It discussed Methods of applying preservatives and ways of seasoning timber. Methods of calculating moistu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8796
Aims: Organizational commitment (OC) is one of employees’ attitudes toward their organizations. The study aims at comparing the organizational commitment level of employees across four sector organizations to explore whether OC is influenced by organizational characteristics (typ...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7613
Aims: Financial factors are significantly related to the performance of construction firms. Moreover, total failure of the construction firms is higher than the percentage of failures of firms in other industries. Therefore, this study was conducted to achieve three objectives. F...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8418
In this paper, we study the Schur geometric convexity (concavity) of the ratio of difference of means. Also established some inter related mean inequalities related to the ratio of difference of means.
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7152
Aims: To explore the benefits of NbN coating on mild steel (MS) with electroless nickel (EN) interlayer. Study Design: To deposit NbN coatings at various N2/Ar flow-ratios and substrate biasing; optimize the parameters and then deposit NbN on MS with EN interlayer. Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7355
Aims: To review the trend of occupational accidents and fatality in Greek Marine fish farms. Study Design: Data on the occupational accidents in the Greek Mariculture industry are reviewed and compared with Occupational Accidents in Greece and in Europe. Place and Duration of Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8886
In this paper composite integral operators are studied. The necessary and sufficient conditions for composite integral operator minus identity operator to be isometry and unitary are obtained. It is shown that the set of all composite integral operators is algebra. The condition...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8237
To promote water security of all countries worldwide, the United Nations established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. MDG goal number seven requires that the number of citizens worldwide who lack access to safe water and improved sanitation be reduced by 50% by th...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9178
Aim: To investigate the feasibility of syncopated (anti-phase) gait, particularly at different walking cadences. We expect it to be more successful at preferred speed because of central pattern generators (CPGs), subcortical neural networks which contribute to gait’s automaticity...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8854
Purpose: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is characterized by obesity, dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol), hyperglycemia, and hypertension. With the constantly increasing epidemic of metabolic syndrome in the US population, our purpose is to review the impact...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7748
Aims/Objectives: The investigation assessed and compared the performance of broilers fed on a vegetable based (VB) diet supplementation of antibiotic growth promoter (AGP) and organic acids (OA) either independently or in combination. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7237
Aims: This study was conducted to determine the occurrence of malaria among children underfive years and to assess the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of the children’s mothers regarding malaria and preventive measures. Study design: The study was cross-sectional in design....
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7559
Aim: A wide range of antibacterial discs are commercially available in Nigeria that are either manufactured locally or imported. The quality of papers used in the manufacture of these discs can play a considerable role in their performance during antibiotic susceptibility testing...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9078
The purpose of this paper is to develop a regime switching technique to optimise mean and regression of a missing data set whose sample is small in size with a low degree of correlation. The data sets were first generated with a simple random method and later treated with the mis...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8637