Mamadou Lamine Ndiaye, El Hadji Amath Diodio Ndiaye, Vieux Boukhaly Traore, Amadou Tahirou Diaw & Aboubacker Chedikh Beye·Archives of Current Research International·2016
In many Southern African countries, climate change observed these last years, had serious consequences on the environment and the well-being of urban populations. This study aims to analyze the consequences due to rainfall variability and urban dynamics in the Commune of Ouakam....
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/30214
This study determines the long run association between external debt default, domestic debt outstanding, external reserve and balance of trade over a period of thirty five years from 1981 to 2015. The secondary data covering the period of the study were sourced from the Central B...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29976
One of the major advantages of doubled haploid lines (DHL) is the maximum genetic variance between lines for testcross performance from the first generation. Two hundred fifty four testcrosses were produced as a result of crossing between 254 DHL's and an inbred line tester. The...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29523
The study sought to find out how efficient the Montessori Method of Teaching, MMT is on Ordinary level (‘O’ level) pupils’ achievement in mensuration. This research was carried out in Zimbabwe, at a private school over a period of four months, using a sample of 32 ‘O’ level pupil...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29838
Aims: The aim of this study is the qualitative evaluation of the edible oils that are used for cooking purpose in Bangladesh. Study Design: This study was designed for selecting a good quality edible oil among various edible oils available in the local market of Bangladesh. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29464
The study of geography and environmental studies deals with various environmental challenges i.e. climate change, natural disasters, sea level rise, ocean environment degradation, urban pollution so on. Due to the geographical location of Bangladesh, these incidents are regular p...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29017
Benjamin Sunday C. Uzochukwu, Miriam O. Ajuba, Chinyere Cecilia Okeke, Edmund Ndudi Ossai, Ancilla Kate Umeobieri & Anne Chigedu Ndu·Archives of Current Research International·2016
Aims: Aim of study was to determine the level of awareness of adverse drug reactions following treatment of malaria and the reporting systems available among community members and health workers and suggestions on how to improve the reporting system in Enugu state, Nigeria. Study...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28218
Aims: This study was done in an attempt to reduce the percentage of losses in water treatment plants and networks by reducing its possible causes. Study Design: There are many causes for losses in water treatment plants and networks like water lost in water treatment plants due t...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29574
Electrical resistivity method was used to study the movement of municipal solid waste landfills leachate of Niger-Cat, Donparkar and Orhuwhorun dump sites in Warri Metropolis, Southern Nigeria. Both Electrical Resistivity Profiling and Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) were carr...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29577
When teaching elementary statistics courses, instructors may find themselves frequently drawing by hand the probability density functions of normal and t distributions. The author presents the R-package fastGraph, containing new functions in R, allowing graphs of probability dens...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29429
Aims: The study assesses the extent of lead pollution in contaminated site from artisanal gold mining for remediation purposes. Study Design: Experimental design was used in field sampling of soil and water samples based on the land use and sources of water. Study Area and Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29551
Jatropha gossypiifolia L. [Euphorbiaceae], widely known as “bellyache bush”, is a medicinal plant native to Mexico, south America, India and commonly found in many west African countries such as Nigeria. Folkloric uses of the different parts of this plant in the tropics for the m...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28793
The great target for mankind is always to achieve the optimum use of available resources against the increasing food and other demands of the world population versus the shrinking resources. This paper provides snapshots of research and practical implementation of optimum design...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28828
Air can play a vital role as a reservoir for both pathogenic and non pathogenic living microorganisms. Microbial contamination of air hospitals is considered as a source of hospital-associated infections. This study aimed to assess microbial profile of air contamination in diffe...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29066
The objectives of the present investigation were to determine the type of gene action, heritability and expected genetic advance from selection for agronomic and yield traits of maize under water stress and optimum irrigation and to identify the parents that contain favorable gen...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28281