A study is herein presented aiming to detect structure cohesion failure before its appearance in form of cracks on precious painted canvas surfaces subjected to transportation. Transportation is of prime importance for the deterioration mechanisms that disintegrate the structural...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11388
The effect of the pipe wall temperature on the heat transfer and the internal solidification phenomena during the pouring of pure molten iron in a pipe is studied in this work. A mathematical model consisting in the motion, mass balance and heat equations is proposed. The Reynold...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11625
In this work, the use of a cost-effective biosorbent Lawsonia inermis was investigated for removal of Zn (II) ions from aqueous solutions. Different operational parameters such as the effect of pH, biomass dose, equilibrium time, temperature and initial metal ion concentrations w...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12314
Hamed Abshari, M. Reza Emami Azadi & Madjid Sadegh Azar·Advances in Research·2014
There are various theoretical methods and procedures to evaluate instability of members in steel frames, in which effects of overall buckling and also geometrical nonlinearity are considered. In the first part, aims are to compare these conventional methods and investigate the po...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11358
Purpose: This study aimed to explore possible factors which may influence the implementation of new-born and infant hearing screening programmes at Primary Healthcare Clinics in South Africa at Maternal Child Woman’s Health (MCWH) immunisation clinics. Participants: Thirty primar...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11387
This narrative review paper briefly and anecdotally discusses the current reality and future requirements across nations to invest in public health prevention strategies to ensure global health. Many novel public health campaigns have been underway and much of the research litera...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10279
The effect of lunar phases on natural disasters has been discussed from time to time. In the present work we have made an attempt to investigate the impact of lunar phases on the natural disasters viz. cyclone, earthquake, slides and floods. We have observed the increasing trend...
Ashiver Elizabeth Annune, Chinwe. N. Ezeani & Victoria N. Okafor·Advances in Research·2014
The descriptive survey design using questionnaires and structured interview were adopted as instrument for data collection. Population of study consisted of 391 with the determined sample size of 198 fishermen. Frequency count, simple percentages and mean (x̅) were used to analyz...
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between national GDP and safety standards by determining if the rate of fatal occupational injury is high or low. We examine countries in two broad categories: The developed markets and the emerging markets. This study is limited for the...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11157
Environmental effects of drought, flooding and erosion results to soil degradation. Sustainable soil conservation practices are thus inevitable for agricultural production, food security, farmers’ well being and rural economy. This study therefore investigated the soil conservati...
The study investigated the influence of parents, teachers and government attitudes towards sexuality education on inappropriate sexual behaviours of secondary school students. One hundred and twenty-five senior secondary school students were used for the study. Related literature...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10315
The perception of the Sri Lankan public on Genetically Modified (GM) foods was examined by administrating a structured questionnaire to 800 selected respondents. Wide range of questions was included in the questionnaire and it was structured to have comprehensive idea about the u...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11757
In perspective of scoring criteria, topic settings, and testing emphases, this paper, by comparing the writing task of TOEFL and TEM-8, tried to analyze cultural differences reflected in those two exams, and to put forth some suggestions in English teaching of higher education in...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12146
Aref A. M. Aly, Maged S. Al-Fakeh, Mahmoud A. Ghandour & Bahaa M. Abu-Zied·Advances in Research·2014
Nanosized mixed ligand Mn(II), Co(II), Cu(ІІ), Cd(II) and Pb(ІІ) coordination polymers derived from 1,3-di (4-pyridyl) propane (DPP) and benzimidazole (BIMZ) were synthesized. The compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR and electronic spectral studies. The therm...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10142
Aims: This study investigated the effectiveness of a teacher mentoring programme in enhancing pre-service teacher’s attitude towards the teaching profession. Study Design: The study was a pretest, post test quasi experimental design. Place and Duration of Study: The study took pl...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12094