Total anthropogenic greenhouse gases have continued to increase with municipal solid waste dumpsites contributing immensely to the high concentrations of greenhouse gases with high warming potentials. This study is aimed at determining the global warming potentials of municipal s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24126
Aims: Phytochemical investigation of phenolic content in Mesembryanthemum forsskaolii Hochst. Ex. Boiss (family Aizoaceae). Methodology: Chromatographic isolation of the total alcohol extract of the herb followed by the spectroscopic identification of the isolated compounds was p...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/27794
Pairs trading are standard approaches for statistical arbitrage detection. The logic behind pair trading approach is to construct a portfolio of two financial assets with special weights where this portfolio has zero value in time zero and creates positive value with a high proba...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJOM/2016/27315
Aims: To compare the levels of heavy metals and total petroleum hydrocarbons in water and Macrobrachium vollenhovenii samples from different locations of anthropogenic activities. Study Design: Factorial design. Place and Duration of Study: Egbokodo River, located in Warri South...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27148
Sucrose phosphate synthase has role in synthesis of sucrose and cellulose in higher plants. A 2 kb cotton sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) promoter and its 1.5 kb deletion fragment were cloned in plant expression vector pGA482 respectively. Both promoter fragments were transforme...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27071
Aims: This study investigated the efficiency of some bioagents and fungicides against causals agents of gummosis of citrus. Study Design: Antifungal activities of bioagents and effect of fungicides. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biological Sciences and Plant Protecti...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27247
This study investigated the factors affecting credit accessibility in Owerri agricultural zone of Imo state. Multi-stage sampling technique was used for sample selection. Data were collected with the use of structured and validated questionnaire from 7 purposively selected instit...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/25002
The article has attempted to organise the various committee reports on Indian sugar industry from 1974 to 2013 and explicit their relevance to partial decontrol of sugar sector in 2013. A careful review of various reports indicate partial decontrol in sugar sector as a long await...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/27551
This study examined the effect of the science specialist delivery model on pupils’ achievement in Primary science. Only one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a pretest-posttest control group quasi experimental research design. A total of 403 p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26678
The comparative evaluations of the species diversity of three parallel forest ecosystems were evaluated to ascertain and establish the differences in species diversity and abundance. The Point Center Quarter method of plotless sampling was employed while Shannon Wiener’s Index of...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/27154
The positive development of entrepreneurs in any society enhances the socio-development of that society. Entrepreneurship thrives in competitive and challenging markets, under this competitive and liberalized environment, telecom industry is growing at an unimaginable pace. This...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/21506
It is well-known that the most popular probability density estimator is kernel density estimator in literature. Adaptive kernel density estimators are generally preferred for data with long tailed densities. In this paper, the adaptive kernel estimators for probability density fu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/27756
Aims: Eupatorium arnottianum Griseb is used in popular medicine for gastric pains. So, the aim of this study was to investigate the possible spasmolytic effects of ethanolic and dichloromethanic extracts of the plant using preclinical methods. ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/28009
Present report is part of study carried out on helminths of little cormorants of ecological famous District Sanghar of southern province of Pakistan. Present study collected 26 trematodes having stout, linguiform, fleshy body, sub-terminal oral sucker, strongly muscular ventral s...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27782
Aims: Isolation and characterization of heavy metal tolerant microorganism from sea shore soil of Andaman Islands (India). Study Design: (a) Sample collection and isolation of multimetal resistant bacteria. (b) Relative growth of bacterial isolates in presence of heavy metal. (c)...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27453