A total of 235 chainsaw milling (CSM) operations have been visited from 1st June to 31st July 2011 in order to interview 85 sawyers from 15 villages in the forestry zone surrounding Kumba, Cameroon. In the field, four categories of sawyers (Type I, II, III, and IV) were different...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24991
Climate change as one of the greatest threats to environmental sustainability, can impact on any sector of the economy including tourism. Thus, this study examined the possible impacts of climate change on the tourism potential of Ebomi Lake, Ondo State, Nigeria. Available litera...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24285
This investigation compared the suitability of different diets for larviculture of meagre (Argyrosomus regius). For this purpose, wild fish were caught with longline and subsequently fed either a commercial diet or a mollusc diet. After two years, there was a significant differen...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/23259
Pure Hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanoparticles doped with Mn2+ and Fe3+ ions were synthesized using wet chemical method (WCM). Samples were characterized by different spectroscopic techniques such as XRD, FTIR, and ESR. The measurements revealed that a typical HAp powder pattern was obt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24940
The rapid increase of the population in Egypt together with a limited cultivated area results in an acute need for additional production of various crops. A two – year field trial was conducted in El-Boustan region, South El-Tahrir Province, El-Behira Governorate, Egypt to decrea...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/23895
Fish is one of the most highly perishable food products, during handling and storage, causing rapid quality deterioration of fresh fish and limits the shelf life of the product. Bacteria isolates were collected from the gills, skins and guts of Brycinus longipinnis from Eggua, st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/18287
The study examines the effect of Land Management practices on technical efficiency of food crop farmers in North Central Nigeria. Data for the study were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaire from 345 food crop farmers, while data analyses were carried out using...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/23791
The prosperity of technology worldwide has made the concerns of security tend to increase rapidly. The enormous usage of Internetworking has raised the need of protecting systems as well as networks from the unauthorized access or intrusion. An intrusion is an activity of breakin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23668
Introduction: Promoting positive life style is a strategy for delaying and reducing the incidence of diabetes complications. Objective: To determine the perception of educators about the quality of education services provided to diabetic patients at the health centers in Khartoum...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24943
About 20% of the net cultivable land is affected by various levels of salinity, which leads to season loss and crop loss. A rice variety BINA 7 was used to develop saline tolerant, high yielding varieties through TILLING. 10 rice lines including 5 from TILLING (Targeting Induced...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23868
Aims: The main objective of this work was to investigate the apoptotic genes of sheep liver hepatocytes to elucidate the apoptosis pathway mechanisms during Fasciola hepatica infection using molecular and serological techniques. Study Design: This is a laboratory based study wher...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24186
Lipases obtained from healthy and pebrinised larvae were purified by 45-85% (NH4)2SO4 fractionation followed by Sephadex S-100 gel filtration and CM-Sepharose. In both the samples final enzyme purification reported was 19.02 and 17.7 folds(magnitude) and the recovery of final pur...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24442
Aims: We report a case of bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in a patient who had been working with repetitive tasks for almost thirty years on his own business as pizza maker in a small restaurant. Food production outside the industry of food processing is often neglected in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25025
Aims: Cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis is a rare disease. The term 'phaeohyphomycosis' is applied for various groups of dematiaceous fungal infections whose characteristics are pigmented hyphae production. In Iran, very few cases of phaeohyphomycosis have been reported. Presentation...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24583
Aims: This study aims to document the onset, types and factors associated with vestibulo-otologic (VO) events among patients on treatment for drug resistant Tuberculosis (DRTb). Study Design: This is a prospective study of patients with drug resistant Tuberculosis who were admitt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24421