Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate water quality status of rivers OBA, ORA and SUNSUN for irrigated agriculture in Ogbomoso, Southwest Nigeria. Study Design: Data were analyzed using 2 x 3 factorial design, with two sampling sites and three sampling periods as trea...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/24713
Aims: To identify, using standard biochemical tests, a polymerase chain reaction and sequencing, the soft rot species presumed to be the cause of potato soft rot and blackleg affecting potatoes in commercial farms around the Harare area in Zimbabwe. Study Design: Biochemical test...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/24553
Meropenem is one of the new carbapenem antibacterial agent with wide spectrum of activity against Gram-negative, Gram-positive and anerobic organisms. It has greatest utility in the treatment of children hospitalized with serious bacterial infections. Despite its usefulness and r...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/24618
Background: Different parts of Vitellaria paradoxa are being used in the treatment of different diseases in several parts of Nigeria without considering its safety. Aim: This study was aimed at investigating the effect of ingestion of Vitellaria paradoxa stem bark extract on the...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/24936
A correction is brought to the opinion expressed in a previous note that the off critical line points indicated as being non trivial zeros of Davenport and Heilbronn function are affected of approximation errors and illustrations are presented which enforce the conclusion that th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/24648
The efficiency of nonpolar InxGa(1-x)N material based hybrid lateral multi-junction solar cells was simulated using finite element approach. In this work we have used p-i-n and p-n structures for designing the sub-cells of hybrid lateral multi-junction solar cells. We have optimi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24678
Aims: To evaluate the antibacterial activities of aqueous extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn calyces and ciprofloxacin, separately and in combination, and introduce a simple method in the study of drug interactions. Study Design: Experimental design. Place and Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24793
The study analyzed the constraints to adoption of improved fish farming technologies by fish farmers in Yola North and South Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria. Primary data which were obtained through the use of questionnaires and personal interview administered to...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20729
The information on farmers’ adoption of local seed systems is based on field visits undertaken in the Zarqa and Mafraq Regions in Jordan. Farmers’ adoption depends upon social relation, locally developed seed exchange methods and private companies which are presented as leverage...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/24291
In this paper, we investigate the effects of electron inertia on the gravitational instability of gaseous plasma under the influence of FLR (Finite Larmor Radius) corrections and suspended particles. A general dispersion relation has been derived through relevant linearized pertu...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/22850
F-theory, as Theory of everything is compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds or fourfolds. Using Batyrev’s toric approximation and mirror symmetry of Calabi-Yau manifolds it is possible to present Calabi-Yau in the form of dual integer polyhedra. With the help of Gelfand, Zelevinsk...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/24190
The thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) depends on their length and the diameter. At room temperature, the thermal conductivity of CNTs increases as its length increases as well as its diameter decreases. Aligned long single-walled carbon nanotubes (AL-SWCNTs) are exp...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/24520
Recommendation system acts as a tool in providing the most appropriate service to the user. Currently, information through online services is increased. This leads to the overhead of data in online and there is a possibility of getting less accurate prediction. In previous approa...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24184
Aim: To assess the effectiveness of water-reducing additives in relation compressive strength of cement pastes. Methodology: Experimental study, Materials used were natural zeolite from Egypt, with a grain size up to 0.08 mm, containing zeolite (clinoptilolite) - 75%, and ratio S...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/23541
We reported an improved performance of a dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) modified fluorine tin oxide (FTO) electrode through successive ion layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR). The resulting photoelectrode was successfully incorporated in th...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24439