Jamming arches and jamming probability of flowing elliptical disks at the opening of a two-dimensional rotating hopper is studied experimentally. A two-dimensional rotating hopper of Plexiglas with variable opening width and slope is constructed to conduct quasi two-dimensional f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23602
Revelation of the presence of older sediments continues to evolve in the Anambra Basin through the biostratigraphy study of Ubiaja-1 well located in the Anambra Basin, Nigeria. The study is predicated with a view to determining the age of the oldest sediments, evidence of rework...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20452
Compounding a continuous lifetime distribution with a discrete one is a useful technique for constructing flexible distributions to facilitate better modeling of lifetime data. In this paper, a new family of lifetime distributions, called the generalized inverse Weibull power ser...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23215
The study aimed to assess the effect-combined use different of date palm composts amended with ligno-cellulolytic fungi and mineral-N on growth and N, P and K-uptake of maize plants in sandy calcareous soil. Each type of compost was applied either in organic form in dose equivale...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22719
The problem of allocating resources at the Mampong Municipal Assembly, Mampong-Ashanti with the aim of minimizing unnecessary lapses during budget allocation for resources by the assembly was considered. The problem was formulated as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem us...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/23169
A field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, during the period from February 2012 to May 2012 to investigate the effect of levels of phosphorus (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg ha-1) and boron (0, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 kg ha-1)...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/23532
Cardiothoracic surgeries are known to cause gastrointestinal complications due to its proximity to the peritoneal cavity. Such complications in susceptible patients are associated with adverse post-operative outcomes. While the majority of cases reported in the literature were re...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/23902
Timetabling is a problem faced in all higher education institutions. The International Timetabling Competition (ITC) has published a dataset that can be used to test the quality of methods used to solve this problem. A number of meta-heuristic approaches have obtained good result...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23143
A semigraph G is vertex-labeled semigraph, if its n-vertices are labeled by distinct symbols. In this paper various results on enumeration of vertex-labeled semigraphs containing non-adjacent edges and number of vertex-labeled semigraphs with two adjacent s-edges are obtained. Al...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23440
Aims and Objective: To determine the normal ocular dimensions (AP and width) in Jos, North Central Nigeria using computed tomography scan. Subjects and Methods: The ocular images of 251 patients who had cranial CT in Jos University Teaching Hospital without obvious ocular anomaly...
In Côte d’Ivoire, the craze for market gardening is due, in large part, to the high demand of vegetables in urban markets especially during off-season periods. However, the yields are subject to the destructive action of dreadful enemies of such crops, including the pathogenic fu...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/23681
Damaged okra plant roots as a result of plant parasitic nematodes infection leads to a reduced water and nutrients intake. The impact of some organic soil amendments on population densities of plant parasitic nematodes and okra yield was investigated between March and December 20...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/23382
Aims: The potential of limestone ash for the improvement of some geotechnical properties of Laterite soils for construction purposes was evaluated. The assessment involved the determination of the engineering properties of Laterite soil in its natural state as well as when mixed...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/22042
Aims: To evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of atosiban in delaying preterm labour. Study Design: A prospective, open label, non comparative study. Place of Study: Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College Mumbai, India. Methodology: Pregnant women (N=110) between the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23823