The study aimed at investigating the relationship between upper basic pupils’ study habits and their academic performance in English Language in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. In order to achieve the objective of this study, three null hypotheses were formu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/4025
In many applications, the solution of a cubic equation is required. This study improves on the existing methods of solving cubic equations. The general expression for the quadratic factor of a cubic equation is derived. The discriminant of the cubic equation, adopted in this stud...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10934
In this paper, a new model for the linking of within- and between-host with nonlinear incidence rate is constructed and investigated. We postulate that the infection process depend on the size of the infective inoculum that susceptible hosts may acquire by interacting with a cont...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11768
The residual parametric equation of the heat equations of nuclear reactors were transformed into control system. Optimization techniques were used to established the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the model.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11046
We establish the sufficient conditions of complete synchronization with probability 1 in the coupled bidirectional piecewise linear chaotic systems with common or different Poisson noises and the positive effects of Poisson noises on the complete synchronization will be found bas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12578
A lot of investment has been made in the agricultural sector of Ghana to increase agricultural production through the introduction of new technologies. However, it has been observed that despite efforts being made by the government through the introduction of new varieties of mai...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11646
In this paper we present a new optimization algorithm for Economic environmental dispatch EED of power systems. The purpose of EED problem is to compute the optimal generation for individual units of the power system by minimizing the fuel cost and emission levels simultaneously,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11526
Aims: To understand the role of gender on Bambara groundnut cultivation with respect to levels of farmers’ involvement in utilization and conservation in Western Kenya. Study Design: A questionnaire was administered to 120 farmers in two districts. The districts neighbor each oth...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10285
Background: Iron deficiency (ID) has been shown to be linked with poor outcomes within heart failure (HF) populations in previous clinical trials. The impact of ID has not been evaluated in stable chronic heart failure (HF) patients in the community. Our objective was to study th...
Chitin Nanofibril (CN) is the purest crystal form of chitin obtained industrially from fishery and crustacean waste. Characterized by positive charges covering its surface, this natural polymer has the ability to form block copolymeric nanoparticles with electronegative natural o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11181
Tracking moving objects in a video sequence is a critical task in several computer vision applications. A common approach is to perform background subtraction which identifies moving objects in a video frame. The mixture of Gaussians model is one of the most popular techniques fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12093
Today, in the context of product innovation, the environmental dimension takes a new dimension and cannot be separated from other product requirements which make it competitive. Tools are available but unfortunately proficiency levels required for their use are at the expert’s le...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10546
The Black – Scholes (B-S) model is one of the widely used models in the pricing of financial option. The B-S model like most other models hinges on assumptions; one of which is the normality condition. A lot of researches have shown that using the log-return of developed market i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5246
Most flavonoids are known to have anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial and analgesic properties. In this study, the new flavonoids, 7-methoxy-3,3’,4’,6-tetrahydroxyflavone (1) and 2’,7-dihydroxy-4’5’-dimethoxyisoflavone (2) isolated from Streptomyces sp. BT01 inhibited the pro-inflammato...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12049
A new series of polyamides based on diarylidene derivatives were synthesized from 2,5-bis(m-aminobenzylidene)cyclopentanone VIII, 2,6-bis(m-aminobenzylidene)cyclohexanone IX, 2,7-bis(m-aminobenzylidene) cyclheptanone X and bis(m-aminobenzylidene) acetone XI by reaction with diaci...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11067