Insufficient supply of treated water in most of the rural and peri-urban areas of Nigeria has made groundwater a major source of water supply for domestic and other purposes. In theseareas,water demand is fulfilled from shallow wells. The shallow wells are commonly constructed cl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5079
Aims: This paper investigated the relationship between the working capital management (WCM) and the firms’ profitability for the Saudi cement manufacturing companies. Methodology: There are 13 Saudi cement manufacturing companies operating in the market. Only eight companies were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5427
Aims: Screening different filamentous fungi for thermostable xylanases and cellulases that would not be inhibited by xylose and glucose, respectively. Methodology: Samples of fungi collected in the Atlantic forest region, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and some fungi from our Culture Coll...
Aims: To determine the potential antitubercular activity of Streptomyces ribosidificus NRRL B-11466 both on genotypic and phenotypic levels. Methodology: Standard methods and software programs were used for nucleotide/protein sequence analysis and phenotypic detection of antitub...
In West Africa, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire, the groundwater is contained in hard-rock aquifers and serves as main source of drinking water supplies to the population. To improve access, several studies were conducted in various parts of the country. Most of them use mapping of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/4267
In the recent years, world has seen a wide range of major accidents with a number of fatalities, economic losses, and damage to the environment. These accidents can lead to serious danger to human health and the environment which can be occurred inside or outside the establishmen...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/5961
We investigate the motion of an electron in a one dimensional crystal coupled to an EMF potential, driven by an external force which is continuously switched on and off. The Shannon entropy and the thermodynamic parameters of the system are evaluated using the density matrix and...
A Theoretical approach for studying the structure of copper (II) amino acid complexes have been carried out using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS). The fine structure of the complexes was done for six copper (II) amino complexes. The theoretical bond lengths of th...
Castor (Ricinus communis L.) has attracted a lot of attention all over the world as a potential crop targeting on-farm biofuel production. In Kenya smallholder farmers are already growing castor with maize (Zea mays L.) and beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) under an intercrop system...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/5962
Aims: To determine; (1) the variability among the elite sweet potato lines for root processing quality traits; (2) the heritability of each trait and the correlation among them; (3)the acceptability of the boiled and fried roots by sweet potato consumers; and (4) an easy-to-measu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/5827
Aims: Present study was to determine the effects of dietary energy source diets such as glucogenic and lipogenic nutrients on ruminal fermentation characteristics, venous blood gases and concentration plasma metabolites in Baluchi sheep. Study Design: Latin square design with 3 p...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6065
Stress has become an important issue in academic circle as well as in our society. Academic examination stress was considered an important factor to increased circulation of cortisol and progesterone amongst students. Therefore this study was designed to determine cortisol and pr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/3289
Aims: In many countries, genital herpes, which is predominantly caused by HSV-2 in Nigeria, has become a public health problem of such increasing magnitude that national genital herpes control programmes have been instituted.. Advocacy for formulation of such a programme and the...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/6048
Aims: The copy claim- “new” or “new improved” has enjoyed generous usage by low risk product marketers in advertising this range of products. The prevalence of this slogan has made it necessary to understand what it stands for, the purpose it is intended to achieve and buyers’ p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6297