Dried fruits have limited food use, this study explored the food utilization potential of dehydrated pineapple slices. The influence of 50 °Brix sugar and 47:3 % w/w sugar/salt solutions on the quality of jam produced were investigated. Pineapple slices were osmotically dehydrate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/3718
Oils were extracted from Moringa oleifera and Citrullus colocythis L. (melon) seeds, using soxhlet extractor with n-hexane as solvent. The oil yield were; 51.00% and 50.87% for melon and moringa respectively. The oils physicochemical parameters such as moisture content, density a...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4425
Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic acid (EDTA) doped copper sulphate penta hydrate were grown for five different parent-dopant combinations using slow solvent evaporation method at 300 K and good optical quality crystals were harvested for minimum dopant ratio. The single crystal X-ra...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/5299
Pot experiments were used to examine the impact of root galls caused by Meloidogyne javanica on some growth and yield parameters of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in Federal College of Agriculture Ishiagu, Ebonyi State, SE Nigeria in 2009 and 2010. The experiment was arranged in c...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2013/3510
Aims: Determine percentage positive by the Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stain; detect 245 base pair fragment of the IS6110 gene for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using INS1 and INS2 primers and 500 base pair fragment of the RvD1Rv2031c gene for M. bovis using the JB21 and JB22 primers...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/3708
Aim: To correlate H2O2 production of Lactobacillus species with the Nugent scores of young Nigerian women in order to assess their vaginal health. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Departments of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, Biochemistr...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/4327
Aims: The emergence of pathogenic bacterial strains with resistance to commonly used antibiotics has necessitated a search for novel types of antibacterial agents. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the synergistic action between honeys and the essential oils (EOs)...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/5331
Aim: Iru is a popular West Africa fermented soup condiment which is also consumed without cooking as snack. This product is mainly fermented by Bacillus species. The hypolipidemic activities of Bacillus spp. isolated from iru have not been documented hence the aim of this study....
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/5026
Aims: Bioassays measure environmentally relevant toxicity. Consequently, increasing attention has focused on incorporating toxicity tests in hazard evaluations of contaminated sites. We evaluated the lethal and sub-lethal effects of contaminated dumpsite soils at various depths u...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/4715
A nonlinear analytical technique (Homotopy Perturbation Method) has been developed to assess the effects of several nanofluids characteristics on the free convective heat transfer to the power-law non-Newtonian flow between two infinite parallel vertical flat plates. A numerical...
In this paper we combined the Laplace Transform with Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) and presented an approach for solving non linear coupled and non coupled Schrödinger equation, with initial conditions. It is shown that the method does not need linearization, weak nonlineari...
Aims: Development of a precipitation prediction model for Cyprus. Study Design: Precipitation data collected at 78 stations were used: data from 66 stations for model development and data from 12 stations for additional tests. Four topographic factors – altitude, slope, longitude...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/5045
Aim: To investigate the effect of defective barrier on the optimum breakdown voltage, using positive and negative needle electrodes in an air medium of 10cm gap distance. Methodology: The barriers for the tests were placed at 2.5cm from the point electrode for each test. The defe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/3653
Aims: To evaluate antioxidant activity and preservative effects of Thyme (Thymus Schimperi R.) on soybean oil, butter and meat food products. Study Design: Complex factorial design. Place and duration of study: Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia; between May 2010 to J...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/4563
The extraction of Uranium (VI) from aqueous media of varying pH values (0.3 – 9.0) was studied using chloroform solution of 0.05M N,N`-ethylenebis(4-propionyl-2,4-dihydro-5-methyl-2-phenyl-3H- pyrazol-3-oneimine) (H2PrEtP) Schiff base. The effect of 4-propionyl-2,4-dihydro-5-meth...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/4155