Aims: The present study on management practices, productive performance and profitability of indigenous chickens evaluated the existing indigenous rearing practices with the objectives to pave the way for improvement of this variety into sustainable income in favour of the small-...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2846
Aims: Growth and foliar yield responses of waterleaf (Talinum triangulare Jacq) to complementary application of organic and inorganic fertilizers were studied in a Ultisol. Study Design: The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2599
Hydrogen (H2) is considered as the future fuel. The present work on “Bio Hydrogen Production from Pharmaceutical Waste Water Treatment by a Suspended Growth Reactor Using Environmental Anaerobic Technology. This is an appreciated approach at wealth generation through value additi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2649
Aims: To analyze the nature and peculiarities of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe chemical industry with reference to safety and environmental risks. Study Design: This study took a survey approach. Place and Duration of Study: Graniteside (GR), Willowvale (WV), So...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2759
Aims: The present work aims to study the effect of aromatic structure on the inhibition of biogas biosynthesis, and more specifically the comparative study of benzenediols, methylphenols and chloroanilines isomers on the inhibition of acetoclastic methanogenesis by digested pig m...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2491
Aims: The study is aimed to obtain acylated derivatives of polyprenols which were isolated from leaves of grape Vitis vinifera L. Study Design: Modification of natural compounds. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Sub...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2916
Weed management in lowland rice production is a major constraint leading to low yields. Studies were conducted during the wet cropping seasons of 2009 and 2010 at Rokupr Agricultural Research Centre (RARC) in the lowland ecology to assess the competitiveness of different rice var...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2791
To better understand the genome by environment (G x E) interactions that need to be accommodated in order to better predict hybrid performance for a high breeding value vegetative parthenocarpy trait sensu stricto. An analysis of the possible environmental signals contributing to...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/1714
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao Linn.) is single most important agricultural export crop and major source of foreign exchange to Ghana. This study examines the socioeconomic factors affecting adoption of CODAPEC and Cocoa High-Tech Technology packages introduced by Ghana government into c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/1969
Aims: The study examined the determinants of access and demand for credit among poultry farmers in Ikot Ekpene area of Akwa Ibom State in Southern Nigeria. Study Design: A multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to select 90 poultry farmers. Structured questionnaires a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2810
In this paper, our main purpose is studying the nonexistence of radial positive solutions for the boundary-value problem: where is an annulus in is a continuous nonlinear function and satisfies f(0) < 0 (the nonpositone case), f also has more than one zero.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/1767
Let X and Y be independent random variables, X having a gamma distribution with shape parameter a and Y having a non-central gamma distribution with shape and non-centrality parameters b and δ , respectively. Define Z = X ⁄ (X+ 2Y ). Then, the random variable Z has a non-central...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/1895
In this work, we consider an general iterative method for finding a common element of the set of common fixed points of a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup problem, a system of variational inequality problems, a variational inequality problem and the set of solutions of a suit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/1598
Aims/ objectives: In this paper we introduce and study vector–valued bilateral sequence space we investigate the conditions connected with the comparison of the classes in terms of so that a class is contained in or equal to another class of same kind. We also study topological...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2162
In this paper, we study an inverse spectral problem for the Sturm-Liouville equation on a three-star graph with the Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions in the boundary vertices and matching conditions in the internal vertex. As spectral characteristics, we consider the spec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/1991