Aims: The three different above ground biomass components (branch, crown, bark) of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) were evaluated, regarding energy and combustion properties. Study Design: The proximate, ultimate and calorific analysis conducted on components of European Beech t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v10i119082
A comparative study of the proximate analysis, fire characteristics, and mechanical properties of the papers produced from pretreated and untreated bagasse was carried out. The bagasse collected was washed, dried, depithed and ground to pass through a 5 mm sieve using an electric...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v10i119081
The determination of optimum process parameters for moisture content reduction in water yam drying using a hot air dryer was the aim of this work. Gravimetric method was used to determine the moisture content. Design of experiment was used with slice thickness, airspeed and tempe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i419080
Sediment and biota samples were collected biannually from the Bonny/New Calabar River Estuary in Niger Delta, Nigeria and analysed for poisonous metals of interest to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Pb, Cd, and Hg) using atomic absorption spectrophotometer A-500 and Direc...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i419079
The roots of the hydrophobic effect (HE) apparently lie in certain chemical principles, although it has far-reaching implications across a swath of chemical biology. In particular, the HE drives the formation of micelles, the catalytic properties of which are believed to model th...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i419078
In this presented work, a facile and efficient method was established for the detection of chloramphenicol (CAP) based on target-induced structure transformation of aptamer. This aptamer DNA with a hairpin structure can coincidentally serve as a template for the synthesis of brig...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i419077
The interpretation of transition state theory via reaction energy profiles is problematical, as it remains unclear whether the energy being represented is the Gibbs energy or the potential energy. Although transition state theory is formally an extension of classical equilibrium...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i419076
Alternatives to conventional mechanisms of enzyme catalyzed reactions, although within the ambit of transition state theory, are explored herein. This is driven by reports of a growing number of enzymes forming covalently linked enzyme-substrate intermediates, which clearly devia...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i319075
Khadim Dioukhane, Younas Aouine, Asmae Nakkabi, Salaheddine Boukhssas, Hassane Faraj & Anouar Alami·Asian Journal of Chemical Sciences·2021
The identity of the 2-(4-Methyl-2-phenyl-4,5-dihydrooxazol-4-ylmethyl)-isoindole-1,3-dione, previously synthesized in our laboratory, was proven without doubt by means of 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy. Two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy played a major role. The analysis of the 2D-COSY...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i319074
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) can accurately identify and learn the potential relationship between input and output, and have self-learning capabilities and high fault tolerance, which can be used to predict or optimize the performance of complex systems. Reactive distillation...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2021/v9i319073