This study was conducted to determine the similarities and differences between the curricula of 2009 and 2018 Primary School Life Science Course (1st, 2nd and 3rd Grades) in terms of the curriculum elements (purposes, content, education-teaching process, assessment and evaluatio...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i430373
Universally agriculture is perceived to be synonymous with risk and uncertainty. Agricultural insurance is one of the risk management strategies to overcome risk to the greater extent. It helps in stabilization of farm production and income of the farming community. Crop insuranc...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i430370
Background: Although several factors are known to influence the gestational age at booking, current knowledge indicates that the distribution of these factors could vary from one country to the other, and even within countries, the variation could exist between states. This study...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330364
The large demand for drinking water in Gbêkê region of Côte d’Ivoire is supplied from groundwater sources. This study investigated the groundwater physicochemical quality in Gbêkê region of Côte d’Ivoire based on preselected 24 boreholes. Groundwater evaluation index and focused...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330365
This study investigates the dynamic relationship between crude oil prices and stock market price volatility in Nigeria using cointegrated Vector Generalized Autoregressive conditional Heteroskedasticity (VAR-GARCH) model. The study utilizes monthly data on the study variables fro...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330363
Study of the terrestrial Background Ionizing Radiation levels of selected Oil Spill Communities of Delta State, Nigeria have been carried out using Digilert 200 and Radalert 100 nuclear radiation monitor and a geographical positioning system (Garmin GPSMAP 76S). The exposure rate...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330362
The aim of this study is to understand mechanisms that occur during leaching of alkali-resistant zirconium-containing glasses in acid and alkaline solutions. For this, we have developed 5 glass compositions: two alkali-resistant model glasses type CEMFIL, V1 (with zirconium and w...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330361
The paper presents the design of easy-to-use and sophisticated cutting tool insert clamping that is applied for turning tools. The simplified analytical calculation and von Mises stress fields obtained by Finite Element Method are provided. The technical solution of clamping scre...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330359
Innovative plant breeding technology is an absolute necessity to enhance agriculture production in order to have an ambition of feeding nutritious food to the ever-increasing population. Current advances in CRISPR/Cas genome editing technology have led to effective targeted chang...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330360
Sago is a traditional food product of India made exclusively from fresh wet cassava starch. The engineering properties of different commercial grades of sago, developed by roasting and steaming process were investigated. The physical properties (moisture content, size, shape (sph...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i330358
Bael is a medicinal plant with known therapeutic properties. Stevia is a natural, zero calorie sweetener which is 300 times sweeter than sugar. Keeping in view, the properties of these two plants, value added milk based sweet products i.e., kheer and kulfi, were developed using d...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i230356
Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the metabolic profile of endophytic fungi, Aspergillus terreus (ENF12) isolated from mulberry leaf and evaluate their antifungal efficacy against Macrophomina phaseolina causing charcoal rot disease of mulberry. Study Design: Completely...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i230357
In the present day context, the knowledge of the soil, water and its movement in the soil has key importance for optimum plant growth as well as having practical inferences in agricultural, hydrological and ecological situations. Hydraulic properties of soils play a significant r...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i230355
Background: Inadequate health and hygiene practices have direct effect on health of the individual, family, communities and nation as a whole. The knowledge about different health and hygiene practices depends largely upon the sources from where we regularly get information. Wome...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i230352
Anthurium is an excellent cut flower crop commercially cultivated throughout the world. Anthracnose or spadix rot disease leads to massive flower loss to anthurium growing farmers. Survey was conducted for anthurium anthracnose disease during the year 2017-2018 in anthurium growi...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i230353