This article presents a study on thermo-physical characterisation of local materials used in the building. The simulation with Energy Plus software made it possible to evaluate the energy performance of a building. The studied materials are lateritic blocks which were not stabili...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43786
Technological and kitchen processes can partially or fully remove or degrade pesticide residues to other compounds often less toxic, making the products safer for human consumption. This study was therefore conducted to determine the effects of processing on levels of pesticides...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44154
A mathematical backward problem which involves solving a mathematical model based on a one dimensional advection - diffusion process of solute transport in a homogeneous soil structure is considered. The diffusion coefficient and advection velocity in the governing unsteady non-l...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44081
The aim of this study is development of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) system during production of Tarhana on small scale production. Tarhana is known as a traditional fermented food widely consumed in Middle East countries. Since Tarhana prepared by traditio...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/38460
A field study was conducted on the Assessment of Ground Water Quality Around Abandoned Quarry Ponds near Lower Benue Trough, Nigeria and to establish how the Ponds were influenced by past quarrying activities. Water samples were collected from the four abandoned quarry ponds meas...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/15685
Tarhana is a traditional fermented food made from cereals and yoghurt mixture and popular in some European and African countries. In this study, the effects of wheat, oat or barley flour with cow or goat yoghurt on the physico-chemical and sensory properties of Tarhana were inves...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/38459
Aims: Accurate measurement of vapor pressure is a hard challenge in the determination of evaporation behavior of pure substances. Thus, mathematical models are widely used and are still being developed for this purpose. The aim was to tabulate Antoine constants from estimated va...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44173
Since thousands of years ago, millions of people enjoy chewing raw tigernut tubers (Cyperus esculentus) with less emphasis in processing the tubers into more useful products. Tigernut tuber is very common and abundant in Nigeria. It is always available in both wet and dry season....
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43551
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) the white gold is the world’s leading natural textile fibre and also known as "King of fibres” is one of the best gifts that nature bestowed on mankind. The objective of the present investigation was to identify the diagnostic set of microsatellite (SSR) m...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44497
Aim: To optimize extruded products made from flour blends and studying the effect of ingredients on physical and functional properties of the extrudates. Study Design: Design Expert mixture model. Place and Duration of Study: Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology, Thanja...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41035
Institutional changes in the management of biodiversity over the years have given rise to negative impacts on forest conservation, however, the use of traditional knowledge systems, taboos, sacred sites and institutions have great potentials in the conservation and utilisation of...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43584
Aim: An investigative study for gastroenteritis in unorganised private pig farms of Meghalaya, a North East State of India. Materials and Methods: Faecal samples were collected from 32 pigs including severely diarrhoeic piglets and were processed for detection of Escherichia coli...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43596
Accumulation of nitrogen and phosphorus in surface water bodies renders aquatic ecosystem non-functional. Duckweed may be used to remove excess nutrients from wastewater, while it requires large surface areas. However, under limited space, nutrient uptake by duckweed may be enhan...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43588
With the advent of digital computers, several prominent problems of digital circuit design emerged. A particular class of these problems, (called Type-2 problems) can be divided into two subclasses depending on whether an honest translator is possible or a sneaky translator is wa...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43728
The evaluation of outdoor ambient radiation hazard indices of solid minerals in selected mining sites of Kogi State, Nigeria was carried out using radalert 100 and digilert 200 nuclear radiation monitors and a geographical positioning system (Garmin GPSMAP 76S). The sites studied...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44000