Aims: Falls among elderly are major health problem. Practice of physical activities such as walking on regular basis improves balance and reduces falls. The objective of this study was to determine whether ascending an inclined surface (ISU) and backward walking on a flat surfac...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2017/35673
Parental influence on the student’s mathematics interest development process cannot be neglected if achievement in mathematics is connected to the student’s’ interest in mathematics. The advances in research regarding parental association to their children interest in terms of ac...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/34571
Fruits play a good role in nutritional security as well as generate high income to the growers. Pre-harvest factors have a great effect on postharvest quality of fruits. The combination of these factors includes genetic, environmental, cultural practices and physiological compone...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/32909
The bio-chemical activity in eight sugarcane varieties was studied in a poly bag experiment at Agricultural Research Station, Basanthpur, Medak, India. The anti-oxidant enzyme activity in terms of superoxide dismutase and peroxidase activity in sugarcane genotypes increased upon...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/34567
As a result of the rapid changes in information and communication technology (ICT), the world has become a small village where people from all over the world connect with each other in dialogue and communication via the Internet. Also, communications have become a daily routine...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/36124
This study investigated the influence of ambient temperature on academic performance of a cohort of 259 students of Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri over a three year period i.e. from the year of their matriculation to completion. The students were randomly selected...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/33559
Gamma radiation dose rate was measured at the base of 11 KV, 33 KV, 132 KV and 330 KV high tension lines (power lines) from different locations in Kaduna including Mando transmission sub-station using Radex 1503+ model. A total of about 187 measurements were taken and calculated....
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35298
The present study analyses the awareness regarding meat hygiene and associated health hazards among consumers in Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir. After preparing the comprehensive list of meat markets operating in Jammu district, three meat markets were selected, and from eac...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/36045
This study evaluated the response of the giant African land Archatina archatina snails to three different diets, with regards feed intake, feed conversion, shell length and weight gain. A comparative cost analysis of growing snails with the different diets was also carried out. 1...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35734
Meat is a perishable commodity and therefore from production till consumption it needs to be innocuous. Many pathogenic micro-organisms grow in the meat if hygienic procedures are not followed. Meat acts as a vehicle for disease transmission mainly bacterial, protozoan and helmin...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/36107
A study was conducted during the fruiting season of bael, an important minor fruit of tropics and subtropics on medicinal and religious aspects. This was done to determine the flowering, fruiting and physio-chemical properties of the fruits and to evaluate the best accession coll...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/36310
Field experiment was conducted to assess the effect of nitrogen and farmyard manure (FYM) on leaf content of pear cv. Punjab Beauty. The 15 treatments comprised of nitrogen levels i.e. 0, 200, 400, 600 and 800 g per plant and farmyard manure i.e. 30, 60 and 90 kg/plant. The nitro...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35851
Mango anthracnose disease caused severe damage to mango yield so its control is required. For this purpose the current investigation was carried out under in vitro and under field conditions during, 2016 at CCS, HAU, Hisar. The experiment was carried out through poison food techn...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35899
A progressive increase in interest in the use of linked metal structures has become increasingly evident in the time spanning the last three decades. These structures are gaining increasing attention and use in a spectrum of performance-related applications. This has certainly ne...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35313
This research paper demonstrates the application of Taguchi method and Response surface Methodology (RSM) for optimization of alloyed depth in laser alloying of AISI 422 martensitic stainless steel. The experiment was designed and carried out on the basis of standard L9 Taguchi’s...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/24512