A study was undertaken to estimate general and specific combining in brinjal through diallel analysis involving 6 parents. The combining ability analysis revealed highly significant differences among the treatments for all the parameters studied except days to 50% flowering and n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33727
The Effect of bio-stimulants on improving floral characteristics, yield and quality of apple cv. Red Delicious was studied in the Division of Fruit Science, SKUAST-Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar during the year 2013 and 2014. Twenty five year old apple trees of cv. Red Delicious wer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33634
This study presents characteristics of tar formed during updraft gasification of biomass by using mass spectrometry and thermogravimetric analysis. Tar content in producer gas is higher at the lower-middle part of the reactor which represents a pyrolytic zone. Tar is composed of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33654
Energy saving and different working voltage applications are widely employing matrix converters. Matrix converters are used to convert three phase AC input voltages to three phase AC output voltages of required magnitude and frequency. Pulse width modulation is a technique used f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33416
This manuscript reports a geometrical and a topological methods to segment a closed triangular 2-manifold mesh M ⊂ R3. The mesh M does not self-intersect) and has no border (i.e. watertight. Geometrical and topological segmentation methods require a Boundary Representation (BRep)...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32827
Climate change has been one of the most sought out and debated topic of this decade and is evident to have profound effect on human health, climatic conditions and biodiversity. Though changes in climatic conditions has been referred as natural process but scientific investigatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33276
Noise in market places can be a matter of public concern to traders and other close residents. Exposure to excessive noise has the ability to cause both physiological and psychological effects in humans. A systematic noise survey was conducted at different locations within Oil Mi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33248
Fifteen (15) male clones of Populus deltoides (Twelve clones procured from WIMCO and three local clones) were evaluated in nursery to study their growth performance. The investigations revealed that significant interclonal variation exists for all the selected growth characters....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32669
Assessment of carbon stock in trees is generally based on allometric equations relating either volume, or biomass, or carbon to DBH. The carbon density of different tree parts is not often measured directly, but generally assumed to be 50% of dry weight. In this study we try to a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31829
Carbon sequestration in soil aggregates and Carbon stock (SOC) under Maize-Legume Cropping system in a Northern Guinea Savanna Alfisol, Nigeria trial was conducted in 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons. The experiment was a randomized complete block design (RCBD), replicated three ti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32538
This study features an assessment of multiple density functionals in calculating the molecular structures and inherent properties in simple carbohydrates participating in nonenzymatic glycation involving amino acids and proteins in Maillard reactions. Calculations of chemical rea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32795
Aims: Bangladesh, as a low-lying country, is vulnerable to global climate change and affected by floods and water logging. Hence, the country needs to adopt sufficient adaptation strategies which are based on local people traditional knowledge and locally available materials; hen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33635
This research aimed at investigating vegetable based lubricant as a replacement for chemical based lubricants on extrusion pressure of equal channel angular extrusion of Aluminum. In the process, aluminum alloy (Al 6063) was heated at 350°C for one hour, machined and cut to bille...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32584
Hydrogel are a class of polymer materials that can absorb large amount of water without dissolving. The property of hydrogels to absorb water arises from hydrophilic functional groups attached to the polymeric backbone, while resistance to dissolution is due to physical or chemic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32935
Resistance of PEDOT-PSS films changes considerably with time after application of DC voltage. Since, variation of resistance over time can lead to serious errors when used as a strain gauge or gas sensors or any device, a detailed study of the variation of film resistance with ti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33159