The adsorption of Congo Red dye onto fly ash modified with various concentrations of Hydrochloric acid (HCFA-4,HCFA-3,HCFA-2 and HCFA-1)was studied. The effect of contact time and concentration were investigated using a batch adsorption technique. The experimental data fits well...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/29880
Statement of Problem: Castability plays an important role in success and failure in the field of restorative and prosthetic dentistry. Recasting of base metal alloys can alter its castability value and some of its physical properties. Aim: To evaluate the castability of new and r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33261
Over the last decade, detrimental effects of human exposure to electromagnetic radiations have received widespread attention. With the increasing number of cellular communication system around the world, the number of base transceiver station is also increasing. This scenario is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31737
Abdelilah Kamal and Mohand Mahgoub recently introduced new integral transforms separately by the names the “Kamal transform” and “Mahgoub transform” to facilitate the solution of differential and integral equations. However, in this paper, these newly introduced integral transfor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32380
Aims: Organic solar cells were realized and characterized. The structure of the device is Glass/ Transparent conducting oxide/ poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrene sulfonate)/ poly(3-hexylthiophene): : [6,6]-phenyl-C61-buytyric acid methyl ester/ Aluminum (Glass/ TCO/ P...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31714
Aims: This study aims to assess physicians’ knowledge on patients’ radiation protection during their computed tomography (CT) scan prescriptions. Materials and Methods: A standardized questionnaire in multiple-choice format consisted of four sections with a total of eight questio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32491
Low temperature stress adversely affects plant growth and development and it directly affects the yield and quality of tomato. Phenolic compounds have been implicated to mitigate cold stress. Therefore an experiment was conducted to find out suitable concentration of phenolic com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32889
Consumers select and enjoy media content in accordance to their state of psychological needs. They are exposed to a variety of content in which advertisements constitute a sizeable mix. While audience’s interest is situated in the main elements of program content, they come acros...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32898
School gardens are a space and tool for students to be healthy development. Students spend a large part of their day at school. In this sense, the garden of Sehit Ali Ihsan Kalmaz (SAIK) High School was redesigned with the requests of the Provincial Special Administration of Ispa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/33009
This research work involves the design and construction of a solar water heating system with 2.3 m2 solar collector area proposed to extract enough solar energy to raise the temperature of 0.075 m3 of water by 34°C based on the available solar window to Port Harcourt. This solar...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31820
Seismic raypaths and wavefronts model in the vertically anisotropic lithofacies of the Niger Delta are presented. These models based on the linear increase of velocity with depth are defined by the parametric equations: For raypaths \(\left[\mathrm{x}(\theta)=\mathrm{R}_{\mathrm{...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/5100
The oxidation of phenanthrene with TBHP into phenanthrenequinone and its kinetics have been studied. Reaction conditions were investigated by orthogonal test. For the oxidation of phenanthrene to phenanthrenequinone the optimum conditions as follows: molar ratio of TBHP to phenan...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32508
The aim of this study is to identify the adaptation strategies developed by local peasant farmers to reduce negative impacts of climate change in Jibia, Northwest Katsina, Nigeria. Primary data were obtained from field survey through questionnaire administration using stratified...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32611
The experiment was carried out to identify bacteria pathogens that causes fish spoilage and consequently reduces their shelf-life in the environment and invariably found out basis for controlling and preventing their activity. Thirty fish samples comprising of fifteen Titus (Scom...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32281
The main focus of this project is to understand the nature of these laminated composites when subjected to specific damage cases like loads. In order to understand the progression of the failure modes in a laminated composite, models were designed and analyzed using ANSYS 14.5. I...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31981