Malumfashi schists which occur in association with migmatite-gneisses and biotite granite, occupy about 60% of Tandama area, north-western Nigeria. These rocks were studied with a view to evaluate their compositional characteristics and their evolution. The lithology revealed fro...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/30116
Migmatite-gneisses, which include migmatite, granite gneiss, and augen gneiss, underlie more than 70% of Tandama area, in North-western Nigeria. They are associated with schists, and are intruded by granites and pegmatites. These rocks are thought to have undergone a reworking du...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/30117
Aims: In this paper, a comparison between three different human head models with three different types of antennas is presented to show the effect of shielding technique on the reduction of SAR. The three human head models presented are SAM phantom, six-layer, and two-tissue mode...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32619
This study investigates the relationship between students' learning strategies and their cognitive engagement in English class at International Islamic School in Gombak, Malaysia. Explicitly, the research intends to fathom the correlation between three learning strategies (cognit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32382
Background: Nuclear Institute of Medicine and Radiotherapy Jamshoro, an institute of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission provides the facilities of diagnosis and treatment to cancer patients of encasement areas of Jamshoro/Hyderabad through its dedicated radiation workers wearing f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/30802
Aim: The aim of this research is to design and fabricate multi-purpose roasting machine. Study Design: Development of a manually operated multi-purpose roasting machine was achieved with the aid of conceptual sketch, design analysis and creo parametric software. Place and Duratio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31679
The main purpose of this study is to assess students’ environmental knowledge, attitude, and practice about forest conservation. Descriptive research method was used for the study. The participants of the study were 85 students from the preparatory school who were in the last yea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32224
In this study, the performances of the Statistical Down-Scaling Model (SDSM) to simulate rainfall and temperature for the period 1995-2010 over Nigeria were evaluated. Twenty-year (1975-1994) station observations of rainfall and temperatures from 12 different locations scattered...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32536
This study was conducted to examine the effect of two different substrates (sawdust) obtained from hardwood (Anogeissus leiocapus) and softwood (Daniellia oliveri) on nutritional composition and yield of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus). The proximate composition, mineral co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/28160
Counseling is a helping relationship involving a client or clients and a professional counselor; while a counseling theory is a postulation put forward to guide the counselor in the process of helping a client with a maladjustment problem. Thus, this paper has x-rayed Alfred Adle...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31087
The aim of this study is to assess the global warming and climate change preconceptions and misconceptions of students. Descriptive survey method was used for the study. The participants of this study were 84 university students who were in the first and last year of their study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32609
Aims: Distinguish the effect of water stress and salt stress on early stage water relations, gaseous exchange and photosynthetic parameters on tomato seedling (Cv.GT-2). Study Design: The research was conducted with three replicates in a completely randomised experimental design...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32201
The emerging cost-effective depth sensors have made easier the action recognition task significantly. In this paper, we propose an effective method to analysis human actions from depth video sequences based on multi-scaling and multi-directional transformation which provide addit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31153
In Burkina Faso, as in most developing countries, access to water and sanitation remains a challenge. This justifies the reuse of wastewater to provide additional quantities of water for different uses to reduce water deficits. In this context, the wastewater from the city of Oua...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/31499
The basis of this study is to analyze the terrain of Kachia LGA (the home of military institutions in Nigeria) for military operations. ArcGIS 10.0, in complimentary with Google Earth Pro and Suffer 10 were integrated with remotely sensed data such as SRTM Digital Elevation Model...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/29669