Aims: To define a set of high-level visual features of endoscopic bleeding and evaluate their capabilities for potential use in automatic bleeding detection. Study Design: Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Computer Architecture, Faculty of Electronics...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11689
Aims: Recently, digital wax-up is proposed as a tool to aid prosthodontic planning. Accuracy is a requirement of the diagnostic wax-up in order for its information to be transferrable clinically.The purpose of this study is to evaluate the precision of digital prosthodontic plann...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12331
Particulate air pollution is the major concern in four major cities, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Chittagong, in Bangladesh and thus it is necessary to understand the characteristics of the pollutant as well as sources for further improvement of the air quality. In this view parti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11247
Capital infrastructure such as road construction weighs heavily on the budget of countries having large geographical area and growing population. The paper presents an emerging computer aided valuation appraisal technique for verifying design and quantifying the material-cost com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11489
Joseph Nunoo, Enoch Selorm Kofi Ofori, Emmanuel Kwatei Quartey, Emmanuel Kwame Gasu, Ebenezer Ato Ewusie, Bernard Tawiah Odai, Wellington Torgby-Tetteh & Wisdom Selorm Kofi Agbemavor·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2014
Aims: In an effort to improve the breeding lines of tomatoes for further breeding work; this work was done to evaluate the physico-chemical properties of selected lines. Study Area and Duration: The research was carried out between May-September 2012 at Nuclear Agriculture Resear...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11087
Danbunama (DB) is a shredded meat product that is light, easy to pack and nutrient retaining and is traditionally produced from beef. A completely randomized design was employed to study the effect of three meat types of beef, chevon and pork on quality attributes of DB. Proximat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10055
Currently waste managers are unable to keep pace with the waste generation rate hence shank of solid waste are uncollected in both dumping sites and open spaces. The study was conducted to assess the fertilizer utilisation potential of solid waste generated in Akosombo Township....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10631
Background: Eggcrate upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), an engineering control method for reducing the airborne transmission of infectious diseases, was recently developed as an alternative to conventional upper-room UVGI using conventional louvered fixtures. A...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11762
The research work is focused on thermal engine structures undergoing isobaric expansion-compression based thermal engines powered by ocean thermal energy. The isobaric expansion-compression based thermal cycles referred to in this paper, differs from the conventional quadrilatera...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11152
This paper reviews the process of formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) in the indoor environment. SOAs have been found to have more alarming health effects on humans and environment. To be able to assess and quantify the risk, it is important to have a comprehensive inf...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10782
A 56-day (Eight weeks) trial was carried out to determine the growth performance and nutrient utilization of Clarias gariepinus juveniles fed Bombyx mori meal (BMM) as a replacement for fishmeal. Five experimental diets were formulated at various levels of inclusion of 25%, 50%,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10681
This study was carried out during two successive seasons 2012 and 2013 on 5-years old 'Le Conte' pear trees grown under two types of soil. Selected trees were sprayed by some plant growth retardants such as, Paclobutrazol (Cultar) at 200 & 300 ppm conc., Mepiquat chloride at...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10479
Aims: To ascertain the adsorptive potentials of chitosan derived from crab shell for the removal of copper and nickel from mixed metals solution in order to evaluate the competition of different metallic ions for the chelation sites of chitosan. Study Design: Multifactorial desig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6451
Background/Objective: Health and socio-cultural concerns have led to a situation in which the slim body mentality is now a global phenomenon, raising the potentials for fear of fatness which, in turn, can significantly compromise psychological well-being. Research also indicated...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10311
In this paper, a real-time oil Pipeline intrusion detection system was designed, developed and implemented using acoustic sensors. This approach involves the transmission of audio tones through wires laid along the pipeline. It is intended to overcome most of the problems associa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11480