Aims: The present study was conducted in three successive seasons, to evaluate five pomegranate cultivars namely, Eversweet, Sweet, Aca, Wonderful and Blackberry in two seasons followed by one season to achieve crosses between the Manfaloty and these evaluated cultivars. Methodol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10518
Based on the alarming level of the problems associated with non-renewable energy sources, the critical effects of global warming and the need to curb environmental pollutions, there is now a shift of emphasis on serene renewable energy sources. Waste Vegetable Oil which refers to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10834
This study evaluates current groundwater management problems in the chad basin and applies the transition management concept that allows stakeholder participation in addressing persistent problems of groundwater management. This has been achieved by carrying out stakeholder analy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10948
To assess the magnitude of genetic diversity and interdependence of morphological traits in varieties of helmeted guinea fowl, an experiment was conducted using a total of 2005 sexually matured randomly-selected birds. Data was collected on some morphological traits from selected...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10070
In this study, Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) and Multivariate Padé Approximation (MPA) are used to get solution of fractional partial differential algebraic equation (FPDAE).The solutions in the form of power series are obtained by using ADM first and then we get approximate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9941
Aim: The study is aimed at analyzing blood samples from 192 females school going adolescents (randomly selected) in a public boarding secondary school in Katsina metropolis for the levels of serum total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-CH), low density...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10324
Addition is considered as the basic operation for every digital circuit or system, digital signal processing and control system. The fast and accurate operation of any digital system is mainly influenced by the performance of its resident adders. In this paper a 4-bit full adder...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10586
Water quality assessment of a tropical river arises due to the importance of such rivers as main sources of water for domestic, agricultural, tourism and industrial purposes. The spatial distribution of the physical, chemical and microbial contents of Nworie River water was asses...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10700
Aims: Saline and brackish water has been encountered in more than half of the boreholes across Kilifi County. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between lithology and structural geology and the quality of water encountered in boreholes in the study area. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8784
The article presents the fundamentals of the thermohydrogravidynamic theory of the global seismotectonic, volcanic and climatic activity of the Earth based on the author’s generalized differential formulation of the first law of thermodynamics extending the classical Gibbs’ formu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10766
The main concern of this paper is to derive the fuzzy estimators for the two-parameter Log-logistic distribution. The TL-moments, L-moments and LQ-moments formulas are obtained for the Log-logistic distribution. Also, the estimation of these parameters is considered using the max...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11755
Spike detection as the first basic step is very important in analysing and classification of data, since the quality of resulting data depends crucially on a particular detection technique used. This paper presents the optimal spike detection technique based on amplitude threshol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11459
In this paper a new design for brushless doubly fed induction machine for operation as generator in wind energy systems is proposed. This machine, named single machine- brushless doubly fed induction generator (SM-BDFIG) is composed of three main components; a regular three phase...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11575
Technology is the main cause of emerging careers in life science. As technological change occurs at unprecedented speeds, it becomes increasingly important to develop mechanisms that can foster skills highly demanded in emerging careers. Technical and Vocational Education and Tra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10439
Estimation of evaporation from reservoirs in arid and semi-arid regions is a very crucial issue. This paper presents an application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and climate based models (Penman, Priestley-Taylor and Stephens-Stewart), for the estimation of evaporation from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3557