Fruits of 8 Egyptian pomegranate cultivars grown in Upper Egypt, namely Asuity, Asuity beshoka, Asuity morkub, Manfalouty, Nab El-Gamal, Melasy, Sukkary and Maghal were compared for their nutritional status, fruit quality and volatile compounds. Obtained results showed that Asuit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10115
Aims: The paper presents the design, working and testing of an energy efficient improvised incubator, a general purpose heating and cooling equipment designed to maintain a constant temperature in the range of 5ºC to 50ºC. Study Design: Determination of biochemical oxygen demand...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10593
Aims: The paper assesses water resource issues in the state of Mississippi using GIS mapping. Study Design: Adopted a mixscale appoach. Methodology: The aproach is applied to GIS and primary data connected to descriptive statistics by analyzing the impacts of water use through da...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9249
This paper presents interval-valued 2-tuple prioritized aggregation operators for handling problems involving multiple attribute group decision making, where a prioritization relationship exists between attributes and decision makers. We first develop two interval-valued 2-tuple...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10714
Energy has always been the essential, life-sustaining medium of exchange, in contrast to the notion that symbols of a monetary system, the effectiveness of influence peddling or even the application of force truly impact and direct social development. Starting with muscle power,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10249
Aims: Frequent pattern mining is one of the imperative tasks in the data mining. The soft computing techniques such as neural network, fuzzy logic have potential to be used in frequent pattern mining since these powerful tools efficiently model data which is also an essential par...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10707
Line-to-line-to-line-to-ground unsymmetrical faults involving ground are difficult to analyse using the classical fault analysis approach. This is because the classical solution approach requires knowledge of the connection of symmetrical component sequence networks in order to f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10269
A prototype cam-follower mechanism was designed and assembled using Pro-Engineer (Pro-E) software. The mechanism is meant for application in a forth-and-back Mode II Operation of a tribotester rig. The mechanism was dynamically simulated in Pro-E to ascertain the dynamic loading...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10594
This work investigates thermal and mechanical properties of bricks produced from particles of electric arc furnace (EAF) hazardous fumes with a view to enhancing safe disposal and reduce the current prohibitive cost of handling. Test samples are prepared from the as-received stee...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10986
Aims: The study examines the inclusion of biological control hitherto neglected, as part of the IPM strategies in a farmer participatory approach. Study Design: The experimental plots were set up within a completely randomized block experimental design with 3 replicates. Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10794
Aim: To synthesize and evaluate the effectiveness of two tetrapolymers as viscosifiers and filtration control agents in water-based drilling fluids for application in moderate saline and geothermal environment.Study Design: Orthogonal design involving monomer feed ratio, monomer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10555
Aims: Software quality assurance is a formal process for evaluating and documenting the quality of the work products during each stage of the software development lifecycle. The practice of applying software metrics to operational factors and to maintain factors is a complex task...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10548
A one dimensional model of population growth called logistic map can be used as platform for introducing beginners to the phenomenon of chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Despite the simplicity of logistic map, it has been used with success for the introduction of fixed point attracto...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9246
The chemical composition of groundwater samples in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State of Nigeria was experimentally investigated. Parameters as pH, temperature, redox potential, iron oxidizing bacteria, dissolved oxygen, iron and manganese were analysed. Results indicate the groundwater samp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10830
Sucrose in the final molasses continues to be a source of major financial loss to sugar refineries worldwide. This study therefore aims at rectifying this anomaly. In this study, the final molasses exhaustibility was predicted using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9620