Aims: The main purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influencing consumers’ loyalty in Malaysian hypermarkets context. Study Design: A total of 292 respondents were selected randomly who purchased products from hypermarkets. Data were examined using descriptive fre...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9001
The long term properties of Concrete containing Recycled Coarse Aggregates (CRCA) were investigated. Initially, series of short term tests were carried out to determine the density, workability, absorption and compressive strength of concrete with and without locally available re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3950
Aims: Assessing the correlation between two variables is very important in observational and experimental researches. “How many sample size was required?” is one of the preliminary questions for correlation studies. Although achieving normality is rare the available techniques ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7923
The additive 4, 4’ Bis (Dimethylamino) Benzophenone (DMDAB) is used as a photodegradable additive, which is commercially available and reported as UV active. DMDAB was melt blended with LDPE at three different formulations 1, 3 & 5 (w/w) % respectively in twin screw extruder....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4779
Aims: The study was design to show the effect of aflatoxicosis in hematological parameters of broiler fed with different doses of aflatoxin contaminated diets Place and Duration of Study: Sample: A day old broilers were purchased from a poultry farm in Oyo State Nigeria and the h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4736
Aim: To determine the proximate, mineral composition, antioxidant capacity and total phenolic content of the flours of four varieties of cow pea commonly consumed in Nigeria and to examine the influence of the colour of the beans’ hull on the antioxidant capacity of the bean vari...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7501
Aims: to evaluate nutrient status in Koroneiki olive trees grown in sandy soils and calculate the amount of nutrients annually removed by the olive tree. Study Design: Costate Statistical package, in order to calculate means, maximum, minimum, standard deviations (SD), with 12 re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5521
Aims: This study investigates the effect of consumption of an edible seafood - Egeria Radiata (Clam) on hematological parameters in rats. Study Design: Albino Wistar rats were assigned to 3 groups of 5 rats each. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Physiology, University o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6612
Aims: This study evaluated the impact of metal and metal containing wastes (plastics, glass, miscellaneous and fines) on cadmium and lead contents in soil and leachate and the inter-relationships among the various waste categories dumped on the site, using Principal Component Ana...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7961
The Ferrocene additive is also reported as UV active and giving absorption peak of 220-260 nm at 2.8 X 10-3 mol/l. Ferrocene additive was melt blended with LDPE at 3 different concentration of ferrocene i.e. 1, 2 & 3% using twin screw extruder. After blending with LDPE the pe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4813
Aim: To examine potentials to improve solute flux of selected uremic toxins across EXELTRA Plus 210 membrane. Methodology: Scanning electron microscopy was used to measure the inner and outer fenestrations of the membrane. We selected endothelin, β2-microglobulin, and complement...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8197
Workers in printed circuit boards (PrCBs) industry have a long history of occupational exposures to toxic substances, however little is known about the long-term health consequences of such exposure. Aims: To determine the prevalence of some health problems among manufacturers...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7903
Time series analysis and forecasting has become a major tool in different applications in meteorological phenomena, such as rainfall, humidity, temperature, draught and environmental management fields. It has two goals, perception or modeling random mechanism and prediction of fu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7722
This article discusses the use of Instant Controlled Pressure Drop (DIC) as a pre-treatment stage to intensify the solvent extraction of total phenols and more especially tannins from the bark of African sumac (Tunisian Rhus tripartitum). Total phenol land tannin contents were de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7620
The aim of the present study is to propose a generalized formulation of physical exergy property for a system interacting with a generalized reservoir consisting of independent reservoirs at constant temperature and constant pressure respectively. Physical exergy components are t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7727