The present study aims to analyse the relationship between technical efficiency and the adverse effect of climate change manifestations among sesame farmers in Benue State, Nigeria. A combination of purposive and random sampling techniques was used to select 372 sesame producers....
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230184
Aims: The aim of this study is to find the alterations that occurred in the physico-chemical properties and the hydrocarbon content on the crude oil impacted soil in Kom-Kom, Oyigbo, Rivers State Niger Delta, Nigeria. Study Design: The objectives included to evaluate the physico-...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230185
The hospital is a high risk environment for the transmission of infections to health care workers, visitors, patients and the surrounding community. Healthcare workers are exposed to a variety of hazards which predisposes these “indispensable carers” to various life threatening i...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230186
Particle pollution poses serious public health concern because of its potential to find its route into human lungs thereby causing respiratory diseases and cancer. This paper analyses various aspect of particulate matter including seasonal variation, Particulate matter based AQI,...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230187
The purpose of this study is to illustrate the importance of crisis management planning and effective governance by comparing and analysing cases related to crisis management in disasters. Firstly, this study analyses the sinking of the MV Sewol of Korea, one of the worst ship ac...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230188
Some health implications of structurally-controlled igneous intrusions in Ishiagu area of southern Benue Trough were studied using the field investigations, trace element geochemistry and geostatistical studies of some of the igneous rocks, the surrounding water and edible vegeta...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i3-430179
A study of background ionizing radiation (BIR) levels to estimate organ dose rates and excess lifetime cancer risk in Unicem cement producing company, Calabar, Cross River state and Bua cement producing company, Okpella in Edo state have been carried out using Digilert 100 and Ra...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i1-230178
In this paper, we investigate the generalized fourth order Pell sequences and we deal with, in detail, three special cases which we call them as fourth order Pell, fourth order Pell-Lucas and modified fourth order Pell sequences.
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i1-230177
Adsorbents such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), polymers, activated carbon (AC), and membranes are becoming prominent for CO2, SO2, H2S and NH3 capture and in some cases, storage. Using the standard adsorbent properties (SAPs) such as adsorption capacity, selectivity, permeab...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i1-230176
Concerns about the need for clean energy and the need to reduce green-house gases have led researchers and engineers to explore adoption of electric vehicle technology. Electric vehicles hold a promising future due to their efficiency, low maintenance cost and zero carbon emissio...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i1-230175
This research was conducted to investigate mortality using logistic regression (Models) for River red-gum (Eucalyptud camaldulensis Dehnh) in Afaka Forest Reserve, Kaduna, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling and proportional sampling allocation were used in selecting plots and in...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i1-230173
Luan Danilo Ferreira de Andrade Melo, João Luciano de Andrade Melo Junior, Edilma Pereira Gonçalves, Jeandson Silva Viana, Priscila Cordeiro Souto, Vilma Marques Ferreira, João Correia de Araújo Neto & Reinaldo de Alencar Paes·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2019
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of the application of treated sewage sludge on the initial development of soybean plants (Glycine max L.). Seven treatments were used: (T1) only the soil (absolute control); (T2) soil + residue at the dose of 5.0 g/dm...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630172
The need for clean energy and removal of toxic emission from internal combustion engines have led researchers and engineers into exploring and developing new drive systems. The development of hybrid cars has greatly reduced the emission level of vehicles. However, this is not eno...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630170
Since the last quarter of the 20th-century technological advances and energy production and consumption processes in Parallel with the increasing urbanization of the world's energy demand, however, it raises ecological problems. Since the nineties, reducing the pressure on the ec...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630169
The soil and edible vegetable samples were collected from Obanliku Urban Area of Cross River State and were digested and analyzed for the cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe) and mercury (Hg) (heavy metals) concentration using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) in Chemi...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630171