A graft copolymer gel composite made up of locust bean gum (LBG), diallyldimethylammonium chloride (DADMAC), 2-acrylamido-2- methyl-1-propane sulfonic acid (AMPS) and bentonite (BNT) was prepared using methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) as crosslinker via microwave irradiation and char...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/43892
The presence of high indoor radon concentration in residential buildings is a major concern of the public worldwide. Measurements of the indoor radon concentration in some selected residential buildings made of different building materials within Okrika local Government Area, in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/43400
Md. Monjurul Islam, Md. Ashifuzzaman, Md. Shamim Reza, Jerin Alauddin, Sumon Ganguly, B. M. Saifur Rahman, Most. Shahida Khatun, Md. Rashidul Islam, Md. Jahangir Hossain & Md. Helal Uddin·Asian Journal of Physical and Chemical Sciences·2018
Textile industries consume various dyestuffs for dyeing of fabrics. These dyestuffs are often present in industrial wastewater, have a serious impact on the environment and personal health. This report describes a system developed to degrade the dyestuffs using sonochemical react...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/42490
Measurement of indoor and outdoor radon concentration in five different types of residential buildings were done using two Corentium Radon detector of model type; BQM-Digital Radon detector. It was done simultaneously and the readings taken after 24 hours for five days in a parti...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/42334
Objectives: The objectives of this research are to 1) Formulate equation that shows the effect of pore aperture (or confinement) on not just the mass movement of molecules but the movement of individual molecules and 2) elucidate the derived equation and illustrate with diameter...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/41975
This study determined heavy metal concentrations in soil, water and some vegetables such as (Spinach (Amaranth caudatus), Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa) and Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)) which were freshly harvested within five various farms (Samaila Hardaway farm, Mohammed Koli fa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/39560
The increase in the application of transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) thin films has led to a continuous demand for improved quality films for solid-state devices. Indium tin oxide (ITO) which is mostly used as TCO is reportedly scarce, thus making it more expensive. This paper...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/42421
Since the time of Galileo (1564 - 1643), Euclidean geometry has been the foundation on which the theoretical formulations of all geometrical quantities in all orthogonal curvilinear coordinates in Physics and Mathematics were built. But with the discovery of the great metric tens...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/40509
The total ground state energy and electronic band structure of Graphite and Diamond were calculated in this work using FHI-aims (Fritz Haber Institute ab initio molecular simulations) Density Functional Theory (DFT) code. The density functionals used are the generalised gradient...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/41779
Productivity of cowpea is strongly regulated by the availability of water and thus water the shortage can result in great yield losses. Field experiments were carried out at the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong campus to study the effects of grass mulch on moisture chara...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/34990
The results were obtained graphically with coding in Mathematica. Computational work was carried out for sufficient ranges of parameters of the study namely Schmidt, Radiation, Prandtl, Heat function , Microrotational Modified Grashofs number Electroconductivity, Magnetic fiel...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/41155
An implicit four step stormer-cowell-typed method for direct solution of general second order ordinary differential equations is proposed in this study. In the derivation of the method, a combination of chebyshev and legendre polynomials was used as basis function to generate sys...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/40400
Objectives: The purposes of this research are 1st, to show that there is a relationship between magnetic constant and Bohr radius for any atom and 2nd, to verify this relationship with illustrative calculations. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/41232
In this paper, we considered method of interpolation of the approximate solution and collocation of the differential system to generate a continuous linear multistep method. The basic properties of the method was investigated and found to be zero stable, consistent, P-stable and...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/41034
This review is devoted to answering the important question of physical and chemical aspects of dating archaeological remains, particularly, ancient structures. Basically, stratigraphy and typology are considered relative dating techniques while radiocarbon dating, dendrochronolog...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2018/40349