Distribution ratios and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including Fluoranthene (Flt), Pyrene (Pyr), Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), Benzo(k)fluoranthene (BkP), Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene (IP), Benzo(ghi)perylene (BgP) in urban surface and subsurface soil collected from Riya...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/30051
The present research carried out to estimate the antioxidant activity of Anisomeles indica (L.) O. Kuntze leaves by employing some in vitro methods i.e. free radical scavenging activity, reducing ability and chelating ability. The leaves extract showed an excellent activity in al...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/29720
Aims: The present study was undertaken with an aim of evaluating the capacity of the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Entandrophragma angolense, Cola nitida and Gomphrena celosioides to protect the heart of rats. Study Design: Cardioprotective properties of plant extracts in viv...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/29269
Balneotherapy for therapeutic purposes has been used since ancient times, and was based on empirical experience carried forward from generation to generation. There is scientific evidence about the positive effects of the thermal water on the skin and on body weight, but studies...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29892
Profile variations in the Ha and Hb lines in the spectra of the stars HD198478 and HD187982 are investigated from spectroscopic observations acquired in 2010-2011, 2013-2015 at the Cassegrain focus of the 2-m telescope at the Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory. The spectral resol...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/29808
Valmir Felix de Lima, Francisco Sávio Gomes Pereira, Alexandre Ricardo Pereira Schuler, Maria de Los Angeles P. F. Palha, Antonio Demóstenes de Sobral, Iranildo José da Cruz Filho & Agrinaldo Jacinto do Nascimento Junior·Chemical Science International Journal·2016
Atrazine (ATZ) is an herbicide of the s-triazines classes used on crops as corn, cotton, soybean, and sugar cane. This work shows the ATZ degradation by ultraviolet radiation (UVC, 254 nm) in a bench-scale annular photoreactor. The initial concentration of the irradiated samples...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2016/29619
Aims: The present study was carried out to determine nutritive composition and to screen antimicrobial activity of leaf extract of Moringa stenopetala (Baker f.) Cufod. Place and Duration of the Study: The study was performed at Wollega University, Ethiopia, BGK Life Technologies...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/29987
In a rather terse note, published in 1935, G.W. Hammar explained his brilliant experiment destined to put away, once and for all, the notion of “aether entrainment”. Certain physicists, such as Dayton Miller, insisted that the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment and i...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/29643
Salt lakes and small – scaled salt production in Ebonyi State, Nigeria have long interesting history and the need to be informed of the radiological quality of the salt is essential to radiation measurement and protection agencies. Gross alpha and beta activity concentrations ha...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28111
In this experimental study, we have determined both thermo-physical and mechanical properties of raw soil blocks stabilized with fiber straws. Also was studied, the influence of straw content incorporated in the blocks for both properties. Thermophysical properties are determined...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/29586
The present study deals with the MHD stagnation point flow of Nanofluid past a non-isothermal stretching sheet in porous medium. The presence of Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects yields a coupled nonlinear Boundary Value Problem. The sheet is assumed to be permeable. Sim...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/29926
In this paper, we have determined the free energy of a binary alloy for any order and it is showed that the number of equilibrium states of the system is obtained by the Taylor expansion to the 4-th order choice. We explicitly determine the stable states of alloy which are charac...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/29954
This research was carried out in six Local Government Areas of Imo state, Nigeria. Natural resources endowment of any area in the world when properly harnessed can act as a catalyst to the economic life of the area. In an effort to harness these resources, the environment of the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/28448
This paper seeks to develop a statistical model capable of forecasting the Ghanaian Cedi US Dollar nominal exchange rate. The study uses end-of-month interbank exchange rate between January, 1994 and May, 2016. We employed the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) sche...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28867
This research examines corporate governance disclosure in Nigerian and South African Banks using the un-weighted disclosure index technique. This research provides a cross sectional examination of corporate governance disclosure practices in the annual reports of 10 listed banks...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29335