Aim: Farmers’ groups were introduced in Kenya as cooperatives during the colonial period for the purpose of promoting commercial agricultural production by peasant farmers. However, there is still poor rural milk trade and supply. The informal sector is still the dominant force i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/26753
Alexandre Ricardo Pereira Schuler, Francisco Sávio Gomes Pereira, Valmir Felix de Lima, Santulla Leide Bernardes Vasconcelos Carvalho & Antonio Demóstenes de Sobral·Chemical Science International Journal·2016
In this work it was carried out the chromatographic characterisation of vegetable oils (castor, soybean, cotton and jatropha) and animal fats (beef tallow and chicken fat), considered as potential feedstocks for biodiesel production. The samples were transesterefied in microscale...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2016/29458
Densities and Ultrasonic velocities of glycerin and dextrose in Na2CO3 and NaHCO3 buffer solutions have been determined experimentally at 308 and 313K. From these experimental results the adiabatic compressibility Ks, acoustic impedance Z, intermolecular free length Lf, relative...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2016/28872
Background: It was noted since in the 1920s that Black Africans had some intrinsic resistance to infection with malaria. Duffy negative status is suggested to play a role in resistance to malaria infection and has been reported with higher frequencies in countries where there is...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/29050
In Fogera district of northwestern Ethiopia, agroforestry land use systems are considered as sustainable and productive approaches as they have multiple benefits. Agroforestry systems in Fogera were developed by the farmers themselves over time; however, their distribution had re...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/28310
Aim: Present study was aimed to isolate marine algae from the sea water samples of Kayalpattinam Coastal area, Gulf of Mannar. Methodology: Seawater samples were collected for the isolation of phytoplankton from the Kayalpattinam Coastal area, Tuticorin on May 2016. The collected...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/29300
Let X = lp , 2 ≤ p < ∞. Let F : X → X* and K : X* → X be bounded maximal monotone mappings such that the Hammerstein equation u+KFu = 0 has a solution. An explicit iteration sequence is constructed and proved to converge strongly to a solution of this equation. Our method of p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/28512
Aims: Analytical interference in the clinical laboratory is a well-known phenomenon. When analyzing samples containing monoclonal immunoglobulins (M proteins), various problems could be encountered in the clinical laboratory data. Presentation of Case: The authors report a patien...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/29258
A range of factors can influence the performance of employees and hence success of any organisation. Some of these factors include quality of work life, job satisfaction and dispositional factors like personality of employees. This study explored the influence of personality on r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28334
Aims: This study examined smoking prevalence and knowledge about its health implications among health care professional students in Ekiti State, South-Western Nigeria. Theoretical Framework: The Precede-Proceed Model was the theoretical framework for the study. Methodology: The r...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/27946
Reservoir rock properties such as permeability and porosity can be determined using routine core analysis. However, the optimum brine concentration to determine these petrophysical properties with fluid saturation method has remained unattainable. Therefore, brine concentrations...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28930
This investigation was aimed at ascertaining the effects of pH, effect of temperature and effect of sodium acetate concentration on crystal violet decolouration by immobilized and free cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a nutrient. The immobilized cells were immobilized sodium al...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29120
Vegetable is one of the rich sources of phytonutrients and it is part of the dietary components of in habitants of south-western Nigeria. Despite its nutritional and health benefits, it is not without other factors that are detrimental to health such as anti-nutrinets like cyanog...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/26182
Antiplasmodial activity of the ethanolic leaf extract of Tithonia diversifolia was studied in Swiss albino mice infected with Plasmodium berghei (NK65). The study was carried out at the Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria between April a...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/28803
Aims: The explosion and sinking of the Macondo drilling platform resulted in one of the largest marine oil spills in history but with largely uncertain ecological consequences. Among the lesser studied but potentially greater concerns are population and toxicological effects of t...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/28874