A recent line of work to improve the secrecy capacity within wiretap gaussian channel has introduced a new lattice invariant called secrecy gain. Belfiore and Sol´e made a conjecture about the point at which the the secrecy gain is maximum. Verified by most unimodular lattices, t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/28543
Adoption of snail production technologies by farmers in Onicha L.G.A of Ebonyi State, Nigeria, was studied. Percentage response and frequency distribution were used to address objective I, part of 2 and 3, while part of objective 2 was addressed using logit model analysis. Multi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/17878
Despite the fact that virtually all households in Kenya grow maize, over 60% of them are net maize buyers because they do not produce enough for their consumption. This is due to both biotic and abiotic factors such as poor planting materials, diseases and unreliable weather amon...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/27694
This study investigates the relationship between shyness and gender, region, major, level of study of Sultan Qaboos and Sharjah University students. A sample of two hundred thirty six male and female students from different colleges in both Universities completed the revised twen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/27590
The Greater Sudbury Region (GSR) is one of the most ecologically disturbed regions of Canada. Recent studies have shown that Betula papyrifera accumulate metals in roots or leaves. The main objectives of the present study were to 1) determine the effects of copper treatment on ...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/28425
Clerodendrum splendens G. Don (Family Verbenaceae) has been used for centuries to treat various medicinal problems in Africa, including the treatment of wounds and other skin conditions. Though several studies have been conducted on the biological activities of this plant, none s...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/27067
Heart rate variation (HR) being identified as depending on subjects’ stress state when submitted to short term mental stress, this study aimed at analyzing whether or not it could be possible to find a mathematical relationship between the average heart rate variation and the int...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27593
The aim of this study was to evaluate the treatment of leachate from landfill through to Fenton advanced oxidation process with subsequent adsorption on the eggshell (ES) and activated carbon (AC). The project was carried out in laboratories of the Area of Chemistry and Physical...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28051
Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of organic extracts from Salvia officinalis L. (Lamiaceae) collected in the province of Ouezzane. Study Design: Evaluation of in vitro antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of extract...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/28307
Downstream many hydraulic structures such as dams, barrage sluice gate etc, changing water flow from supercritical to subcritical flow causes formation of hydraulic jump. The formed hydraulic jump dissipates excess energy of flowing water. This paper carried out experimental runs...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28221
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of use of IPM practices by the farmers and to examine relationships between farmer’s selected characteristics and their use of IPM practices. Those characteristics were age, education, farm size, annual family income, training...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/26249
The study looked at the contributions of social media to the outcome of 2015 presidential election in Nigeria with a particular interest in uncovering social media influence on voting pattern of electorates; the reliability of information disseminated through the social media; an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/27403
Syzygium guineense leaf and bark are used for the treatment of tuberculosis, chronic diarrhea, cough, dysentery, malaria, amenorrhea, wounds, ulcers, rheumatism and infections. The various compounds in the n-hexane extract of the leaf were analysed by TLC and identified by GC-MS...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/27372
Plasmonics has arisen as an interested research field in nanoscience and nanotechnology with many potential applications in fields ranging from bioscience, information processing and communication to quantum optics. It is based on the generation, manipulation and transfer of surf...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/27351
Vergush A. Pivazyan, Emma A. Ghazaryan, Roza S. Shainova, Rafael A. Tavalyan, Armen G. Ayvazyan & Aleksandr P. Yengoyan·Chemical Science International Journal·2016
By functionalization of 4-hydrazinyl-6-methyl-2-(alkylthio)pyrimidines the corresponding acetohydrazides, N-phenylhydrazine-1-carboxamides(thioamides) were obtained. The heterocyclization of the same hydrazides lead to nonfused pyrazolyl-pyrimidines and pyridazinyl-pyrimidines an...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/28201