The main objectives of the study are to investigate, analyze and evaluate scientific positions of scientists - economists in relation to the economic content of operational control and its importance as a management function; find out its differences from other forms and types of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28050
Cloud computing applications (CCA) are defined by their elasticity, on-demand provisioning and ability to address, cost-effectively, volatile workloads. These new cloud computing (CC) applications are being increasingly deployed by organizations but without a means of managing th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27872
Aim: The aim of this study was to see the effect of pregnancy on some selected haemostatic parameters based on trimesters. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemical Pathology, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Wesley Guild Hospital Unit, Ilesa, Osun...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/26956
Potassium bromate (KBrO3) is widely used in foods and water, in spite of its well-known oxidative cell and tissue damage. Therefore, vitamins C and E are examined to alleviate its cardiac injury. For this purpose 72 adult male albino rats were categorized into 6 groups. Group1 se...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/28697
Aim: The aim of the study is to evaluate the gross, histology and morphometric changes of the adrenal gland during the foetal developmental period of the White Fulani (zebu) cattle in Nigeria, using slaughter house foetal waste. Study Design: Experimental morphological study was...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27994
Because of the rapid growth of cities in the present days, it has become the establishment of infrastructure in the lands previously was considered inappropriate an order cannot be avoided. Therefore, to improve the engineering properties of these lands, various techniques have b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28338
The impact of a municipal solid waste dumpsite on soil and groundwater in Port Harcourt municipality was investigated using 2-D resistivity imaging technique. The resistivity data was acquired along six traverses, two of which was used as control line. The objective of the study...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28080
Aims: Water resources in Scotland are under immense pressure despite the perception that Scotland enjoys abundant rainfall and water resources. The transport and treatment of water utilizes high amounts of energy is which contradicts the UK government’s carbon neutral agenda. The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2016/23723
Aims: A literature review to show the importance of combined water and energy demand end-use studies and to illustrate techniques that can be applied for these analyses. Study Design: A review of energy-related water end-use and water-related energy end-use studies. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2016/23725
Aims: Understanding how customers engage with and view their water usage is crucial to the design of more effective water demand management policies and programmes. This paper presents the findings of a small-scale research project that sought to explore customer attitudes to the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2016/18182
The need to promote water efficient technologies and initiatives is increasingly a central feature of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Attendant to this is a growing focus by IWRM practitioners of the role that community plays in supporting a range of interventions t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2016/18186
Aims: This paper explores the collective ordering of domestic water use, shaped through shared social, technical and natural relations, and outlines how this understanding can be used to inform water efficiency initiatives in order achieve sustainable domestic water consumption....
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2016/18187
Aims: Changes in water law and policy, in the UK and further afield, are promoting social and service innovation, as well as technical innovation in the water sector. In particular, the separation of wholesale and retail water and sewerage services for English and Welsh commercia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2016/23730
Aims: Nigeria implemented a prepayment scheme for health over a decade ago with the aim of achieving universal health coverage. Though the formal sector employees in the federal civil service are the focus, universal health coverage has not been achieved among them. This study ai...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/27777