Aims: The use of essential oils from plants as natural antioxidant and antimicrobial is a field of growing interest. The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of the essential oils of Cymbopogon citratus L. (lemongrass) and Citrus sinen...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/28176
The aim of this study was to analyse factors affecting consumers’ preferences. The study was conducted in Windhoek; multiple stage sampling was employed to collect data. That is first stage was cluster sampling methods (to characterise the population to lower, middle and higher i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27336
MSEs have become important economic activities particularly in providing employment and other business activities for unemployed and low income households. The objective of this study is to determine the role of financial institutions in growth and productivity of MSEs in Yirgale...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/25814
The occurrence of Entamoeba histolytica as a human intestinal parasite is a serious problem especially in developing countries. Entamoeba histolytica frequently infects as a commensal within the human large intestine with no overt clinical manifestations. However, trophozoites ca...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27681
Ready-to-eat (RTE) foods are composite foods sold to consumers for consumption which do not require significant further processing except re-heating or completion of cooking process. These foods may constitute likely potential hazard to human health due to non compliance with foo...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27939
Flavour is an essential quality of food and formed by large number of volatile (alcohol, ketones, aldehydes, esters and terpenes etc.) and non-volatile compounds (amino acids and peptides etc.). In fermented sausage, flavour develops from biochemical reactions and is influenced b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27740
This paper aims at presenting design of two controllers for the study of a microgrid testbed. The response of the microgrid testbed to different short circuits would be investigated under these two control regimes, namely, reactive power and voltage controls. This paper therefore...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25787
Hybrid gold and silver nanoparticles (AuNPs and AgNPs) are known as chemically or biologically engineered nanomaterials that have size dimension in the range of 1-100 nm. Nanosized materials are exhibited various novel properties like site-specific reactivity, greater sensing cap...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27734
Optimization of different physico-chemical and cultural parameters such as temperature, pH, incubation time and inoculum dose along with variation of NaCl, glucose and casein hydrolysate concentrations were carried out in the present investigation for the enhancement of extracell...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27839
Tubulins are composed of filaments or thread like structures called as microtubules which plays an important role in structural composition of cytoskeleton. Tubulin comprise of various types and subtypes. They belong to family of globular proteins.α-tubulin’s are considered as a...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/26691
Aims: To investigate the effects of different storage temperatures (-15±2°C; 4±2°C and 29±2°C) on quality changes in ‘Ngolo’ (Thais califera) to evaluate the potential enhancement or otherwise of its domestic and global trade. Study Design: “Ngolo” samples were subjected to diffe...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27698
Many studies have shown challenges and in some cases major failures toward the training programs sponsored by extension services. Extension services in Kenya are supposed to help local farming communities’ increase their productivity towards the survival of the agriculture indust...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/27525
Aims: Rabbit production fulfils important socio-economic functions and has the ability to alleviate the animal protein inadequacy. In Nigeria and most other developing countries, inadequate nutrition undermines rabbit in expressing their full potential. Therefore, a 49-day study...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2016/27947
This paper investigates the interaction between terrain features and surface refractivity during the past decades in the North Central, Nigeria. Some issues were addressed in the study namely seasonal variation of surface refractivity over a period of 25 years (1983 – 2007), spat...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27436
Nigeria has been declared among the group of countries endemic for hepatitis B infection with about 20 million people infected with HBV and about five million deaths resulting from the consequences of hepatitis B infection. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a serious global he...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/27450