This study examines the impact of informal relations on banks (Eco bank, Stanchart, United Bank for Africa, Barclays, Ghana Commercial Bank, and Cal Bank) at KNUST campus. Social survey was the design used for this study. The population of study was all workers of all banks on KN...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/27011
The study sought to examine the effects of culture on child preference and its implications for fertility behaviour as well as population growth in Cross River State, with a view to isolating factors which will be of importance to policy makers and planners in addressing high fer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/27289
In this study the author focuses on thermal and magnetic properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors at critical point. Such properties are discontinuous at some point in the critical region so that it is very important to study their critical behavior in these regions. In orde...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28109
Aims: Various studies have been conducted to investigate the antimicrobial properties of honey from different parts of the world. To date; no extensive studies of the antimicrobial properties of Sahara honey (SH) on urogenital microorganisms have been conducted. The objectives of...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2016/27608
Mohamed R. Ghazy, Mohamed A. Basiouny & Mahmoud H. Badawy·Advances in Research·2016
Aims: The main objective of this work is to evaluate the performance of biofilters with different agricultural wastes media, which widely exist in many regions without being economically used, namely rice straw, date palm fiber and wood chips of orange trees. Using agriculture wa...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/27926
In this report, nano-powders of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), were synthesized by mechanochemical method for one model system and its structure was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray powder diffractio...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/27789
Aims: To synthesis lanthanum strontium cobalt ferrite, La0.8Sr0.2CoyFe1-yO3-d (y=0, 0.2, 0.4) nanopowders via metal-organic precursors (acetylacetonates), determine the composition, structure and magnetic properties. Place and Duration of Study: Laboratory of Noxious Chemistry an...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/28010
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of climate and soil conditions on arnica plant development with different origin in two floristic regions at Vitosha Mt. and Rhodopi Mts. in Bulgaria and to calculate the yield of Arnicae flos from the studied collections. The me...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/27775
Aims: To find out the average central corneal thickness (CCT) and intraocular pressure (IOP) and to determine the prevalence of ocular hypertension in the study group. Methods: It was a cross sectional study conducted on subjects with age more than 30 years. These respondents wer...
Introduction: Taro leaf blight disease cause by Phytophtora colocasiae has become an economic disease in Cocoyam growing regions of Cameroon. Aims: To screen for resistance 10 improved and 4 local cultivars of taro against taro leaf blight disease. Study Design: A randomized comp...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/14317
Aim: In this study we wanted to determine bacteria for chromium (VI) removal under pH, chromium concentration, carbon source and immobilizing agents. Place and Duration of Study: This study was carried out in the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural and Applied S...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/27341
O. S. Bassey, T. O. Soyemi, A. T. Adeniji-Sofoluwe, A. O. Adeoye, O. A. Mosuro, T. S. Akingbola, O. O. Osofundiya, G. O. Obajimi, A. O. Oluwasola, M. O. Obajimi & O. I. Olopade·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Introduction: Mammographic density is a strong predictor of breast cancer. Menopause has a significant effect on breast pattern and has been documented to have more important influence on the decline in mammographic densities than age. The aim of this study was to describe the br...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26928
Aims: (i) To determine the dietary pattern of the elderly in Ondo State, Nigeria; (ii) To determine the biochemical status of the respondents; and (iii) To determine the correlation between dietary pattern and blood levels of Vitamins A, C, D, E, calcium, phosphorus and selenium....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27353
Nowadays, the dynamics of the Senegal river delta ecosystem has attracted the attention of the authorities because of the profound changes which it is subject. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the dynamics of land use units and natural and anthropogenic factors...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27909
A set S of vertices of a graph G = (V, E) with no isolated vertex is a total dominating set if every vertex of V(G) is adjacent to some vertex in S. The total domination number is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of G. In this paper, we study the total domination...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27588