The degree of hydrolysis (DH), proximate composition, functional properties and anti-oxidative characteristics of enzymatic kariya seed hydrolysates were evaluated with a view to increasing the utilisation of the seed as food ingredient. Protein hydrolysates were obtained from fe...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/26685
Kensil fine, a local diatomaceous earth was evaluated under simulated and real farmer storage conditions. Three serial concentrations of: 0.3%, 0.5% and 0.7% w/w were applied on 8 kg of grain in mini sacks (simulation trial) or 90 kg grain (full bags) under farmer storage conditi...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/16741
In linear discriminant analysis, determinant and inverse of the covariance matrix are required to be computed. If number of features is greater than the number of available examples, covariance matrix is no longer invertible. A common approach is to reduce dimensionality due to w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27435
Aims: This research was carried out with the sole aim of screening for mycotoxins and identifying the major bioactive molecules in two varieties of mould infested Vigna subterranea. Place and Duration of Study: Department of microbiology, University of Calabar, Cross River State...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/24948
Caffeine ingestion during pregnancy requires attention and investigation towards assessing the level of safety and possible effects on the brain and mental health. Caffeine ingestion during pregnancy has been discouraged despite concerns about lack of adequate facts to support th...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/26543
The automated analysis of facial expression is a long investigated subject in the computer vision community and has been boosted by applications in the field of human computer interaction (HCI). Besides mapping of facial expressions to basic emotion categories, what is often of l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27294
This work presents the effect of low temperature- below Zn melting point oxidation of Zn film on the optical, morphological and structural properties of thermally oxidized Zn films. Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films were synthesised from thermal vacuum deposited metallic zinc thin film...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26853
Background: The carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in the anterior nares of subjects in the study environment has not been carried out before and this study is thus a reference study against which future studies can be compared. The isolates obtained were also tested against frequ...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27202
Biosorption potentials of activated carbons from pentaclethra Macrophylla (PMAC) and Tetracarpidium Conophorum (TCAC) seed shells for the removal of Pb(II) from aqueous solution were investigated. The adsorbents were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27255
The main aim of this study is to measure rural income inequality and assess its disparities across zones, planting periods and socioeconomic characteristics and also to determine the defining factors of income inequality in rural areas. The study covered 3,164 rural households ac...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/27441
The present study was conducted to assess the impact of MGNREGA on quality of life of rural poor in Punjab. The 11 districts of Punjab were selected from 3 socio-cultural by using probability proportionate to sampling size procedure. A total of 396 respondents were selected rando...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/26687
Rice (Oryza sativa) is a principal staple food crop in Kenya. However, its production is still low due to inherently low and declining soil fertility. This has resulted into food and nutritional insecurity and low living standards. The situation has been compounded by the ever es...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/13859
Head smut caused by Tolyposporium penicillariae Bref. is a devastating fungal disease that cause up to 30% yield losses in pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.). An experiment was carried out in two sites (Koibatek and Marigat) in Kenya to estimate the losses in grain yiel...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/22981
Every academic institute has special concerns for student’s attendance in examination halls. At present, in developing countries attendance is usually taken using paper sheets and the old file system. The effectiveness of this style is low because it is highly labor-intensive, er...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/24661
We synthesized a quasi-two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice formed in α -RbCrF4 by improving the pretreatment method before primary sintering. From X-ray diffraction measurements, the crystal structure was found to consist of a TlAlF4-type structure, whi...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27184