Aims: To optimize the different available molecular based techniques, validate the Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for detection of Capripoxviruses (CaPVs) DNA and deep sequencing to confirm the results of the LAMP assay and ensure that an effective and reliab...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27178
Nigeria, though blessed with more natural gas than any other country in Africa, has very little capacity to put it to good use. The country lacks pipelines, processing facilities, petrochemicals plants and much of the other infrastructure needed for a thriving sector As a result...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27214
Aims: In this period of economic quandary, Nigeria needs to make workable and precise economic policies and decisions based on accurate information in all sectors of the economy. However, dearth of empirical study on construction sector for economic decisions has made this aspira...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26268
With increasing misuse of antimicrobial substances in medical settings, it became imminent to search for alternative pathogen control means to aid in preventing disease spread. Among such alternatives is the action upon virulent gene expression of the pathogen itself. A possible...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27009
We investigated the abundance and diversity of entomofauna associated with citrus orchards in two different agroecological zones of Ghana. Malaise traps, flight interception traps, pitfall traps, chemical ʽʽknock down’’ and visual observation were used for data collection. We rec...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26238
High air temperatures coupled with low light intensity, especially during the last two weeks of fruit ripening, may cause a low sugar content of ripe fruits of high altitude grown strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch.) in the tropics. An experiment in a plastic house was conducted...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26786
Aim: The effect of 4 different nitrogen dosages (7, 10, 13 & 16 mM) on the Plant Height, Dry Matter Yield, Number of Fruit per Plant, Fruit Yield per Plant, and Total Nitrogen Concentration of the Spring S1, which is one of the parthenocarpic hybrid cucumber types grown in N...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25499
Let L be a compactly generated multiplicative lattice with 1 compact in which every finite product of compact elements is compact and M be a module over L. In this paper we generalize the concepts of an element prime to another element and an element primary to another element in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/24931
Sorption studies of copper (II) phthalocyanine tetrasulfonic sodium acid (CuPc) was done using a batch method with TiO2 powder as the adsorbent, and several variables such as initial concentration of the dye, contact time and TiO2 loading was determined. The sorption data were an...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/26179
In this study the reactivity of 3-nitrofuran acting as electrophile in their reactions with different dienes, was analyzed in theoretical form. Specifically, the mechanism of each DA reaction was explored. Moreover, considering the polar character of this type of cycloaddition re...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/27380
Ernest R. Mbega, Cornel R. Massawe & Ambonesigwe M. Mbwaga·Advances in Research·2016
Aims: To document the occurrence and effect of Alectra vogelii on bambara groundnut yield in Tanzania. Place and Duration of Study: Singida and Dodoma regions, Tanzania between 4th to 20th April 2014. Methodology: The number of A. vogelii and of bambara groundnut plants per 2 m...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/11478
Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common nosocomial and antibiotic-associated diarrheal disease of different severity. Patients of immunocompromised status were observed to be particularly at risk of complications and severe disease in the Western cult...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/27298
Aim: A short term toxicological study of Polyalthia longifolia seed flour in dietary formulation of albino rats was conducted and investigated in order to determine its suitability as an additive in feed supplement and formulation. Methodology: The effect of the dietary formulati...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/19789
This study focused on factor analysis of SMEs’ challenges and its implications on poverty and unemployment in Dekina. The study investigated the prime factor influencing SMEs’ entrepreneurial activities, and its relationship with poverty and unemployment in Dekina. In regard of t...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27215
The 21st century ushered in the information age which in alignment with technology, has made access to information easier and faster than the world has ever seen. However, information is only beneficial when its articulate form is appropriately directed at those that need it the...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27186