Aims: To assess buildings and their subsequent impact on land and energy use to validate campus sustainability. Study Design: A survey. Place of Study: Department of Vocational & Technical Education, University of Cape Coast. Methodology: A questionnaire was administered t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25553
Hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar system (PVT) which generates electricity and heat simultaneously is well known technology; however they are still need more development and collaboration. The proposed combination can offer economical advantages compared to a combination of separ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26151
All as obtained glasses in the system 24.5 Na2O-24.5 CaO-6 P2O5- xV2O5 (45-x) SiO2 (x ranges from 0-15 mole %) are transparent and have an amorphous network structure. Glasses containing up to 6 mol% V2O5 still transparent upon heat treatment at 660°C for 4 hours. On the other ha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26683
In this research, the production of glass-polymer-concrete (GPC) composite and comparing of its mechanical, chemical and thermal properties with the reference concrete have been investigated. The present work deals with study of ternary blended concrete with glass waste and polym...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25779
This article shows the experimental and numerical results of thermal comfort of two models of traditional habitats. The traditional habitat is bilobate and rectangular model. In the bilobate model, I obtained the following air temperatures by measurement: 29.6-31.6°C the day and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26286
In a developing company or industry where there is availability of machines to keep the industry running effectively, a need always arise to consider the accessories and the spare parts which will enhance the production planning and also affects the economic growth of the company...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23025
The main objective of the present investigation was to identify the optimum plant density for the best performance of grain protein, oil and starch contents and yields of different maize genotypes via quadratic regression functions. Diallel crosses among diverse maize inbreds wer...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/26692
Epoxy resin modified with nanofillers cannot be used alone for high performance structural applications due to their low-mechanical properties. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to hybridize composite laminates with different fiber configurations by 1.0 wt% multi–wall...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26663
Aims: The study was carried out to evaluate Zingiber officinale supplementation on haematology and serum biochemical properties of Yankasa rams. Methodology: Four complete experimental diets were formulated with graded levels of ginger at 0, 2.5, 5 and 7.5 g/kg inclusion levels....
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/26550
An experiment was conducted on the farm of the Faculty of Agricultural Studies, Sudan University of Science and Technology, this soil belongs to the Central Clay Plain of the Sudan which has been formed by alluvial deposit of the Nile, primarily of basaltic origin, and it conside...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/26275
Due to concentration of industries in the study area and indiscriminate disposal of industrial effluent into Ele River, this study therefore aims at assessing the suitability of Ele River in Nnewi, Anambra State of Nigeria for irrigation purpose. Water samples were collected from...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25885
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease which poses a major challenge to healthcare and is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels resulting from either an underproduction or underutilization of the insulin hormone. The actual cause of Type 1 diabetes is unknown, but it m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24987
Aims and Objective: Glomerular disease (GD) is one of the most common forms of renal diseases and can have many different clinical presentations and there is a variation in the prevalence of the type of GD according to geographical location and race of the study population, so ou...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24158
The analyses of the existed literature devoted to chronic recurrent hematogenous osteomyelitis have been performed in this study. Pathogenesis and morphologic picture of the disease have been studied in detail. It has been presented modern imaginations about clinical manifestatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25477
Aim: When the productivity of a crop is higher and stable in an area/zone probably due to prevalence of optimum condition for crop growth and yield, it is considered an efficient crop zone. But identification of these cropping efficient zones which also serves to encourage compar...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/26821