The work documents a vulnerability study of coastal aquifers based on Groundwater Pollution Potential Index (GWPPI). The parameters used in GWPPI include Lithofacies (L), aquifer thickness (b), Transmissivity (T), Storativity (S), Static Water Level (SWL), Total Dissolved solids...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/22994
The need to produce readily accessible, pollution free natural energy such as solar energy has been drawing increasing attention globally. This is due to energy demand, global environmental protection, fast growing population and diminishing resources of grid supply. Effective ut...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22955
These days, opium consumption has increased among people. Opium latex contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed, chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opiates for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. This study was carri...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/23301
R. Fané, D. Traoré, A. Kassogué, F. Samaké, A. H. Dicko, A. Hamadoun, F. H. Valicente & A. H. Babana·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Aims: To determine the genetic diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis strains isolated from soils of different locality in Mali, and select strains with cry1F, cry1B and cry1C genes to control caterpillars and strains with cry2 gene against African rice gall midge. Study Design: Str...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/20432
An efficient protocol was described for the rapid in vitro multiplication of medicinal plant Boucerosia umbellata via enhanced axillary bud proliferation from nodal explants collected from young shoots of three-month-old field grown plants. Effects of cytokinins 6-benzylaminopuri...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23676
Aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diets enriched with flax and hemp seeds on iron blood content of lactating Alpine goats. A total of eighteen goats were equally divided in three groups: control and goats supplemented with flax and hemp. The goats were supplemented...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/23716
A field study was conducted at Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) farm to investigate the effect of panicle removal and no panicle removal on growth, yield and yield components of grain sorghum within and across landraces. The experiment was arranged in a complete randomized b...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/23140
Aims: To report isoniazid-induced psychosis in 2 children treated for Tuberculosis (TB) as a reminder or an alert to clinicians and other health workers. Presentation of Cases: Isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INH) is commonly used drug to treat and prevent TB, and because of HIV pan...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/23675
In this paper, we consider an almost periodic discrete multispecies Lotka-Volterra mutualism system with feedback controls. We firstly obtain the permanence of the system. Assuming that the coefficients in the system are almost periodic sequences, we obtain the sufficient conditi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23336
The difficulty of the methods of decision aid is what seeking optimal solutions to complex problems in general and for nature multicriteria, or the concept of optimality is no sense in a multicriteria context. In this paper, we propose a mathematical modelling, in the context of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23247
This paper presents a new method namely, Adomain Sumudu Transform Method, a coupling of the Sumudu transform and Adomain decomposition method, for handling a differential equation of mixing layer that arises in viscous incompressible fluid. In order to apply the condition at infi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23104
A new distance measure between fuzzy sets (FSs) based on fuzzy D-implications is introduced in this paper. The proposed measure uses a matrix representation of each set in order to encode its information, where matrix norms in conjunction with fuzzy D-implications can be applied...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23993
The morphology of Arabic plays an important role of computational natural language processing systems. The rich morphology, and the complexity of word formation all contribute to making morphological approaches to Arabic very challenging. In this paper, we present a new method fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23055
Aim: To carry out performance evaluation of an Improved Self-Organizing Feature Map (SOFM) and Modified Counter Propagation Network (CPN) techniques in face recognition. These two techniques were examined, implemented and evaluated by using metrics such as recognition accuracy, s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22588
Solution of the nonlinear singular oscillator has been obtained based on an iteration procedure. Here we have used a simple technique and taking a truncated Fourier series to determine the approximate analytic solution of the oscillator. The percentage of error between exact freq...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23263