Aims: As climate change related rainfall and temperature variability is being increasingly experienced in the SAT regions, we assessed climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of Conservation Agriculture (CA) by studying effects of minimum tillage (MT) and residue manag...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2015/18479
Texture analysis is one of the promising field of digital image processing. The main target of texture analysis or recognition is to understand, process and model texture, and ultimately simulate human visual learning process using different computer technologies, which are gener...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19082
Binding constant (Kb) was calculated by means of Benesi-Hildebrand equation. Gibbs free energy (∆G°) was calculated at room temperature. The binding constant and the Gibbs free energy results showed that the interaction between the oppositely charged dye and surfactant is very st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22949
This article aims at the college students' innovative project, which realizes the intelligent environment’s monitoring system. It makes the design of hardware platform, which is based on CAN bus and the embedded system. It receives environmental information through sensors, and u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22521
Human urine, especially if combined with composts, could be a good source of fertilizer for improving soil fertility and ultimately, crop production. Thus, the focus of this study was to evaluate the influence of human urine-compost mixture on post-harvest soil fertility quality,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/19823
Two field experiments were conducted at two seasons at the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong-Ashanti campus to investigate the responses of the yield and root quality of two varieties of sweetpotato (Apomuden and Okumkom) to chicken manure and inorganic fertilizers and st...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/22446
Following the Ricardian approach, this paper estimates district level fixed effect panel regression on per hectare net wheat revenues with climate variables like precipitation and temperature including other traditional inputs. Both temperature and precipitation coefficients reve...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/22555
Aims: The paper examines socio economic status of coir industry workers. The Coir Industry is one of the most important traditional small enterprises in India which provides employment to about 7 lakhs persons of whom a majority is from rural areas belonging to the economically w...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/22916
There is no gainsaying the fact that agriculture is the second largest contributor to Nigeria Gross Domestic Product (GDP). To sustain contribution of agriculture to GDP, formal financial institutions were induced by moral suasion and correction to extend a minimum prescribed per...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/18106
Objective: The main aim of this study was to compare immediate and delayed implants for the placement and postoperative assessment. For this purpose, dental implant were placed using the set criteria and patients were recalled for follow up for postoperative assessment. Methods:...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23453
Land use, which is use of land by human for different purposes, is influenced by two broad sets of forces human needs (socio-economic) and environmental features and processes (biophysical). The study was carried out at Andit Tid watershed one of SCRP research unit founded in 198...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/22268
The signs of stability of the sea ice thickness from the latest Cryosat-2 results for the Arctic sea ice thickness are consistent with the Lower Troposphere Temperatures (LTT) and the sea ice extension results available since 1979. In the longer term, the current Arctic climate i...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/22017
Aims: Narrowing of the upper airway during sleep causes snoring, hypoventilation and decreased oxygenation of the brain with recurrent arousal from sleep and a cascade of excessive daytime sleepiness, poor concentration in class and undesirable academic performance. This study de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22689
In this paper, a new reliable algorithm, multistage Laplace Adomian decomposition method (MLADM) based on standard Laplace – Adomian method, is presented to solve a time- fractional financial model for both chaotic and non- chaotic. The new algorithm is just a simple modification...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22102
Proximate analysis, elemental analysis and phytochemical analysis were conducted on leaves and roots of S. dulcificum (miracle fruit). The results of proximate analysis of the leaves sample showed the following compositions: protein (6.62±0.02)%, crude lipid (12±2.00)%, crude fi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/20456