This research focused on converting Solar energy into electrical and mechanical energy for the development of transmission system of a Solar Powered Vehicle (SPV) with the use of a DC motor, thereby eliminating the use of fuel and air. A computer simulation model was developed an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19508
Aims: To design a Face Recognition System (FRS) using combination Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Artificial Neural Network - Normalized ICA. In order to improve the performance of a conventional ICA which suffers the drawback of ranking the energies of the generated fea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21960
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common solid malignancy worldwide and causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Many risk factors predispose to HCC, these risk factors may present individually or collectively depending on the environmental situations....
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/22158
The study examined the determinants of adoption of rubber production technologies by farmers in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to; describe the socioeconomic characteristics of rubber farmers and to identify factors affecting adoption of impro...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/21779
World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as drug of choice for the treatment of malaria in endemic regions of the world. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of therapeutic doses of ACTs: Artesunate (Artesunat...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/22846
In this Brief Communication scalar length-scale and time-scale distributions are proposed to determine by considering the statistics of the scalar field and its gradient. For this purpose, a relationship between the scalar length-scale probability density function and the joint p...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/22455
Introduction: Hypospadias is the result of an abnormal growth of penis in which the failure of the growth of urethral fold that resulted in the urethral meatus at ventral penis is located proximal from its normal position in glanular with or without chorde. The incidence of hypos...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/22574
Abstract: Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli 0157:H7 is a zoonotic pathogen associated with diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. Aim: The aim of this research was to carry out an assessment of the incidence of Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli 0157:H7 in sun dried tomato...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/22290
Mustapha Benhessou, Samira Zoa Assoumou, Luc Magloire Anicet Boumba, Said Bouhya, Mohammed Nabil Benchekroun & My Mustapha Ennaji·Microbiology Research Journal International·2015
The aim of this study was to examine the association of the p53 codon 72 polymorphism with ovarian carcinoma development in Moroccan women. Samples from 44 women with ovarian cancer and 80 healthy controls, were used. p53 codon 72 polymorphism determination was performed by allel...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/22295
The microbiological and physico-chemical analysis of randomly selected borehole waters used by staffs, students and pupils in twenty (20) private schools in Umuahia Abia State were carried out. Five bacteria: Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudo...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/20136
Three separate field studies were conducted at the Research Farm of University of Benin in Nigeria to determine soil productivity index rating for ultisol in which seven cropping ratios of maize (MA) and egusi-melon (EM) Viz 1:0, 0:1, 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 1:2 and 1:3) were tested usin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajea/2016/20145
Many scientific studies in the biochemical, genetic fields suggest that there were common mechanisms, such as genes, α-synuclein protein, tau protein, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and iron might be shared in Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD). α-syn...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/22584
Intrusion detection is very imperative in network systems due to outstanding vulnerabilities left unaddressed by current preventive network security measures such as firewalls and encryption software. The inefficiency, inaccuracy, high false alarm rates and lack of self-defensive...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22190
In statistical literature, several distributions are used to model lifetime data. But many –if not most– of these distributions lack of certain lifetime context motivation. Recently, attempts have been made to define new families of probability distributions that extended well kn...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/21903
Igwilo Kevin Chinwuba, Onwugbuchulem Chibunma Vivian & Ohia Nnaemeka Princewill·Advances in Research·2015
Flow assurance is the efficient and successful flow of fluids in pipes. Some of the flow assurance challenges that can be encountered include hydrate formation, sand production, wax precipitation, scale deposits and emulsion problems. In onshore production facilities in the Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/20299