Aims: In 2014, a cholera outbreak occurred in Greater Accra region, affecting more than 1733 people, and 20 individuals died. We investigated to verify the diagnosis, identify risk factors and recommended control measures. Study Design: The study was both descriptive and un-match...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/21461
Staphylococci are Gram-positive bacteria, with diameters of 0.5 – 1.5 μm and characterised by individual cocci, which divide in more than one plane to form grape-like clusters. They are non-motile, non-spore forming facultative anaerobes that grow by aerobic respiration or by fer...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/20465
Most developing countries depend on solid biomass for household cooking energy with daunting problems to the inhabitants and the environment. This is the case in Maroua where dwindling fuel wood supply has resulted to energy scarcity in residential households pushing them into ha...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/21548
Cocoa remains an important cash crop in Ghana and plays a major role in the country’s socio-economic development. The crop is the mainstay of many smallholder households and this has led to several efforts to enhance its production. The introduction of partial liberalisation has...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/21540
The place of cooperatives in the lives of rural households in Nigeria as in the case in many developing countries of the world cannot be overemphasized. This is because a sizeable number of households from this economy rely on agriculture and other small and medium scale enterpri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/17332
This paper sheds light on one key aspect of the liberalisation of export crop marketing in developing countries which has received a lot of research attention, namely pricing. The government of Ghana has been criticised by many researchers for its stance against price liberalisat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20714
The renewal of the staff in companies, with no possibilities sometimes for the newcomers to meet experienced workers already retired, is considered by some analysts as a “skills drain”. In such a context, improving the occupational training program is a crucial challenge for any...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21632
Objectives: Neurosurgery Reporting System (NeuroSyRS), innovative information system application designed for healthcare with comprehensive scope. NeuroSyRS is a web-based with costum-made, modular-dynamic design; can be enhanced using cloud. Methods: NeuroSyRS combines the open-...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21545
Agriculture is an important aspect of Nigerian economy in that it provides food, employment, raw material for industries. This sector can affect and can be affected by climate change variations in the area. These effects need to be identified and adaptation strategies ascertained...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21347
A study has been carried to determine the trends in atmospheric circulation forms in the beginning of the current warming in Middle Asia, on the basis of interannual changes of duration of synoptic processes in Middle Asia over the last 60 years. This study was conducted in Uzbek...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20497
The paper aims to clarify the influence of hard and soft power in online purchase decisions. A fundamental property of online social networks is that people tend to have attributes similar to those of their friends. To understand the effects of social power on the influence of op...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21580
With the exponential growth of textual information available from the Internet, there has been an emergent need to find relevant and in-time knowledge about crimes from this huge size of information. The huge size of such data makes the process of retrieving and analyzing texts m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21504
Aims: The aim of this research is to verify the suitability of local gravel aggregates obtained from the Southern part of Akwa Ibom State for designed concrete production in place of crushed granite aggregate sourced from distance places at exorbitant cost. This paper assesses th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20365
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) concept has been practiced in the manufacturing sectors. However, there is no model so far in the service sector to measure its system performance. This paper is therefore tries to develop an Overall Service Effectiveness (OSE) model for serv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19679
Aims: To develop a new eco-friendly method for the extraction and pre-concentration of Bendiocarb (BC) in real samples by using micelle-mediating extraction (MME) coupled with visible spectrophotometry after oxidative coupling with O-Toluidine. Study Design: All factors affecting...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/21948