Sewage sludge is a residue rich in organic matter and nutrients important for plant growth and soil fertility, but it may contain in its composition heavy metals that can result in toxicity to the plant, soil and humans when used as fertilizer. The objective was to assess microbi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/21730
Speciation of heavy metals (Zn, Fe, Cr, Cd, Cu and Pb) was carried out on the top and bottom sediment samples of two sampling sites in river Ilaje, Nigeria during the dry and rainy seasons. The samples were subjected to sequential extraction method and the extracts were analyzed...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/22031
Aims: To evaluate population densities and cultivars on the biomass and crop growth rate (CGR) of upland rice and their correlation with grain yield. Study Design: A Factorial on randomized complete block design. Place and Duration of Study: The Teaching and Research Farm of the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20597
Aims: In the present agricultural scenario in India, the major thrust is to increase crop productivity with judicious fertilizer application so as to ensure sustainability in crop like fruit production system. Eastern plateau region of India provides ample opportunity for fruit c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/21560
Mixed fruit jam was prepared from blends of pineapple, tomato and pawpaw at different ratios while, commercial jam from strawberry served as the control. Jams made from different fruit ratios and the control were examined for their proximate composition, mineral contents as well...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21123
Background: Mental illnesses and types of disorders are reported across cultures, and their burden continues to grow with significant impacts on health and major social, human rights and economic consequences in all countries. There is growing evidence that mental health literacy...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2016/21381
Patients with schizophrenia (SZ) are generally found with overweight and obesity and several metabolic disorders. Additionally these patients have less life expectancy, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) the main cause of increased mortality in these patients. This is a case-repor...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2016/22181
A lie is changing the truth deliberately to reach an objective. This is frequently encountered in childhood period, as much adult individuals could sometimes use innocent lies throughout their lives. This condition that could be encountered often with children, could also be obse...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2016/21501
Introduction: Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is mildest form of the spectrum of neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive impairment in cirrhosis. Early recognition of this impairment may prevent the progression or may delay the development of the disease to overt hepatic encepha...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2016/19004
This study has examined the drainage basin morphometric parameters of River Lamurde and its implication on hydrologic and geomorphic processes. Various morphometric parameters of the drainage basin were calculated based on literatures. Lamurde basin is a fourth stream order with...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/22149
Background: Although previous research that considered a variety of chronic diseases have shown that quality of provider-patient relationship is related to health outcomes, key issues defining HIV care provider-patient relationship has not been well studied in Belgium. It is impo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/20582
Aims: This article examines invisible work tasks in the work organizations of call centres. The aim is to analyze what kinds of invisible work tasks there are and, moreover, to find out how these arrangements are divided according to employees’ gender and position in the work org...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22086
The need to design a robot manipulator that can complete tasks satisfactorily in the presence of significant uncertainties brought about the continued advance research in robust system design. This paper focuses on the robustness analysis of a closed-loop controller for robot man...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/18253
The aim of this study is to estimate regional magnetic field trend and depth to magnetic rocks within Maijuju area, North-Central, Nigeria. The Total Magnetic Intensity (TMI) map was gridded, contoured and interpreted for trends, closures and dislocations. The TMI map was reduced...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/21652
This paper study mathematical theory, called the max-plus algebra, which have the wherewithal for a uniform treatment of most problems that arise in the area of Operations Research. The basic properties of max-plus algebra is also explained including how to solve systems of max-p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/21639