Agriculture used to be the mainstay of Nigeria before crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities in 1956. However, Nigeria neglected agriculture in preference to oil due to the oil boom in the early 1970s, resulting in the country to become a major importer of food, partic...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/16979
Background: Paraneoplastic syndromes result from the secretion of hormones by a tumor giving rise to different syndromes. Lung carcinomas are the most common tumors causing paraneoplastic syndromes. The most common is the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of arginine vasopressi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/17739
The present study was accomplished in sericulture villages of Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh during 2011-2013 with an objective to interpret the socio-economic conditions which effecting the adoption of technology among sericulture. The data on two factors such as education an...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/16405
Subconjunctival orbital fat herniation is a rare occurrence. These masses can be easily mis-diagnosed as more sinister lesions. We present a unilateral case of this condition and a useful, previously undescribed clinical sign, which obviated the need for orbital imaging.
The quantitative study aimed to identify effects of brand image and awareness to buying habits and usage of body soap products among its customers using structural equation modelling technique. Data were gathered through interview and treated in depth. Based on the findings, the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17403
Globally diabetes mellitus has become a medical problem with an increase in prevalence, morbidity and mortality. To date, it has no cure yet, however, medical care, healthy life style and exercise programme are provided to the patients to alleviate the diabetic symptoms and avoid...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/17404
Despite various researches has been carried out on mobile banking adoption but only a small quantity of studies were conducted in Malaysia. As a result, literature on the key determinants of the intention to adopt mobile banking within Malaysia is insufficient. Therefore, there i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17660
Background: Our thinking, feelings and behaviour as well as our unique individuality can contribute a lot to our mental health. Furthermore based on personality traits it has been argued that some people may be more prone to mental health problems than others. Adolescents are gen...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/17998
The cumulative advances and innovations in digital technologies, coupled with the evidence that learners entering tertiary education today have changed fundamentally in their learning needs/styles have awakened us to the realities of new learning landscapes which are emerging aro...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16674
This experiment was carried out during 2012 and 2013 seasons on seven years old "Anna" apple trees (Malus domestica L.). Trees were planted at 5Χ5 meters on sandy loam soil under drip irrigation system in a private orchard at El-Nubaria, Behera Governorate, Egypt. The experiment...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16716
Mushroom flora is an important component of the ecosystem and their biodiversity study has been largely neglected and not documented for the tropical moist deciduous forest regions of Bangladesh. This investigation was conducted in seven different areas of tropical moist deciduou...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17301
Aim: To determine the effect of feeding growing grasscutters a concentrate diet without forage. Study Design: The experiment involved three treatments with three replicates per treatment in a Completely Randomized Design. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17264
Aims: The purple leaf blotch (PLB) disease, for which there is no released resistant variety in Bangladesh, causes loss in production of onion in every year. The mutants of a released variety, BARI Piaz-2 has shown to possess resistance against PLB which is yet to be characterize...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17504
Andréa F. S. Santos, Luciana A. Luz, Emmanuel V. Pontual, Thiago H. Napoleão, Patrícia M. G. Paiva & Luana C. B. B. Coelho·Advances in Research·2015
Moringa oleifera Lamarck (Moringaceae family) is a plant native from the Western and sub-Himalayan parts of Northwest India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This species is widely cultivated across Africa, South-East Asia, Arabia, South America and Caribbean Islands. M. oleifera cultur...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/18177
Regeneration of base oil from spent engine oil (SEO) has been studied and the parameters involved were optimized using Response Surface Methodology. A mathematical model was obtained for the dependent variables, base oil yield (Y1) and ash content (Y2) while effects of solvent to...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/16795