Aims: The paper aims at identifying human activities that cause environmental degradation around Lake Elementaita. This study focused on the potential role of local communities in addressing ecological problems around Lake Elementaita ecosystem. Study Design: This study was a sur...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16074
The present study was carried out to determine the concentrations of selected heavy metals Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in four stations of east coast of Bay of Bengal waters. A total number of 60 samples were collected from offshore of Kakinada, Visakhapatnam, Bheemili and Kali...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16488
Accurate prediction and determination of the effective earth radius factor (k-factor) is critical for optimal performance in the design and planning of terrestrial line of sight communication links. In this work an artificial neural network (ANN) model is developed and used to pr...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16160
The multi-level programming problems, have received much interest from researchers because of their application in several areas such as economic, traffic, finance, management, transportation and so on. Among these, the bi-level programming problem (BLPP) is an appropriate tool t...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15831
Many people lack awareness and good knowledge about radiation and its uses in medicine as it has been figured out that significant segments of the public society have a wrong idea and abnormal fear from unwarranted irradiation. For these reasons, a population in the Middle East w...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15300
This study was conducted to evaluate growth rate and haematological profiles of crossbred weaner males rabbits fed cassava and yam peels meal diets. Thirty-six crossbred weaner male rabbits aged 5-6 weeks were randomly allocated to 4 dietary treatments. Each treatment having 3 re...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15903
Background: In most developing countries, intestinal parasites are the major cause of morbidity and mortality killing millions of patients each year. Hence, this study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of intestinal protozoans in HIV/AIDS patients on ART in three hospita...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/15737
Aims: This study was carried out to ascertain the prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection and its relationship to gender and age among apparently healthy students of a tertiary institution in North-eastern Nigeria. Study Design: Sero-prevalence of HBsAg in relation to gender an...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/16469
Background: Malaria still remains a life-threatening disease worldwide causing between 190 and 311 million cases of malaria in 2008. Due to the ever increasing resistance to malaria drugs, source reduction has been recognized as a complementary approach to further reduce malaria...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/11813
Aim: To optimize conditions for maximum recovery of protein from wet blue as large quantities of chromium containing biological solid wastes are generated in the tanning industry which poses environmental hazard. The chromium recovery from this acidic (pH ≃ 3.5) solid waste is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17107
Introduction: Industrial effluent often contains heavy metals which bio-accumulate in biological systems and persist in the environment, thereby constituting public health problems. Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) wastes, which are easily available, could be used to produce resource...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16989
Contamination of groundwater resources is more often associated with the infiltration of pollutants from anthropogenic activities such as waste dump sites and industrial effluents. Similar to this, reported results may be limited in its accuracy by poor sampling and analytical te...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14955
The study examined the sources of risk and management strategies of monocropping and intercopping systems in Kebbi State, Nigeria with the aim of identifying the most important sources of risk and coping strategies. The study is based on primary data gathered through a questionna...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/17308
The paper analyzed constraints to the adoption of improved cassava varieties among rural cassava farmers in Imo state, Nigeria. Specifically, it analyzed the sources of information on improved cassava varieties, identified improved cassava varieties planted, determined level of a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/14421
The study investigated indigenous mitigation and adaptation to climate change among small holder farmers in Arochukwu area of Abia state, Nigeria. The study described the socio-economic characteristics of farmers, ascertained their indigenous mitigation and adaptation to climate...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/15605