Coordination polymers derived from 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylate (H2btec2- or btec4- ), Fe(II), Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Cd(II) or UO2(II) metal ions, 1,10-phenanthroline(1,10-phen) or 2,2'-bipyridine(2,2'-bipy) were prepared. The polymers were characterized by elementa...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/15754
Ability of a fertilizer to contribute to crop performance beyond a cropping season is a positive consideration in soil fertility management. Thus, the residual fertilizer effects of OBD-plus (new commercial compost from market organic wastes and animal manure with composting acce...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/15742
A field experiment was conducted during the 2008 and 2009 rainy seasons to determine the effects of land preparation and weeding regime on the type of weed population in sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) farms. The experiments were laid out in a split plot design with land prepar...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14843
Aims: The study investigated students’ academic ability in school-based assessment as correlate of career choice using assessment and counselling as a base. Specifically, it determines the relationship between the gender of students’ academic ability in the school-based assessmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11321
Aim: To investigate the effect of Calpurnia aurea seeds extract on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), first phase regimens (Lamivudine + Efavirenz + Zidovudine) induced heamtotoxicity in rats. Study Design: Thirty adult healthy male albino wistar rats of weighing about...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/15888
In the literature of information measure, there exist many well known parametric generalized information measures with their merits and limitations. In the present paper a ‘useful’ R-norm information measure of type and degree is introduce and characterized axiomatically. This ne...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14791
In this article, we study the conformal mean curvature equation in Thurston’s geometries of Sol space. The classification of revolution surfaces with mean curvature was obtained by studying the corresponding profile curves in Sol space. According to the characteristics of the con...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/9987
This study assessed the effects of education attainment and previous training on adoption of various cultural management practices among pineapple farmers in three barrangays in Cavite Philippines. The research employed a case study design. Respondents from the three adjacent bar...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/15971
The present study examines documentary submission by Air New Zealand (NZ) [1], Business NZ [2], Greenpeace NZ [3] and Oxfam NZ [4] to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Review Committee in 2009. In doing so, this paper consulted Lewins and Silver’s Computer Assisted Qualitative D...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16042
It is known that the vast majority of malignancies are the result of genetic and environmental interactions. Fuel (diesel and petrol) constitutes a complex mixture of benzene, toluene and xylene and other monocyclic, aromatic, aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; benze...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16369
The hydrodistilled essential oil obtained from the leaves of Pachira aquatica Aubl. growing in Nigeria was analyzed by gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Six constituents representing 99.8% of the o...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/16319
Potential links between irrigation water microbiological quality and fresh vegetables quality in subsistence farming in Tono in the Upper East Region of Ghana were investigated. Water samples from Tono and Nanglakinia dam and six different types of vegetables (collected from Nang...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/8273
Aims: In this paper we investigate whether the abundance of epiphytic bromeliads growing in cloud forest was affected by: (1) phorophyte family; (2) phorophyte size; and (3) the abundance of other epiphytes. Study Design: The abundance of bromeliads was compared on 35 random tree...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/16044
The paper empirically examined the impact of globalization on the growth of Nigerian economy using times-series data from 1960 to 2010. The paper utilized secondary data and various econometrics and/or statistical packages analytical (View 7.2) method were explored to examine the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14698
Vertical distribution of plant nutrients is most importance for plant production. We always explored nutrients distribution in the top soil. But plants also take nutrients from the sub soil. It is hypothesizing that vertical nutrient distributions are dominated by plant cycling r...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15611