A field experiment was conducted in loamy sand soil during kharif season of 2009 and 2010 to evaluate the temperature use efficiency and yield of groundnut varieties in response sowing dates and fertility levels. The treatments consisted of four sowing dates (20 April, 15 May, 9...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/13689
This research demonstrates the integrated use of magnetic-gradiometric and resistivity methods in mapping subsurface structural features to explore for ground water bearing zones in Wuro Yakubu area, Song Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria. The research was carried out between...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/15924
Aim of the Study: This study was undertaken to assess the bacteriological quality of water from the Tono and Vea dams. Study Design: Water samples from both Tono and Vea irrigation dams in the Upper East Region of Ghana were collected and analyzed to assess their bacteriological...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/14746
Aims: Large proportion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv proteome still needs to be characterized especially peroxidase proteins as drug targets. There is twenty (20) known peroxidases that have been annotated in the genome. Among these Rv3473c has been studied by us using suit...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/15005
Background: The high prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers worldwide coupled with complications such as liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma makes the disease a global health challenge. Aim: To determine the level of awareness of a subset of Makurdi, Benu...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/11864
Understanding the distribution and transport of organic carbon and nutrients under any management in a farming system is vital for predicting the sustainability of a farming system. This study was conducted to characterize the spatial distribution and transport of organic carbon...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13949
Aims: The study evaluated the contributions of cover crops and no-till to the expression of crop maize yield. Study Design: To test this, experiments were conducted for two consecutive years in a randomised complete block design arranged in a split plot with four replications Pl...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14376
Aims: Among advanced nations, the United States stands alone in its level of everyday violence, especially the number of citizens killed by gunfire. Debate about causes and cures ignores wide variances in rates of violent death among states and is focused on homicide to the negle...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16126
Aim: Sexuality education (SE) is a lifelong process of acquiring information and developing attitudes, perceptions and values about sex, sexual identity and intimacy. Schools have been acknowledged as sites for sexual health promotion, and comprehensive SE programs are known to d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15352
The study was conducted in Sodo Town and Sodo Zuria District schools of Wolaita Zone to identify factors affecting effective implementation of collegial coaching in schools. Six primary schools such as Shola Kuto, Waja Kero, Waraza Gerera and Ofa Gandaba from Sodo Zuria District...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15483
The Internet of Things is expected to bring a revolution in the way objects around us communicate with one another and human beings and the way this information will be gathered and distributed. This also means a resultant increase in internet usage and the challenges of securing...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14742
A contranormal subgroup is a subgroup whose normal closure in the group is the whole group. Hence a subgroup H of a group G is said to be totally contranormal if HK = K for each subgroup K of G. The purpose of this article is to study the influence of contranormal (totally contra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15359
Aims: The therapeutic effect of Euphorbia heterophylla and cassava flakes mixture in treatment of Salmonellosis was studied in vivo. Methodology: Antibacterial activity of aqueous extract of Euphorbia heterophylla was first evaluated using agar well diffusion method by measuring...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/8979
Aims: To investigate cytotoxicity of pure fractions of compounds extracted from yoyo bitters on human cervical cancer cell and to characterize the compounds present in various extracts. Study Design: Experimental Study. Background: Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes o...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15913
The effect of soda cooking as an effective defibrillation technique of rice hull on its thermal stability has been investigated in this paper. The goal was to investigate the impact of the decomposition of lignin and silica during soda cooking on the thermal stability and kinetic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15893