Aims: This experiment aimed to determine whether the soil application of organic fertilizers can help the establishment of cacao and whether shade alters its response to fertilizers. Study Design: The 1.6 ha experiment was conducted over a period of one crop year (between April 2...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15206
Arsenic toxicity and bioavailability are controlled by its chemical forms (e.g. exchangeable, sorbed on organic matter, Fe/Al bound pools and mineral phases) and oxidation states (As(III) and As(V)). High interest has been developed in measurement of arsenic species due to their...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/13680
Trail pheromones were extracted with petroleum ether from the sternal gland near the anterior portion of the fifth abdominal sternit of cubitermes termites (Amitermes dentatus) and fourteen pheromonal compounds were characterised using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/14256
Background: Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are compounds that have been widely used in agriculture to control pests and also in the field of public health to control of paludism dissemination and other vectors. Currently, they are banned in most countries because they constitut...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2015/13444
Due to increased environmental and toxicological problems originating from the release of toxic contaminants in the environment, it has become obvious that cheaper and reliable methods of evaluating genotoxicity of these contaminants are needed. Hence, the effect of industrial ef...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/15203
Chemicals from the abdominal glands of African weaver ants (Oecophylla longinoda) were extracted with petroleum ether and fifteen pheromonal compounds were characterised using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) Technique. The compounds analysed include decane (8.81%), u...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/14255
The kinetics of the reduction of 3,7-bis(dimethylamino)phenazothionium chloride (MB+) by benzenethiol in aqueous solution has been investigated in the acid range 0.3≤[H+ ≤ 0.9 mole dm-3, ionic strength (µ) of the reaction medium in the range: 0.4 ≤ µ ≤ 1.0 mole dm-3 (NaNO3) and...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/11703
Corrosion is ubiquitous and ravages all sectors of world economies of which agricultural industries are not immune. Techniques abound to stop corrosion theoretically and practically however, human errors and over enthusiastic application of available methods of protection have re...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14847
This paper investigates the pinning control strategy of BA scale-free network through numerical analysis. A new cost function is defined to measure the cost of pinning control. Compared with the control gain and the cost of pinning nodes with smallest degrees or biggest degrees,...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14574
A radiological characteristic of surface waters of the mining areas of Plateau State, Nigeria covered by the Naraguta Topographical sheet 168 was carried out in the month of March 2012. For this purpose forty – eight (48) surface water samples were collected from 25 mine ponds a...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14992
We report on electrical and optical measurements to probe the energy gap in single molecular devices. The closeness of energy of the high occupied molecular orbital - low unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO-LUMO) energy gap was detected by electric (ΦBΣ) and optic measurements (Δo...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14438
Background: Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) is the commonest tumour in Africa. It is a rapidly growing tumour. Its multi-organ involvement and complexity of signs and symptoms, call for an urgent diagnosis and treatment to achieve a better prognosis. Objective: To determine the occurrenc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13724
Aims: The study was designed to investigate the hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity of automobile gas oil (Diesel oil) and its biochemical effect on hematological and oxidative stress parameters in Wistar male albino rats. Methodology: Preliminary toxicity study to determine the vo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13719
The severity, epidemic duration and general epidemiology of viral epidemic depends on determinants such as viral strain, ecological, environmental and socioeconomic factors. The West Africa Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and in Ivory Coast, Liberia an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14257
Aims: To study the effects of cataflam, aspirin and the ethanolic extract of Cannabis sativa on nociception in CD1 albino mice of both sexes. Method: Twenty (20) albino mice were divided into four (4) groups of five (5) each. The control group (group 1) received normal saline ora...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15032