Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an important technique for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) content in the surface layer and improving structural stability. CA is not widely practiced in dryland soils of developing countries where marginal farming practices are extensively us...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14328
Lívia Santos Costa-Lopes, Robério Rodrigues Silva, Gleidson Giordano Pinto de Carvalho, Fabiano Ferreira da Silva, Julliana Izabelle Simionato, Milena Patrícia Viana Bastos, Ana Paula Gomes da Silva, Mateus de Melo Lisboa, Rodolpho Martim do Prado & George Abreu Filho·International Journal of Biochemistry Research & Review·2014
The present study aimed to evaluate the correlation between the composition of fatty acids in the diet and Longissimus dorsi muscle of lambs diets containing different levels of soybean. The experiment was conducted at the campus UESB, Itapetinga-Ba, Brazil. In a randomized desig...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/13845
Aims: The aim of this work was to evaluate ESR (Exchangeable Sodium Ratio), MCARex (Monovalent Cation Adsorption Ratio) and CROSSex (Cation Ratio of Soil Structural Stability) as indices, using exchangeable cations in calculations, to predict clay dispersion behavior in two soils...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12026
Aim: This study evaluates the physicochemical properties and fatty acid composition of “Gbafilo” (Uapaca guineesis), “Omilo” (Parinari excelsa), “Country onion” (Afrostyax lepidphyllus), and “Taiko” (Zanthoxyllum zanthoxylloids). Methods: The oil was extracted using n-hexane in a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/13305
The bryophytes of the genus Orthotrichum (O. affine) are treated in hydroponic conditions with 125, 250, 500, 1000 and 1500 mg/L of two herbicides (Zoom and Sencorate) for 3, 7 and 14 days. The signs of toxicity are manifested by disturbances in chlorophyll contents (a, b and a +...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13291
Background: Medical students in Nigeria are exposed to various types of substances to enhance their academic performance .This is not without its attendant problems. Objectives: The objectives were to identify the substances used by medical students in Nigerian universities as we...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12795
In this research the solution of coupled modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (mKdV) and the generalized Hirota–Satsuma coupled KdV equation by using El-gendi nodal Galerkin (EGG) approaches are presented. El-gendi nodal Galerkin (EGG) (EGG) approaches consist of two approaches, t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/8245
The process of image segmentation is one of the most important steps in computer vision for image retrieval, visual summary, image based modeling and in many other processes. The goal of segmentation is typically to locate certain objects of interest. In this paper, we have studi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13592
In this paper, we present a new algorithm for solving the blind deconvolution problem. In our method, we reblur a given degraded CT image with R different, but known PSFs, and get R different degraded CT images. Then we blindly deblur using the R new degraded CT images. Also, we...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13749
We prove the existence of a unique common fixed point for two weakly compatible maps satisfying Ø- conditions in G-metric spaces. Our result extends and generalizes some results in the literature.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/9457
In this paper, a three-level quadratic programming (QP) problem is considered where some or all of its coefficients in the objective function are rough intervals. At the first phase of the solution approach and to avoid the complexity of the problem, two QP problems with interval...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13430
Addendum for British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, 4(21), 3023-3027, 2014 It has been drawn to the journal's attention that there is an addendum for following section of the published paper.: (1) Formulation of Hasses Algorithm Therefore, following the 'SDI Co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/12538
This paper is an attempt to investigate the impact of services trade on economic development of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries. Our analysis is based on a panel data framework over the period 1990 to 2010 covering thirty-three countries. The paper employs the endogenous growt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13474
The research investigated the technical efficiency of farmers in Kebbi State Nigeria, with the aim of generating reliable information on the determinants of efficiency. In order to achieve the objective of the study, Data Envelopment Analysis, Double Bootstrapping procedure withi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14155
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) find a rapid increase of applications and interest. The vulnerabilities of MANETs make the security issue a major concern for researcher and practitioners. MANETs attacks are often described and classified differently, resulting in confusion in wha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13529