This paper aimed to identify and analyzed the main determinants of poverty in South Sudan prior it secession from Sudan in 2011. Primary data were collected using structured household questionnaire. A sample of 200 households was interviewed in Renk County. Multiple Regression an...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/12724
Aim: To study the effects of distributor plate shape and conical angle on the pressure drop were studied in a pilot scale fluidized bed system. Methodology: Five distributor plates (flat, concave with 5°, concave with 10°, convex with 5° and convex with 10°) were used in the stud...
Aims: The aims of the study were to describe socio-economic characteristics of respondents, determine their roles in artisanal fishery, identify their marine food resource outputs, analyze contributions of artisanal fishery to food security and determine constraints of women arti...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13186
Callistus B. Kuubiere, Abass Alhassan, Victor Mogre & Saeed F. Majeed·Advances in Research·2014
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and the associated demographic characteristics of hernia cases seen at the Tania Specialist Hospital in Tamale, Northern Ghana. Methodology: This retrospective study was conducted from January 2008 to December 2012 at the...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/11365
Sutapa Datta, Subhra Chattopadhyay, Asankur Sekhar Das & Chandan Mitra·Advances in Research·2014
Aim: The aim of this study was to correlate the nutritional status with bone health of young adult college students of two different communities respectively by anthropometric measures and urinary indices and quantitative ultrasonography. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/13438
An indoor pot culture experiment was conducted in the growth chamber during the period of vegetative growth to evaluate the influence of inorganic nitrogen fertilizer in the form of urea on nutrient uptake, growth and root development of castor bean plant. The Nitrogen Fertilizer...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/12729
Aims: Due the effect of a transplant routine on the maize plant morphology and population stand, the aim of the experiment was to determine the combined effects of three plant densities and the use of transplant on commercial yield for two sweet maize hybrids. Study Design: Canne...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/13172
Konan N’Guessan Ysidor, Konan Konan Jean-Louis, Konan Brou Roger, Assa Rebecca Rachel, Okoma Djéya Muriel Joelle, Issali Auguste Emmanuel & Biego Godi Henri Marius·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2014
Aim: The study investigated the changes in the main physicochemical parameters of the coconut inflorescence sap derived from MYD, WAT, PB 121+ and PB 113+ varieties during storage. Place and Duration: Marc Delorme Research Station for coconut, National Agronomic Research Center,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/11035
Ecologically, coral reef has a function to protect the others component of marine and coastal ecosystem from pressure of wave and storm. If compared with the other ecosystems, coral reef that are most easily destroyed. Spermonde archipelago consist of more than one hundred small...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/9390
Physics is revealed hidden behind modification of nuclear lifetime by γ-ray boomerang effect. It is deeply involved in the proper quantum mechanical processes described by probability amplitude.
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/13628
In this article a physical theory of eigenmodes of electromagnetic resonators is presented. It is known, that Maxwell equations predict non-physical singular behavior of eigenmodes in spherical resonators. This shows that Maxwell theory is incomplete. For the improvement of the t...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/12727
The triple point of argon is one of the defining fixed-points of the International Temperature Scale of 1990, ITS-90. Its value was assigned to be 83.8058 K by ITS-90. The thermal metrology laboratory of the National Institute for Standards, NIS has chosen, several years ago, to...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/12260
The main concern of present study is to investigate the MHD stagnation flow past a porous rotating disk in the presence of the velocity slip condition. The boundary-layer governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are transformed into highly nonlinear coupled ordinary differ...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/13222
A survey of natural radionuclide level with depth in wasteland soils in some locations in Abeokuta was carried out in February 2013. Samples were collected at 10 cm depth interval from each of the locations visited. They were collected into containers with length 9 cm and width 7...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/8726
The present investigation aims at evaluating the effect of fly ash addition on sliding wear behaviour of pure red mud. Plasma sprayed coatings composed of red mud and varying percentage of fly ash were considered for the wear behavior study. Plasma spraying technique was used wit...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/12624