The effect of lunar phases on natural disasters has been discussed from time to time. In the present work we have made an attempt to investigate the impact of lunar phases on the natural disasters viz. cyclone, earthquake, slides and floods. We have observed the increasing trend...
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) production is limited by various insect pests that attack and damage the crops both in the field and during storage. Cowpea bruchids, Callosobruchus maculatus are the major insect pests of cowpea which infest the cowpea grains in the field, and then car...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/12151
Background: The body of quantitative literature that described risky sexual behavior as a predisposing factor for HIV and other sexually transmitted infection are plenty. However, little is known how risky the sexual practices of university students are in this era, particularly...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2014/12181
Background: The World Glaucoma Week (WGW) is a joint global initiative of the World Glaucoma Association (WGA) and the World Glaucoma Patients Association (WGPA) to raise awareness of glaucoma. As part of the celebration in 2013, the department of Ophthalmology University of Uyo...
The study aimed at investigating the relationship between upper basic pupils’ study habits and their academic performance in English Language in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. In order to achieve the objective of this study, three null hypotheses were formu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/4025
In many applications, the solution of a cubic equation is required. This study improves on the existing methods of solving cubic equations. The general expression for the quadratic factor of a cubic equation is derived. The discriminant of the cubic equation, adopted in this stud...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10934
In this paper, a new model for the linking of within- and between-host with nonlinear incidence rate is constructed and investigated. We postulate that the infection process depend on the size of the infective inoculum that susceptible hosts may acquire by interacting with a cont...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11768
The residual parametric equation of the heat equations of nuclear reactors were transformed into control system. Optimization techniques were used to established the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the model.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11046
We establish the sufficient conditions of complete synchronization with probability 1 in the coupled bidirectional piecewise linear chaotic systems with common or different Poisson noises and the positive effects of Poisson noises on the complete synchronization will be found bas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12578
A lot of investment has been made in the agricultural sector of Ghana to increase agricultural production through the introduction of new technologies. However, it has been observed that despite efforts being made by the government through the introduction of new varieties of mai...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11646
In this paper we present a new optimization algorithm for Economic environmental dispatch EED of power systems. The purpose of EED problem is to compute the optimal generation for individual units of the power system by minimizing the fuel cost and emission levels simultaneously,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11526
Aims: To understand the role of gender on Bambara groundnut cultivation with respect to levels of farmers’ involvement in utilization and conservation in Western Kenya. Study Design: A questionnaire was administered to 120 farmers in two districts. The districts neighbor each oth...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10285
Background: Iron deficiency (ID) has been shown to be linked with poor outcomes within heart failure (HF) populations in previous clinical trials. The impact of ID has not been evaluated in stable chronic heart failure (HF) patients in the community. Our objective was to study th...
Chitin Nanofibril (CN) is the purest crystal form of chitin obtained industrially from fishery and crustacean waste. Characterized by positive charges covering its surface, this natural polymer has the ability to form block copolymeric nanoparticles with electronegative natural o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11181
Tracking moving objects in a video sequence is a critical task in several computer vision applications. A common approach is to perform background subtraction which identifies moving objects in a video frame. The mixture of Gaussians model is one of the most popular techniques fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12093