Namibia became independent in 1990. Since then, the democratic government has pursued various development policy tools to empower Namibians economically. The 4th National Development Plan identified four strategic economic growth enhancing activities, namely agriculture, manufact...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9299
This study empirically assesses the livelihood and crop diversification of rural farm households in Remo Division of Ogun State Nigeria. The study drew a sample of 120 rural farm households through a multi-stage sampling technique and the primary data obtained were analyzed using...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/8608
Background and Aim: Acalypha wilkesiana, commonly called Irish petticoat, is native to the south pacific islands and belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae. The plant has antimicrobial and antifungal properties and in traditional medicine, the leaves are eaten as vegetables in the m...
In this paper, we implemented a very important method to solve nonlinear partial differential equations known as the exp(-Φ(ξ))-expansion method. Recently, there are several methods being constructed for finding analytical solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. H...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11563
This paper presents the development of fractional order PIλDμ and fuzzy- controllers for control of dynamic plant. The fractional order derivative and integral are described. The designs of fractional order PIλDμ - and fuzzy controllers have been done. The parameters of fractiona...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11540
The young and old stock stem barks of Parinari polyandra Benth. were air-dried, chopped into smaller pieces and cold extracted exhaustively with ethanol. The phytochemical screening of the crude extracts was carried out using standard procedures while the young stem bark crude ex...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/11267
Aims: This study was aimed at defining the peculiar demographic and associated risk factors of head injury. Study Design: This was a retrospective study Place and Duration of Study: We conducted this study at an Accident and Emergency unit of a tertiary hospital between February...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9645
As a combination of the fuzzy linguistic approach and the hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is an efficient tool to deal with situations in which experts hesitate between several possible linguistic terms to assess the membership of an element i...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11116
The article presents the fundamentals of the thermohydrogravidynamic theory of the global seismotectonic, volcanic and climatic activity of the Earth based on the author’s generalized differential formulation of the first law of thermodynamics extending the classical Gibbs’ formu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10766
The main concern of this paper is to derive the fuzzy estimators for the two-parameter Log-logistic distribution. The TL-moments, L-moments and LQ-moments formulas are obtained for the Log-logistic distribution. Also, the estimation of these parameters is considered using the max...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11755
Spike detection as the first basic step is very important in analysing and classification of data, since the quality of resulting data depends crucially on a particular detection technique used. This paper presents the optimal spike detection technique based on amplitude threshol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11459
In this paper a new design for brushless doubly fed induction machine for operation as generator in wind energy systems is proposed. This machine, named single machine- brushless doubly fed induction generator (SM-BDFIG) is composed of three main components; a regular three phase...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11575
The study explored socio economic conditions of wheat farmers to evaluate the impacts of the introduction of the full package(FP) which contains zero tillage, new varieties of wheat seed, adding fertilizer, using the combine, and using herbicides. Partial budget was used to work...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/9880
In view of the rapid increase in the globalisation of the economy, assuring food safety within the European Union is a challenge. The range and variety of foods on offer in Europe continue to rise steadily. The demands not only on food companies but also on the European Union and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/11197