Aims: Multiplicity of the degrees of freedom in biological systems is the source of system variability and an indicator of the system health, its flexibility and its ability to adapt with different individual, environmental and functional limitations. Qualitative methods consider...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8672
A descriptive survey research was undertaken to assess laser land levelling appropriateness as perceived by farmers in Marvdasht county of Fars province. The research population included farmers that implement laser land Levelling in their fields in Marvdasht County. Using random...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9688
Aim: To investigate molecular and evolutionary characteristics of genes of fowlpox virus (FWPV) isolates from chickens in Tanzania. Study Design: Experimental. Place and Duration of Study: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania; bet...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/8420
Aim: Daddawa is a condiment traditionally produced from fermentation of locust bean (Parkia biglobossa).This study is directed at exploitation of lima bean–an underutilized but cultivated legume for production of daddawa analogue-a popular West African food condiment. Microbiolog...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/7514
Aims: This work has the objective of studying the effect of nitrogen fertilization on olive yield, oil content and quality. Study Design: Randomized complete block design with four nitrogen fertilizer treatments and eight replications. Each individual plot consisted of four trees...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8719
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the responses of sesame and false sesame to different colchicine concentrations in order to determine the concentration(s) that could be best utilized in the genetic improvement of the plants. Study Design: The treated seeds were sown in a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6480
Intensive agriculture under plastic houses need to increase organic soil matter for sustainable production to match demands of food security, especially under semi-arid Egyptian conditions. Climate change impacts on agricultural production and the need to mitigate green house’s g...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8173
Two field experiments were carried out at the Research and Production Station of the National Research Centre, Noubaria, Egypt, during the winter season of 2010/2011 and 2011/2012. This study aimed to investigate the response of vegetative growth, yield and some metabolic constit...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8227
In this paper we take advantage of the known interpolation Least Square Method (LSM) to construct audio coding/decoding (CODEC) algorithms. The purpose of this algorithm is to compress audio data, maintain high quality audio, and enable sending/storing audio as serial data throug...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6547
The attempt to properly date the iron-age Lejja site has been the concern of some archaeologists for the past few decades. The latest archaeological investigations of the area revealed that artefacts could be found at depths below one metre. Excavation of such completely conceale...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6140
Aims: To produce concentrates at remote areas of production, where fruits are expected to be cheaper and hence compete with imported concentrates. Study Design: Factorial Experimental design. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agric...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9398
Smallholder farmers constitute the largest share of farm households in Nigeria and many of them are poor. A way out of poverty for them is to address market related problems. In this paper, the market options available to these farmers, as well as market related factors that are...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/7826
Maymunah Ismail, Maizatul Saadiah, Abdul Rahim Ridzuan & Elsadig Musa Ahmed·Advances in Research·2014
This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and export (X) towards Malaysia’s economic growth over the period 1980 to 2011. Most past empirical studies observed that both FDI and export are the important sources of economic growth especially a...
J. Romero-Bernal, E. Morales Almaraz, A. Z. M. Salem, M. D. Mariezcurrena-Berasain, E. Jaramillo-López & M. González-Ronquillo·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different sources of protein supplementation on carcass characteristics and meat quality of Suffolk lambs in intensive grazing system. Study Design: Samples of meat for chemical composition, carcass characteristics and mea...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8740
Aims: To determine the antibacterial effect of the ethanol stem extract of Vernonia amygdalina (bitter-leaf) and some mouth washes against some bacteria that have been implicated in causing tooth decay so as to establish the role of herbal medicine and chemical compounds in oral...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6386