Deficit irrigation technique was introduced to find the best means to conserve irrigation water in arid lands. The most common model describing deficit irrigation is water yield response model. The main advantage of such model is that it can predict relative yield drop, which ari...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2013/4981
The experiments were conducted during 2010 and 2011 rainy seasons at the research and teaching farm of the college of agriculture, Lafia, Nasarawa state, Nigeria. To determine the effect of urea fertilizer and poultry manure on the performances of fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occide...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2013/3863
Aims: To identify and determine the bacteria associated with skin and soft tissue conditions of fungal infections. Place and Duration of Study: Sample area was Plateau State Nigeria and sample collection and analysis was done in Dermatophilosis Research Centre, National Veterinar...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/4188
Alpha amylase is an important enzyme used in different industries, which degrades starch into smaller disaccharides. Extracellular α-amylase producing organisms were isolated from soil samples from Mauritius and identified by standard biochemical tests. In this study, the high yi...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/4704
Seenivasan Madhankumar, Shanmuganathan Natarajan, Uma Maheswari, V. Anand Kumar, Padmanabhan T. Veeravalli & Fathima Banu·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2013
Aim: To evaluate the gender differences with regard to the shape of the palatal rugae and identify the most predominant pattern. Study Design: Cross sectional design Place and Duration of Study: June 2009 to October 2009 in the Faculty Dental Sciences at Sri Ramachandra Universit...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/4873
The adsorption of ethylbenzene from aqueous solution using waste tyre rubber granules (WTRG) was investigated in a batch system. The effect of various factors such as contact time, initial concentration of ethylbenzene, amount of adsorbent, size of adsorbent particles, and temper...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/4920
Aims: To assess the feasibility of using supportive interactive text messages to reduce repeat self-harm, and to reduce the frequency and intensity of suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviour in patients discharged from an Emergency Department (ED) after an episode of self-harm....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/5242
Aims: 1. To investigate the effects of concrete learning aids (Colour Balls) with Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) cooperative learning (CBCL) method on Form Four Arts Stream students’ performance in probability; 2. To find out students’ perception towards the use of CBC...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/5177
Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of honey on blood pressure and heart rate on healthy male and female subjects. Methodology: 20ml honey orally administered was evaluated in hundred healthy male and female subjects. Their basal systolic blood pressure (SBP),...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4152
Human gait is a non-linear complex process requiring appropriate mathematical measuring tools. Entropy is a measure that quantifies regularity in time series: the more predictable a series is the lower the entropy value. The mathematical methods used to estimate entropy have evol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/4698
Aims: To investigate the levels of some physicochemical parameters in sediments collected from seven dams in Katsina State and establish possible explanations for the observed trends. Study Design: It is an analytical Study. Place and Duration of the study: The study was carried...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/4181
This study was carried out to investigate the correlation among municipal solid waste pollution, fecal coliform water pollution and water-borne diseases such as; typhoid and diarrhea in Juba city, South Sudan. Water samples were collected from the river Nile, boreholes and a well...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/4240
Aims: This research investigates the influences of low methoxyl pectin (LMP) and sorbitol on the morphology and secondary structure of beta-lactoglobulin (BLG). Methodology: The effects of pH and temperature on the structure of the nano-complexes containing BLG, BLG-LMP and BLG-L...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/2261
Heavy dependence on the natural environment for agricultural production in northern Ghana adversely affects the availability of agrobiodiversity and in turn household livelihoods. Farmers have over the years developed strategies for adapting to reduction in agrobiodiversity but t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/3807
To acquire a deeper understanding of surface chemistry of fly ash along with thermal activation, the states of mineral phases, water and –OH groups on silica are studied in fly ash at different calcination temperatures by DR/FTIR spectroscopic technique. DR/FTIR spectroscopy allo...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4287