Aim: To investigate the determinants of technical efficiency of rice farmers at Tono Irrigation Project. Study Design: Cross sectional. Place and Duration: The Kassena-Nankana District of Upper East Region of Ghana in the 2007/2008 cropping season. Methodology: One-step estimatio...
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Research Article10.9734/ajea/2013/1448
Aims: In the present investigation mutations were induced by EMS in rain fed mulberry genotype RFS135 and evolved mutants were evaluated for crop improvement by morphometric and phytochemical studies. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajea/2013/1446
Aim: To investigate the factors influencing technical efficiency of tomato farmers at the Irrigation Company of Upper Region (ICOUR). Study Design: Cross sectional. Place and Duration: Kasena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region of Ghana in the 2007/2008 cropping season. Met...
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Research Article10.9734/ajea/2013/1447
Aims: To determine whether the exogenous application of glycinebetaine (GB) can ameliorate the effects of water deficit on maize growth and physiological processes. Study Design: Split plot design with water deficit being the main plot factor and GB application being the subplot...
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Research Article10.9734/ajea/2013/1730
Aims: This study was aimed at identifying high yielding Ruiru 11 sibs in varying growing conditions. The study also intended to measure the extent to which cherry yields of Ruiru 11 are affected by the environment. Study Design: Randomized Complete Block Design with three replica...
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Research Article10.9734/ajea/2013/2064
Aims: This study was to assess victim’s environmental and behavioural risk factors that promote bites from two viperid snakes. Study Design: A case control study. Place and Duration of Study: Medical wards, General Hospital, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, between June to December 2010. M...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2012/1904
Aims: The principal objective of this research is to discern the perceptions of Indian financial institutions towards corporate social responsibility and also attempts to be acquainted with the opinions of employees, customers and general public. Methodology: This paper reviewed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1977
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of investment in telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in Nigeria. A multivariate model of simultaneous equations was deployed. The paper also deploys three-stage least squares method to capture the transmission channel...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1886
This paper applied the ARDL and VECM test techniques on economic growth, CO2 emissions, energy consumption and the employment ratio to establish the long run and short run relationships between these variables in Saudi Arabia. The results show that there are long run and short ru...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1673
1,3-Dimethylamylamine (DMAA) is a pressor amine often found in food supplements for athletes at dosages of 25-65 mg. Historically, the compound has been used as a nasal decongestant but its oral application is largely unstudied leaving the regulatory status of such food supplemen...
Fresh-cut mangoes are nutritious and offer consumers freshness, flavour and convenience. They however have a shorter shelf life compared to whole fruits due to their high susceptibility to microbial contamination. The effects of gamma irradiation and chemical preservatives on the...
Aims: Urachal cancer is an uncommon neoplasm associated with poor prognosis. No concensus has been reached regarding diagnostic criteria so far. The management of urachal carcinoma is controversial, too. In this case presentation, we reported a 47 year old female with urachal can...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1702
MicroRNAs, a class of post-transcriptional gene expression regulators that bind to complementary sequences in the 3’ UTR or 5’ UTR of mRNAs have recently been detected in human body fluids including peripheral blood plasma as extracellular nuclease resistant entities. It is now c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1543
Aims: To compare carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of maternal and fetal organs. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Biology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University; Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1592