Problem Statement: Nigeria like the rest of the entire continent of Africa is considered highly vulnerable to climate change because of its high exposure and sensitivity, limited adaptive capacity, poverty, illiteracy, food insecurity, and disease all of which interact with Clima...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1696
Aims: To evaluate the nutritional and sensory characteristics of soybean and tigernut based infant food that could be adoptable at house-hold level by rural dwellers. Study Design: Randomized design. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry, University of Calabar,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1341
Aims: The study analyzes the carbon footprint of the waste oil management system operating in Portugal to ensure the sustainable operation in the future. The analysis was carried out in 2011for the system that is composed of a treatment procedure collecting the treated oil for re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2272
Aims: This study is aimed to determine the levels of some heavy metals in different species of fish and to compare the results with other standard values. Study Design: The gills, liver, stomach, kidney, bones and flesh of four common fish species (Tilapia zilli, Clarias anguill...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1716
To determine the environmental suitability (impacts on groundwater) of an excavated pit located within the eastern boundary of Umunwanwa for any form of waste discharge (sewage or solid waste), modelling approach was adopted. A thorough geophysical / hydrogeological investigation...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1518
In this paper, a food chain system with ratio-dependent functional response, impulses,feedback controls and delays is studied. By using the theorem of coincidence degree, homotopy invariance property and Lyapunov’s approach, a set of sufficient conditions for ensuring the existen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1230
H. Vazquez-Leal, R. Castaneda-Sheissa, A. Yıldırım, Y. Khan, A. Sarmiento-Reyes, V. Jimenez-Fernandez, A.L. Herrera-May, U. Filobello-Nino, F. Rabago-Bernal & C. Hoyos-Reyes·Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science·2012
The microelectronics area constantly demands better and improved circuit simulation tools. This is the reason that this article is to present a biparameter homotopy with automated stop criterion, which is applied to direct current simulation of multistable circuits. This homotopy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1346
In this study, we prove a strong convergence of Noor type scheme for a uniformly L-Lipschitzian and asymptotically pseudocontractive mappings in the intermediate sense without assuming any form of compactness. Consequently, we also obtain a convergence result for the class of asy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1569
By using the bifurcation theory of dynamical systems to the generalized KP equation, under different parametric conditions, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the solitary wave solutions, periodic cusp wave solutions and compactons solutions are given. So...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1420
Sasitorn Chusri, Sanan Subhadhirasakul, Nurhakeem Tahyoh, Chareefah Billateh, Chayanon Chaowuttikul, Julalak Chorachoo & Supayang Piyawan Voravuthikunchai·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2012
Turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn.) has long been widely used for food, food additives, and traditional medicine. This study was aimed to assess effects of different decontamination procedures of turmeric rhizomes on microbiological quality and bioactive constituents of aseptically pr...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1298
Aims: To evaluate and compare the effects of single and combined oral administration of fresh aqueous onion (Allium cepa) and garlic (Allium sativum) extracts at different concentrations (200mg/kg/d, 400mg/kg/d and 600mg/kg/d) on some haematological and hepatotoxicity indicator p...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1517
Tannaz Birdi, Desiree D’souza, Monica Tolani, Poonam Daswani, Vinita Nair, Pundarikakshudu Tetali, Juan Carlos Toro & Sven Hoffner·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2012
Aim: Identification of anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis agents of plant origin, against sensitive and multidrug resistant (MDR) strains. Study Design: Assessing anti-M. tuberculosis activity of five Indian medicinal plants, which have been reported in traditional literature for va...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1638
Aims: The evaluation of the chemical constituents and the percentages of extracted volatile oils from the aerial parts of Ferulago angulata (Scheleht.) Boiss (Apiaceae) by using MAHD and HD. Study Design: Extraction of essential oils from F. angulata through traditional hydrodist...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1488
Asymmetric 1,1`-disubstituted ferrocene-derived Schiff-bases have been prepared and used as ligands in the preparation of their novel Pd(II) and Pt(IV) metal chelates. The synthesized ligands and their metal chelates have been characterized by their physical, analytical and spect...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2012/1627
Crystal films of maleimide were produced from methanol solution liquid thin film climbing a vertical glass substrate. Optical microscopy and infrared (IR) spectroscopy were used to evaluate the crystal films. Maleimide methanol solution produced four banded crystal films with dif...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2012/1674