Aims: Streakline and its visualization and production techniques are one of important indices for fluid dynamics, civil engineering, material engineering, and so on. In chaotic or turbulent flow field where global mixing occurs, fluid trajectory exponentially expands in particula...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1550
A trough station (Ouagadougou station) of African Equatorial Ionization Anomaly sector foF2 long term trends are carried out after the elimination of solar cycle long term variation part. For this part, foF2 is expressed as a third degree polynomial function of Rz. We analyzed di...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1552
Nine hundred and seventeen inter-specific rice lines were subjected to field screening for African Rice Midge Resistance in both Rainfed and Irrigated lowland ecologies at Badeggi and Edozhigi experimental fields respectively in 2009 cropping season, to determine the levels of Af...
The aim of this study was to examine the role of students’ five psycho-academic variables in predicting their academic achievement in mathematics. Participants included a total of 853 9th grade students (407 males and 446 females) randomly sampled from 20 secondary schools in Akw...
Aim: Child abduction by one parent and their transport to a foreign country is increasing worldwide but has not received adequate scientific interest. When inter-marital relationships reach the point of break-up and divorce, one of the parents abducts his/her child/children. Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1137
Worldwide National policies on higher education are giving increasing importance to improve the quality of education on offer. Consequently, the evaluation of teachers’ performance in teaching activity is especially relevant for the academic institutions. It helps to define effic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1237
The thermo-physical properties of environmentally friendly biodegradable agricultural by-products, oil palm, coconut and sugarcane fiber, were investigated for use as potential building thermal insulation. Thermal conductivity measurements were conducted on 51 mm thick, 254 mm sq...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1528
Aim: Investigations were carried out to evaluate the performance of a high grade low heat rejection (LHR) diesel engine with air gap insulated piston, air gap insulated liner and ceramic coated cylinder head (ceramic coating of thickness 500 microns was done on inside portion of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1254
Aims: To investigate if the immunomodulating activity of compounds present in berries and flowers of S. nigra were of the same order, or different, and also if the most active components were of high or low molecular weight nature. Methodology: Defatted material of berries and fl...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1335
Aims: To investigate the Mongolian plant M. mohileviensis Down. for the presence of possible bioactive products that could be related to the traditional use of the plant in Mongolia. Methodology: Ethanolic and water extracts of both seeds and herb were tested for anti-inflammator...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1280
A study was conducted in Wenchi Municipality in the forest/savanna transitional agro-ecological zone of Ghana to analyze the past and present cropping systems and to identify the key drivers responsible for the shift. We used key informant and semi-structured interviews, focus gr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1220
Aims: We investigated the role of antibodies in the pathogenesis of severe malaria in children by measuring and comparing plasma levels of antibodies to glycosyl phosphatidy linositol (GPI) and crude Plasmodium falciparum extract. Study Design: Cross-sectional case-control study...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2012/1122
Aims: To determine the antibacterial effect of Oenothera rosea against Escherichia coli, Salmonella enteritidis and Vibrio cholerae. Study Design: In vitro antibacterial study. Place and Duration of Study: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Depar...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1480
The effect of Gongronema latifolium and Ocimum gratissimum supplemented diet on diesel petroleum induced liver damage in rats was investigated. Rats were acclimatized for two weeks and divided into three groups. Oxidative stress was induced with diesel petroleum (4 ml/kg body wei...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1023
The study uses primary data, descriptive statistics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and correlation analysis to analyze the contributions of farming activities to climate change in Mississippi between 1992 through 2002. This involved the assessment of methane emissions from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1371