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Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
Any
system producing or containing information intended for transmission is an
information source. This study examines the use of multivariate statistical
analysis and total information score for information sources of irrigation
farming in North western Nigeria. A questionnaire survey of 368 household was
used to explore the impact of information sources in accessing agricultural
information by irrigation farmers. Three States w ...
Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
The growing fast food sector in the Ghanaian economy
offers easy access to inexpensive food as well as new job opportunities for
urban residents. While this development is positive in many ways, it also
presents new public health challenges for the urban population. Maintaining
safe food at the street level is a major concern to food control officers since
outbreaks of most diarrheal diseases have
been linked to stree ...
Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
Pragmatic competence is an indispensable element of
communicative competence. Whoever wants to communicate successfully in a
foreign language wants to promote their communicative competence, as well as
their pragmatic competence. This paper begins with clarifying the definition of
pragmatic competence by referring to other linguists’ explanations. Then it discusses
the importance of promoting ...
Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
The efficacy of Ocimum gratissimum leaf powder and ethanol extract on adult Periplanata
americana under laboratory condition was studied to control the nuisance of
the pest. The mean mortality count of
adult ...
Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
The
paper presents the development of a manually operated hydraulic press which
encompasses the design, fabrication and performance evaluation of the press.
The components parts of the machine were designed using various design
equations. The design results were used to select materials for various
components. The detailed drawing of the developed machine was done using Pro E
software. In fabricating the machine ...
Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
Concrete production has resulted inside the
accumulated that has to be compelled to confirm substitute material to
sand as inside the assembly of concretes. Quarry mud, a by-product from the
crushing methodology throughout production activities is one in each of such
materials. Granite fines or rock mud can be a by-product obtained throughout
crushing of granite rocks to boot observed as quarr ...
Apr 26, 2018Open AccessArticle
In this paper, we
give an account of a rationally behaving agent—an artificial Dasein—which can perceive the world in terms of
relevance to its own goals. The way we achieve this is through a process of
incremental contextualization of goals and constraints that range from the
purely conceptual and abstract to the well-defined and physical. The model
described i ...
Apr 25, 2018Open AccessArticle
The
purpose of the paper is to use fundamental theoretical and experimental
elements of electrodynamics for deriving properties of radiation fields and of
bound fields. A wide variety of examples prove that radiation fields and bound
fields do not represent the same physical object. This conclusion is new. Some
examples belong to the classical domain and others belong to the quantum
domain. Co ...
Apr 24, 2018Open AccessArticle
In this paper, a non-linear exponential autoregressive model has been studied by
applying the local linearization technique. The obtained results have been implemented
in a time series which represents number of diabetic patients for ten years
period.
Apr 24, 2018Open AccessArticle
Reproductive
diseases are one of the most significant challenges in livestock breeding and
production. The present study was done to determine the 1) sero-prevalence of Brucella spps and Toxoplasma gondii in bovine and caprine
samples, 2) risk
factors associated with sero-positivity, 3) o ...
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