Life Sciences

Background: The study was conducted in Gagnoa, in central-western Côte d'Ivoire in one of the main areas of rainfed rice production. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the natural physical fertility status of the soils used for rainfed rice in the Gagnoa area. Methods: The test was carried out on the top of a slope at the research station of the National Center for Agronomic Research (CNRA) of Gagnoa.

Population resettlement is a complex socio-economic process that reflects many aspects of society, and is the most important spatial form of interaction between society and nature. From these positions, the article considers various aspects of the territorial distribution of the population and the formation of a modern ethnic map in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) in connection with its administrative and territorial structure. The most important components of the population settlement process are three groups of factors: socio-economic, environmental (natural) and demographic.

The Present study investigate the biochemical analysis of herbal paneer prepared from Ginger, Rosemary and Thyme herbs , all three herbs were procured rom local area of Dehradun. Moisture, ash, pH, Titrable acidity and free fatty acids were performed in lab. The results were moisture content of paneer was found to be 51.8%, the ash content of paneer was found to be 1.43% Free Fatty Acid was found in paneer is 2.69%.

A study was conducted among 315 randomly selected pigeon farmers across different locations in Gamawa L.G.A to investigate their traditional breeding methods, breeding objectives and traits preferences for selecting breeding stocks. The result obtained showed that majority (75.485%) of the farmers kept the local pigeon breeds over the cross breds (20.70%) and exotic breeds (3.82%). Most of the farmers (42.99%) sourced their breeding stocks from within their flocks over other sources. Most (35.67%) of the farmers kept pigeon for hobby and for meat (32.48%) followed by other reasons.

Results of this research showed that all factors, i.e. buying decision, artist, television advertising media, price, and product quality gave significant effects on brand awareness. Meanwhile, total effect of variables artist, television advertisement media, price product quality on buying decision through brand awareness gives significant effect. Research method is illustrated by path analysis to easily observe the impacts that are being studied. The cause and effect path was established from variables being used.

An experiment was conducted in the nursery of Regional Agricultural Research Station, Akbarpur, Moulvibazar; where IBA, NAA, and IAA were used for rooting of black pepper (BARI Black Pepper1: Jainta Gulmorich) on three growing media (soil:cowdung: coco dust, loamy soil, and wet sand). From this experiment, it is evident that growing media has less effect on proliferation of black pepper cuttings where Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) was found effective for providing conditions for rooting as well as survivability in the long run.

Background: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) has a debilitating effect on sufferers, daily lives by reducing their ability to perform sporting and work related activities pain free. The Kujala Patellofemoral Disorder Score (KPS) was particularly designed and developed for the assessment of patients having anterior knee pain as well as patellofemoral conditions.

The study examines a linguistic phenomenon of near synonyms investigated by one of the features in a corpus tool of Sketch Engine namely Word Sketch Difference. The feature functions to compare and contrast two words through collocation analysis by presenting their collocates categorized on the basis of grammatical relation. Using the data derived from the English Web Corpus 2013 (enTenTen13), the present research aims to explore near synonyms by observing the usage of the English adjectives Brave: Courageous by employing the analyses of collocation.

Malayan tapirs are highly endangered and wild populations are fast declining. Thus, captive breeding programs in zoos and governmental breeding centers are the most promising conservation strategy for this species. Despite being common, lip licking, a type of oral behavior, has received little attention in the past, and impacts on the welfare of captive Malayan tapirs have not been quantified.

This study examined contemporary urban environmental management crises with focus on increasing rates of domestic sewage generation in Port Harcourt. It adopted the use of cross – sectional research design where both primary and secondary data were used. The primary data were generated through the use of field observations, oral interviews and 5005 copies of questionnaire administered in ten stratified randomly selected areas. Ten research assistants were used for data collection in each zone. Six research questions and six specific objectives guided the study.