agricultural extension workers’ service has been placed as the central pattern of agricultural transformation in general and smallholder farmers in particular. due largely to this commensurately known trend, identifying factors that determine farmers’ access to extension workers’ service and the effect of the service on crop yield was found to be imperative. cross sectional data was collected t...

attempts to obtain experimental values for the kinetic parameters of phenanthridine oxidation by guinea pig or rabbit liver aldehyde oxidase using common spectrophotometric methods have not been successful due to a lower limit of detection. in the present study, a new spectrofluorimetric assay in combination with a multivariate calibration method for enzymatic kinetic study of aldehyde oxidase ...

substrates' concentration profile was studied in a porous matrix containing immobilized amyloglucosidase for glucose production. this analysis was performed by using an analytical method called least square method, and the results were compared with numerical solution. effects of effective diffusivity, michael's constant, maximum reaction rate and initial substrate concentration were studied on...

This paper proves the effectiveness of Least Mean Square (LMS) estimation algorithm for estimation of power system harmonics, inter-harmonics and sub-harmonics of distorted signal. Accurate estimation can be achieved by this technique for harmonics, sub-harmonics and inter-harmonics estimation including possible variation in the signal such as change in amplitude when applied to a distorted pow...

In this paper, we study the mean square convergence of the kernel least mean square (KLMS). The fundamental energy conservation relation has been established in feature space. Starting from the energy conservation relation, we carry out the mean square convergence analysis and obtain several important theoretical results, including an upper bound on step size that guarantees the mean square con...

In the process of vermicomposting, the earthworms Eisenia fetida have been exposed to various metals with different concentrations to study the effects on worms’ bioaccumulation. The study was carried within 14 days of exposure. Five different chemical compounds in various concentrations were added as mixture solutions to the experimental containers. Metals concentrations were measured in earth...