ISSN 2231-0843

Volume 14, Issue 03 (2016)

Editorial Board Members

Chief Editors

Dr. Harry E. Ruda Stan Meek Chair Professor in Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, Director, Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, Canada Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://mse.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/professors/ruda/

Dr. Quan Long Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept. of Medical Genetics, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics (Adjunct) Member, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute O’Brien Institute for Public Health , Health Sciences Centre Cumming School of Medicine 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Canada Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://research4kids.ucalgary.ca/profiles/quan-long

Dr. Singiresu S. Rao Prof. at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: https://miami.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/singiresu-s-rao

Dr. Meng Ma Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China And Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Selvakumar Subbian Laboratory of Mycobacterial Pathogenesis and Immunity, Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.phri.org/research/res_pisubbian.asp

Prof. Szefer Piotr Department of Food Sciences, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.informator.gumed.edu.pl/112

Academic Editors

Dr. Nan Wu Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/engineering/departments/mechanical/staff/profiles/wun.html

Dr. Rodolfo Dufo Lopez Electrical Engineering Department, University of Zaragoza, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Can Tansel Tugcu Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Nevsehir University, Turkey Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Manjinder Singh Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.biorefinery.uga.edu/Singhm.html

Dr. Valentina Tosato Yeast Molecular Genetics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Dalong Guo College of Forestry, Henan University of Science and Technology, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Hui Li School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Normal University, China Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Diyuan Li School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Chien-Jen Wang Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Maria Laura Mastellone Environmental and Health Sciences, Second University of Naples, Italy Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Christopher Koroneos School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece And Hellenic Open University, Greece And Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.uest.gr/index.php/researches

Dr. Antonino Nizza Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Naploli-Federico II , Via F. Delpino, Naples, Italy Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.docenti.unina.it/antonino.nizza

Dr. Teresa De Pilli University of Foggia, Department of Science of Agriculture of Food of Environment (SAFE), Via Napoli, 25; 71100 Foggia, Italy Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. A. Srinivasulu Electronics and Communication Engineering department, VITS, Proddatur, India Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Naeem Faraz Modern Textile Institute of Donghua University, Shanghai, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Ya-mei Gao College of life science and technology,Heilongjiang Bayi Agariculture University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Verlicchi Paola Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, Ferrara, Italy Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.unife.it/at/org/Incarichi-politici-direzione/SA/2015/verlicchi/curriculum- vitae-paola-verlicchi/view

Dr. Deepak Pudasainee Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Technical Chemistry (ITC), Germany Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Jerzy Nowacki West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Szczecin, Poland Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Elena Lanchares Sancho Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://titulaciones.unizar.es/asignaturas/29821/infor_basica14.html

Prof. Gabriela Bahrim Faculty of Food Science and Engineering, University "Dunarea de Jos" of Galati, Romania Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Ahmed Fawzy Yousef Geology Department, Desert Research Center, Egypt Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. José M. Garrido-Balsells Department of Communications Engineering, University of Malaga, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.ic.uma.es/contenidos/ficha_personal.action?id=774

Dr. Vyacheslav O Vakhnenko Division of Geodynamics of Explosion, Subbotin Institute of Geophysics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian, Ukraine Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Grzegorz Zboinski Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Abida Farooqi Department of Environmental Sciences, Quiad-i-Azam University, Pakistan Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.qau.edu.pk/profile.php?id=931002

Dr. Xi Wu Mechanical Engineering Department, California Polytechnic State University, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://me.calpoly.edu/faculty/xwu/

Dr. A.A. Hanafi-Bojd Department of Medical Entomology & Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://tums.ac.ir/faculties/aahanafibojd

Dr. Fazel Khaleghi Geology department, Azad University, Iran Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Chang-Yu Sun China University of Petroleum, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Ahmed Mohamed El-Waziry King Saud University, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/75830/default.aspx

Dr. Manoj Gupta Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS, 9 Engineering Drive 1, 117576, Singapore Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://me.nus.edu.sg/about-us/people/academic-staff/materials/

Dr. Patrice Wira Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Haute Alsace, France Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Higinio Ramos Applied Math Department grammar, University of Salamanca, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Rui Xiao School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://power.seu.edu.cn/ny_en/ad/de/c11777a110046/page.htm

Dr. Ming-Chih Shih Department of Health and Nutrition Science, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Giovanni Bucci Department of Industrial Engineering and Information and economy, University of L’Aquila, Italy Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.ing.univaq.it/personale/scheda_personale.php?codice=99

Dr. Sunday Olusanya Olatunji College of Computer Science and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Grzegorz Golanski Institute of Materials Engineering, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, Dept. of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.tums.ac.ir/faculties/hdehghani

Dr. Ahmed Hassanali School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.ku.ac.ke/schools/spas/index.php/faculty/faculty-profiles/89-faculty/55- prof-ahmed-hassanali

Prof. Dr. Essam E Khalil Professor of Energy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Vijay Kumar Thakur School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, USA Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://hpc100c1.mme.wsu.edu/people/faculty/faculty.html?kumar

Dr. Shubha Bennur Department of Textile Merchandising and Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://cehs.unl.edu/tmfd/faculty/shubha-bennur/

Dr. Scott Dittloff University of the Incarnate Word, 4301 Broadway, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.uiw.edu/hass/govt/drdittloffbio.html

Dr. Humberto Varum Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban Ministry of University Research (MIUR) Fellow (Govt. of Italy), Italy And Lead Researcher, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SEEE), Kevin Street, Dublin-8, Ireland Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Santiago Silvestre Telecommunications Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Cataluny, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://eel.upc.edu/ca/personal/pagines-personals/santiago-silvestre-berges

Dr. Aleksey Aleksandrovich Hlopitskiy Department of Technology inorganic substances, Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Ukraine Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. João Miguel Dias Habilitation in Department of Physics, CESAM, University of Aveiro, Portugal Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.cesam.ua.pt/index.php?tabela=pessoaldetail&menu=198&user=110

Dr. Jakub Kostecki Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, Poland Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir Hydrotechnical Engineering Department, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Lilly Li Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/itc/en/people/academic-staff?itcsid=20

Dr. Zhi-Qiang Xiong Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Jesús F. Arteaga Department of Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, University of Huelva, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.uhu.es/ciqso/fo-miembros.html

Prof. Keyume Ablajan College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Yiguo Hong School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK And Research Centre for Plant RNA Signaling, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Wen Shyang Chow School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://material.eng.usm.my/index.php/en/our-staff/academic/professors

Dr. Gautam R. Ullal Course Director Neuroscience and Foundations of Clinical Medicine, Medical University of Americas, West Indies Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Jian Guo Zhou School of Compt., Math & Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/scmdt/staff/profile/index.php?id=2568

Dr. Alexander K. C. Leung Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Calgary, Canada And Pediatric Consultant, The Alberta Children’s Hospital, Canada Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Changle Chen Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~changle/

Dr. Wei Wu Applied Mathematics Department, Dalian University of Technology, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Xu Jianhua Department of Geography, East China Normal University, China Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://faculty.ecnu.edu.cn/s/1473/t/16919/main.jspy

Dr. Cheng Siong Chin School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, UK Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/singapore/about/staff/profile/chengchin.html#background

Dr. Vitaly Kober Department of Computer Science, CICESE, Mexico Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Hamid El Bilali Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (CIHEAM/IAMB), Sustainable Agriculture, Food & Rural Development department, Via Ceglie 9, 70010 Valenzano (Bari), Italy Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Philipp Sand Department of Psychiatry, University of Regensburg, Germany Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Soichiro Nakamura Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shinshu University, Japan Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://soar-rd.shinshu-u.ac.jp/profile/en.OpyhuNDp.html

Prof. Qing-Wen Wang Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, P.R. China Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://math.shu.edu.cn/teacher/wangqingwen/

Dr. Richard K. Owusu-Apenten School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, UK Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/r-owusu-apenten

Dr. Harshadrai M. Rawel Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Germany Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.uni- potsdam.de/lebensmittelchemie/index/aginstrumentelleanalytikinderernaehrungswissenschaft.ht ml

Prof. Ricardo E. Pérez Tomás Cancer Cell Biology Research Group, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy, Bellvitge Campus, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.ub.edu/ptex/WebsProfes/perez.htm

Dr. Jaehyung Ju Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Yu Hai-Liang School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering, , Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://ris.uow.edu.au/ris_public/WebObjects/RISPublic.woa/wa/Staff/selectPerson?id=47912&g roup=3944

Dr. F. Javier Rondán-Cataluña Department of Business Management and Marketing, University of Seville, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Nazrul Islam Deputy Director of Education, Departments of Management Studies and Organisation Studies, University of Exeter Business School, Rennes Drive, UK Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/nazrulislam/

Dr. Malleswar Yenugu Ikon Science Americas, Houston, USA Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.uh.edu/nsm/earth-atmospheric/people/students/recent-grads/

Prof. Dr. Osiris Wanis Guirguis Saleh Biophysics Department, Cairo University, Egypt Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Sumit Goswami Senior Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Chesterfield, MO, USA Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Lesley Diack School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, UK Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectid=EBABB980-27FB-11E1- BECE000D609CAA9F

Dr. Fernando Reboredo Department of Earth Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.dct.fct.unl.pt/pessoas/docentes/fernando-reboredo

Dr. Robson Xavier Faria Laboratory of Cell Communication, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Valentina Stojceska School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/valentina-stojceska

Prof. David Coman Medical Director of Paediatrics, The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, Australia And The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Arcady A. Putilov Research Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences(Novosibirsk, Russia) Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Sylwia Myszograj Department of Water Technology, Sewage and Wastes, University of Zielona Gora, Poland Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Orlando Manuel da Costa Gomes Professor of Economics, Lisbon Accounting and Business School (ISCAL), Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Portugal Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Pengtao Sun University of Nevada Las Vegas,4505 Maryland Parkway, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://faculty.unlv.edu/sun/

Prof. J. António Moreira Department of Education and Distance Teaching, Open University, Portugal Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Jon S. Gold Dept. of Chemistry, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.esu.edu/academics/departments/chemistry/faculty.cfm

Dr. Ana Pedro Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Kleopatra Nikolopoulou School of Education, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Jo-Ming Tseng Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology(NYUST), Taiwan Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Bharat K. Bhargava Purdue University, Department of Computer Sciences, Indiana Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bb/

Dr. Mohammad Khursheed Alam Orthodontic Unit, School of Dental Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Shiu-yin CHO G/F, MacLehose Dental Centre, 286 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta, India Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://cucse.org/faculty/cucse/samir-kr-bandhyopadhyay/

Dr. Francisco Lopez-Munoz Professor of Pharmacology, Camilo Jose Cela University, Madrid, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri Faculty of Science, University of Calabria, Italy AND Foundation of Physics Research Center (Director)- FoPRC, Italy Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Shahin Atashbar Tehrani Particle Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Teodor I. Milenov Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory “Physical problems of ion technologies”, Sofia, Bulgaria Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Aurora Angela Pisano Solid and Structural Mechanics, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.unirc.it/scheda_persona.php?id=680

Dr. Arda Isik Department of General Surgery, Erzincan University, School of Medicine, Erzincan, Turkey Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Anish Yousaf Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, India Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Amardeep Singh Central Soil and Materials Research Station (CSMRS), Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, New Delhi, India Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Farjana Sultana College of Agricultural Sciences, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT University), Bangladesh Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: https://iubat.edu/web1/index.php/team-details/dr-farjana-sultana/

Dr. Borislav Banjac Department of Field and Vegetable Crops, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Yahya Elshimali Department of Internal Medicine, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Koji Nagata Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Prof. Balwant Singh Rajput Physics Department, Kumaun University, Nainital, India Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Athanasios N. Petridis Department of Physics and Astronomy Harvey Ingham Hall, Drake University Des Moines, Iowa, USA Email: [email protected] Profile Link: http://www.drake.edu/physics/facultystaff/athanasiospetridis/index.php

Dr. S. Sathish Department of Mechanical Engineering, Annamalai University, India Email: [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Dr. Monoranjan Bhowmik Department of Education, Vidyasagar Teachers Training College, Vidyasagar University, India Email: [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Dr. Heena Sharma Dairy Technology Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Haryana, India Email: [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Dr. Camille Eichelberger Granada Programa de Pos-Graduaçao e Biotecnologia (PPGBiotec), Centro Universitario Univates, Lajeado, RS, Brazil Email: [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Prof. Sait Engindeniz Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, Turkey Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Dr. Suresh Dinkar Kharche Central Institute for Research on Goats, India Email: [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Prof. Ranjith Pathegama Gamage Department of Civil Engineering, , Melbourne, Australia Email: [email protected] Profile Link: NA

Dr. Elvan Ocak Food Engineering Department, Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://avesis.yyu.edu.tr/AkademikDetay/AkademikDetay.aspx?Sorgu=1108

Prof. Marcos Eduardo Hartwig Department of Geology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Email: [email protected],[email protected] Profile link: https://servidor.ufes.br/Quadros/aniversariantes.jsp

Dr. Seyedeh Maryam Banihashemian Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, North Kargar Street, Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Past Chief Editors

Prof. Lew P Christopher Director, Center for Bioprocessing Research & Development (CBRD), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T), SD, USA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Manuel Felipe Rosa Iglesias Prof. at department of Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, Spain Email: [email protected] Profile link: http://www.us.es/acerca/directorio/ppdi/personal_6269

Past Academic Editors

Dr. Qingzhen Jiang Facility Manager, Transformation Core, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Ha Sie Tiong Department of Chemical Science, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan University, Malaysia Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. A. Ramesh Kumar Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Water Resources, India Email: [email protected]

Dr. Hui-Ling Yang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hung Kuang University, Taiwan. Email: [email protected]

Dr. Wei-Wen Wu International Trade Department, Ta Hwa Institute of Technology, Taiwan Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. Weilin Wang Biological & Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Leticia M. Estevinho Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal. Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriou EU Programmes Division, Min. of Education/Foundation of Lifelong Learning, Greece Email: [email protected]

Dr. Chandra R Makanjee School of Health Care Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa Email: [email protected]

Dr. E. Stanley Lee Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Kansas State University, USA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Jianping Zheng Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, USA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Nitin Chopra Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, The University of Alabama, USA Email: [email protected]

Prof. Hadi Arabsahi Physics Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Email: [email protected]

Dr. Boris V. Balakin Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia Email: [email protected]

Dr. Matthias Port Clinic for Hematology, Hemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Germany Email: [email protected]

Dr. S. M. Lutful Kabir Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. Sati Mahmoud al-rawi Environmental Engineering, Mosul University, Iraq And Environment Researches and Pollution Control Center, Iraq Email: [email protected]

Prof. N. Senthil Kumar Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Mizoram, India Email: [email protected]

Dr. Ahmet Ertek Department of Agricultural structures and irrigation, Suleyman Demirel University, Isaparta & Turkey Email: [email protected]

Dr. Mark Vimalan Department of Physics, Syed Ammal Arts and Science College, India Email: [email protected]

Dr. Marko Likon Insol Ltd., Cankarjeva 16a, 6230 Postojna, Slovenia Email: [email protected]

Dr. Ronald K. Mulwa Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. Chao-Ching Ho Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Email: [email protected]

Dr. Artur Afonso Sousa Department of Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Prof. Saumitra Mukherjee School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. Akbar Hossain Wheat Research Center, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute Nashipur, Bangladesh Email: [email protected]

Dr. Athanasios Exadactylos Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece Email: [email protected]

Dr. James Benhin Environmental & Development Economics (EDE), Plymouth Business School, Plymouth Graduate School of Management, Plymouth University, UK Email: [email protected]

Dr. Hong Jin Kim CMP/Plating, Advanced Module Engineering, Globalfoundries, USA Email: [email protected]

Dr. Xueda Song Department of Economics, York University, Canada Email: [email protected]

Dr. Klaas Metselaar Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Prof. J. R. Qasem Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Dr. Katselis George Dep. Aquaculture & Fishery Management, Technological Educational Instituation of Messolonghi, Greece Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Mohamed Magdy Abdel wahab Department of Astronomy and Meteorology, Cairo University, Egypt Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Z. Ghassemlooy Associate Dean for Research, Head of Northumbria Communications Research Laboratory, Northumbria, University, UK Email: [email protected] Profile link: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/g/zabih-ghassemlooy/

Dr. Kwabena A. Kyei Department of Statistics, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Yasir Khan Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Jaya Shankar Tumuluru Biofuels and Renewable Energy Technologies Department, Energy Systems & Technologies Division, Idaho National Laboratory, USA Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Wei-Yen Hsu Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan And Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Pratiksha Saxena School of Applied Sciences, Gautam Buddha University, India Email: [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://www.gbu.ac.in/User_Pages/SchoolFacultyProfile.aspx?UserId=12&roleId=3

Prof. Wen-Xiu Ma Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, United States Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Profile link: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wma3/

Dr. Huaitang Chen School of Science, Linyi University, P.R.China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

Dr. Shijun Liao Dept. of Mathematics, School of Naval Architecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Email: [email protected] Profile link: NA

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2016 - Volume 14 [Issue 3]

Contents

Original Research Article Effect of Drying Methods on the Chemical, Pasting and Functional Properties of Unripe Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) Flour S. O. Arinola1*, E. M. Ogunbusola2 and S. F. Adebayo1 1Department of Food Technology, Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti, P.M.B. 5351, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. 2Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-7 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/22936

Original Research Article Environmental Policy and Climate Change in Nigeria: Bridging the Gap between Challenges and Reality Pius Akindele Adeniyi1* 1Federal Ministry of Environment, Federal Department of Forestry, Ado – Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-12 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/22874

Original Research Article Modeling of Air Pollutants and Ozone Concentration by Using Multivariate Analysis: Case Study of Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria S. G. Gocheva-Ilieva1*, A. V. Ivanov1 and I. P. Iliev2 1Department of Applied Mathematics and Modeling, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University ‘Paisii Hilendarski’, 24 Tsar Asen St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 2Department of Physics, Technical University-Sofia, Branch Plovdiv, 25 Tsanko Diustabanov St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-8 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/23910

Original Research Article Analysis of the Effect of Varying Palm Kernel Particle Sizes on the Calorific Value of Palm Kernel Briquette P. K. Oke1, T. O. Olugbade1 and G. N. Olaiya1* 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-5 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/23148

Original Research Article Digitalization Maternal and Prenatal Care Reporting Systems by Using Multimodal Telecommunication Devices for Monitoring Systems in the Rural West Bandung County Indonesia Tono Djuwantono1, Ahmad Faried1*, Agung B. Sutiono1, Muhammad Z. Arifin1, Firman F. Wirakusumah1, Sony A.Yuniarto2, Hadi Hariyanto2 and Yudi T. Jayadi2 1Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran–Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia. 2Innovation and Design Center, TELKOM, Bandung, Indonesia. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-11 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/20762

Original Research Article Optoelectronic Properties of Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) Thin Films Deposited Using Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) Technique A. D. A. Buba1* 1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Abuja, Abuja, F.C.T, Nigeria. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-7 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/23622

Original Research Article Design Analysis and Fabrication of a Tensile Creep Testing Machine J. L. Chukwuneke1*, P. C. Okolie1, D. C. Ugwuegbu2 and J. E. Sinebe3 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Nigeria. 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delta State University, Oleh, Nigeria. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-13 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/23803

Original Research Article On Influence of Aspect Ratio on Jamming Probability for Flows of Elliptical Disks in a Two- dimensional Rotating Hopper Yung-Jung Lin1, Chung Fang1* and Chin-Wan Chen1 1Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No.1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan. [Abstract] Full Article - PDF Page 1-8 Article Metrics DOI : 10.9734/BJAST/2016/23602