This study is a review work which looks into the selection of language textbooks being handled by language teachers in Nigeria and more especially since the language of instruction in our schools is English, which is a second language. No doubt, education is a dynamic instrument...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19335
Freeman-Sheldon syndrome (FSS) is an extremely rare syndrome with only about 100 cases reported [1]. It was first described by Freeman and Sheldon in 1938 [2]. It is characterized by oropharyngeal abnormalities, contractures of the hands and feet and a characteristic "whistling"...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19257
Background: Some of the short term morbidities in caesarean section include hemorrhage, post operative fever and endometritis and caesarean is the most common major operation performed worldwide on women, still there is no universally accepted procedure for management of placenta...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/20082
In this paper, the notion of intuitionistic generalised pre-regular continuity is introduced. Also intuitionistic generalised pre-regular compactness is de ned in intuitionistic topological spaces and several preservation properties are obtained. Moreover, some properties of intu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19568
Aim: Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional disorders in the world, and blood donation may cause iron depletion. This study assessed the incidence and stages of iron deficiency in male subjects donating blood in a bleeding bay in Calabar, Nigeria. Methodology: One...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19396
The estimation of stress-strength reliability function based on record values has attracted the attention of authors because of its important role in industrial tests, where in some situations not all observations are considered in the study but only observations which are more e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19829
Air pollution is a worldwide problem to millions of people exposed to concentrations of air pollutants above safety standards, including fine particulate matter (PM2.5). In Haifa, Israel, the apparent link between pollution and cancer development is a topic of concern. The study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19491
In this paper, we prove a unique common fixed point theorem for six weak compatible mappings in Menger space which is an alternate result of Pant et al. [1].
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18477
Introduction: The relationship of vitamin D and asthma is known but the association between vitamin D and time required to recover from acute asthma exacerbation has not been studied. Aims: To find an association between serum vitamin D levels and time required to recover from an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19890
Two methods based on the Galerkin method with Radial basis Functions (RBF) as bases are applied to solve integro-differential equations (IDEs). In the rst approach, direct Galerkin RBF method, the unknown function of the IDE is approximated by RBFs and then the derivatives of it...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19265
Grace Vincent-Onabajo, Jummai Yohanna Mshelia, Umar Abubakar, Rebecca Wakawa Majidadi, Habibu Nasiru Aliyu, Fatima Kachalla Gujba, Mohammad Usman Ali & Mamman Ali Masta·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2015
Background: Stroke is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide and primary prevention, through adequate knowledge of its risk factors and attendant risk factor control/modification, remains the best solution. This study assessed knowledge of stroke risk factors among in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19865
Multiplication operators between some spaces isomorphic to Lorentz-Karamata spaces are discussed. We also describe the multiplication operators on Lorentz-Karamata spaces which are compact and Fredholm.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19278
Aims: To find out an association between Human Papilloma Virus and IL 6 gene polymorphism in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma patients. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Ziauddin Hospital (Dental OPD), Karachi, Pakistan. In between the period of Janua...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/20044
In this paper, a competition model of a reaction diffusion system with self-diffusion has been studied using homotopy perturbation method, variational iteration method and Finite element method FEM (COMSOL package). The traveling wave solutions for this system are found and compa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19573
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has become a major threat to global peace and security. Since 1976, when Ebola virus was discovered, over 20 outbreaks have been reported. Most of these outbreaks occurred in rural areas of East and Central Africa. But the current 2014 outbreak, which st...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/19066