Aims: To critique, replicate and re-analyze Wainright and Patterson’s three studies of adolescents with same-sex parents, which conclude, based on representative population data, that such children suffer no disadvantages. Methodology: After replicating Wainright and Patterson’s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19337
A survey was conducted to investigate the availability and utilization of crop by-products as livestock feeds for small ruminants in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. One hundred and fifty copies of structured questionnaire were administered to crop (40.00%),...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/16203
Background & Objectives: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common complex condition in women associated with reproductive, metabolic and psychological features. Evidences from studies on women with PCOS and on an experimental rat PCO model suggest that the sympathetic reg...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/19397
The paper examined the impact of innovations and transformations in teaching and learning on educational sector in Nigerian Economic Growth. The paper employed the secondary data and sourced from the Statistical Bulletin of Central Bank of Nigeria. With the aid of statistical pac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14701
The current study examines the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing a sense of pride in membership, job satisfaction and engagement among employees. The study used data collected through self-administered structured survey questionnaire from 487 employees f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19022
Measures of potential output and the output gap are useful to help identify the scope for sustainable non-inflationary growth and to allow for an assessment of the stance of macroeconomic policies. In this paper, we apply the aggregate production function to estimate the path of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19814
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) play vital roles in the economic growth, employment generating, and poverty reduction in both developed and developing countries. An improvement in the sector will therefore have positive impact on the lives of the people. Several factors may le...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19670
Earlier efforts have been concerned with the association of Ruthenium octahedral complexes with DNA. Since the positively charged ruthenium species has been found to associate with the electron rich major groove of double-stranded DNA, it was proposed the addition of cationic sit...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/19681
S. Yasmin Priya, G. M. Arifuzzaman Khan, M. Helal Uddin, M. Ahsanul Haque, M. Shaharul Islam, M. Abdullah-Al-Mamun, M. A. Gafur & M. Shamsul Alam·Chemical Science International Journal·2015
In this work, micro-fibrillated cellulose (MFC) was prepared from sawdust and characterized by FTIR, WAXRD, and TGA. The MFC was synthesized by several steps such as alkali treatment, followed by NaClO2 bleaching and acid hydrolysis. The acid hydrolysis was performed by three dif...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/19752
According to the higher computational complexity during the training process of sparse representation, the centers of granular computing (GrC) with L1-norm are regarded as the bases of sparse representation and used to reconstruct the super-resolution image of input image. Firstl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19721
In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to decompose a directed acyclic graph G into a minimized set of node-disjoint chains, which cover all the nodes of G. For any two nodes u and v on a chain, if u is above v then there is a path from u to v in G. The best algorithm f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19380
Emotion is an important part of human and it plays important role in human communication. Nowadays, as the use of machine getting more common, the human computer interaction (HCI) has become important. The understanding of user could bring across a better aiding machine. The expl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19540
We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for L1-convergence of r-th differential of trigonometric cosine series with monotonic decreasing coefficients.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18912
This paper presents a new and reliable algorithm for solving linear and non-linear second-order differential equations. The new algorithm is called Multiple Integral Chebyshev Wavelets Collocation Method (MICWCM). The algorithm improves some of the earlier results obtained by som...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19557
In this paper the notion of Anti Fuzzy BRK-ideal of BRK-algebra is introduced. Several theorems are stated and proved. The epimorphic image and the into homomorphic inverse image of an anti fuzzy BRK-ideal is studied well. The Cartesian product of anti fuzzy BRK-ideal is introduc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19309