In recent years, enhancement in wireless and mobile technologies, location based services (LBSs) has become more and more popular. Location based services provide enhanced functionalities, they open up new vulnerabilities that can be exploited to cause security and privacy breach...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16995
Let A be a 3D symmetric elasticity tensor not necessary isotropic. If μ is an invariant measure on SO(3), then μ is a convex combinaison of the Haar measure. The nearest isotropic elasticity tensor is obtained by integrating the tensor A on the rotation group SO(3). For the numer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19480
The main purpose of this paper is to construct a new class of second order differential equation at infinity. To solve the problem, we generate the auxiliary equation via a pre-auxiliary equation and obtain the general solution of it. We express the higher order of the differenti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15796
This study investigated the effects of using visualization tools in programming instruction on student success and motivation. The study also sought to determine courses that significantly correlate with elementary school students’ programming success. Two experimental groups par...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18316
Character construction in the novel presupposes the imaginative contemplativeness of the author as it is vital in the appraisal of its form, nay, the totality of the author’s intentions – a trajectory towards apprehending the ideological platform on which the novel is mounted. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18597
Gisella E. Alfonsino, Andrea Santagati, Livia Basile, Ettore Novellino, Corey Gaul, Carley Squires, Michael Braden, John M. Gerdes, Silvia Pérez Silanes, Salvatore Guccione & Keith K. Parker·Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences·2015
Clinical depression encompasses a complex neurobiology involving multiple interacting systems. This intricate pathophysiology is, in part, correlated with dysfunction in serotonin (5HT) neurochemistry. The 5HT1a receptor (R) and SERT (serotonin transporter) components of this net...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/18917
This work is aimed at investigating the benefits of replacing conventional process unit operations with process intensified ones in offshore applications. This ensures that better use is made of raw materials, lower energy consumption and a reduced plant volume was achieved. Spec...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/19157
Aim: The association between insulin resistance and hirsutism in women is well studied. However there is no previous data about association between insulin resistance and male body hair density. Thus, the aim of the present study is to evaluate association between insulin resist...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/19450
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of vitamin C and E supplementation on acute exercise-induced changes of makers of skeletal muscle adaptation and its signaling pathways in mice. Methodology: Male C57BL/6 mice were assigned to one of four groups: a control...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2015/19547
The choice of quantization method and the requirement to achieve a trade-off between compressed image quality and degradation are very crucial in the overall performance of a lossy image compression algorithm. In this paper, uniform and non-uniform scalar quantization schemes of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18438
Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the patients of eye disease by B scan ultrasound and to correlate ultrasonographic findings clinically in patients with ocular diseases. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in Department of Radiodiagnosis in association w...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17930
Agriculture plays a great role in the economy of Swaziland. It is also important for food production. Over 70% of the agriculture is practiced in the rural sector where mainly food crops are produced under subsistence farming systems characterized by large hectares cultivated wit...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18610
Introduction: The quest to meet the food demand of people and the low food productivity in Ghanaian agriculture has necessitated the use of agrochemicals massively by small scale farmers. This study examined the farmer’s awareness of the health and safety implications of massive...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/19594
Aims: This study aims to evaluate benefit and safety compared dual antiplatelet therapy with single aspirin therapy after coronary artery bypass grafting. Study Design: A systematic review and Meta-analysis. Place and Duration of Study: Medline, Embase, ScienceDirect and Cochrane...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19433
Introduction: Ultrasonography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) serves as the most prominent adjunct imaging modality to mammography. Ultrasound (US) is cheap, non-invasive and widely available in healthcare centres in Ghana but often used for obstetrics and gynaecological inv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19056