Diarrhoeal disease is a public health problem for children worldwide especially in developing countries. This study aimed at assessing the microbial agents associated with childhood diarrhoea in Benin City, Nigeria. Faecal specimens were collected from patients and controls withi...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18510
This study involved the delineation of all the river sub-basins in the Imo Basin of the Anambra-Imo River basin area. It the area drained by measuring all the tributaries and their stream order. This study found out that there are basically five sub-basins in Imo State, viz. Imo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/17114
Philip Dwek, Ling Yuan Kong, Meghan Wafer, William Cherniak, Romina Pace, Isabelle Malhamé, Dean Simonsky, Geoffrey Anguyo, Eben Stern & Michael Silverman·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2015
Aims: This report presents one confirmed and two suspected cases of podoconiosis in the Kabale region of southwestern Uganda. Podoconiosis has not previously been described in Uganda outside of the eastern region bordering Kenya. The aim of this case report is to increase awarene...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/17672
Five hundred and thirteen Vertical Electrical Sounding data sets were acquired within the Akure9. Metropolis, processed and interpreted quantitatively. Akure Metropolis lies within Latitudes 07°10. 09' and 07° 19'N and Longitudes 05° 07' and 05° 17'E and covers an areal extent...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/15851
In this study, the negative attitude of some Nigerians which inhibits a total successful HIV/AIDS campaigns in the country is critically examined. This was motivated by the reported persistent high national prevalence rate of between 5% to 3.6% of this dreaded health problem over...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/17217
Background: The present study was conducted with objectives to elucidate the existence of sylvatic cycle of plague and to document the changing pattern of relationship between rodents and fleas. Methods: Collection of samples was done from 15 sites (25 locations) from plague affe...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18486
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected pregnant women represent a unique population and co-infection with hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is considered a major health problem worldwide. Aims: This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence and determinants of hepat...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18458
Here we have estimated the macroscopic entropy production for a mechanical force induced single oligomeric enzyme Kinetics with multiple substrate in a chemiostatic condition. This result is supported by the calculation of the single trajectory approach of forward and reverse pat...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/17117
This paper describes the method to construct a maze for which the solution path goes along with the line of a closed one stroke drawn curve. If the crossing of the curve is considered a vertex and the curve between the two crossings (vertices) an edge, the closed curve becomes an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18125
The paper presents the law of large numbers followed by a multicriterial analysis of the six theorems that compose the weak form. This group of theorems work on issues of sequences limit laws of sums of random variables in the sense of convergence almost surely of such sequences.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/17980
Let S be left amenable semi-topological semigroup such that its weak almost periodic compactification Sw is a topological semigroup. We show that every separately continuous, non-expansive and equicontinuous action of S on a weakly compact convex subset of a Banach space with nor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18317
S. I. Ogenyi, A. A. Ngokere, A. O. Onyemelukwe, T. P. P. Choji, A. O. Oluboyo, R. C. Chukwuanukwu, E. N. Ekekwe & P. O. Manafa·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2015
Aims: To determine the histopathological and biochemical effects of ethanolic crude extracts of Nauclea latifolia leaves, fruits, stem and root barks on the liver of Chinchilla rabbit. Study Design: This is an experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: The study, which last...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/17883
Democracy and autocracy are measured by democracy index which is introduced by Economist Intelligence Unit and has been calculated since 2006 for 167 countries covering almost the entire population of the world. The Democracy index is based on five factors: Electoral process and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/18613
The aim of this study is to 1H-Indole-2,3-dione 3-[N-(4-fluorophenyl)-thiosemicarbazone and its zinc(II) and nickel(II) complexes. The structures of the synthesized compounds were confirmed by spectral data and elemental analysis. They were optimized by B3LYP theory with differen...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/17626