Mental health is a state of wellbeing in which individuals realize his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. Mixed and anxiety and depression is a mental di...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/18664
Laboratory tests have established that some aquatic plants are heavy metal hyper-accumulators. To estimate the extent of this phenomenon on the field, an assessment of heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr, and Pb) content of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) freely growing in...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/18762
Aims: The primary objective of this study is to investigate the treatment of Graves' Disease (GD) with radioactive iodine (131I-NaI), presenting the clinical symptoms suffered from patients, and evaluating the level of triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and thyroid-stimulating...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15437
Thyroid gland secretes hormones that govern many of the functions in our body, such as the way the body uses energy, consumes oxygen and produces heat. Thyroid disorders typically occur when this gland releases too many or too few hormones. An overactive or underactive thyroid ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17613
A series of WO3-ZrO2 catalysts containing 18% of WO3 were prepared from Zr(OH)4 pre-calcined at temperatures between 25 to 700°C, before W-introduction by impregnation. Thus, in accordance with that, the resulting parent Zr(OH)4 support possessed different degree of crystallinity...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18557
Aims: The main goal of this research is to develop a fresh anthropometric database for disable population in Nigeria. Methodology: Adequate survey of anthropometric data of Nigeria paraplegics in South-Western Nigeria was carried out with a 31:19 male-female ratio. Suitable and r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17602
A twelve-week study was conducted to determine the effect of feed type on performance of Nera black hens in the humid tropical environment. One hundred and twenty (120) Nera Black hens of 28 weeks of age were used for the study at the Poultry Unit of the Department of Animal Scie...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/6051
The UK urgently needs a public health strategy for NTD reduction, which could include the use of food supplements, food fortification or a combination of both. An updated nutritional benefit-risk analysis is needed to inform population-based and/or targeted public health policies...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/18093
Sunil Kanti Mondal, Rabindra Nath Das, Sudip Kundu, Jinseog Kim, Gurprit Grover & Shamim Akhtar Ansari·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
The present article focuses how the genome size and GC content are explained based on codon and amino-acid usage. This current study aims to identify the statistically significant factors of genome size and GC content using statistical modeling. The present analyses show that hab...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/16709
I. J. Barde, J. O. O. Bale, S. B. Oladele, M. Y. Fatihu, P. R. Kumbish, A. G. Rimfa, I. S. Teki, G. D. Moses, J. S. Ahmed & P. A. Okewole·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aim: To determine some haematological changes in Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) experimentally infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum Methodology: A total of 160 (108 males and 52 females) Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were used in this...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18450
The study undertook a critical appraisal of the relationship between business locations and consumer patronage, with a view to pinpointing the implications on business policy and decision-makings. The study sought to: Determine the effect of business locations on consumers’ repea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16998
Between the months of May and August, 2014, a disease outbreak in two small poultry farms consisting of 600 and 550 Isa Brown layers both located in Umuahia, Abia state was reported to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike. The two f...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18418
This study was designed to evaluate the antimicrobial potentials of ethanol and aqueous extracts of Moringa oleifera against microorganisms isolated from beef offal. The beef offal samples (liver, kidney and intestine) were purchased from an abattoir in Port Harcourt while the Mo...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/17554
In this specific study, a new procedure for computing the impact of articles / authors / journals is made. Identification of importance of impact evaluations in general is presented. The inadequacies of the methodologies presently used to evaluate impact of published research are...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18448
A study of the rate of crude oil remediation in soils with the application of surfactants and hydrocarbonoclastic bacterial population was undertaken. Locally sourced particulate surfactants (wood and palm bunch ashes) were compared with synthetic surfactant, Tween 80, and found...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/6196