Aims: The current study estimated the anti-inflammatory, anti-pyretic, gastroprotective and anti-hyperglycemic activities in various rat models of total methanol extracts (TMEs) of different plant parts; mixture of leaves & stems (MLS) and subterranean organs (SO) and differe...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/17093
The flood in 2012, which was recorded as the most devastating in the past 40 years in Nigeria, that caused colossal loss in material wealth, could also be a source of heavy metal pollution, especially at the lower reaches of the flood where deposition of flood transported materia...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/17859
Aims: The aim of this paper is to show the empirical relation between the insurance agents' specified personal qualities and the efficiency of life insurance companies in thecontext of future development perspectives, based on meta – analysis and conducted inthree domestic scient...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17828
One of the most contentious debate surrounding globalization relates to its net impact on the economic performance of national economies. This concern is much stronger for developing countries characterized by various degrees of distortions and weak institutions. There is a cloud...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/18489
A retrospective study covering a period of seven years (1997-2003) was conducted to assess the extent of damage of Cinara cupressivora on Cupressus lusitanica Orchard and determine any correlation with climatic factors in Dedza, Malawi. Furthermore, the study was also aimed at de...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/18609
Sabuj Sarker, Dae- Kee Min, Timothy R. Black & Hyun J. Lim·Advances in Research·2015
The Cox multiplicative model is used widely in survival analysis, where the covariates act multiplicatively on unknown baseline hazards. However, the Cox model requires the proportionality assumption, which limits its applications. The additive hazards model has been used as an a...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/18021
This study was carried out to determine the effect of replacing soybean meal (SBM) with Leucaena leucocephala leaf meal (LLM) in the diet of broiler chickens. One hundred and fifty one-day-old broiler chicks were allotted to five treatments, each with three replicates and ten bir...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17125
A comprehensive review on the methodology to obtain two dimensional stress field around a discontinuity in the form of a circular hole in the plate subjected to various types of, uniform, axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric monotonic loads at infinity viz. uni-axial tensile, equal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17762
Introduction: The measurement of human motion, or kinematics, is becoming increasingly important. More specifically the measurement of human motor control can give important information about a number of cognitive processes. However, due to the restricted environment of functiona...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17411
The biogas production potential of the co-digestion of plantain (Musa parasidiaca) peels, yam (Discorea rotundata) peels and cow (Bos primigenius) dung was investigated. Two waste combinations of plantain peels with cow dung (A) and yam peels with cow dung (B) were used for the b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18135
This paper is focused on the dynamic analysis and simulation of a novel microgripper and its components: microcantilever and V-shape thermal actuator. These devices are designed on silicon and implemented on Professional Autodesk Inventor 2014. Simulations were realized using Ans...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18042
Laboratory experiments were conducted and the results were analyzed for rice husk ash (RHA) stabilization of laterite soils for utilization as sub base materials in road construction. The index properties classified the soils as (A-7) under the AASHTO soil classification scheme....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17090
In [1], a kernel-type estimator for the intensity obtained as the product of a periodic function with the power function trend of a non-homogeneous Poisson process has been formulated. In addition, asymptotic approximations to the bias, variance and mean squared error of this est...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17391
Aims: The objective of this paper is to develop a rectangular solar dryer box in which grains are dried by direct radiation through the transparent walls and roof of the cabinet and by the heated air from the solar collector. The temperature development of the dryer is also evalu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16308
Although there are a considerable number of pain assessment scales, only some of them can be used for practical intentions. The Faces Pain Scale is used for children 4 to 6-7 years old, while the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) is used for children above this age. A study from December...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/18533