Aim: To report a case of concurrent tuberculous and bacterial arthritis in chronic tophaceous gout. Presentation of the Case: A 59-year old Filipino male patient consulted for sensorial changes with four-month progressive swelling of the right knee draining non-foul smelling yell...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17652
The inhibitory effect of PASAC1, PASAC 11 and PASAC13 on the corrosion behavior of brass in cooling water system at temperature of 25°C was studied by potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), FTIR spectroscopy and metallurgical microscopy techni...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/12468
Solutions of three minimization problems of some classes of functions are obtained. The ndings of the present paper generalize several results related to quantile regression. The new results can be applied in dierent aspects such as weighted l1-norm minimization of curves in , wh...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/17254
Signaling pathways play an intricate role in regulating the homeostasis of a normal cell and any chronically altered activity in such signaling pathways causes cancer. Such aberrantly activated Wnt and vanished p53 signaling contribute to the development of various carcinomas. Ma...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17996
Study Design: Decision making process involves the best choice among the alternatives. Decision makers come across many problems and take decisions by choosing the suitable alternative. The process of decision making carries great importance in terms of the administrators. The ad...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18063
In this paper, an optimal electricity allocation model (OEAM) was developed for efficient energy consumption. This was done by constructing a weighted maxi sum fuzzy goal programming model where the membership functions (of the objectives) are considered as fuzzy goals and weight...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16498
Aim: Teachers have important roles in the identification, referral and management of school children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, their ability to play these roles is contingent on their depth of knowledge about ADHD. This study assessed literacy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18089
In this paper, we propose a Hepatitis C virus transmissions model with time delay. Firstly, we get the condition for the existence and local stability of equilibria of the system. Secondly, by choosing the time delay τ as a bifurcation parameter, we show that Hopf bifurcation wil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/17744
For any abelian group A, a graph G = (V;E) is said to be A-magic if there exists a labeling ` : E(G) ! A n f0g such that the induced vertex set labeling `+ : V (G) ! A defined by is a constant map. A graph G = (V, E) is said to be a-sum A magic if there there exists an a 2 A su...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/17238
Aims: To clarify the changes in morphometric parameters and contents of zinc (Zn) and in the relationship between these characteristics in normal and hyperplastic human prostates, a quantitative morphometry and energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis was performed. Methodol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17572
Introduction: Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in old age. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between social support and depression in elderly population of Amirkola city, northern Iran. Also, a few studies have been conducted to de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15111
Aims: This study was designed and conducted to establish the normal values of various haematological indices and CD4 absolute count for apparently healthy adult in Ondo State, and to compare these values with those obtained for other populations in both tropical and western count...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17974
Survey on the ethnomedicinal uses of mistletoe in Southwestern Nigeria was carried out in various major market centers identified in the major capital towns of four different States in the Southwest Nigeria including Oyo, Ondo, Ogun and Ekiti States. A combination of social surve...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/11048
Aims: Different crude extracts of Barringtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn were subjected to vigorous phytochemical and pharmacological investigations to validate the traditional use and to find out any other therapeutic activities. Study Design: The present study was dedicated to inv...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/5400
Management of waste feathers in Nigeria is of public health concern due to large quantities generated daily from poultry industries and slow degradation in soil. Information on processing waste feathers for enhancing crop growth has not been well documented, particularly in Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/17248