Andréa F. S. Santos, Luciana A. Luz, Emmanuel V. Pontual, Thiago H. Napoleão, Patrícia M. G. Paiva & Luana C. B. B. Coelho·Advances in Research·2015
Moringa oleifera Lamarck (Moringaceae family) is a plant native from the Western and sub-Himalayan parts of Northwest India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This species is widely cultivated across Africa, South-East Asia, Arabia, South America and Caribbean Islands. M. oleifera cultur...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/18177
Regeneration of base oil from spent engine oil (SEO) has been studied and the parameters involved were optimized using Response Surface Methodology. A mathematical model was obtained for the dependent variables, base oil yield (Y1) and ash content (Y2) while effects of solvent to...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/16795
Yang et al. [1] assume sea level rise induced by global warming is real, and that sea levels may rise by 1 meter by 2100. They then go on to derive ecological conclusions from these assumptions. There is of course no foundation for the ecological speculation if the basic assumpt...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/17461
This paper was reported on study the effect of gamma radiation on nanoporous SnO2 electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Structural, optical and electrical properties were studied. The refractive index was decreased with the increase in gamma radiation. The resistivity of thi...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/17250
Background: Protecting patients and healthcare workers from harmful ionizing radiation, has been an important concern. Due to high efficacy, for many years, lead has been used as the best choice for this purpose. Lead has been always considered as a traditional choice to protect...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/16603
Free Space Optical (FSO) communication is a promising solution for the need of very high data rate point-to-point communications. However, the wireless optical communications in the atmosphere were influenced by atmospheric absorption, scattering and turbulence which lead to sign...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/17212
Victor A. Amadi, Ulrike Zieger, Ozioma A. Onyegbule, Vanessa Matthew-Belmar, Ravindra Sharma & Harry Hariharan·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aim: To determine the occurrence of the E. coli including the O157:H7 serotype in mongooses and their antimicrobial drug resistance in Grenada. Study Design: Experimental based study of feces of mongooses captured from six parishes of Grenada from April 2011 to March 2013 during...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18143
A study was conducted at the Experimental Farm of the Cross River Basin Development Authority, Oku-Iboku, Itu in Akwa Ibom State in 2012 and 2013 cropping seasons. The aim was to evaluate seven genotypes of guinea white yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.) accessions at the last stage...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16496
The present work reports the effects of CYP2E1-inhibitors (quercetin, 4- methylpyrazole and disulfiram) on the indices characterizing state of the liver in guinea pigs with metabolic syndrome (MS) induced by protamine sulfate repeated administrations. The investigation of quercet...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/17756
Bacterial infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with the human immunodeficiency virus. The emergence of multiple-drug resistant bacteria has been documented by many researches. This study was therefore carried out to determine whether the res...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/16656
In this study, the influence of four operating parameters (pH, salinity, nitrate concentration and immersion time) and their interactions on the microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) rate of mild steel in simulated crude oil environments were investigated by response surfa...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/16810
35S promoter from the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (pCaMV) is a constitutive promoter commonly used in plant genetic transformation while Cassava Mosaic Virus (pCsVMV) is another promoter which is underutilized. The combination of the two promoters was used to form (pOYE153). The met...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/17092
Aims: To study the antimicrobial activities of the compounds produced due to reactions of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) with Phytophthora palmivora during infection. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Microbiology, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria and the Department o...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/17373
Aims: Pectobacterium carotovorum is a ubiquitous bacterium that causes soft rot in different crop plants throughout the world. In Morocco, approximately 95% of the Strains isolates from potato plants with tuber soft rot are P. carotovorum. In this study, we test whether PCR ribot...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/16045
In the present study the tolerance potentials of T. cacao in hydrocarbon polluted soil was evaluated. Top soil (0-25 cm depth) was collected from three points, bulked to form composite soil sample. Eight kilograms of the soil sample each were weighed into twenty five (25) perfora...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/13863