The aim of the study is to examine the possible dissociative effects of bilingualism on the complex and cognitively challenging task of reading. The underlying assumption is that there are two paths to reading: the lexical (semantic) path and the non-lexical (phonological) path....
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16760
Employment-related problems of psychiatric patients are attracting attention in the field of mental health and welfare. Employers’ social distance from psychiatric patients negatively influences patients’ chances to work. Therefore, social distance should be carefully measured an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17245
Personal selling is a paid personal communication that seeks to inform customers and persuade them to purchase products in an exchange situation. It is a powerful two-way form of communication. It allows an interactive relationship to develop between buyer and seller in which the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15807
This paper attempts to examine the effects of job rotation and employees’ performances in business organizations. It was mainly concerned with assessing, evaluating, and ascertaining the overall impact of job rotation on productivity, improvement of skills, talents, and correctio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12051
Kola nuts do not undergo any other additional form of post harvest processing before storage and consumption, hence there is an urgent need to develop new post harvest storage pest control strategies that are safe, of low cost, convenient to use, and environmentally / user friend...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/13462
We present and prove a set of necessary and sufficient conditions that the inequality f4(x, y, z) ≥ 0 holds for all nonnegative real variables x, y, z, where f4(x, y, z) is a cyclic homogeneous polynomial of degree four which satisfies f4(1, 1, 1) = 0.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16723
In this paper, we consider a discrete multispecies Gilpin-Ayala type competition-predator system. Firstly, permanence of the system is studied. Assume that the coefficients in the system are almost periodic sequences, we obtain the sufficient conditions for the existence of a uni...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16779
Aims/ The structure of the solutions to the one dimensional focusing nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation (NLS) for the order N in terms of quasi rational functions is given here. We first give the proof that the solutions can be expressed as a ratio of two wronskians of order 2N and...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/16827
Stem rust is a devastating disease in barley that is caused by a fungi (Puccinia graminis f. sp tritici, Eriks. and E. Henn). The disease has been controlled for quite some time due to the presence of cultivars carrying the resistant gene Rpg1. It has been effective in controllin...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16332
The Klein 4-group, denoted by V4 is an abelian group of order 4. It has elements V= {0, a, b, c}, with a + a = b + b = c + c = 0 and a + b = c, b + c = a, c + a = b. A graph G= (V (G), E(G)), with vertex set V (G) and edge set E(G), is said to be V4 magic if there exists a labeli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16439
We give a non-metric version of the Besicovitch Covering Lemma and an extension of the Lebesgue-Differentiation Theorem into the setting of the integration theory of vector valued functions.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16752
In this work, we study the effect of the substrate temperature (ST) during sputter-deposition as well as co-sputtering deposition on the fabrication of nanostructured Ni-Mn-Sn thin films. Sputtered films show Mn losses of around 10 at.% while the average grain size (<d>) in...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16672
One of the ways to get thorough knowledge to food handlers is self-reporting. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare self-reporting and routine inspection of Environmental Health Inspectors (EHIs) on elimination of health defects in food production and distribution cen...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16370
Background: The use of pollen grains to establish the geographical and botanical origin of honey samples, and for supplying information concerning to the floral class of a honey produced in a region, has been employed since 1895. Pollen analysis has relevant significance for the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16799
Introduction: The disposal of Sewage Sludge (SS) or its application on farmlands is of public health concern, owing to the potentials of Heavy Metals (HMs) in SS to deteriorate soil, ground water quality and bioaccumulate in food chains. Conventional inorganic chelating agents us...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16967