Aims: To determine the dietary diversity score and diversity within food groups consumed and the probability of food security among rural households in North Central Nigeria. Study Design: A cross sectional survey design was used. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conduc...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/14875
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the practice of self-medication and the types of drugs students self-medicate as well as factors influencing practice of self-medication among secondary school students in Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria. Methods: The study employed a...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/16083
The present study evaluates and compares the physicochemical parameters and cost of some multisource tadalafil products marketed in Nigeria. Six randomly selected products were analyzed for weight uniformity, friability, hardness, disintegration, dissolution testing and assay. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/16507
Aims: The present study assessed the quality of rainwater in Ayanfuri in the Upper Denkyira West District, Central Region of Ghana. Study Design: Triplicate samples were collected from three sampling points. Place and Duration of Study: Triplicate rainwater samples were collected...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/15881
Aims: The present study assessed the quality of rainwater harvested from three different roofing types namely aluminium, thatch and galvanised in Kuntanase, Ashanti Region, Ghana. Study Design: A total of twenty one samples were collected from three different roof types (aluminiu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/15883
Insect vector-symbiotic relationships are widely reported in literature with several microorganisms reported to play a key role in growth, development, survival and evolutionary success of insect disease vectors. Symbiotic bacteria are prevalent in insects like mosquitoes, sand f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/16149
Khusnutdin M. Shakhidoyatov, Tozagul U. Dzhumatanova, Ubaydullo M. Yakubov, Azimjan A. Mamadrahimov & Gulsara E. Berdimbetova·Chemical Science International Journal·2015
The interaction of 2-methyl(ethyl)-5H(chloro, nitro)benzimidazoles with benzoyl (acetyl) chloride, and p-toluenesulfonyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine in tetrahydrofuran or chloroform was studied. It was found that the reaction proceeds in three stages with the format...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/15935
The immunological alteration in vaccinated dogs with single hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum (A. c) and conjunct infection with Trypanosoma congolense (T. c) and Trypanosoma brucei (T. b) was determined. Sixteen dogs grouped into 4 of 4 members each were used. Group 1 was the uninfe...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/14905
Aim: Usually called Tea of Gambia, Lippia multiflora is traditionally used for its sedative, relaxing, febrifuge, anti-flu-like, antispasmodic, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory, anti-catarrhal, mucolytic, anti-infective and hepatoprotective properties. The present study was carried...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/16394
Aim: To investigate the effect of methanolic extract of seeds and leaves of Abrus precatorius on implantation, hormonal profile, reproductive index and sexual behavior in adult female Wistar rats. Study Design: Female wistar rats were treated with A. precatorius extracts (30 and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15271
Aims: Netizens share their personal experiences, opinions at the review sites, discussion groups, blogs, forums and etc. With the rapid growth of technology, now-a-days almost everyone uses internet. Opinions are important because whenever a person needs to take a decision, helik...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16121
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a growing problem worldwide which implies a huge financial burden and issues of medical care policy. DM is rapidly emerging as a major challenge to public health and is a progressive disease and one of the leading causes of death in recent times. The mos...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/14592
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is a growing technology which magnetizes many useful applications because nodes can communicate with each other and join and leave network without any predetermined network infrastructure. This behavior of MANETs makes it vulnerable to various diff...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15393
The impact of globalization coupled with the pressure by recent economic downturn have stirred increased customer outlook on availability, scalability and efficiency to enterprise information technology (IT) solutions. The increasing interest of a broad based business leaders and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16304
Motivated by the results of J. Kou, et al. 2007 [1] which is a family of iterative methods having third order of convergence in general and optimal fourth order of convergence for a particlue case, in this paper, a new class of optimal fourth-order iterative methods is obtained b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15673