Aims: To study the host-guest interactions of α-, β- and g-cyclodextrin with herbicide bifenox. Study Design: Binding constants of the complexes were determined by Benesi-Hildebrand method and stoichiometry of the complexes was confirmed by Job’s method. In addition, by means of...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/16078
Aims: To evaluate plant diversity and to show the structural variation of the vegetation in a cocoa agroforest of various ages. Study Design: Slash and burn agriculture is one of the processes of deforestation and degradation of forests. Cocoa agrosystems that consist to plant co...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/10347
Aim: To investigate the changes of carbonyl stress parameters in rats with combined streptozotocin induced diabetes (STZD, hyperglycemia model) and glycerol stimulated rhabdomyolysis (RM, oxidative stress model). Methodology: RM was induced by glycerol injection and confirmed by...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/15161
Aims: To enrich fresh-cut tropical fruits such s papaya, guava and banana with calcium and Vitamin D by applying based-alginate edible coatings, and to evaluate its adequacy levels in the daily requirements of children in school age, and as well as, to study both their physicoche...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15964
Background: Previously we have described the "cavitary” type of angiogenesis by gastric cancer (GC) consisting of the formation of “cavitary structures” (CS) in tumor stroma, which are then lined by endothelial cells and merged into the blood vessels of the organ. The morphologic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15695
Aims: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and degree of expression of the carabelli trait in the permanent first and second maxillary molars in a selected Nepalese population residing in Madi village of Chitwan district. Study Design: Cross sectional descript...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14450
This paper focused on the thermal technique of activating pozzolanic activity of natural pozzolans, specifically calcined kaolinite clay in the form of metakaolin. The effect of heating temperatures over the range 450ºC-1050ºC in steps of 150ºC on the dehydroxylation of the kaoli...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/13146
In paper [1] Ahmad et al. investigated the use of sharp function, known from functional analysis, in image processing. The sharp function gives a measure of variations of a function and can be used as an edge detector [2]. We extend the classical notion of sharp function to prove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14868
We employ bifurcation method of dynamical systems to investigate exact traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear evolution equation. We obtain some exact explicit expressions of solitary wave solutions and some new exact periodic wave solutions in parameter forms of Jacobian ellipt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15751
We present a resultant-based method to calculate the overdetermined strata for degree 4 hyperbolic polynomials in one variable. It is a new method to calculate overdetermined strata. We present also the complete study of the overdetermined strata for degree 4 hyperbolic polynomia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15865
This paper investigates the existence of solutions for fractional differential inclusions of order q ∈ (4, 5) with anti-periodic type boundary conditions by means of some standard fixed point theorems for inclusions. The existence results are established for convex as well as the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15367
Likert scale is applied as one of the most fundamental and frequently used psychometric tools in educational and social sciences research. Simultaneously, it is also subjected to a lot of debates and controversies in regards with the analysis and inclusion of points on the scale....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14975
Aims: ‘Nasi lemak’ is one of the most favourite rice-based products for Malaysians. One of the main ingredients used to prepare ‘Nasi lemak’ is coconut milk. The aim of this study was to develop ‘Nasi lemak’ where coconut milk was substituted with soymilk to provide healthier cho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14606
One of the major problems of ruminant production in the tropics is the scarcity of quality forage all the year round. Gliricidia sepium which remains green even during drought has been extensively used for forage during forage scarcity. However, there is need to screen more brows...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14051
Aims: Biochar produced from different waste biomass has been documented as an adsorbent for heavy metal removal from contaminated water. In present study, Banana peduncle which considered as waste, but abundantly available and have high biomass was selected for production of bioc...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/16163