Aims: The paper analyzes the impacts of coal mining activities on West Virginia’s environment using GIS. Study Design: Adopted a mixscale appoach. Methodology: The aproach is applied to GIS and primary data connected to descriptive statistics by analyzing the impacts of mining wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7066
This study compared the relative effectiveness of Collaborative and Demonstration Teaching Approaches on students’ conceptual understanding of electromagnetic induction in secondary schools in Nigeria. Two research questions and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the researc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/9427
This study examined the perceived satisfaction and effectiveness of rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking in Nigeria. Survey design was adopted and two hundred and six participants were selected for the study using snowball sampling technique. The age range of the partic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/10712
The paper demonstrates an analytic approach for prediction of recurrence in the cervical cancer patients using a probabilistic model. The techniques used for classification and prediction are based on recognizing typical and diagnostically most important test features relating to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12069
Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the mid-term clinical and radiological results of conservative treatment and surgical treatment made with the Essex-Lopresti technique in tongue-type calcaneus fractures. Study Design: A comparison of two treatment options (the Essex-Lopresti Te...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15522
The effects of ethanol leaf extracts of Spilanthes uliginosa, Ocimum basilicum, Hyptis spicigera and Cymbopogon citratus on mice infected with malaria parasite was investigated. Eighty four (84) swiss mice of both sexes were used for the study. All the mice were passaged intraper...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14525
Background: Malnutrition which mostly is a consequence of improper feeding practices has been shown to contribute to over 50% of under-5 mortality. This means that appropriate age-specific nutritional prescription is the surest way of significantly shrinking childhood mortality e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14689
Haemophilia is the most common inherited coagulation disorders, with X linked recessive inheritance, affecting the males while females are the carriers of the disease. Haemophilia A and Haemophilia B are the commonest form of Haemophilia encountered and they result from defect in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12810
Introduction: Congenital malformations are currently an important cause of morbidity and mortality in many countries, though in most cases their etiology is unknown. The central nervous system (CNS) is involved in many of these defects. Objective: To study the factors associated...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14642
Background: In view of the impact of hypertension on public health, the objective of this study was to determine whether having had a cup of coffee in an everyday life setting raises blood pressure significant enough to make it a methodological issue in routine sphygmomanometry....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15037
Aim: To assess the accuracy of combined maternal serum interleukin and maternal salivary estriol levels in prediction of preterm labor in Egyptian pregnant females. Study Design: Case control study. Place and Duration of Study: It was conducted in El-Shatby University Hospital of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15146
This investigation aimed at determining the cyanide and starch contents of different species of cassava grown in Abia State. Samples of cassava tubers were purchased from the local market and identified by a taxonomist from the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, Abi...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/15297
Antibiotic/Antibacterial activity of Vitex negundo, Duranta repens, Acorus calamus and Piper nigrum Plants produce a diverse nature of secondary metabolites having different biological activity. Some of these chemicals exhibit antimicrobial activity. In the present study the plan...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/14534
Salmonellosis is cause be salmonella species of bacteria namely Salmonella enteritica and Salmonella bongori. Salmonellosis is a form of food poisoning usually obtained from eating tainted meat, poultry eggs or dairy products. Conventional medicine states there is no real cure fo...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2015/14904
The aim of present study was to evaluate the antidiabetic and antioxidant potential of Tricosanthes tricuspidata and Clematis montana leaf and root extracts. On the basis of toxicity studies a dose of 200 mg/kg body weight was selected for antidiabetic activity. Diabetes was indu...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/12769