A review on the applications of low energy megavoltage (MV) X-ray beams (1-4 MV) in cancer radiotherapy is presented. Firstly, the physical characteristics of low energy megavoltage X-ray beams are reviewed in terms of penumbra, dose fall-off, exit dose, dose to bone, penetration...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15040
Rheumatic fever (RF) and Rheumatic heart disease (RHD), despite a documented decrease in their incidence, remain as problems in both industrialized and industrializing countries even at the beginning of the 21st century. The most devastating effects are on children and young adul...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12084
Aim: To determine the prevalence of disseminated cryptococcosis among symptomatic HIV-infected patients, attending the Antiretroviral Treatment Clinic at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14576
Aim: Diverse pharmacological and biochemical effects of lupeol have been reported earlier. The present study utilized the immune expression pattern of proliferating cellular nuclear antigen (PCNA), cyclin D1, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14951
Background: Children under 5 years of age represent 11.1% of total Egyptians with a mortality rate of 22/1000 live births in 2013. Family health centers are the first gates that provide them with health services. This study aimed to evaluate the health care services introduced to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13806
Background: Practicing fasting during Ramadan by pregnant women might be risky. Controversies still exist about the nature and the magnitude of metabolic changes in healthy pregnant women who practice fasting. Objectives: To systematically review literature pertaining to the prac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15022
Aims: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a marker used as an indicator of severe bacterial infection, which causes febrile seizure (FS). In this study, the level of PCT in patients with FS during the first hour of attack was investigated. Furthermore, the correlation between PCT and serum Ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13252
Aims: Hydraulic conductivity plays an important role in the evaluation of various soil functions, which in turn may become decisive in urban development plans. Different approaches to measure hydraulic conductivity often inhere in methodological artefacts. To address the subjecte...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16969
Three years field studies were conducted at teaching and research farm of faculty of Agriculture, Bayero University Kano to evaluate the effect of various tillage practices on weed control and yield of groundnut. The study consisted of nine (9) treatments comprising of two (2) ze...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14540
This paper investigate the optimal control problem for a modified Novikov equation with dissipation. The existence and uniqueness of regular local solution to the corresponding initial boundary value problem is guaranteed by the Faedo-Galerkin method. A critical estimate of the s...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2014/15087
Aim: To assess the factors influencing registration for antenatal care in Nigerian pregnant women. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The antenatal clinic of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospit...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/13357
Aims: To determine the nutrient composition and phytochemical properties of Psidium guajava (Guava) and Cucumis sativus (Cucumber) fruits grown in Gashua fadama area of Yobe State, Nigeria in order to provide an up-to-date nutrient composition data and phytochemical potentials...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/13775
Surface soil samples were obtained from six (6) urban dumpsite soils namely: Uyo, Abak, Eket, Onna, Ikono and Ikot Ekpene within Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Control samples were also collected from a forest in Etinan local government area of the same State. Samples collected were t...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/15331
Soil water and nitrogen (N) are the two most important factors in wheat for obtaining higher grain yield. In this context, a field trial was conducted at the research farm (25â°38´ N, 88â°41´ E and 38.20 m above sea level) of the Wheat Research Centre (WRC), Bangladesh to ident...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15091
The paper presents two methods for solving the fractional Fornberg-Whitham (FFW) equation. Based on the peaked solutions of FW equation, suppose the solution’s variable-separated form, and the FFW equation is transformed into a constant fractional differential equation (FDE). To...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15392