The paper attempts to unpack certain salient and important issues as concerns health in South Africa and Africa as a whole. It does not pretend to capture all the issues that permeate healthcare on the continent. It outlines the vision to transform South Africa’s health system in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13516
The concept of Multiple Intelligences has come out after Howard Gardner redefined intelligence. According to Gardner’s theory, human beings have different types of intelligence and based on their respective intelligence types, human beings have different skills in different areas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15011
Faculty members constitute a significant part of the existence and operations of post-secondary institutions. They are an essential resource in the delivery of higher education. Typically, faculty members are appointed to fill a need in higher education institutions’ efforts to g...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14962
The reported research is a quantitative study examining the effect of parental discipline style and its four dimensions—Demandingness, Enforcement, Punishment and Responsiveness—on mothers' perceptions of their children's social skills and learning motivation. The sample consiste...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/12647
The image of the Nigerian Police as a corrupt and inefficient institution with penchant for human rights abuse has not yet been redressed. Thus, this study investigates the public perception of the police and crime prevention within the Nigerian society. The participants in the s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/12763
Aim: To reiterate the clinical course and management of the cases with anteriorly migrated encircling band. Report of the Cases: We describe two patients with the migration of a solid silicone encircling band through the insertions of rectus muscles after the successful retinal...
Aims: This paper empirically investigated the impact of major risk mitigation strategies employed in the pineapple supply chain on the chains’ performance. Study design: A survey method involving the random sampling technique was used in selecting respondents for the study. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/15223
This study made a comparative analysis of two extension approaches, Farmer Field Schools and Master Farmer Training with the objective of finding out the effectiveness of these approaches as regards farmer knowledge gains, skills empowerment, farmer adoption of recommended practi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/11301
For thousands of years, traditional medicinal plants have been used to control several diseases, based on traditional knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, many potential medicinal plants have not attracted attention to their useful pharmacological properties and remain to be d...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15134
Aims: This study was undertaken to identify the optimal submerged culture conditions for four strains of Ganoderma lucidum: Ganoderma lucidum-8 (Ga-8), Ganoderma sinense (Ga-Sin), Ganoderma lucidum-0201 (Ga-0201) and Ganoderma atrum (Ga-Atr) and analyze their nutritional componen...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/14828
Aims: This work aimed to assess how seed size, vials, vial sealing (in vitro), and substrate (in vivo) affect C. regium germination and emergence. This study shall contribute to the viable production of C. regium seedlings. Study Design: The experimental design used in these expe...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15077
Aims: The fruit of Liquidambar formosana Hance under the name of Lu Lu Tong (LLT) has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine in China for thousands of years. This study was undertaken to attempt to illustrate some of the pharmacological effects by screening for its cytotoxic...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15280
Aim: To study the hepatoprotective activity of alcoholic extract of Holostemma ada Kodien Shcult against paracetamol (PCM) induced liver damage in rats. Place and Duration of Study: Department of pharmaceutical chemistry and department of pharmacology Geethanjali College of Pharm...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/12117
The chemical compositions of essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation of the leaves and flowers of pink-flower Plumeria rubra L., grown in Nigeria were being reported. The chemical analysis was performed by means of gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and ga...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15295
We present a rare case of endocartitis on the patch in the left ventricular outflow, in a 42 year-old man patient that had undergone surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot and definitive closure with Dacron patch of a ventricular septal defect and, after 21 years, aortic valv...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/14166