Background: Cameroon has the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence of 5.3% in the West and Central African Sub-region, with women being the most infected. The biological and socio-cultural vulnerability of women to HIV infection is not new. A proven effective female controlled prevention t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13048
Introduction: Natural cocoa powder (NCP) has been recognized to possess significant amounts of flavonoids and methylxanthines with healthful benefits. Little or no work has been done on adult Ghanaians involving supplementation with NCP. We hypothesized that chronic consumption o...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/11305
Introduction: This review describes the importance of medicinal plant Passiflora foetida in the modern world. Between 190 countries, approximately 85% have dependency of traditional systems of Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Unani that have contributed for exploring remedial plants. Pas...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/12015
Introduction: Amukkirai chooranam (A. chooranam) is an important traditional herbal preparation and its main component is the root powder of Withania somnifera Dunal (Solanaceae). It is the best remedy for rheumatism, weakness, stress, sleeping disorders, gastric ulcer, anaemia,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/11189
We here described a case of a 38-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital for general malaise, slight fever, and palpitations after a meal for the past several years. She became hungry at approximately 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. every day, and simultaneously felt the urge to eat so...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/12994
Background: Although endemic in West Africa, HIV-2 infection dissemination is limited to about 1.2 million people worldwide. However, the prevalence of HIV-2 infection is in Portugal disproportionately high, similarly to other countries with strong socioeconomic ties with West Af...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13078
Aims: Presence of aphasia or cortical stroke on neuroimaging suggests an embolic etiology of the stroke. However sometimes it is difficult to discover the source of the emboli doing the decision of the optimal treatment a challenge. Presentation of Case: 75-year old female was ad...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13663
Aims: To study the different levels of inorganic fertilizer on filled grain percentage of fifty Sri Lankan traditional rice cultivars. Study Design: RCBD with four replicates. Twenty plants of each replicate were evaluated. Place and Duration of Study: A field experiment was carr...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/12571
Management decisions are a key factor in driving management’s control of valuable resources. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of gender and its role in termination decisions. This research is the result of a four-year study on management decisions on ter...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13307
Data compression is a special kind of technique for representing various types of data such as text, audio, video, images etc. Data compression is used to reduce the number of bits and to store data. Different types of data compression mechanism are widely being used for compress...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/12846
The general purpose of this research is studying the relationship between net operational assets (actual levels, expected and unexpected) and future stock return in Tehran Stock Exchange listed companies over the period 2008-2012. To test the research hypotheses, the multiple reg...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12337
Aim: To determine the level and distribution of Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, Pb, Hg and V from soils in the vicinities of Kakuri industrial area of Kaduna state, Nigeria. Study Design: To compare the soil heavy metal concentrations with regulatory standard values permitted by the Nigerian env...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/13212
In the paper a close look at exchange rate and economic growth nexus in Bangladesh for a period of 1985-2012 using time series analysis, considering Exchange Rate, FDI, Trade Openness, and Portfolio Equity as explanatory variables and linkage with GDP. We employed Johansen-Juseli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13133
This study employed the 2×2 mixed experimental design to explore the effect of integrity of product image and perfectionism of consumer on purchase intentions. The result indicated that the integrity of products had significant positive effect on purchase intention of consumers....
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13524
Introduction: Male births occur slightly in excess of female births. In man, the ratio of male divided by total live births (M/F) is expected to approximate 0.515. Warfare has been shown to exert significant effects on M/F. This study was carried out in order to identify any such...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13763