Low-cost and environmentally friendly removing processes for contaminated soil by oil, such as phytoremediation, are being evaluated in recent years. We aimed to select the most effective cultivar among 6 cultivars in 4 species of genus Zinnia (Z. elegans cultivars ‘Uproar’ and ‘...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13035
Objective: lactate threshold and pH-threshold determination during cardiopulmonary testing (CPET) and evaluate their diagnostic and prognostic value in patients with chronic heart failure. Methods: The study included 58 HF patients with NYHA class II-IV, who have performed CPET o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12920
Objectives: Ureteral stenting is a common intervention in endourological procedures. Despite the usefulness of stents, patients may experience various stent-related symptoms. These symptoms can have a significant impact on patients’ health related quality of life. There are sever...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/11929
The Aim: The management of obstructive coronary artery disease before the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is not yet well established. Presentation of Case: We describe a 68-year-old patient with severe aortic stenosis, multivessel coronary artery disease, severe l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12349
Background: There is a high variability in chemical composition of essential oil from Artemisia herba-alba grown in different countries and different localities in the same country. This has led to the characterization of many oil-dependent chemotypes assigned to the plant. Only...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12390
Chest pain frightens many people into thinking that they might be having a heart attack. There are many causes of chest pain, few of which are life-threatening. One of the causes of chest pain is vasospasms, which is transient in nature and prolonged episodes can lead to tissue n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12720
Uterine leiomyomas are the most common gynecologic tumors and though mostly asymptomatic, they may present with heavy or abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain or pressure, subfertility, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Heavy bleeding is often a reason to prescribe iron supplements...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12682
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) was considered as an important pathogen, which caused huge economic losses for the world swine industry annually. Until now, according to antigenic and genetic characteristics, two genotypes were identified, European (EU...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9371
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the most important fruit crops in the Middle East. In the present research, RAPD DNA marker was used to characterize six date palm genotypes grown in the Jiroft region of Iran. The pre-screening of 18 primers on genotypes allowed selec...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11683
The study was carried out to determine the mean values of facial, nasal, maxillary, mandibular and oro-facial heights of adult Urhobos: one of the ethnic groups in Nigeria and comparism with some other ethnic groups in Nigeria (Igbo and Ijaws) and Latvians; an ethnic group in Rus...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9628
This study was carried out to assess the effect of Ginger (Zingiber officinale) on the in vitro rumen ecosystem of sheep. Rumen fluid was obtained from three male sheep with fistula and mixed with 0, 30, and 60 mg ginger plus a substrate which represented the basic diet of alfalf...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/12495
Aims: This study was designed to assess the nutritional status of school children aged 5-12 years in Kawo District, Kaduna State, Nigeria in relation to gender and school background. Study Design: One hundred and forty one (141) school children were randomly selected from two pub...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/8647
Ahmed Abubakar Jajere, Muhammad Isma’il & Ibrahim Jaro Musa·Advances in Research·2014
Landuse/landcover change detection is an essential process in monitoring and managing natural resources and urban development because it provides quantitative analysis of the spatial pattern, distribution, and variation of the physical and cultural landscape features. Damaturu to...
Aims: The objective of this work was to investigate the efficiency of DNA extraction from bulk soil using the Britânia® mini mixer combined with phenol extraction to study bacterial communities, from three sampling sites localized in São Gonçalo-RJ, Brazil, comparing it to a comm...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/12628
Aim: Electricity generation from wastes using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). Materials and Methods: Bacillus sp._1, Bacillus sp._3 Pseudomonas sp., and Citrobacter sp., isolated from soil sediment were used for electricity generation in sewage water, glucose, soil sediment and acet...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/12227