Francisco Suazo-López, Rosalba Zepeda-Bautista, Felipe Sánchez-Del Castillo, J. Jesús Martínez-Hernández, Juan Virgen-Vargas & Leonardo Tijerina-Chávez·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Climatic and technical factors influence tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) production in hydroponics and greenhouse, but there is not much research on management of red volcanic rock as substratum, as well as on water and nutrient solution. Therefore, the effect of the concentrati...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/11936
Aims: The aim of this paper is to propose a mathematical model of the cardiac electrical activity in accordance with heart physiology and utilizing this model to generate ECG (electrocardiogram) signal. Study Design: Modeling the cardiac electrical activity based on physiology of...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/11916
Aims: To purify, characterize, and apply the laccase produced by submerged fermentation using an edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus ARC280. Study Design: Laccase purification and characterization were designed using the most recent approaches and statistical studies of triplica...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/11218
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the biodegradation capacity of selected indigenous fungal isolates and optimization of their degradation ability using various environmental factors such as pH, incubation temperature, nutrient concentration and inoculums size in red...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/12008
Aims: To analyse the adoption of glyphosate herbicide on the control of speargrass. Study Design: Three local government areas were purposively selected. Data collection was carried out in three stages. First stage was through purposive sampling. The second stage was by random sa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6771
Ashiver Elizabeth Annune, Chinwe. N. Ezeani & Victoria N. Okafor·Advances in Research·2014
The descriptive survey design using questionnaires and structured interview were adopted as instrument for data collection. Population of study consisted of 391 with the determined sample size of 198 fishermen. Frequency count, simple percentages and mean (x̅) were used to analyz...
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between national GDP and safety standards by determining if the rate of fatal occupational injury is high or low. We examine countries in two broad categories: The developed markets and the emerging markets. This study is limited for the...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11157
Myers’ index is widely used in censuses, large scale sample surveys and in many other secondary data to study the digit preference error on single year raw age distribution particularly in developing countries where huge peaks and troughs are observed at the ten digits of age. Hi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10673
Aims: Ginger, a rhizome of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Fam. Zingiberaceae), has been widely used as a spice to enhance the flavor of food and beverages and for medical purposes in various diseases. Methodology: The review covers the databases and articles published between 2002-2...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/11138
The Natural Rubber Latex (NRL) from Hevea brasiliensis has shown promise in biomedical applications due to its low cost, easy handling, mechanical properties and biocompatibility, being used for bone regeneration and wound healing due to its natural stimulus to angiogenesis. The...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/12039
Aims: The target of present study is to determine the frequency of occurrence of enterolysin A gene in Enterococcus faecalis strains from different sources and surveys about antibacterial effect of enl A gene positive strains. Study Design: Enterolysin A is a class IV bacteriocin...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7216
Aims: Tuberculosis is considered as one of the major causes of mortality worldwide after AIDS in the recent years. The present work aims to bring out the epidemiological profile of tuberculosis in the provinces of Laayoune and Tarfaya so as to contribute to the improvement of the...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/12456
Empirical research documents that overconfidence has a strong impact on investment decision. In this experimental study using a within-subject design and entrepreneurial process, we detail this relationship by introducing a stage of identification (initial knowledge about the ent...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10927
Cities play a key role in the modern global economy. They became full-fledged (together with states, multinational corporations and international economic organizations) subjects of international economy relationships; concentrated financial and commodity markets, enormous produc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11698
Extracts of St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) are known to cause interactions with certain conventional drugs. Herein, we focus on two clinically relevant concepts. First, St. John´s Wort has been used by people of all ages as an herbal treatment for depression without medic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/9602