Many Japanese people in modern society experience stress that may contribute to various kinds of diseases, sometimes resulting in death. One important source of stress comes from an excessive need for approval from others, or sekentei. Recent evidence has shown that ikigai, i.e.,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/4189
A Self starting Stomer Cowell Hybrid Block Method of uniform Order 8 for Direct solution of General Second Order Initial Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations is presented in this paper. The method produces simultaneous approximation of the solution in a Block of Seve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6749
The world’s cotton production and export industry has for some time now witnessed protests from various producers and exporters on distortionary measures (notably subsidies) instilled by some major players (including the United States, India and China) and the downward pressure s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11913
The rapid and accelerating development of information and communication technology (ICT) has caused an unprecedented expansion in Hong Kong’s ICT industry and a simultaneous increase in the demand for ICT practitioners. With the intention of helping ICT-related companies in Hong...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10056
Access to productive resources at the level sufficient for economic and scale efficiencies by farmers is constrained by limited resource endowment and poor access to farm credit. This study examined the existence and determinants of credit constraint on poultry egg farmers in Nig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10018
Aims: To examine the protective properties of vitamin C (vitC) and E (vitE) on DM induced nephrotoxicity in male guinea pigs. Study Design: Twenty male rats were randomly grouped into four. “1” = Control, “2” = Vitamins (C & E) treated, “3” = Dimethoate (DM) treated and “4” =...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10503
The paper examines changes and the extent of poverty in rural Nigeria from 1996 to 2004. It investigates the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty within these eight years. The analysis is based on household National Consumer Survey (NCS) of 199...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11239
Faiza Khan, Zubaida Yousaf, Hafiza Saadia Ahmed, Ayesha Arif, Hafiza Ayesha Rehman, Afifa Younas, Madiha Rashid, Zoya Tariq & Nadia Raiz·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Taxonomic information provides the base line for most of the studies in biological sciences. Most of taxonomic information based on phenotypic characteristics of plants. As phenotypic markers are under the influence of environment, therefore it may leads toward the taxonomic conf...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10073
We review the use of diatoms in monitoring and assessment of river health in the world. First, we summarize the use of diatoms as indicators of nutritional status, acidification, and organic and metal pollution. We then examine some problems that have been associated with diatoms...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/11963
Chelating ion-exchange resin was synthesized by the condensation of 8-hydroxyquinoline with pyrogallol using formaldehyde as a cross-linking agent at 120ºC in DMF in the presence of hydrocloric acid catalyst. The resin was characterized by elemental analysis and FTIR. The morphol...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10877
Aim: To explore the ability of GRNN as a tool of structural elucidation in predicting the substituent types on myrcane, one of the representative skeletons of monoterpenoids. Methodology: Generalized regression neural network (GRNN) was used in the study. Carbon-13 (13C) NMR chem...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11441
Aims: The aim of this study is to report an oral iron chelator phytic acid (PA), on blood samples from different types of thalassaemic patients of various age groups and physical conditions. Study Design: The In vitro iron chelating effect was evaluated by ferritin assay using EL...
Mitochondrial DNA Variability among Some Saudi Arabian Goat Breeds Five hundred nucleotides of cytochrome b gene was sequenced for Pakistani, Tihami, Syrian, Masri and Aardi goat breeds inhabiting Saudi Arabia. Based on two computational maximum-parsimony and neighbor-joining met...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/12166
Enhanced Biodegradation of Spent Lubricating Oil Contaminated Soil Using Poultry Litter Enhanced biodegradation of spent lubricating oil contaminated soil using (40% w/w) poultry litter was studied for a period of 56 days. The bacterial count ranged from 1.7×106 cfu/ml – 4.0×106...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/11567