Aims: Jabi dam, Lower Usuma dam and Gwagwalada river in the Federal Capital Territory were studied for a period of twelve months (January 2007–December 2007) to determine their nutrient composition and dynamics. Methodology: Samples were collected from these water bodies on month...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10862
Heliculture is gradually gaining more attention in Nigeria. There are still constraint to snail production en mass which include breed and strain identification, feeding, management and health. In this study, the Qualitative characteristics and suture measurement of two breed of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10720
Aims: Stethoscopes represent a vehicle of bacteria and other microorganisms and may play a role in the spread of health-care associated infections (HAIs). We aimed to evaluate the contamination levels of stethoscopes before and after use of a disinfecting technique (DT). Study De...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/11337
Biomedical research and knowledge has grown exponentially since the completion of the Human Genome Project in the year 2000. There has been a gradual shift from ‘genetics’ (study of genes) to ‘genomics’ (study of the whole genome) in medicine. Advances such as sequencing of the h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/11175
Aims: The s-IgA/total protein ratio and α-amylase activity in saliva have been used as indexes of stress because they change according to the physiological stress. Using both indexes, this study aimed to compare the circadian rhythm of stress levels in wheelchair-dependent person...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10929
Aim: To determine the association between the age at initiation of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and the 18 month antibody status of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children in Jos, Nigeria. Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Place and Duration of St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10951
Aims: New road traffic injury (RTI) laws in Iran still neglects the importance of child restraint in automobiles. The objective of this study is to determine the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) on the mandatory use of child restraint among parents and nursery instructors....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8380
Aims: The aim of this study was to describe the proportion, pro¬file and clinical pattern of acute and chronic complications associated with diabetes and its potential risk factors. Study Design: This was a retrospective study. Place and Duration of Study: We conducted this study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9384
Aims: This study investigated the role of graduated drivers licensing, implemented by the Traffic Police of Iran, on reducing the severity and incidence of road traffic injuries. Study Design: It was an evaluation of the effectiveness of intervention by looking at the data before...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8379
The effects of black cumin seed or curcumin on blood glucose level, lipid peroxidation and gene expression of selected antioxidant enzymes and insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in diabetic rats were studied. Thirty two rats were assigned into four groups (8 rats in each). Rats...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/11121
Aims: The focus of this study was to evaluate the antimycobacterial activity of Alcaligenes faecalis BW1 extract and to purify it partially. Study design: Partial purification of A. faecalis BW1 extract was performed by using thin layer chromatography and active substances respon...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10595
Five Rhizobium strains (Cb1, Cb2, Cb3, Cb4 and Cb5) were isolated from root nodules of cluster bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.)] on yeast extract mannitol agar (YMA) medium. All the five Rhizobium isolates have shown the Indole Acetic Acid( IAA) production in culture medium sup...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6871
Stock market collects huge amount of data which is uncertain, insufficient or fuzzy in nature. To make predictions for such data is very complicated task and one of the biggest challenges to the AI community. Various traditional and statistical indicators have been proposed for t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9819
In this paper, we determine coefficients bounds for functions in certain subclasses of analytic functions of complex order, which are introduced here by means of the nonhomogeneous Cauchy-Euler differential equation of order m: Our main result contain some corollaries as special...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10194
We propose in this work two Automatic Arabic (Indian) digits recognition systems using a real-life dataset of 3000 bank checks. The systems extracts features from training-set images of 7390 isolated digits (0-9). These features are multi-scale in which they capture narrow, inter...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11601