Aims: Infant mortality rate (IMR) is not only used as a demographic measure, but also as an important health indicator of a society as well as a measure of its living standard worldwide. The Nigeria Demographic and Household Survey (NDHS) declared a wide difference in the IMR amo...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/9597
Aim: The aim of this study is to review the literature concerning malignant transformation of radicular cyst. Material and Method: A literature search using MEDLINE, accessed via the National Library of Medicine PubMed interface (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), searching for...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9536
Carla A. H. V. Miyashiro, Susana N. Diniz, Daniel A. F. de Oliveira, Ivair D. Gonçalves, Regina M. S. Pereira, Renata G. Silva, Niraldo Paulino & Cristina E. Okuyama·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate both the antioxidant effect and anti-inflammatory activity of a new transition metal coordinated rut in compound, Rutin-Cu2 complex. Study Design: Flavonoids have proven antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Moreover, recent res...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10228
Aims: To document the relationships between child dietary diversity and acute malnutrition (wasting) in urban and rural Ghana, controlling for maternal, child and household socio-demographic characteristics. Study Design: Cross sectional survey Place and Duration of Study: Urban...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10014
The AC current instability mechanisms are investigated in high-Tc superconductor and superconducting tape at conduction-cooled conditions when the electric field and applied current may essentially exceed the critical values of a superconductor. It is shown that there exist the c...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/11069
Primary testicular lymphoma (PTL) is an uncommon extranodal presentation constituting 1% of all NHL and 5% of all testicular neoplasm. The objective of our study was to identify the presenting signs and symptoms, treatment and outcome of patients with testicular lymphoma diagnose...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/10504
Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of ethanolic extract of Sphenocentrum jollyanum on high fat and high carbohydrate diet induced obesity in male wistar rats. Methodology: 30 male wistar rats used for this study were divided into 5 groups of 6 rats each. Group 1...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/10463
We describe a technique for reanalyzing total chronic long occlusion of the iliac arteries (TASC/D) through the radio-brachial approach. After having obtained the arterial approach, a 6F 90cm long Shuttle sheath (Cook Group, Bloomington, IN, USA) or a 4F 100cm Fortress sheath (B...
The purpose of this paper is to report a congenital subclavian artery to subclavian vein fistula in a three weeks old male infant who presented with congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. He had been scanned by various imaging modalities including echocardiography,...
Pulmonary vein stenosis in adults is historically a rare condition, but is becoming a recognised complication, albeit an uncommon one, of radiofrequency ablation around the pulmonary veins for treatment of atrial fibrillation. It may also be due to infiltrating mediastinal proces...
This study analysed relationship between agricultural risk management strategies and production efficiency among peasant farmers in Benue State, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from randomly sampled 130 peasant farmers in Benue State using a structured questionnaire. D...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/3885
This paper aims to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through pollution-haven hypothesis model for original ASEAN5 (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Philippines) countries by using Autoregressive Distributed La...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10411
In Nigeria, fish farming has emerged as a fast growing sector and a viable alternative to declining capture fisheries. The paper attempts to evaluate and compare the profitability and technical efficiency of different rearing techniques among fish growers in Lagos State, Nigeria...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10665
Cassava is an important staple food for human and animal feeding in Cuba. Despite its importance, there is little or nonexistent information to diagnose preferences and frequency of consumption of cassava in that country. In this sense, the present article characterizes the prefe...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10761
This study analysed marketing information usage among rice producers in Benue State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 130 randomly sampled rice producers in Benue State using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse data...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/3886