Bilateral thalamic infarct (BTI) represents an uncommon stroke presentation. Pathophysiology recognizes the occlusion of an anatomic variant of the thalamic blood supply from perforating branches of posterior cerebral arteries. Presentation could be nonspecific and dramatic in th...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/9897
Objective: To detect the diagnostic accuracy of inversion recovery sequence in detection of meningitis taking cerebrospinal fluid as the gold standard. Material and Methods: This study was conducted in Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Karachi. Retrospective data was reviewed f...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/10365
Aims: The present study reports on the evaluation of a postgraduate assignment in which students produced a health promotion website. The aim of the study was to examine the application of WordPress as a platform for developing contemporary skills in health promotion practice. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/10583
Much of the research into student’s conceptions of chemical ideas has focused on school age students. This study aimed at identifying specifically undergraduate chemistry student’s difficulties in determining the concepts of Energy. Data were collected from 87 undergraduate chemi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9785
The purpose of this paper is to obtain the fuzzy least-squares estimator for the two-parameter Pareto distribution and to compare the fuzzy estimator with different types of estimators. The trimmed linear moments (TL-moments), linear moments (L-moments) and linear quantile moment...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10890
In this paper, we study the positive solutions of nonlinear singular two-point boundary value problems for second-order impulsive differential equations. The existence of positive solutions is established by using the fixed point theorem in cones.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10859
Chocolate is made from the seeds of a tropical rainforest tree called “Theobroma cacao”. When compared with other food sources based on oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) measurement, dark chocolate is a major source of flavonols with highest antioxidant levels. Some of th...
Mohammad Javad Nasiri, Mohammad Varahram, Mahdi Shams, Kimia Taghavi, Parissa Farnia & Ali Akbar Velayati·Advances in Research·2014
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) still causes serious illnesses in millions of people throughout the world. Although pulmonary TB accounts for the majority of the cases, extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) also contributes to the burden of disease and frequently neglected in the national TB...
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the correlations of age, sex, anthropometric measurements, pulse rate, blood pressure, and family history of cardiovascular disease with early atherosclerosis in children. Methods: Between December 2011 and January 2012 we included...
Only seven major endosymbiotic consortia, between the phagotrophic host and respiratory or photosynthetic bacteria, have been identified which were chosen by the processes of symbiogenesis. Symbiogenesis exploited every bit of these consortia and consequently produced a stunning...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9881
Introduction: Electrical modalities awere used therapeutically since the 18th century till 1900s to reemerge after World War II and to come to prominence after the 80s. Applications include wound healing of injured/molested/burnt tissues, pain management, exercise enhancement, ca...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10563
Objectives: The present investigation was aimed to study the effect of water extract of Zataria multiflora (Z. multiflora) on microvascular permeability in streptozocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats. Place and Duration of Study: Physiology Research Center, Kerman University of Medi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9463
The Epinephelinae groupers are strict carnivorous species. They are widely cultured in the Asia Pacific region as a result of high demand and market price especially in the live reed food fish trade. Groupers are commonly raised in net cages and fed with the unsustainable low val...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10963
Aims: Antimicrobial effect of Allium akaka herbal extracton the formation of biofilm and colonization of clinical and food-born pathogens are important in this research. Study Design: In the recent years, traditional medicine and identification of herbs have been highly addressed...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9844
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary Turmeric Rhizome powder (TRP) as a natural antioxidant and soybean (SO), canola oil (CO) and tallow (T) on performance, immune system, relative weight of organs and bone quality in 28d and post heat stressed...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10068