Aim: This study was undertaken to determine the epidemiology, seroprevalence and associated risk factors, of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) among domestic animals. Study Design: Cross sectional epidemiological survey. Place and Duration: The study was carried out in three geographical z...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10203
Aims: To determine the incidence of fungal ocular involvement, manifesting as chorioretinitis or endophthalmitis, in patients with positive fungal blood cultures in a tertiary care center. Study Design: Retrospective case series and literature review. Place and Duration of Study:...
Bed-form characteristics have been investigated because of the close relation to hydraulic friction. Pool is one of the most important bed forms in coarse-bed rivers. The form friction factor should be considered in determining many river engineering projects including stable cha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10026
Background: In medical research, statistical tests have become more important. Several parametric procedures are available but each of them requires normality assumption. As normality violation may affect interpretation and inferences reliability and validity, so importance of no...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8921
The polyurethane foam industry in Nigeria depends largely on imported feedstocks based on fossil sources at exorbitant cost and high foreign exchange. Furthermore, emissions from some of these chemicals during processing have been reported to cause negative environmental impact e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7396
Yuan Zeng, Xing Ping Hu, Xiao- Qiang Yu & Sang- Jin Suh·Advances in Research·2014
Aims: To assess the presence of antibacterial activities in Reticulitermes flavipes against a common Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis; to determine the nature of antibacterial compounds of crude extracts; and to analyze the size profile of active compounds. Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10407
Chizoba Okechukwu Okeke, Grace I. Amilo, Martin Ifeanyichukwu, Ogochukwu M. T. B. Ochiabuto, Anulika O. Onyemelukwe & Sylvester Nnaemeka Ibekailo·International Blood Research & Reviews·2014
Aim: To determine the Red cell indices and Reticulocyte count values in HIV-positive patients under antiretroviral treatment and those not under antiretroviral treatments with varying durations of HIV infection and antiretroviral treatments. Study Design: Case-control study. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/10243
Quadratic irrationals posses a periodic continued fraction expansion. Much less is known about cubic irrationals. We do not even know if the partial quotients are bounded, even though extensive computations suggest they might follow Kuzmin’s probability law. Results are given for...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9892
Decomposer functions in algebraic structures were introduced and studied in the paper ”Decomposer and associative functional equations” in 2007. If (G, ) is a group, and f : G → G is a map, then f is called a right [resp. left] decomposer if and only if f(f*(x)f(y)) = f(y) [resp....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9521
A simple and direct process is derived to compute the determinant of any square matrix of high order. The approach involves successive applying the matrix order condensation algorithm. A computer program listing in MATLAB is included and examples for finding the determinant of a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10036
In this paper, the qualitative analysis methods of dynamical systems are used to investigate the periodic travelling wave solutions of ZK (2, 4,-2) equation. The phase portrait bifurcation of the travelling wave system corresponding to the equation is given. The explicit expressi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9650
Aim: In this study, the efficacy of a nasal spray based on lemon pulp extract for the treatment of allergic rhinitis in autistic subjects was evaluated by nasal cytology. The lemon pulp extract was obtained using an innovative solid-liquid extraction technology using a Naviglio E...
Recognizing the vital importance of nuclear knowledge and that human capacity building is the first step in the effective planning and implementation of a successful nuclear power program, in 2006/2007 Jordan made the decision to establish a nuclear engineering education progra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17091
Pitchaipillai Revathi, Thalaimalai Senthinath Jeyaseelan, Madhavan Vigneshwari, Nagarajan Prabhu, Mayilsamy Nithya, Subramaniya Pillai Manickavasagam, Alagappan Uma & Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian·Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International·2014
Aims: To monitor the antimicrobial utilization; identify the preferred group of antibiotics in outpatient services, determine the prescribing pattern of antibiotics by consultants in a rural teaching hospital, evaluate the inappropriate usage of antibiotics among population and e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/9961
In this paper we have established some Ostrowski type inequalities involving Riemann – Liouville fractional integrals for functions whose derivatives are h-convex.
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10072