This study aims at investigating the impact of Zakat on aggregate consumption and poverty alleviation in Egypt. To achieve this, the study presents the concept of poverty and the strategies of poverty alleviation in a conventional economy, and then discusses the concepts of pover...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9516
In this research work the level of the metals: Pb, Cd, Zn, and Cu were determined in soil samples collected within Maiduguri Metropolis. Samples were collected from places of high anthropogenic activity such as automobile maintenance workshop (AMW), Car park or Bus stops (CP), an...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/9924
This work presents the evaluation of extracellular hydrolytic activities involved in the degrading of organic compounds from several natural salt lakes located in the southern part of Romania. The paper approaches the extracellular enzymatic decomposition activity in accordance w...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/10239
Abbas Bahador, Safia Khalil, Babak Pourakbari, Roghayeh Ghorbanzadeh, Mohammad Zaman Kassaee, Solmaz Ohadian Moghadam, Azad Khaledi & Ahmad Sodagar·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: The activities of cariogenic bacteria in biofilm on acrylic baseplates of removable orthodontic appliances and partial denture contribute to dental caries, inflammation of gingiva and periodontal disease. This in vitro study evaluates the photocatalytic antimicrobial activi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7166
Aims: Nowadays, computational intelligence is frequently used in diagnosis and determination of the severity of various diseases. In fact, different tools of computational intelligence help physicians as an assistant to diagnose with fewer errors. In this paper, a fuzzy Hopfield...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9183
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) residual levels are available several commercially dry fishes. So these fishes were detected and determinate the contamination status of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The most popular dry fish-Ribbon fish (Lepturacanthus savala), Chi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9043
Removal of acid red 37 from aqueous solutions has been studied using red mud waste material after its modification with laccase from Russulaceae (Lactarius volemus). Laccase was purified by using saturated precipitate (NH4)2SO4, diethylaminoethyl celulose (DEAE-cellulose) and imm...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10080
Aims: The results will be used to design and construct a collecting device, specially the main sucking part. Study Design: In order to determine the physical properties of autumn leaves, twenty leaves from each tree of maple, bitter orange, oak, boxwood, yellow poplar, and brown...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9647
Yellow or stripe rust is one of the most important and destructive wheat diseases all over the world. The best strategy to control this disease is genetic resistance through combining several resistance genes which results in achieving long lasting resistance. Marker assisted sel...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9821
Eghtedary Naeini Abdolreza, Etedali Fatemeh, Mortazavi Seyed Elyas, Sobhani Najafabadi Ahmad, Golabadi Maryam, Gharyazi Behzad & Malboobi Mohammad Ali·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aim: This research can be used to design and subsequently to study stable- tissues- specific gene expression in other plants, and potentially may be used in altering plants with C3 photosystem into C4 through genetics. Study design: In silico analysis by bioinformatics tools was...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9876
Aims: To highlight whether metabolites of Alcaligenes faecalis BW1 extract can be administered orally for their possible antimycobacterial effects. Study Design: Study of the influence of certain parameters on the extract of Alcaligenes faecalis by using either discs or well diff...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/9715
Aqueous and ethanolic extracts obtained from two brown algae (Cystoseira compressa (Esper) Gerloff et. Nizamuddin) and Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy) have been investigated for their ability to inhibit 35 hospital isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)....
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10449
Aims: In vitro studies are highly instrumental in selecting a drug for a particular disease and also in getting the preliminary evidence to proceed for further In vivo pharmacological research. Hence, the study is designed to screen and identify the therapeutic suitability of thi...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/7270
Aims: To improve the cultural conditions for enhanced methionine production by Bacillus cereus S8 Study design: Study of the fermentation process in shake flask culture. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Applied Microbiology and Brewing, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, N...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/8224
A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of biochar on the abundance of soil bacteria and compare it with the source biomass. Seven different treatments and a control were used in the experimental set-up. Three different types of biomass were selected and three types of...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/9334