Human bite injuries are one of the commonest bite injuries seen in the emergency room in a developing country. This bite injury can occasionally lead to devastating complications but yet, one of the most neglected injuries by both the victims and inexperienced attending Clinician...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9813
Aims: To describe the demographics, characteristics and outcomes of open-globe injuries (OGI) with respect to zone of injury. Methods: Medical records of all patients presenting with OGIs to University Hospital, Newark, NJ between January 2001 and December 2008 with a follow-up o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7332
Aims: To assess the influence of profession, treatment experience, age and gender on the perception of smile aesthetics with different buccal corridors and smile arcs, and to identify the threshold where buccal corridor space becomes aesthetically displeasing. Study Design: A que...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5545
Aims: Malaria is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. One of the malaria mechanisms of adaptation to the host is the digestion of hemoglobin by the trophozoite stage. This mechanism provides the amino acids needed by the parasite and is carried out dur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5561
Objective: To determine the medication and management preferences of headache specialists in treating migraine in the ED and during inpatient hospitalization. Background: Despite the frequency of migraine as a presenting complaint and the cost of acute treatment, there is no clea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9111
Aim: This work was aimed to assess the influence of socio-demographic and environmental factors on the incidence of asymptomatic malaria and anaemia among pupils in Fako Division, southwest Cameroon. Experimental Design: The study was a cross-sectional survey. Place and Duration...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9712
Aims: To determine the effect of land cover change and local temperature variation on the thermal comfort of inhabitants of the town while carrying out their outdoor activities. Study Design: Application of satellite imageries, meteorological data and questionnaire for the study....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6515
This study was carried out to determine the concentration and sources of trace elements in top soils, road deposited sediments and filling station dusts in Benin metropolis in order to evaluate the effect of increased urbanization on the environment. Ninety-nine (99) samples were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9060
We apply the recently developed sampling algorithm, called random orthogonal matrix (ROM) simulation by Ledermann et al. [3], to compute VaR of a market risk portfolio. Typically, the covariance matrix has a large influence on ROM VaR. But VaR, being a lower quantile of the portf...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10346
We present a four day old male neonate who presented at the special care baby unit of the University Teaching Hospital, Ado–Ekiti with features of peri-umbilical cellulitis. The factors that predisposed to the development of omphalitis in this neonate whose mother is a university...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/9694
Background: HIV/AIDS is one of the most dynamic epidemic infectious diseases. An estimated 1000 children are newly infected with HIV every day, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. They often present with various clinical and laboratory manifestations that complicates their manage...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/9630
Most studies in Nigeria have focused on the classical approach to estimating technical efficiency. In this paper, we examine technical efficiency of small farms by estimating a stochastic production frontier model using the Bayesian methodology. The model is applied to farm house...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10454
This study provides numerical comparisons of tornado outbreak risks in developed synoptic system along the season and along the time of a day. Time of day yields sharply changing risk along the geographic time (solar time) adjusted to the longitude of location, which makes it equ...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10247
Aims: The ability of cardiac rehabilitation to reduce mortality in those with cardiovascular disease is well established. Despite its widespread use in the clinical setting, the Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scale is yet to be validated for its ability to lead to improv...
Aim: To evaluate the acute and sub-acute toxicities of Raphia hookeri (Rh) seed hydroethanolic extract on experimental animals. Materials and Methods: Acute toxicity study was evaluated on Swiss albino mice of both sexes. Administration of a single dose of 4000mg/kg of Rh seed ex...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/9330