Aims: To evaluate the effect of fungicide regimes and application timing on pod rot incidence, peanut yield, grades, and diseased kernels. Study Design: Randomized complete block design with nine treatments and four replicates. Place and Duration of Study: Studies were conducted...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8769
The prevalence of causative agents of acute otitis media amongst children in some parts of Owerri, Imo State - Nigeria was investigated, between the months of September and December, 2012 using standard microbiological methods. One hundred and fifty two swabs from ear discharge w...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/5304
A one- parameter family of totally anisotropic Bianchi type-II string cosmological models with bulk viscous fluid in Lyra geometry is investigated. Exact solutions of Einstein field equations have been obtained by constraining the the constant deceleration parameter which yields...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/8665
Aims: To evaluate Iranian physicians’ perspectives on shared decision making by validating and translating the physician version of a shared decision making questionnaire (SDM-Q-DOC). Place and Duration: Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, Tabriz University of M...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8839
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the potential toxicologic effects of the methanol root extract of Cissampelos mucronata (A. Rich) on liver and kidney tissues. Methodology: A total of 30 rats were used for the study consisting of 5 female rats for the acute toxicity st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7672
Aims: The aim of this paper is to develop the 2-tuple linguistic Bonferroni mean and the weighted 2-tuple linguistic Bonferroni mean. Study Design: Some desirable properties and special cases of the developed operators are discussed. The geometric Bonferroni mean (GBM) is a gener...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9590
This paper considers the stability of linear and nonlinear differential equations of first order in the sense of Hyers-Ulam-Rassias. It also considers the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability for Bernoulli's differential equation. Some illustrative examples are given.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9071
Laminar flow of blood considering the blood as a Casson fluid has been studied. It is observed that the axial velocity, volumetric flow rate and pressure gradient increase with the increase in slip velocity and decrease with growth in yield stress. The results derived have been p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9563
Aim: This study aimed at investigating the major cause of morbidity, hospitalisation and mortality among Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in The Gambia, in an effort to raise awareness on the alarming trend and thus stimulating appropriate responses from stakeholders. Method: Des...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/9307
Aims: To determine the phytochemicals and antibacterial potentials of parts of Balanite aegyptiaca on clinically important antibiotic resistant bacteria isolates Study Design: Phytochemicals and in vitro assay of antibacterial Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biologica...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/9216
Antibiotic resistance is increasing and dangerous problem resulting in a decrease in the used number and fully active antimicrobial agents available to treat infections with multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria. Herbal medicines may be an alternative treatment options. This study...
Aims: Aim of this study was to better address a possible association of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection with penile lichen sclerosus (LS). Study Design: Paraffin-embedded penile biopsies obtained from adult patients with genital LS retrieved from institutional pathology file...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2014/7983
Aims: To investigate the effect of human serum, starvation and /or variation in incubation temperature on yeast and pseudo-hyphae and/ or hyphal cell differentiation in vaginal Candida albicans strains and, its correlation to exoenzymes productivity. Study Design: A total of 31 C...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/8822
Chlorambucil (CLB) is an aromatic nitrogen mustard and an alkylating agent. It has been mainly used in the chemotherapy. A method for radiopharmaceutical preparation of [125I]-iodo-Chlorambucil a potential cancer therapeutic agent is described. The method is based on direct elect...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/10520
Helicopter EMS (HEMS) and its possible association with patient-oriented outcomes improvement continues to be a subject of discussion. As is the case with other scientific discourse, debate over HEMS usefulness should be framed around an evidence-based assessment of the relevant...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9127