Maymunah Ismail, Maizatul Saadiah, Abdul Rahim Ridzuan & Elsadig Musa Ahmed·Advances in Research·2014
This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and export (X) towards Malaysia’s economic growth over the period 1980 to 2011. Most past empirical studies observed that both FDI and export are the important sources of economic growth especially a...
J. Romero-Bernal, E. Morales Almaraz, A. Z. M. Salem, M. D. Mariezcurrena-Berasain, E. Jaramillo-López & M. González-Ronquillo·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different sources of protein supplementation on carcass characteristics and meat quality of Suffolk lambs in intensive grazing system. Study Design: Samples of meat for chemical composition, carcass characteristics and mea...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8740
Aims: To determine the antibacterial effect of the ethanol stem extract of Vernonia amygdalina (bitter-leaf) and some mouth washes against some bacteria that have been implicated in causing tooth decay so as to establish the role of herbal medicine and chemical compounds in oral...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6386
Aims: To evaluate the diagnostic validity of an in vitro assay for indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) activity as indicator for biological alterations that are associated with depressive symptomatologies. Study Design: Retrospective evaluation of a medical database. Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/9065
Aims: Our objective is to describe our institutional experience with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and the initiation of a community education and screening program. Study Design: Retrospective case series; academic medical center. Methodology: All cases of NPC treated at our i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5895
In most existing buildings cooling and heating loads lead to high primary energy consumption and, consequently, high CO2 emissions. These can be substantially decreased with suitable energy concepts using appropriate integrated renewable systems. In the present study a numerical...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8772
Aims: To explore the benefits of NbN coating on mild steel (MS) with electroless nickel (EN) interlayer. Study Design: To deposit NbN coatings at various N2/Ar flow-ratios and substrate biasing; optimize the parameters and then deposit NbN on MS with EN interlayer. Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7355
Dimitrios K. Manatakis, Nikolaos Stamos, Ioannis D. Dontas, Christos Agalianos, Michael Gkiaourakis, Michail Athanasios Karvelis, Ioannis D. Kyriazanos & Demetrios Davides·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Aim: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is mainly used as part of multimodal postoperative analgesia regimens in a wide variety of abdominal operations. Our purpose was to evaluate feasibility and safety of TAP block as anesthesia method for inguinal hernia repair. Methodolo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8976
Bianchi type-III model of universe filled with a magnetized perfect fluid together with a time-varying cosmological constant is investigated in general relativity. We assume that F12 is the only non-vanishing component of the electromagnetic tensor Fij . We obtain exact solutions...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/8403
Taketo Okubo, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Takayuki Kawasaki, Keisuke Akaike, Midori Toda, Naoko Okubo, Daisuke Kubota, Kenta Mukaihara, Yongji Kim, Takafumi Kaketa, Yasuhiro Homma, Norio Shimanouchi, Tsuyoshi Saito, Tatsuya Takagi & Kazuo Kaneko·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Background: To prevent locomotor dysfunction, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the concept of locomotive syndrome (LS) in 2007, and has carried out many campaigns to increase the awareness of LS. Recently, the JOA reported that 26.6% of people recognized LS in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7506
Aims: To investigate the attitudinal profiles of Popular and Lonely students in school classes and their similarities and differences, relationships to gender and cultural backgrounds, and the classroom characteristics reported by teachers. Study Design: Self-reports on attitudes...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/8821
The question of the closedness of the convex hull of the union of a closed convex set and a compact convex set in a locally convex space does not appear to be widely known. We show here that the answer is affirmative if and only if the closed convex set is bounded. The result is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9194
In this paper, we construct codes over rings which have a Euclidean division, in the commutative and non commutative cases. Such construction generalizes Reed-Solomon codes. We exemplify the construction for Gaussian integers and Lipschitz quaternions.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8887
Aims: To review the trend of occupational accidents and fatality in Greek Marine fish farms. Study Design: Data on the occupational accidents in the Greek Mariculture industry are reviewed and compared with Occupational Accidents in Greece and in Europe. Place and Duration of Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8886