Aims: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other related species. It typically affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can affect other sites (extra-pulmonary TB). A profusion of articles have been published on the accuracy and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7832
The Ferrocene additive is also reported as UV active and giving absorption peak of 220-260 nm at 2.8 X 10-3 mol/l. Ferrocene additive was melt blended with LDPE at 3 different concentration of ferrocene i.e. 1, 2 & 3% using twin screw extruder. After blending with LDPE the pe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4813
Background: Pediatric mortality rates are high throughout sub-Saharan Africa with most deaths occurring within 48 hours of admission to hospital. Early identification and treatment of at risk children is essential to improve outcomes, however, few studies have identified disease...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7251
The rising trend of crime in Nigeria is usually blamed on the high rate of unemployment. There is need therefore, to empirically investigate the relationship between unemployment and crime. Hence, this paper examined the impact of unemployment on different types of crime in Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5991
Aim: To evaluate the association between serum lipids and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in type 2 diabetic subjects. Study Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Diabetes and Ophthalmology units of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi in the A...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/4183
Aims: Female genital mutilation is a harmful traditional practice which is an infringement on the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls and has profound psychosocial as well as reproductive health morbidities. This study aimed at measuring the change in the incidence...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/1683
Aim: This study seeks to examine the cure characteristics and rheological properties of modified kaolin – Natural rubber vulcanizates. Methodology: Metal salt of rubber seed oil (RSO-Na) was used to modify kaolin and was then introduced into Natural Rubber (NR) by melt intercalat...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/6575
A very simple, ultra-sensitive and highly selective non-extractive spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace amount of cadmium using 2/, 3, 4/, 5, 7- pentahydroxyflavone (morin) has been developed. Morin reacts in a slightly acidic (0.000001-0.000012M H2SO4) in 50%...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/5829
Colloidal particles with controlled size and composition are of fundamental and technological interest as they provide solution to many technological and environmental challenges. In this study, an environmentally friendly approach was adopted to synthesize silver colloidal parti...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/6810
To identify the onset time of bacterial proliferation in mechanical ventilator circuits in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and the colonizing agents involved, as well to verify any possible pre-use contamination, we conducted a prospective microbiological analysis of the c...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6153
In this paper, we use a method in order to find exact explicit traveling solutions in the subspace of the phase space for coupled KdV equations. The key idea is removing a coupled relation for the given system so that the new systems can be solved. The existence of solitary wave...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/5474
H. Vazquez-Leal, L. Hernandez-Martinez, Y. Khan, V.M. Jimenez-Fernandez, U. Filobello-Nino, A. Diaz-Sanchez, A. L. Herrera-May, R. Castaneda-Sheissa, A. Marin-Hernandez, F. Rabago-Bernal & J. Huerta-Chua·Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science·2014
The behavior of CD4+ T cells infection is modeled by a differential equation system with no exact analytical solution. This work proposes the application of Multistage Homotopy Perturbation Method (MuHPM) to track the path of damped oscillations in the evolution of HIV infection...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7714
This research work is devoted to general equilibria in abstract spaces, through the agency of the ideal points, fixed points of multifunctions, Isac’s cones, Choquet boundaries and applied mathematics for academic and industrialists engaged in eco - efficiency. It can be also con...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/5967
In this paper, we are based on the Huard, Ou, Spearman and Williams’s generalization of Liouville’s Identity so we obtain and etc. Also, independently we attempt to consider the Liouville’s Identity, therefore as the application of his identity, we have the restricted combinato...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7957
Aims: The aim of this paper is to investigate weighted hesitant fuzzy sets and their application to multi-criteria decision making. Study Design: This paper puts forward the concept of a weighted hesitant fuzzy set (WHFS), in which several possible membership degrees of each elem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8533