Aims: This paper introduces how substantial decision-making and leadership styles relates with each other. Decision-making styles are connected with leadership practices and institutional arrangements. Study Design: Qualitative research approach was adopted in this study. A semi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/5514
Aims: The aim of this study was to provide a general description of a newly developed faculty development program in medical education field and assess the program from the participants’ perspectives and experiences. Study Design: Qualitative study. Place and Duration of Study: H...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/7100
Aims: To examine the influence of computer anxiety and computer knowledge on candidates’ performance in Computer-Based Test. Study Design: The study used descriptive survey and ex-post facto designs. Place and Duration: Prospective candidates for 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/6632
Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is an established and accepted treatment of biliary diseases such as gallstones and primary biliary cirrhosis. Mechanisms of action of UDCA are not so far completely elucidated. UDCA tablets are indicated for the dissolution of small to medium sized ra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7186
Smoking and alcoholism are risk factors for head and neck malignancies. Other possible risk factors for squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) are gastroesophageal (GER) and pharyngolaryngeal (PLR) refluxes. Objectives: Demonstrate the carcinogenic action of hydrochloric acid on the lary...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/3293
Aim: The role of Kinases in cancer onset and progression has made kinases a target for the control of some cancers. Recent discoveries that kinases are most effectively inhibited by small molecules have also resulted in an increased search for small molecule kinase inhibitors. Cy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6877
Aims: The aim of this paper is to present techniques indicators of artificial neural networks (ANNs) model using for predicting the exact movements of stock price in the daily Libyan Stock Market (LSM) index forecasting. Study Design: Research paper. Place and Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5519
Aims: The aims of this study were to examine the frequency of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among dermatology outpatients, and compare the socio demographic factors and dermatology life quality index (DLQI) values between CAM users and non-users. The CAM approa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6924
The paper is a perception survey of employees’ participation in decision making and organizational productivity in Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. Bonny Island. It defines employees’ participation in decision making as a process of sharing influence in decision making among individual...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5938
Aims: Several chelating agents are presently used among environmental physicians to diagnose and treat a chronic metal overexposure. We evaluated and compared the binding capacity of the most common chelating agents DMPS (2, 3-dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid), DMSA (dimercaptos...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6875
Background: PBL is an innovative teaching learning method that enhances intrinsic motivation, promotes self learning, encourages clinical reasoning, and develops long-lasting memory. It is an established leading educational innovative method in medical sciences throughout the wor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4659
Background: Overiectomized rats suffer from osteoporosis that mainly results from oxidative stress (OS). Studies revealed that the levels of antioxidant enzymes, such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione-S-transferase, catalase (CAT), and gluta...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7949
Edwin Andrew Ofudje, Ayodeji Olushola Awotula, Oluwagbemiga Alayande, Kanayo Kenneth Asogwa & Olumide David Olukanni·Advances in Research·2014
Lead and its various compounds have the potency of causing several health problems such as blood disorder, hypertension, renal impairment, neurological damage among others. The removal of Pb (II) ions by Tricholoma terreum was performed in a batch biosorption experiments to evalu...
Background: Helicobacter pylori prevalence rate varies widely from one geographical area to another and marked differences have been noted among different ethnic groups. While several studies have been carried out to review the prevalence of H. pylori among the major races in Mal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7204
Zaheer Ahmad, Muhammad Siddiq, Asad Muhammad Khan & Afzal Shah·Advances in Research·2014
The interactions of triblock copolymers (TBP), E30B10E30 and E48B10E48 with ionic surfactants, sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) were investigated employing steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy (SSF). In this study pyrene was used as prob...