The objective of this study was to determine the effect of inorganic compounds treatment(s) namely: ChalimTM (CM), a chlorine-containing compound, metham sodium (MS) (positive control) and Co (negative control) versus organic compound such as Brassica tissue treatment (BT), on so...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5573
Aims: The floristic composition and life forms analysis was conducted in Magama local government area of Niger state, Guinea Savanna of Northern Nigeria to generate a baseline data for the woody plants genetic resources. Study Design: Sampling method was done in Auna, Ibeto, Nask...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4182
Soil samples were collected from an electroplating industry located at Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu and a nickel resistant bacterial strain was isolated and identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa which can remove nickel effectively from aqueous solutions. When 200, 400, 600 and 800 pp...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5410
Background: The Cri-Du-Chat syndrome also known as 5p- syndrome is a rare genetic autosomal disorder with the characteristic deletion of the short arm (p) of chromosome 5. To date, hematologic manifestations characteristic of BM failure have not been linked to this syndrome. Ai...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/6978
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate iron metabolism and compare iron stores between pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents in Côte d’Ivoire. Place and Duration of Study: The study was undertaken with 187 volunteers adolescents aged from 15 to 19 years. For this study...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/5112
Background: Approximately 25% of strokes are cryptogenic in origin and identifying atrial fibrillation (AF) as an etiologic factor in this situation has major therapeutic implication. Standard Holter ECG has a low sensitivity for AF detection in this patient group. Aim: To assess...
In the present article generalization of Weierstrass’s preparation theorem and the division theorem for germs of holomorphic functions at a point of n -dimensional complex space are considered. The author formulates the global theorem about division in terms of existence and cont...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6181
The Hypoexponential distribution is the distribution of the sum of m≥2 independent Exponential random variables. This distribution is used in modeling multiple exponential stages in series. This distribution can be used in many domains of application. In this paper we find a modi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6317
Clayton Alderfer proposed a framework of needs - existence, relatedness and growth – to simplify Maslow’s hierarchy and enable the concept to be empirically verified. Alderfer’s structure focuses on the individual and related individual needs to those things that a job or occupat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6631
Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of the standardized ethanolic extract of Andrographis serpyllifolia leaves on experimentally induced typhoid. Study Design: Single dose of 1 ml Salmonella Typhi (106 CFU/mL) was administered orally to rats to induce typhoid in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/5804
Aims: A new approach to patient tracking in cranial stereotactic radiosurgery relies on contact-free localisation of the cranial bone. It requires accurate information about the soft tissue thickness on the patient's forehead, which in this work is measured using two independent...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6822
Aims: To find out whether ongoing missense mutations in the exon 2 of DRB1*01:01 affect the operation of this protective allele in HIV patients. Place and Duration of Study: the Clinical Immunology and Immunogenetics Laboratory of Riga Stradiņš University, Riga Eastern Clinical...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5660
George Andreadis, Triantafyllos Albanis, Eleni Andreadou, Styliani Mitka, Faedra Eleftheriou, Dimitra Lampropoulou, Nikolaos Avramidis & Dimitrios Patoucheas·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aims: There is little evidence concerning the effects of organophosphates in the liver of healthy individuals, and the existing researches come to contradictive results. In this study, we evaluated the influence of organophosphates (Dimethoate, Chlorpyrifos) in liver and renal fu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5828
Ghulam Akbar, Ronald Pachon, Hasan Al Azzawi, Naureen Jessani, Kebir Bedran, Naeem Abbas, Katherine Abella, Mohammed A. Islam, Ravindra Patel & Mark Niemiera·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) due to spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is rare. Further, concurrent ACS with a cerebrovascular accident is improbable, but possible. We report a case of a young man, with a history of Hodgkin’s lymphoma treated with a combination of che...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6516
Aim: the aim of this study was to induce obesity in rats using the neonatal overfeeding protocol and evaluate in adult male animals standard chow intake, sweet food intake, the preference between sweet food and standard chow, locomotor activity and anxiety-like behavior. Methodol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5161