Aim: To know whether one of the commercially available immunochromatographic tuberculosis tests is comparable with the widely available method, direct sputum microscopy. Design: The study prospectively validated the pulmonary tuberculosis rapid test kit using the reference standa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5802
Aims: The aim of the study was to determine the extent of compliance and non-compliance with treatment of psychiatric patients and examine the factors affecting compliance and non-compliance with treatment. Study Design: Hospital based prospective descriptive study. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6127
Aims: The aims of the study were to investigate i) the kind of the relationship among BCS and subcutaneous fat thickness (FT) in horses, as affected by breed, gender and age, and ii) the effectiveness of a combination of the two variables in order to better estimate adiposity. St...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6947
Aims: To perform an experimental analyses of the chemical composition and anatomic structure of polluted higher aquatic plants with the aid of combined physical methods of characterization by infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis to validate...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5672
Flávia Abreu Felsemburgh, Juliane Siqueira-Francisco, Morgana Teixeira Lima Castelo Branco, Marcus Vinicius Magalhães de Almeida, Antônio Ferreira-Pereira & Lycia de Brito-Gitirana·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2013
Aims: Considering the well known biological effects of secretion of cutaneous glands in anurans and that Pdr5p belongs to the ATB-Binding Cassette (ABC) superfamily of membrane transporters, which efflux a large variety of xenobiotic compounds, and play an important role in the m...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4066
Objective: To assess the association between the education of the head of the family and alcohol use. Study Design: A community based cross-sectional study. Participants: All males aged ≥15 years. Sampling: Simple Random Sampling Technique. Statistical Analyses: Data was analysed...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4992
Aims: A significance of tributary confluence for dynamics of nutrients and microbial communities in main river channel was studied in the Iskar River upper subcatchment (Bulgaria). Methodology: The fluctuations of physicochemical parameters, nutrients, abundance of total bacteria...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5973
Objective: i. To study the socio-demographic profile of patients of Road traffic accidents (RTAs) with head injury, ii. To assess the variation in Road traffic accidents (RTAs) with head injury with month of year, day of week and time. Study Design: A hospital based cross-section...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4830
Aims: The need to seek for a goodoption to the costly oxytetracycline necessitated the reason for conducting this study. Hence, the study was carried out to assess the effect of Moringa oleifera leaf meal as a replacement for oxytetracycline on the carcass characteristics of broi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6017
The present study was conducted on the experimental site of ITGC (Technical Institute of Field Crops) station of Setif, Algeria; during 2010/2011 cropping season. The study was carried out to study the performance of durum wheat genotypes in relation to yield and yield component...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/3426
An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of dietary molasses distillers condensed soluble (MDCS) on nutrients digestibility, performance, carcass traits and some blood biological parameters in Lori male lambs. A total of 24 male lambs (aged 8 months, 31.16±1.10 kg) we...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5482
The present theoretical study proposes an analysis, underpinned by the basic foundations reported in the literature, aimed at establishing a generalization of the relationship between cyclic thermo-mechanical conversion processes and the physical exergy property defined for a sys...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6384
Aims: Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an effective aerial alternative for urban areas inspection due to its cost and safety when compared to more traditional methods. The purpose of this paper is to report the development of a system capable of analyzing digita...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6728
The load flow solution using optimal power flow algorithm is gaining the importance in open market for operating the electrical network in optimal way. The optimal power flow is a power flow problem in which certain controllable variables are adjusted to minimize the objective fu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6429
Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional composition, rate of starch digestibility and predicted glycemic indices of selected nine commonly grown rice varieties in Nigeria. Place and Duration of Study: Samples were collected from Nigeria, analyzed at McGill University,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6203