Aims: To investigate the anti-reproductive action of papain against Lymnaea acuminata with respect to abiotic factors. Snail Lymnaea acuminata is the intermediate host of Fasciola species, which causes endemic fasciolosis in cattle and human population. Fasciolosis is a disease o...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4163
Aims: Garlic (Allium sativum) is increasing in popularity in Southern Africa. However, there is dearth of information on alternative propagules to use. The trial was carried out to find out the yield of garlic produced from aerial bulblets and two clove sizes. Study Design: The t...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4186
Aims: To evaluate genotypic Line Probe Assay (LPA) for rapid detection of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) directly from sputum samples in comparison with Drug Susceptibility Testing (DST) on phenotypic MBBacT liquid media. Study Design: Data analysis from 86 Mycobacteriu...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5650
Objectives: To characterize protein molecular structure using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) with univariate and multivariate molecular spectral analysis and identify the structure differences among barley cultivars. Place and Duration of Study: Six barley cultiva...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4838
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the association of different yield related traits to seed yield of mungbean Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at the Haramaya University Rare research site and Hirna Research site during the 2012 cropping season. Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5473
Aim: The aim of this research was to evaluate the antidiabetic effect of aqueous bark extract of Ficus asperifolia on alloxan-induced diabetic rats and also to investigate its toxicity potential on the liver of albino rats. Place and Duration of Study: The research was carried ou...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5699
Aims: This study was conducted to study the effects of sowing date and plant density on yield and yield components of lentil cv. Sistan. Study Design: Experimental design was factorial based on randomized complete block with three replications. Place and Duration of Study: The ex...
A recently developed spatial analytical tool, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) was used to deal with spatial nonstationarity in modeling the crop residue yield potential for North Central region of the USA. Average of daily mean temperature and total precipitation of crop...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6050
In sphere decoding techniques, it was seen that the generalized sphere decoder algorithms have been applied to decode the MIMO systems. The transmitted vector is determined by decoding a sequence of determined sub problems.In this paper, the proposed sphere decoder has promised c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/5614
Fitting quadratic curves (a.k.a. conic sections, or conics) to data points (digitized images) is a fundamental task in image processing and computer vision. This problem reduces to minimization of a certain function over the parameter space of conics. Here we undertake a thorough...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6016
Implementation processes of systems in organizations follow different strategies and one of these strategies is to understand the uncertainties associated with the integration of the new system into an existing system environment so as to limit any challenges that may arise durin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/5181
Let X be a Hausdorff topological vector space with dual X* and K a nonempty closed and convexsubset of X. Let the value of u E X* at x E be denoted by (u,x). Let g:K - R be a map (possibly nonlinear). The classical minimization problem for the pair(g,K) is to find xo E K ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/3465
In this paper, we examine noncooperative games with both of the collection of strategies and the ranges of the utilities for the players are lattices, which are said to be nonmonetized. Then we extend the concept of Nash equilibria of noncooperative games to generalized Nash equi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/4618
Introduction: Many diseases are associated with oxidative stress caused by free radicals. Current research is directed towards finding naturally occurring antioxidants of plant origin. Xanthium strumarium L. a cocklebur or bur weed is a reputed medicine in Europe, China, Indo-chi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/3667
Aims: To investigate the phytochemical, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the solvent extracts of wild grape fruits in different colors. Study Design: The solvent extracts of wild grape (Ampelocissus martinii Planch.) fruits were prepared by mixing grinded fruit in each...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/5626