Aims: The study was aimed to screen antifungal activity of some medicinal plant extracts against F. oxysporum by screening fungistatic, fungicidal activities and minimum inhibitory dilution (MID). Study Design: All the data were subjected to analysis of variance followed by mean...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5777
Aims: The main aim of the study is to identify the key residues involved in interactions of KSRP and microRNAs of human. Study Design: The KH type splicing regulatory protein acronymed as KSRP is a member of the FUSE binding protein family. The FUSE is an AT rich DNA element whic...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5745
The early stages of Memphis perenna lankesteri (Hall 1935) are described and illustrated in this paper, with the first published female pictures. The butterfly larvae were found in Croton niveus (Euphorbiaceae) in Mansiones de Montes de Oca (9º 56´N, 84º 01´W), San José, Costa Ri...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/3970
Aims: To evaluate and compare the cytotoxicity of a resin-based root canal sealer, AH Plus, before and after electron beam irradiation and to assess the effect of three different doses of electron beam radiation (1 KGy, 3 KGy and 5 KGy) on cytotoxicity of the sealer. Place and Du...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5641
Aims: Adolescents’ use of alcohol in Europe is high. In this paper aspects of adolescents’ alcohol use, namely differences in gender, age and country clusters concerning social context of drinking, are examined. Study Design: A secondary analysis of the survey data. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5556
Background: Moullava spicata (Dalzell) Nicolson is an endemic medicinal plant and its leaves are used to treat many diseases. Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate the phytochemical, antifungal and antioxidant status of Moullava spicata leaf extract. Methods and Materials: T...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/3370
This study was conducted to evaluate effects of diet inclusion of olive pulp supplemented by acommercial probiotic mixture (Yeasture®) including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus acidophilus and L. casei on performance of laying hens, egg quality traits and some blood param...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5212
This paper analyzes the vertical disintegration of the bank loan origination value chain. The main aim is to identify the relevant drivers which cause the emergence of brokers in the credit market which lead to vertical disintegration of the credit origination value chain. Transa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6226
This paper examines whether banks that sell loans in the secondary market respond differently to a monetary policy innovation from those that do not engage in loan sales. We answer this question by measuring the policy response while controlling for loan sales activities. Using a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6255
This paper identifies the key determinants of economic growth in Laos, using annual time-series data from 1980 to 2010. To avoid the problems of non-stationary associated with time series analysis, the Dickey-Fuller unit roots statistic is checked in order to ascertain whether th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT//2014/3822
Aims: Our study investigates different aspects of the Strategic Success Paradigm [1] and examined the relationships among MNCs’ environmental turbulence, MNC strategy aggressiveness, MNC capability responsiveness, and MNC corporate social responsibility (CSR) posture in Palestine...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/4753
This paper deals with reducing the risk of stockholders investment by implementing portfolio management in Bangladesh’s stock market. The Markowitz portfolio model derives the expected rate of return for a portfolio of stocks and a measurement of the expected risk, which is the s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5958
Aims: The paper empirically investigated the Real Effective Exchange Rate and agricultural productivity in Nigeria. Study Design: Case study. Methodology: The cointegration technique with its implied ECM was applied to estimate the data which covered the period between 1980 and 2...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5914
Aim: This study assesses the effects of prevention education, prevention personal motivation, prevention knowledge, and past exposure to violent living conditions on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection prevention behavioral skills among historically black college and Uni...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5917
In this paper, a SEIV epidemic model with saturated incidence rate that incorporates polynomial information on current and past states of the disease is investigated. The model exhibits two equilibria, disease-free equilibrium (DFE) and the endemic equilibrium (EE). It is shown t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/2758