Background: KRAS mutation (KRM) is the earliest, most common mutation in pancreatic cancer. Accurate assessment of tumour KRM status in pancreatobiiary tumours is relevant in an era of targeted molecular therapies. Aim: To assess KRM in tumour and non-tumourous margin tissue in p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4604
Aims: Behavior change communication (BCC) has been recommended in maternal health however, little is known about its effectiveness in improving knowledge and utilization of services. This paper presents findings from Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh to inform policy about the e...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/2973
Background: Sierra Leone started the Direct Observation Treatment Strategy (DOTS) for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1992. The country’s pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) treatment program is now standardized according to international scale. Under the national standardize...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4057
Aim: The study investigated the possible relationship of luteal phase progesterone, toxic heavy metals and nutrients in normal-weight women with history of recurrent pregnancy loss for adequate management. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The Obst...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/1268
The profiles of amylase activity, soluble sugars and proteins in unripe plantain (Musa paradisiaca) and for a comparison, unripe banana (Musa sapientum), from harvest to ripening were investigated to provide basic information about their nutritional status at the different stages...
Aims: To evaluate the effect of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) on in vitro dry matter disappearance (IVDMD), gas production and ammonia-N formation of an alfalfa hay based diet using batch culture system. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Animal Science, between July 2011 and Augus...
Aims: Fasciolosis is a widely distributed disease affecting the lives of herbivorous animals and human. The causative agents are Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica. Snail Lymnaea acuminata is the intermediate host of Fasciola species. Sporocyst, redia and cercaria are the larval...
Automated fabric inspection systems have been drawing plenty of attention of the researchers in order to replace manual inspection. Two difficult problems are mainly posed by automated fabric inspection systems. They are defect detection and defect classification. Backpropagation...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/4154
Aim: This study was undertaken to access the intestinal parasitic profile of food vendors in Minna Nigeria. Study Design: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Minna the capital of Niger state, North central Nigeria. Sample sizes were determined at random from the food ven...
In this paper, we consider a two-species ratio-dependent predator-prey system with free diffusion and discrete time delay. We study the asymptotical wave speed to give the necessary condition on the front speed, and prove that the traveling wave solution by combining the approach...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/4804
Aim: To study the impact of training given to female farmers under the poultry extension women worker on the status of rural chicken production in Islamabad/Rawalpindi area. Study Design: The data were analyzed using General Linear Model procedures. The statistical model was cons...
The purpose of this paper is to construct the asymptotic for natural frequencies of the shallow water problem using the method of Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) and find the secular equation for the eigenvalues.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/4465
By using the sine-cosine method, the extended tanh-method, we study a (2+1)-dimensional generalized Kadomtsov-Petviashvili-Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation. It is shown that this class gives compactons solutions, solitary patterns solutions and periodic solutions. The change of the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/3951
Background: Trichomonas vaginalis is a flagellated single cell protozoan parasite, which carries the distinction of being the only truly sexually transmitted parasitic infection in humans. Aim: To determine the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis among pregnant women and sexually...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2013/3343
Aims: The pure stability of aspirin in the aspirin (100 μg/mL) only and aspirin (100 μg/mL) +curcumin (600 μg/mL) admixture without any ingredient under two solvents (distilled water, DW and normal saline, NS), three storage temperatures (25ºC, 4ºC and -20ºC) and periods (1st, 3r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/4083