A study was carried out to investigate the influence of agricultural lime (21% CaO) from Koru, Kisumu on soil properties and wheat yield on acidic soils of Uasin Gishu county. Field trials were conducted at Chepkoilel University College farm and in Kipsangui area of Uasin Gishu c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/3446
Aims: To find ways of making the tomato industry in Wenchi competitive in the face of myriad constraints confronting production. Study Design: Cross-sectional. Place and Duration of Study: Wenchi Municipal District of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana in the 2010 cropping season....
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/4373
Aims: To evaluate phospholipase activity in biofilm forming Candida spp. isolated from patients admitted in intensive care unit of rural tertiary care hospital. Study Design: A total of 135 biofilm forming Candida spp. isolated from various clinical specimens of patients admitted...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/4359
Aims: We aimed to evaluate the effect of primary tumour resection in stage IV breast cancer on survival. Study Design: Retrospective data analysis. Place and Duration of Study: Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Departments of General Surgery and Medical Oncology between 20...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4726
Introduction: Recently there has been an increased association between environmental factors and male infertility. Aims: In the present study, the effect of changes in testicular biometric parameters (weight and volume) and testicular function (Sperm count, morphology, testostero...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2821
Najla S. Dar-Odeh, Mohammad M. Beyari, Mariam Al-Abdalla, Mohammad H. Al-Shayab, Wakas S. Abdulrazzaq, Shadi Jarar, Malek Al-Issa & Osama A. Abu-Hammad·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aims: Narghile smoking may be associated with a number of unconventional practices that need to be thoroughly investigated for their potential health problems. We investigated the prevalence and pattern of unconventional practices related to narghile smoking including the use of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4718
Aims: To conduct an epidemiological study to establish the association between malnutrition, metabolic disorder and Onchocerciasis to Nodding Syndrome (NS) in Northern Uganda. Study Design: Case-control study design. Place and Duration of Study: Odek and Atiak sub counties in Gul...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4357
In this paper, we mainly study the boundary behavior of solutions to boundary blow-up quasilinear elliptic problem where is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in which is positive in and maybe vanishing on the boundary and rapidly varying near the boundary.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/4487
In arid and semi-arid regions where water is in short supply, grey-water treatment offers the possibility of supplemental water resources for reuse in irrigation at household and farm levels. The gravest environmental challenge that Jordan faces today is water scarcity. Jordan ha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/3625
Aim: Garlic (Allium sativum L) aqueous extract was investigated to identify antimalarial compounds inhibiting heme polymerization. Methods: Solvent fraction of aqueous garlic extract was tested in heme polymerization assay and antimalarial assay to identify active factor. Mass sp...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2013/4644
Aims: The ethnobotanical herb Hygrophila spinosa T. Anders (Acanthaceae) is native to India and used in traditional ayurvedic medicines for its pharmacologically important phytochemicals. This study aims to isolate and characterize the culturable bacterial endophytes of H. spinos...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/3698
Aims: Literature regarding the size of the blind spot is old and recorded on instruments no longer in production. This pilot study looks to provide normative data for the size of the visual blind spot scotoma in adults measured by the Octopus 900 kinetic perimeter. Study Design: ...
This study was aimed at evaluating the antimicrobial activity of stem bark extract of Faidherbia albida on E. Coli, Salmonella typhi and Shigella sp. The study was conducted in laboratory of Biochemistry department of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa, Nigeria...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/3209
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a gram-negative bacterium that is widespread in the environment and that has become important in the last years as an emerging opportunistic pathogen. Quorum sensing (QS) is a bacterial cell–cell communication process that involves the production,...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/4291
Aims: To determine the prevalence of two virulence genes associated with uropathogenic Escherichia coli; papC gene of the P fimbriae for adherence to uro-epithelial cells and usp (uropathogen-specific protein) gene, a Vibrio cholerae toxin gene homologue. Study Design: Cross sect...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/3187