Aim: Malaria remains an enormous public health problem. Regular and ongoing surveillance to detect changes in its trends to initiate the control measures is the need of the hour. The present study was undertaken to provide the malaria transmission dynamics using surveillance indi...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2013/3344
Aims: The main objective was to determine the influence of nitrogen fertilization on spring wheat grown after catch crops or without them. Study Design: The split-plot experimental design with four replications was used. Place and Duration of Study: A field experiments were carri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/3297
Aims: To detect significant relationships between risk factors of cerebral stroke and the age of patients. Identify a number of exogenous factors among the geoheliomagnetic and meteorological ones which have a significant impact on the increase in the fatal outcome probability. S...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/3991
Aims: 1) To identify a dietary pattern associated with plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in Latinos diagnosed with T2D. 2) To examine whether the “pro-inflammation” dietary pattern obtained is associated wit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/4248
Aims: Hibiscus sabdariffa is a medicinal plant that is consumed for its health benefits in Africa. The study was designed to investigate the hepatoprotective potentials of Hibiscus polyphenolic rich extract (HPE), (a group of phenolic compounds occurring in the dried calyx of Hib...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/3762
Background: Low birthweight is an important contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality. Various interventions have been instituted toward the reduction in the incidence of low birthweight deliveries and admissions. Knowledge of the current trend and seasonality in low birthw...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/3416
Aims: The purpose of this study is to report confirmatory factor analysis on existing previously validated scales, by means of validating a television viewing scale. Study Design: Survey. Place and Duration of Study: A survey was conducted in the Klang Valley in Malaysia for a p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3751
No doubt that the revolutions of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria affect macroeconomic variables and stock markets in the national economy. The revolution in Egypt began by a series of popular movements on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. This paper investigate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3768
The present study was aimed to determine the antibacterial activity of some mosses [Octoblepharum albidum, Hyophila involuta, H. perannulata, Campylopus introflexus, Syrrhopodon subconfertus, Erythrodontium julaceum and Sematophyllum subhumile] collected from different altitudes...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2013/3164
A study was conducted on molecular succession of bacterial community to show their response to oil spill. Crude oil contaminated soil and water samples were obtained from Agbada-Aluu, Obite, and Bonny in Rivers State, Nigeria. The PCR-DGGE method was used to generate complex mole...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/3918
Local structure and tracer diffusion mechanism in amorphous Fe and Fe80B20 solids is studied using the statistic relaxation (SR) model containing 2×105 atoms. It was found a large number of bubbles which could break-up and leads to diffusion. A bubble diffusion mechanism is propo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2013/3788
We study the direct correlation function (DCF) of a classical fluid of non-spherical molecules. The components of the fluid are hard spherocylinder (SC) molecules. The required homogeneous DCF is obtained by solving Orenstein-Zernike (OZ) integral equation numerically, using the...
Aims: This study was designed to categorize rural youth on utilization of agricultural information on arable crop in southwest Nigeria. Study Design: Multi-stage Sampling technique with quantitative approach was adopted. Place and Duration of Study: Rural youth planting arable c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2629
Grain yield is a complex phenomenon which results from the interaction of various contributing factors highly influenced by different selection procedures. Recurrent selection is vital selection method for improving morphological and yield related attributes in maize crop. Half-s...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2914
This note suggests that near earth objects and Central Force Optimization have something in common, that NEO theory may hold the key to solving some vexing problems in deterministic optimization: local trapping and proof of convergence. CFO analogizes Newton’s laws to locate the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/3400