Objective: To analyse the perception of healthcare professionals and managers of the institutional structure of four hospitals in Nigeria to successfully implement the health sector reform (HSR) programme in the country. Study design: A cross-sectional survey of 507 healthcare p...
Tracheomycosis (or Coffee Wilt Disease) is a vascular disease that causes damage in plantations up to 80% of production in the absence of treatment. The fungus of the disease is Fusarium xylarioides. An experiment in micro-plots was put in place to look for 9 strains of this spec...
Verticillium dahliae Kleb. the causal agent of vascular wilt is an important pathogen of olive trees in growing areas of the world. To evaluate the reaction of the susceptibility of different commercial olive cultivars to the pathogen, six months old of eight commercial olive cul...
The effect of planting date and boll position on cell wall thickening of cotton fiber and development of fiber strength were studied by comparing the time course of the activity of key enzymes β-1,3-glucan synthase (callose) and sucrose synthase (SuSy) involved in cellulose biosy...
Ten eggs each from avian species: duck, local fowl, exotic fowl, pigeon and guinea fowl were analyzed for protein, phospholipids, cholesterol, vitamins and some mineral elements using standard methods. Total lipids were high in duck (2.9±0.07mg/g) and local fowl eggs (2.0±0.04mg/...
This study carried out an economics of insecticides usage among cowpea farmers in Kaduna State. Specifically, the study estimated insecticides marginal productivity; the degree of response of demand for insecticides to changes in its prices and the return to cowpea production due...
Aims: This study was to investigate the cytotoxicity of both plant extracts from Ficus deltoidea (locally known as Mas Cotek), aqueous and ethanolic extracts on human ovarian carcinoma cells using standard colometric MTT assay. Study design: Cell based assay Place and Duration of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/507
Twenty-seven boreholes in Umuahia South Local Government Area were studied using standard field and laboratory techniques of water resource investigation to assess the quality status of groundwater in the area. This was done to appraise the suitability of the water for domestic u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/549
The modern science mainly treats the biochemical basis of sequencing in bio-macromolecules and processes in medicine and biochemistry. One can ask weather the language of biochemistry is the adequate scientific language to explain the phenomenon in that science. Is there maybe so...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/503
In this paper, we build up the literature by introducing host-country degree of rurality as a factor influencing Multinational Enterprises’ (MNEs) location choice measured by foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Based on 1999-2007 panel data of 172 countries, we show that hos...
Aims: The challenge of the Sámi School is that the western school culture dominates teaching, and socializes the Sámi pupils into the dominant society. The aim of this article is to introduce a practical framework for Sámi education which would direct teaching arrangements and co...
Objective: During aging, an ineffective perfusion of tissues/organs is a major risk factor for several diseases. Age-induced oxidative stress has been proposed to correlate with this age-related microvascular dysfunction including angiogenesis impairment. It has been demonstrated...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/509
The classical model of plant root nutrient uptake given by Nye, Tinker and Barber is modified and extended for pollutant uptake in plants. An explicit closed mathematical description is given for the uptake, by a single cylindrical root for all cases of practical interest, by so...
Typhoid fever one of the major health problems in many developing countries. Salmonella is a gram-negative, rod-shaped facultative anaerobic bacterium. Salmonella has developed resistance to many antibiotics used now a day that has complicated its management, that thus it has nec...
Downy mildew (DM) of pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] caused by Sclerospora graminicola is the most widespread and destructive disease. In DM affected plants disease symptoms appear suddenly with the emergence of green ear, which exhibits all possible degrees of prol...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2011/496