Background: Our understanding of the amount of time children spend sitting, standing and stepping during a typical school day is limited. The ActivPAL monitor, which can differentiate between sitting and standing, was used in this study to objectively assess free-living activitie...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7910
Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints, hypermobility and the association between them in Israeli physical therapy students. Study Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Setting: Department of Physical Therapy, Recanati School for Community Health Pro...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7731
Aims: Quantitative information is limited pertaining to riparian forest and stream shallow groundwater interactions particularly in karst hydro-ecosystems. Study Design, Place and Duration: Spatiotemporal variability of shallow groundwater flow was monitored along two stream reac...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7711
Kwa-Ibo River watershed of Abia State, Nigeria cuts across four Local Government Areas in the State and lies geologically within the Benin Formation of Niger Delta Basin. Due to the prolific nature of Benin Formation aquifers, preliminary investigations for groundwater exploitati...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/6215
Aims: Riboflavin is a B vitamin that is required for a wide variety of cellular processes. The absorbance spectrum of riboflavin was determined at different pH utilizing several buffers. The buffer at pH demonstrating stable absorbance peaks with high numerical values of molar ab...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8598
Aims: To investigate the abundance and prevalence of endoparasites of landed food-fishes from the Calabar River, Cross River State and the public health implications to fish consumers. Place and Duration of Study: Weekly fish samples were collected for a period of six months (201...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/6918
Aims: Bartonella species are significant emerging infectious bacterial pathogens in dogs and humans. They are vector-transmitted, blood-borne, intracellular, gram-negative bacteria that can induce prolonged infection in the host. In this study, the seroprevalence of Bartonella vi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7724
Magnesium hydroxide eliminates DSC exotherm of polypropylene oxidation and thus the peroxidation process. At the same time, non-isothermal thermogravimetry experiments show that the temperature of the maximum rate of volatiles released due to polypropylene decomposition is signif...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7734
Aim: Bluetongue virus (BTV) is an economically important Orbivirus of the Reoviridae family, causes a haemorrhagic disease mainly in sheep and occasionally in cattle and some species of deer. The aim of this study was to describe the seroprevalence rate of bluetongue virus (BTV)...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7942
Aims: The objective of this paper is to introduce a Relativistic Stochastic Process that calculates the number of cosmic ray and high energy solar flare particles that enter the atmosphere. Study Design: The Relativistic Stochastic Process is tested against the Arley model. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7870