Highland regions characterized with terraced slopes in East Africa are faced with serious soil and nutrient losses that have affected agricultural productivity. However, limited studies have analysed the soil and nutrient losses on terraced slopes of these humid highland regions....
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18113
This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of two antimicrobials, (azithromycin and rifampin), on Rhodococcosis, a foal disease caused by Rhodococcus equi and to evaluate potential effects of the treatment on foals’ hepatic function. This study was conducted on 17 infected...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16132
Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare diffuse lung disease characterized by intra-alveolar deposition of calcium and phosphate. Clinically, the disease may remain static in some patients while it may progress to pulmonary fibrosis, marked hypoxemia and cor pulmonale i...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17560
Aims: The paper developed an accessory that can be connected to the hydraulic jack to operate it by pedaling while standing upright at a convenient position. It is characterized by an adjustable rectangular frame that occupies less floor space, and wheels to facilitate easy posit...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18887
There are few mentions in Mexican archaeology for study of prehispanic underground mining to exploit the cinnabar, but there are lots of references about their use as pigment for different kind of artifacts in Mesoamerican archaeology. Our research settled at Sierra Gorda emphasi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18043
In this specific study, a new procedure for computing the impact of articles / authors / journals is made. Identification of importance of impact evaluations in general is presented. The inadequacies of the methodologies presently used to evaluate impact of published research are...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18448
A numerical study of thermal diffusion effect on a mixed convective heat and mass transfer transient flow along a stretching sheet with constant heat and mass fluxes is completed under the action of a uniform magnetic field. A mathematical model related to the problem is develope...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18075
We consider environments where sparse signals are embedded in additive white noise. We consider specific signal models and cross-evaluate previously derived parametrically optimal, robust and tree-search policies for the detection of signal presence, in terms of the a posteriori...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17629
This article reports some eating habits that should be avoided and those to be encouraged in order to preventing the development of cancers. Cancers are multifactorial in origin but the likelihood of their development are predisposed by some such risk factors as tobacco smoking,...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15564
Linear programming is a specific class of mathematical problems, in which a linear function is maximized (or minimized) subject to given linear constraints. Linear programming can be used in a variety of business problems including: transportation and distribution, production sch...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18300