Aims: This paper investigates effective refractive index, confinement loss and waveguide dispersion for rectangular photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with five layers of air holes. Methodology: The analysis of these properties is done by changing air hole diameter and lattice pitch. T...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/38510
Background: It is important for health care managers to understand patient rights before making an important health care related decision. Aim of the study was to assess health management student’s knowledge on patient’s rights in public universities in Turkey. Materials and Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37993
The complaints from the consumers of electricity on the unreliability of supplies from the distribution company along its distribution network in Nigeria, as well as high estimated bills for the energy used with estimated billing; with the management of the available supplies to...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36344
Vegetable production is highly dependent on climatic variability. Several studies have concluded that Syangja district (latitude 28°4'60 North and longitude 83°52'0 East) of Nepal is more vulnerable to climate change; thus, a changing climate should have a significant impact on v...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36270
Background: Cervical cancer is considered an important public health problem, and the main risk factor for this type of tumor is human papillomavirus infection. However, the search for new proposals for disease control and prevention has brought new findings and approaches in the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/38195
The occupational influx of foreign expatriates in the country and the technical preference of these foreign competitors over our indigenous engineers have shown that most of our university outputs do not bring forth the presumed outcome. This odd position has limited us further f...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/29862
Aim: Various studies have been conducted on the effect of plant growth regulators in vitro. However, studies on foliar exogenous spray of 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) in ginger are lacking. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the foliar application of BAP on ginger culti...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36850
Adeyemo Temitope Tosin, Adepoju Temilola Morufat, Sobowale Adedayo Aladejobi, Oyediran Mayowa Oyedepo, Omidiora Elijah Olusayo & Olabiyisi Stephen Olatude·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2017
One of the most common diseases in women today is breast cancer. The method of detection and analyzing breast images according to literature, to mention few are mammography, magnetic resonance, thermography and ultrasound of which mammography is the most accurate and low cost met...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/33314
Aim and Background: Banana pseudostem is an agricultural waste with potential health benefits but highly susceptible to browning caused by polyphenol oxidase enzyme (PPO). The aim of present study is to investigate the effect of different spices on browning of pseudostem juice. M...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37919
The invaluable role of the estimation of global solar radiation in solar engineering systems provides very useful direction for various solar applications. This paper employs the Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and regressive techniq...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37692
In the present paper some moments of generalized one-dimensional Szasz operator in the spaces of continuously differentiable functions is found. Also, in two-dimensional case a generalization of Szasz operator is considered and certain moments of this operator in the spaces of co...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37520
This study estimates the additional investment that would be required by the Ghanaian government for adaptation to climate change in the health sector. The focus is on this sector because it is possibly the most important sector that has a direct impact on the Ghanaian population...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37452
Aims: To assess banker’s knowledge, attitude and perception on sedentary lifestyle as a predisposing factor to hypertension together with availability of workplace health promotion towards combating hypertension susceptibly among bankers. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey desi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37618
Aims: Amorphous silica in rice husk ash is a reliable and sustainable resource, although rice husks are currently an issue for farmers. Amorphous silica is a resource in various industrial applications and can easily be obtained from rice husks if they are treated correctly. If t...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37621
Aims: The purpose of this work is to study the effect of compression pressure on isotropic epoxy resin bonded Nd-Fe-B magnets, with the goal of achieving high densities at room temperature. Methodology: We present data on the effect of the applied pressure on the structure and ma...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/37800