Variation in the hydro-climatic variables of River Kaduna at Shiroro Dam site, Nigeria is linked to a number of climate change activities around the river. In view of this, the paper aims at examining the trend of stream flow, rainfall, temperature and evaporation. Monthly discha...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18331
Background: Medical institutions, just like other institutions, have promotion issues on marketing the services they produce in the ever increasing competition. Because the effect of promotion methods change from consumer to consumer and according to environmental conditions, the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19605
Garcinia indica Choisy of the family Clusiaceae is a medicinally important polygamodioecious tree. It is widely distributed throughout Asia, Africa and Polynesia. In India it is found in Western Ghats of South India and North Eastern states. All the parts of the tree is being use...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14550
Since power generation is one of the key factor in developing the country’s economy in Nigeria, the need to look at the way of reducing the negative impacts of these power plants are also required so as not to hinder the life of inhabitants of the country. In this paper, emphasi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18874
Patricia E. Miranda-Félix, Bertha Cecilia Salazar-González, Esther C. Gallegos-Cabriales, Patricia M. Valles-Ortiz & Rosario E. Ortiz- Fèlix·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2015
Objective: To test the psychometric properties of the health problem solving scale (HPSS) adapted for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Study Design: Cross sectional study, scale validation. Methodology: 238 T2DM patients from 18 to 70 years of age (Mean =64.81 years,...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19351
In Ethiopia, crossbred cattle are mainly cross of zebu with Holstein-Friesian. The cattle have been used for milk production for decades. Therefore, the objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of crossbreeding on performance of crossbred dairy cows and indigenous cattle...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18508
A screen house soil culture experiments were conducted at Teaching and Research Farm, Mazimbu campus of Sokoine University of Agriculture Morogoro City, Tanzania in 2014 and 2015 to investigate the nutrients uptake (N and P) and biomass production (DMY) of maize grown with differ...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19688
Atmospheric dispersion characterizes the evolution in time and space of an ensemble of pollutants (aerosols, gases, dust) emitted into the atmosphere. Atmospheric dispersion phenomenon is influenced by atmospheric conditions, soil parameters and emission values. The atmospheric d...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17871
Repeated responses may be obtained from different time points in longitudinal studies. When modelling such data, transition models like Markov type models concentrate on changes between the consecutive time points. Markov model consists of all possible states of a randomly changi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19642
Physico-chemical and nutrient distribution control lagoon biological productivity, however, focus has been on studies on surface and bottom distribution with little on the vertical profiling of nutrients. Yet it is important to validate physico-chemical properties with nutrients...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19690
Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the patients of eye disease by B scan ultrasound and to correlate ultrasonographic findings clinically in patients with ocular diseases. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in Department of Radiodiagnosis in association w...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17930
Agriculture plays a great role in the economy of Swaziland. It is also important for food production. Over 70% of the agriculture is practiced in the rural sector where mainly food crops are produced under subsistence farming systems characterized by large hectares cultivated wit...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18610
An operator A is called n-normal operator if AnA* =A*An and n-quasi-normal operator if AnA*A =A*AAn . In this paper we characterize the essential isometry, essential co-isometry n-normal and n-quasi-normal composite multiplication operator on L2 -Spaces under certain conditions.
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18661
Aims: The experiment was conducted to determine the response of albino rats to diets containing three differently processed false yam seed meals. Study Design: Completely Randomized Design (CRD) was used for the study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Agricultural Eng...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18333
Many people find scientific publishing is immune to fraud, but unfortunately this is not true. This paper reports some cases of scientific fraud detected in Brazil. It has to be pointed out that there is no crisis of ethics in Brazilian science, but since cases of misconduct have...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18426