The main concerns about neonates’ umbilical stump are delay in its falling, umbilical cord infections and bleeding. Optimal umbilical cord care is therefore an important issue for both nurseries’ staff and neonates’ caregivers. Many investigators have explored the optimal cord ca...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14969
For a simple connected undirected graph G = (V;E), the Wiener index W(G) of G is defined as half the sum of the shortest-path distances between all pairs of vertices u; v of G. The kth power of a graph G, denoted by Gk, is a graph with the same vertex set as G such that two verti...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14639
Restoration of mangrove forests has to be a continuous process. It is important to reverse the loss of mangrove ecosystem worldwide by using various approaches as this ecosystem provides important ecosystem services such as habitat for organisms, recycling of nutrients, controlli...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/8922
Aims: To test for the presence of bias on use of a common psychometric instrument, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), in studies of children with same-sex parents using a recruited convenience sample. Study Design: Non-parametric quasi-experimental two-group comp...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15298
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project (LESEP) on the average academic performance of students in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Agege Local Government Area (LGA) of Lagos State, Nigeria. Convinci...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15416
The Gaza Strip is a limited area with high population density. Four wastewater treatment plants operate in the area which are overloaded and mismanaged. There are plans to construct three more wastewater treatment plants with overall capacity of 304,000 m3/day which will make use...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14940
Review of Noise Suppression in Package Generators is reported. Shortfall in power generation, distribution and availability to the populace in developing economies has compelled the populace to embrace the usage of package generators in their domestic and commercial activities. T...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/12391
In formation evaluation, the knowledge of porosity, permeability and fluids saturation are very important in the determination of the hydrocarbon in place. These petro physical properties are necessary to understand the nature of the reservoir and help for proper field developmen...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15096
Introduction: This study explores the types of Healthcare Establishments (HCEs) and their amount and kind of medical waste generation and the types in 27 HCE in Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) area include hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic canters. Private HCE’s providing surgica...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/11052
Aims: The purpose of the article is to examine the causes of the increase in work-related accidents in the coal mining industry in Turkey. Furthermore, the article aims to investigate the impact of private sector employment and privatization process to occupational health and saf...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15125
In this paper, the bifurcation method of planar systems and simulation method of differential equations are employed to investigate the bounded traveling wave solutions of the osmosis K (3,2) equation. Our results show that this equation admits a variety of physical solutions suc...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14958
Aim: Alendronate (AL) is a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate drug that exhibits limited oral bioavailability due to predominantly hydrophilic molecular properties. To enhance oral absorption of this important osteoporosis drug, a novel ion-pairing strategy using the cationic pol...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/13975
This paper applies modified He's iteration perturbation method to study periodic solutions of strongly nonlinear oscillators. Some examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and convenience of the method. The results are compared with the numerical solution and the compar...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14364
Aims: Primarily, to assess fat free mass (FFM) and upper arm muscle area (UAMA) as measures of muscularity in tribal and non-tribal college students, and secondly, to examine muscularity, as an index of nutritional status, in these two populations. Study Design: Cross-sectional s...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14283
This paper is designed to explain the main constraints that hinder pastoral mobility in arid and semi-arid lands. It aims to investigate the main factors behind the decline of herd mobility. It also determines the implications of mobility constraints on pastoral farming. The data...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/11344