Muhammad Isma’il, Ibrahim Jaro Musa, Abubakar Salisu, Idoma Kim, Akhadelor Muhammad Oyale, Amina Maiwada & Abdulkadir Muhammed Yahaya·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2014
Aim: The objective of the National Health Policy (1988) in Nigeria is to provide the population with access to primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare as needed through a functional referral system. In this paper, Geographic Information System (GIS) is employed to examine a ve...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8183
Aims: The purpose of this paper is to design a solar cooling system to decrease operating temperature of PV module in order to improve the efficiency of PV output power. The usage of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is a very attractive method for renewable energy. This study e...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11615
Poverty is multidimensional, involving not only income deprivation, but also ill-health, illiteracy, lack of access to basic social services, and little opportunity to participate in the processes that influence people's lives. Malaysia, a multiracial country, managed to drastica...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10734
Aims: To evaluate the health status and to assess the risk of adverse health effects manifestation among occupationally exposed to methacrylic monomers dental professionals (dentists, nurses and attendants) and students of dental medicine and from the dental technician school, as...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/12982
Aims: To document the evidence for a gut uptake to brain axis. The many hormones, many of them peptides and shared by the intestines and the brain, will not be included in this survey. Methods: Systematic looking through journal publications by means of Pub med and collected info...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10162
Claudine Tekounegning Tiogué, Paul Zango, Thomas Ewouken Efolé, Madeleine Kenfack, Joseph Tekwombuo, Guegang Tekou, Mathieu Domwa, Minette Tabi Eyango Tomedi & Joseph Tchoumboué·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2014
Aims: To evaluate the aquaculture potential of the native fishes from the Mbô Floodplain (MF) Rivers for their domestication and preservation the genetic diversity. Study Design: Descriptive research. Place and Duration of Study: Laboratory of Applied Ichthyology and Hydrobiology...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/12106
Trace elements influence hormones at different levels of action, including hormone secretion, activity and binding to target tissue. Thyroid hormones also influence the metabolism of some essential trace elements. There is paucity of knowledge on the interaction of some trace ele...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11985
Aims: The preservative effects of hot sterile water extracts of Aframomum melegueta and Piper guineensis on the shelf life of Hibiscus sabdariffa (H. sabdariffa) and Sorghum bicolor (S. bicolor) liquors were investigated. Study Design: Factorial design was used for this study. Pl...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9935
This study highlights the relationship between the hydraulic conductivity (K) of riverbank deposits and groundwater recharge in an area adjacent to a Chalk river in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Three locations were mapped out for In situ permeability measurements based on geolo...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11196
Our focus in this article is the derivation; analysis and implementation of a new modified implicit hybrid block method for the direct solution of initial value problems of fourth order ordinary differential equations. In the derivation of the method, we adopted the approach of c...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11953
Aims: This study aimed to investigate the roles of neuronal (nNOS) and endothelial (eNOS) nitric oxide synthase in the nerve growth factor (NGF) response during the development of the trigeminal ganglion (TG). In addition the roles of these nitric oxide synthases following NGF wi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/12413
There wide gender disparities in education in places with high HIV and AIDS prevalence despite the support of many stakeholders. The study was to identify the psychosocial support in the area under study and establish areas of inadequacies’. The objective of the study was to esta...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9241
This paper gives a review on some basic geotechnical properties and compressibility behaviour of offshore clay in Malaysia. The Atterberg Limits of the normally-consolidated and reconstituted offshore clay, such as liquid limit, plastic limit and plasticity limit, are discussed....
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/12134
Oyo State lies in the south-western part of Nigeria. Underlain by three lithological units of the crystalline basement complex, comprising: (i) Migmatite-Gneiss Complex (quartzite, gneissic rocks); (ii) Low to medium grade metasediments (Green schists facies, namely quartz schist...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11569