Aims: The aim of this manuscript is to review the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy and the relationship between diabetic nephropathy and genetic polymorphisms. Definition: Diabetic nephropathy is one of the kidney diseases that progresses to harm the capillaries in the glomer...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/41371
Monitoring of ambient air quality parameters (NO2, SO2, NH3, PM10 and PM2.5) levels in the surrounding area of a fertilizer plant located at Aonla, (U.P.) India, was carried out using the respirable dust sampler. The specific objectives were the determination of annual and season...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40624
In this study we have introduced a new reliable and robust ratio estimator for estimating the population variance by utilizing the auxiliary information as Gini’s mean difference. Efficiency conditions along with bias and mean square error has been worked out through a numerical...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/41962
Variations in biological systems are due to genetic and environmental influences. Climate change has caused serious damages in potato production worldwide. A literature review on previous research works carried out in the Western Highlands of Cameroon aimed at determining the eff...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40588
The farmers’ well-being is a dynamic process that gives people a sense of how their lives are evolving. More precisely, it refers to the welfare of farmers which is influenced by both qualitative and quantitative parameters. Well-being may differ from individual to individual du...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/41842
The study aimed at investigating the cultural and socio-demographic factors that affect household's probability to adopt energy efficient stoves (EES) in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Cameroon. It examined among other aspects, cooking patterns, stoves and fuel types. Major stove...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40242
Introduction: Cervical cancer is one of the significant public health problems in the world, especially in Less developed countries. In Ghana, cervical cancer is the leading cause of gynecological cancers. This study was aimed at assessing the level of awareness of this dreadful...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/41116
Electricity demand and supply forecasts are important tools for determining solutions to the problems in the electricity sector such as power outages. The Long Range Energy Alternative Planning (LEAP) modelling tool was used to project electricity demand and supply for a target y...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39719
The advantages of smaller body size represent a major gap in our knowledge among a variety of disciplines, including medicine, public health, education, athletics, ecology and military science. The aim of this paper is to summarize several relatively unknown advantages related to...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40878
Soil erosion is a common phenomenon and major threat in many parts of Ethiopian highlands and it remains difficult to quantify and measure the amount of soil erosion. Geographic Information System (GIS) provides spatial information to identify erosion potential areas and useful t...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40841
Despite the law promulgated by the Federal Government of Nigeria prohibiting illicit felling of trees, the number of charcoal producers is on the increase coupled with a sharp rise in the quantity of charcoal produced with its attendants environmental consequences. Thus, this stu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39422
Background: The call for use of improved Soil Fertility Management (SFM) technologies is a prerequisite to increase agricultural productivity among farmers. This study assessed farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for selected financially rewarding biofertilizer technologies/package...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40457
The present study examined factors associated with attitudes towards justification of wife-beating among currently married women in Zambia. This paper utilizes secondary data from the 2013 Zambia Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS). Logistic regression analysis was used to identify...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/41094
In the present study, we have utilized the tool of modification technique for the precision and improvement of estimators to estimate the finite population variance, when the survey under investigation does not account for some of the important conditional distribution properties...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40222
The study investigated ambient air quality and noise levels around Oil and Gas facilities in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA), Rivers State. Seven stations including a control were assessed for air quality and noise study. Standard air sampling instruments were us...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39573