Background: Enterococcus faecalis has intrinsic resistance which aids its spread in the hospital environment. As a nosocomial pathogen with increasing resistance breaking its route of transmission and spread is therefore imperative. Aims: In this study, six brands of disinfectant...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5025
Aims: Present study was to determine the effects of dietary energy source diets such as glucogenic and lipogenic nutrients on ruminal fermentation characteristics, venous blood gases and concentration plasma metabolites in Baluchi sheep. Study Design: Latin square design with 3 p...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6065
Aims: The aims of the study were to investigate i) the kind of the relationship among BCS and subcutaneous fat thickness (FT) in horses, as affected by breed, gender and age, and ii) the effectiveness of a combination of the two variables in order to better estimate adiposity. St...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6947
Aims: To perform an experimental analyses of the chemical composition and anatomic structure of polluted higher aquatic plants with the aid of combined physical methods of characterization by infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis to validate...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5672
Flávia Abreu Felsemburgh, Juliane Siqueira-Francisco, Morgana Teixeira Lima Castelo Branco, Marcus Vinicius Magalhães de Almeida, Antônio Ferreira-Pereira & Lycia de Brito-Gitirana·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2013
Aims: Considering the well known biological effects of secretion of cutaneous glands in anurans and that Pdr5p belongs to the ATB-Binding Cassette (ABC) superfamily of membrane transporters, which efflux a large variety of xenobiotic compounds, and play an important role in the m...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4066
Objective: To assess the association between the education of the head of the family and alcohol use. Study Design: A community based cross-sectional study. Participants: All males aged ≥15 years. Sampling: Simple Random Sampling Technique. Statistical Analyses: Data was analysed...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4992
Aims: A significance of tributary confluence for dynamics of nutrients and microbial communities in main river channel was studied in the Iskar River upper subcatchment (Bulgaria). Methodology: The fluctuations of physicochemical parameters, nutrients, abundance of total bacteria...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5973
Objective: i. To study the socio-demographic profile of patients of Road traffic accidents (RTAs) with head injury, ii. To assess the variation in Road traffic accidents (RTAs) with head injury with month of year, day of week and time. Study Design: A hospital based cross-section...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4830
Aims: The need to seek for a goodoption to the costly oxytetracycline necessitated the reason for conducting this study. Hence, the study was carried out to assess the effect of Moringa oleifera leaf meal as a replacement for oxytetracycline on the carcass characteristics of broi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6017
The present study was conducted on the experimental site of ITGC (Technical Institute of Field Crops) station of Setif, Algeria; during 2010/2011 cropping season. The study was carried out to study the performance of durum wheat genotypes in relation to yield and yield component...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/3426
An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of dietary molasses distillers condensed soluble (MDCS) on nutrients digestibility, performance, carcass traits and some blood biological parameters in Lori male lambs. A total of 24 male lambs (aged 8 months, 31.16±1.10 kg) we...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5482
Aim: The beneficial and harmful effects of the chemical compound depend on the organism physiology but high levels of boron have harmful effects for most of the plants. Chemical compound limits life cycle activities. In the study, the toxic effects of Boron (H3BO3) on the germina...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6114
Aim: The mode of agronomic traits inheritance was investigated in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) in salt stress as a new report in this study. Place and Duration of Study: This experiment was carried out in Agricultural Research Farm of Shahid Bahonar University at Ekhtiarab...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5909
Aims: To identify the partial sequence of beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) enzyme of sunn pest, Eurygaster integriceps Putton (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae), which is a key pest of wheat and barley in the wide area of the world and its relationship with other creatures. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6194
Aims: The small size of quail is a limited factor in many countries, because there is not a general consumption culture according to such products, so increase in the size of quail products is a necessity for such countries. In current study, selection for Japanese quail body wei...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5281