Aims: To ascertain the risk status of farming households and whether the risk status is accentuated by some factors. The specific objective is to determine the relationship between their risk status and socio-economic characteristics and food security status in the study area. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1284
Aims: The study aims to map out the way Brazilian school workers discursively construct images of contemporary immigrants in Brazil. It intends to describe and analyze how in their discourse they move back and forth between a negative and a more sympathetic imaginary when talking...
Reactions of enaminones 3a-f with malononitrile under microwave irradiation conditions were found to afford cyano-substituted aminodienamides 8a-f, whose structures were elucidated using both X-Ray crystallographic analysis and NOE methods. In addition, cyclization of 8e to form...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2012/823
In this study, inhalable particulate matter was sampled using the TEOM series 1400a, the elemental composition of the particulate matter was determined using Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (SEM/EDS) and the concentration of particulate ni...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/833
Aims: Candida species cause a wide spectrum of diseases, including hospital-acquired and device-associated infections. The biofilm formation is a major virulence factor in Candida pathogenesis and the cells in biofilm show enhanced resistance to disinfectants. Our aim was to eval...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2012/1281
Background: High incidence of nosocomial infections has led to prolonged hospitalization, leading to high morbidity and mortality. Our research was aimed at determining the prevalence as well as identification and isolation of aerobic bacteria responsible for nosocomial urinary t...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2012/1255
Background: This study is aimed assessing the attitudes of radiographers and perceived barriers to postgraduate radiography education in south-eastern Nigeria. Methods: The study utilized a self administered pre-tested questionnaire with structured and semi-structured questions....
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2012/651
The organoleptic and proximate analysis of Tilapia guineensis were assessed at two stored temperatures, -18ºC and 4ºC for 4 weeks. Graded results revealed a general decline in organoleptic properties such as colour, texture, freshness, and taste of the fishes stored at the two te...
The main purpose of this paper is the visualization of convex surface data to present a smooth, visually pleasing and interactive convexity preserving surfaces. The rational cubic function with three free parameters is extended to rational bi-cubic partially blended function to p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2012/1181
Total demand for ethanol due to fear of crude oil depletion and the need to mitigate global warming due to green house gas emissions is increasing year after year. The present study was undertaken to investigate optimum parameters for ethanol production from Ziziphus mauritiana b...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2012/1096
Aims: The study was conducted to determine antimicrobial activity of Temnocalyx obovatus mature root extracts popularly used in folk medicine to treat diarrhoea in chickens, stomach disorders in turkeys, goats and cows, snakebites, asthma, ulcers and whooping cough in humans. Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2012/1293
Aims: The knowledge of water sorption Isotherm gives information about water activity of foods; to investigate chemical reactions during drying and storage. This study therefore, was to determine the sorption properties of pupuru flour during storage at ambient temperature. Study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/613
This paper presents a provisional design proposal for the modification of the numbering and address representation of Internet Protocol 4 (IPv4), the Internet address system nearing exhaustion, based on biology. Biologically-inspired designs have been applied in diverse technolog...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1217
Aims: The scope of the model lies in its applicability in the management inventories of time-quadratic demand. It is also seen that large pile of goods displayed in a supermarket will motivate the customer to buy more. So the presence of inventory has a motivational effect on the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1180
The influence of NPK fertilizer on the incidence, severity and gravity of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) was investigated using eight genetically improved cassava varieties and eight local farmer’s varieties. The study was carried out in a savannah region (Gandajika) in D.R. Congo...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2012/1211