In Sri Lanka even though women represent more than half of the population, their labour force participation rate is less than men. Men's participation in the labour force is twice as women's. In recent years women and gender issues have become a major area of concern. Even semina...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i429773
Aim: The aim of this paper is to exploratory research support on Families with Autistic Children. Objective research is needed for identifying helpful resources and helping families with autistic children. Methods: The approximated number of participants that answered the questio...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i429769
Nearly half of all children in developing countries have infections or disease associated with inadequate water supply and sanitation. This study aimed at assessing sanitation practices and available sources of water supply in selected primary schools in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, N...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i429765
While drugs have the capacity to enhance health, they all have the potential to cause harm if prescribed inappropriately. For this reason, it is recommended that healthcare professionals who prescribe medications exercise critical thinking skills to ensure the safe and effective...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i329762
This study was conducted to determine the rhizosphere soil microorganisms associated with the cultivation of Manihot esculentum, Comelina bengalensis, Talinum triangulare and Telfairia occidentalis. The plants were obtained from newly cultivated, ready for harvest and fallowed fa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i329761
Reflecting on a psychosociological analysis of consumption requires an epistemological challenge that breaks with metaphysical ideological traditions and, to a certain extent, provokes philosophical discussions about the construction and validity of its theoretical thinking, espe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i329759
Background: Effective vaccination communication with parents is critical in efforts to overcome barriers to childhood vaccination, tackle vaccine hesitancy and improve vaccination coverage. Health workers should be able to provide information to caregivers and support them in dec...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i329754
Bárbara Lúcia Guimarães Alves, Fred Tavares, Giselle Gama Torres Ferreira, Jefferson Fernando Gonçalves Guedes da Costa, Margarete Ribeiro Tavares & Marlen Maria Cabral Carvalho·Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports·2018
The contemporaneity is marked, in part, by the Control Society, characterised, among other aspects, by consumption. In this scene, both the material and the immaterial objects come to have value in the market, so that one of the influential tools in this period is the use of soci...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i329750
The world is so dynamic and fast growing, things keep changing on a daily basis and as such, has experienced different phases of industrial revolution. Consequent to this, many countries have had their names listed among the developed countries of the world based on their economi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i229748
This study investigated the antimicrobial resistance profile of Escherichia coli from urine of patients with suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs) in selected general hospitals in Abuja Municipal, Nigeria. Four Hundred and Thirty urine samples were collected between September...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i229745
This study examined the physical and mechanical properties of thermally and chemically modified Leucaena leucocephala wood. Sample planks were obtained from Akure and reduced to defect-free samples of 20 mm × 20 mm × 60 mm. Wood samples were oven dried to a constant weight at 103...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i229744
Lately, even in Romania, the interest in ecological homes has begun to take on proportions. Hugged by curiosity, but especially by reorienting towards a (more) healthier lifestyle, people seek to find out as much detail as possible about them - thus capturing the outline and the...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i229742
Carvedilol is a β- adrenergic receptor blocker, and it has the ability to decrease the heart rate, myocardial contractility and myocardial oxygen demand. It competitively blocks β-1, β-2 and α-1 receptors. it also lacks sympathomimetic activity and has vasodilating properties tha...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i229740
Lifestyle patterns which include diet, level of physical activity, alcohol consumption, smoking and stress are capable of having both positive and negative effect on various health indicators such as anthropometric, cardiovascular and metabolic parameters of body physiology. This...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i116192
This paper investigated the effectiveness of spent mushroom compost (SMC) of Pleurotus florida in the biodegradation of crude oil contaminated soil for a period of 42 days. The crude oil contaminated soil was supplemented with different concentrations of the SMC of P. florida thr...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2018/v2i116188