Aims: The study aimed to evaluate how farmers’ education level, experience and age affect performance of the technology. Methodology: A purposive and multi-stage sampling technique was used to sample 276 respondents guided by target population of 1,000 and the concentration of fa...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11167
Recently, it was demonstrated that the transient receptor potential melastatin 2 (TRPM2) and melastatin 7 (TRPM7) played a key role in ROS-induced neuronal death. Meanwhile, nerve growth factor (NGF), through activating tropomyosin-related kinase A (TrkA) pathway, is known to hav...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10543
Victor L. Villemagne, Vincent Doré, Paul Yates, Belinda Brown, Rachel Mulligan, Pierrick Bourgeat, Robyn Veljanoski, Stephanie R. Rainey-Smith, Kevin Ong, Alan Rembach, Robert Williams, Samantha C. Burnham, Simon M. Laws, Olivier Salvado, Kevin Taddei, S. Lance Macaulay, Ralph N. Martins, David Ames, Colin L. Masters & Christopher C. Rowe·Advances in Research·2014
Aims: Test the robustness of a linear regression transformation of semiquantitative values from different Aβ tracers into a single continuous scale. Study Design: Retrospective analysis. Place and Duration of Study: PET imaging data acquired in Melbourne and Perth, Australia, bet...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11599
The characteristics of the Resistivity and Self-Potential (SP) anomalies over Agbani Sandstone have been carefully and painstakingly carried out. The study was aimed at investigating the possible rock types and their mineralogical potentials. Data was acquired using the high reso...
A study on the calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy has been carried out on sequences within the interval 1640m-1980m of well ‘K-2’ located in the deep offshore of Niger Delta, Nigeria. Lithologic description of the samples was done using a stereo-binocular microscope. Thirty-f...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11364
This paper aims to provide a snapshot of the Turkish mobile market and evaluation of the auction process in mobile market. Turkey with a mobile coverage rate of 99.65% provided by more than 90 thousand base station sites constitutes a good example for mobile market in Europe. Thi...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11371
Complications of chronic otitis media are still a common otological problem in the developing countries. Though the incidence has been reduced with the introduction of higher antibiotics, they are still seen commonly in the developing countries and in rural areas. The incidence o...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10494
Background and Aim: Acalypha wilkesiana, commonly called Irish petticoat, is native to the south pacific islands and belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae. The plant has antimicrobial and antifungal properties and in traditional medicine, the leaves are eaten as vegetables in the m...
With employers increasingly demanding a greater range of softer skills such as effective communication, the paper is intended to identify current accounting students’ perspectives on soft skills, identify their self-assessed competence in the respective soft skills, and suggest w...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11000
Nadeem Abbas Shah, Raees Abbas, Muhammad Hammad Raza, Sulman Atta, Tanvir Ali & Babar Shahbaz·Advances in Research·2014
Peri-urban areas are situated at the urban margin. The mass migration of people from rural to urban areas makes a high saturation due to industrialization. Hence, there is immense requirement of food commodities like meat, milk and highly perishable vegetables and fruits for feed...
Background: Primary frozen shoulder is a condition characterized by painful and limited active and passive range of motion. Although the etiology is still uncertain, synovial fibrosis and adhesion were shown in glenohumeral joints of frozen shoulders. The messenger RNA expression...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10328
Michael O. Monanu, Ernest A. Anyalogbu & Eugene N. Onyeike·Advances in Research·2014
The effect of wet heat-processing on the micronutrient composition of Canarium schweinfurthii (CS) pulps eaten as traditional snack in most parts of Nigeria was investigated. Fresh wholesome seeds of C. schweinfurthii, obtained from Aba (Abia State, Nigeria) were washed in severa...
Aims: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of tuberculosis among prison inmates at Mbarara Central prison Design: A cross sectional study was carried out at Mbarara Central Prison in Mbarara district, Kiswahili cell in Mbarara municipality among female and male pr...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10676
An orthogonal double cover (ODC) of any graph H is a collection of spanning subgraphs of H such that every two of them share exactly one edge at most, and every edge of the graph H belongs to exactly two of the spanning graphs. In this paper, we are concerned with the orthogonal...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10262
This experiment was carried out to investigate chemical properties of Moringa oleifera and the effects of dietary levels of Moringa oleifera leaves on the growth performance and feed utilization for Clarias gariepinus fry. The study was carried out in aquarium tanks, for a period...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10399