Introduction: Mother-to-child transmission of HIV remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children below five years of age in Nigeria. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the uptake of services for preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Benin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26926
Aims: Hepatocyte transplantation is an alternative to liver transplantation for acute liver failure (ALF). Hepatocyte therapy is limited by several factors including limited homing of transplanted cells and liver functional improvement. Since beneficial effects of monounsaturate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27776
Background: Vesico-vaginal fistula is a common problem that has public health significance. Aims: To determine the epidemiology, causes as well as the outcomes of VVF repair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology State Specialist Hospital Maiduguri, Borno State of Nigeri...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27859
In this note, an asymmetric coin game is studied. The winning scheme of Skeptic is given. Also, the mixed strategy and arbitrage opportunity are considered.
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Research Article10.9734/ARJOM/2016/27312
Background: Carbonic anhydrase is found in the blood of all vertebrate and thus playing a fundamental role in the maintenance of acid-base homeostasis. Erythrocytes are intrinsically prone to oxidative stress because of their exposure to high oxygen tension. Aim: The study aimed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26356
This paper shows the results of an investigation aimed to determine if some organizational and market variables are related to the propensity of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to use renewable energy. The methodology of the study is correlational, and uses statistica...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27238
Selecting superior parents for hybrid combinations and studying the nature of genetic variation are prerequisites for starting a successful breeding program. The main objective of the present study was to assess performance, useful heterosis and combining ability among ma...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27507
The nutritional composition, physicochemical properties and fatty acid composition of two perennial crops: Tetracarpedium conophorum (African walnut) and Irvingia gabonensis (African bush mango) were studied. The oils were extracted from the seeds using n-hexane in soxhlet extra...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/26604
The present study of PAHs concentration in gills and muscle of (Chrysichthys nigrodidatatus) collected from Ogoni-land, Rivers State, Nigeria was determined. Total of 17 PAH was analyzed. 13 of these PAH were found in the gills and 12 in the muscle of catfish from Kaa, also 15 we...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27248
Aim: Optimization of alkaline protease production using a newly isolated strain Alternaria sp. by submerged fermentation. The production of inexpensive proteolytic enzymes not only solves environmental problems, but also promotes the economic value and utilization of waste treatm...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27404
Twenty surface soil samples were used to evaluate status of soil Mn using five extraction procedures (Coca-cola, EDTA, HCl, EDTA + NH4OAC and NH4OAC methods). The results show that Coca-cola method extracted the highest amount of the Mn while NH4OAC extracted the least amount of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26986
Aim: To evaluate the potential of Calotropis procera extracts in erythrocyte membrane stabilization with special emphasis on Plasmodium falciparum entry into RBCs. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Zoology, BMT and Human Genetics, University School of Sciences, Gujarat U...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2016/27960
In Nigeria there is a rapid and increasing awareness in various sectors and fields especially educational institutions such as universities, colleges, secondary schools e.t.c. on the impact of effective leadership styles. In this country, secondary schools administrators are call...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24961
In this paper we show that the generalization of the virial theorem can be achieved for nonrelativistic quantum mechanical systems under the conditions of rotational symmetry and the constancy of the trace of moment of inertia tensor. Under these conditions the matrix elements of...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27935
An Assignment Problem mainly deals with allocation and scheduling. In this work Intuitionistic Fuzzy Assignment Problem (IFAP) with the Trapezoidal Intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFNS) is solved by using three different methods namely Intuitionistic Fuzzy Reduced Matrix Method (I...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/28088