Background: Multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic and often debilitating disease that mostly affects young people who constitute the active part of community. The incidence of the disease has increased in recent years. Fatigue is one of the common complaints in patients with ms, w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24518
Aims/Objectives: To assess the attitudes of pregnant women based on their knowledge about anaemia and adequate diet in its prevention. Study Design: Descriptive. Place and Duration of Study: The ante-natal clinics: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo and Osun State T...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23427
ntroduction: It is known that hypoxia affects human physiology and consequently impairs cognitive functions. In particular, low memory performances are common in a hypoxic extreme altitude environment. Aims: The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of moderate hypoxia on...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25558
The impact of climate change and global warming on food and feed crops production is reported in Jordan; a country where dry areas constitute about 90% of its land. The remaining arable areas (under rain fed or irrigated farming system) are decreasing due to urbanization, land fr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24292
The latest brain researches are showing the relevance of glia in cognitive processes like learning and memory. One of the main problems related to this type of investigations is about complexity: there are between 10 and 40 times more glia than neurons in the central nervous sys...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24792
This study was carried out in Jesse kingdom in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria, to find out the fertility level in the area, its determinants and the implications for the people of the area. Data used in the study were collected from a representative sa...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/13232
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have emerged as an efficient third generation solar cells. This is a photo-electrochemical cell where the junction consists of a semiconductor–electrolyte interface. The DSSC was fabricated using TiO2 nanoparticles, wide band gap semiconductor,...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/24519
PM3 and DFT calculations have been performed with complete optimization of geometries on cyclohexanone, cyclopentanone, and acetone. The enol content trend determined in this work was cyclohexanone > cyclopentanone > acetone, which was found to agree with published experime...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/25048
Leptospirosis is a disease condition of infected wild or domestic animals. Humans get this infection when they come in touch with the contaminated soil or water in the infected animal’s urine/excreta of animal reservoirs directly or indirectly. Water logging during rainy session,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/25132
Majority of the world’s population is still using the traditional herbal food for their healthcare. India has a good amount of diversity in spices like black pepper, cardamom, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, tamarind and garcinia. The other important spices relevant to India are cori...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/24951
Educational researches, over the last few decades, have focused on the debate over which classroom pedagogy best encourages learning: the match approach, the mismatch approach or the balanced approach. Most studies on this issue appear to support the argument that the matching be...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24810
Background: Childhood age through adolescence mark period of major postural transformation which warrants screening for structural abnormalities. The study provided needs assessment for musculoskeletal screening and determined the prevalence of musculoskeletal deviations (MSDs) a...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25176
Aims: Hyperglycemia has been posited to have an effect on the healing process at the cellular level, particularly on fibroblasts that produce extracellular matrix components including collagen. However, the mechanisms underlying this process have yet to be fully elucidated. In ad...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/25173
Drought is one of the most worrying manifestations of variability and change of climate in many West African countries. Due to its threats on human life, socio-economic activities, agricultural productivities, shortage of water, natural resources and environments, the problems re...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/25349
This investigation was concern to study the removal of methylene blue pollutants from aqueous solution using nano ZnO synthesized from raw materials of zinc oxide. The equilibrium adsorption data were analyzed using adsorption models of Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin. The thermo...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/25000