Fernanda Gomes de Souza, Thaís Luiza de Almeida Correa Lima, Érica dos Santos Sarges, Eduardo Dias de Almeida, Janaina Miranda Bezerra, Marly de Fátima Carvalho de Melo & Carolina Heitmann Mares Azevedo Ribeiro·International Blood Research & Reviews·2016
Aims: The objective of this study was to verify the occurrence of anaemia associated with intestinal parasites and their involvement in anemic patients’ platelet levels. Study Design: Population-based descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of the Study: School of P...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2016/24453
Introduction: The latest estimates of global cancer incidence show that prostate cancer has become the second most common cancer among men in the world. A number of reports have linked oxidative stress to prostate cancer. Although oxidative stress has been found to be much preval...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25093
Introduction: Awareness and adequate knowledge regarding blood cancers is a crucial intervention for proper management and control. Objectives: This study aimed to quantify and compare the level of knowledge among affected and unaffected persons, identify possible determinants of...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2016/24404
Objective: This study was to evaluate the normal ovarian volume among women of reproductive age using transvaginal ultrasound and correlating it with different age groups, parity and BMI. Methodology: A hospital-based cross-sectional descriptive study. The data were obtained from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24679
Aims: Type 1 DM (T1DM) patients are shown having lower bone mineral density (BMD). Wnt signaling pathway is important in bone homestasis. Sclerostin is a major inhibitor of this pathway. The objectives of our study are to evaluate sclerostin levels of T1DM patients and to analyse...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25400
Soil fertility depletion is a widespread degradation problem in achieving global food security, but different attempts are available for maize production systems to alleviate the problems. Nitrogen use efficiency is required to meet increasing demands to produce sufficient food f...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/23136
Aims: Patients’ expectations are essential part of healthcare delivery system. This would definitely relate to patient satisfaction and consequently would provide a guideline for promotion of community health level. This study illustrates the non-clinical expectations of patients...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25020
Aims: To examine the genetic diversity and relatedness among pepper accessions using agro-morphological markers. Study Design: Augmented design with single rows of each genotype. Place and Duration of Study: Research field, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpala-...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25186
The paper investigated the level of technical efficiency and its determinants in sweetpotato production in South-East agro-ecological zone of Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique was used in the selection of states and respondents. Two states, Abia and Enugu were rando...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/22057
Sarvjeet Singh, Pooja Grover, Jagmeet Kaur, Jasdeep Kaur, Inderjit Singh, Pritpal Singh, O. P. Choudhary, Anupama Hingane, C. V. Sameer Kumar & K. B. Saxena·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2016
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) genotypes acquired from diverse sources, were screened for water logging and salinity tolerance under laboratory and field conditions. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among the genotypes for various traits. Based on se...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24071
The objective of this work is focused to calculate the total mass attenuation coefficients, effective atomic numbers and electron densities in some soil samples for total and partial photon interactions in the wide energy range (1 keV–100 GeV). The values of these parameters have...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/23419
F. A. Orji, E. N. Dike, A. K. Lawal, A. O. Sadiq, F. Fashola, Y. L. Suberu, A. C. Famotemi, B. Ita, A. I. Ugbana, A. O. Adefiranye, E. E. Itoandon & G. N. Elemo·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
The production of cellulase from Aspergillus flavus isolated from Brewers’ Spent Grain (BSG) undergoing bio-deterioration was carried out using solid state fermentation method. Out of a total of four fungal isolates with cellulase producing potentials, Aspergillus flavus with a c...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24882
Aims: To evaluate the antibiotic resistance in non- enterococcal lactic acid bacteria. Study Design: Examination of commercially available yoghurts. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Applied microbiology and Brewing, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, from June 2011 and Ma...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/25178
Medicinal plants have always played a key part in health care. In fact, plants represent an enormous pool of new, undiscovered, and bioactive molecules. Therefore, ethnopharmacological and ethnobotanical studies are essential to discover new substances for the treatment of diseas...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/25091