Aims: Malaria is a public health problem in Nigeria. Knowledge of some baseline data such as Human Biting Rates (HBR) is needed to assess the epidemiology of the disease and in estimating the vector-human contact. This study provides information on the behavioural patterns of ano...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/23394
Background: Blaschko’s lines are believed to be originated from the migration of mosaic populations of epidermal cells and tissues. Pityriasis rosea (PR) is an exanthem which might be associated with human herpesvirus-7 and -6 infections. Objective: To evaluate the risk factors,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/24416
Aims: The study is undertaken to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites and the predisposing factors that make the students to be susceptible to intestinal parasitic infections in the study area. Study Design: Complete randomized design was used to sample the population...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/23886
Aims: This is an innovative cell-based research project focused on the hair follicle dermal papillae (DP) as a source of key-element cells for regeneration of hair growth. DP is major dermal compartment which has a role in hair formation at embryogenesis and is able to differenti...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23393
The mangrove ecosystem of India is an extensively unexplored source for actinomycetes with the potential to produce secondary metabolites of biological importance. In this study, twenty two actinomycetes were isolated from different soil samples collected from the Bhitarkanika ma...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24102
Geophysical survey, involving Schlumberger depth soundings, were conducted at Alade, Ondo State, Nigeria. This was aimed at delineating the water supply areas and assessment of the vulnerability of the aquifers to contaminants infiltrating from the surface. The area is underlain...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22747
It has always been thought that primes numbers within natural numbers do not fulfill well-defined rules that can express themselves through a sequential structure to facilitate checking their properties. The study of congruence 1 mod 24, allows us to find some of the properties o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24367
This study is aimed at the synthesis and amine functionalization of Jatropha curcas activated carbon. Waste Jatropha curcas shell was used to produce the Jatropha Activated Carbon (JAC) via chemical activation with Potasium hydroxide (KOH). The JAC was modified with triethanolami...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24253
The study analyzed sustainable agricultural resource use in Nigeria using the Ecological Footprint Approach. The results showed that the emergy density of the earth and the country were 3.10E+10 sej/m2/year and 1.33E+11 sej/m2/year respectively, indicating that a total energy of...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/23348
Aims: The main objective of this study was to investigate and analyze the farmers’ attitude towards agroforestry, the reasons for adoption of agroforestry by farmers and the problems being faced by them in the Jhenaidah district, Bangladesh. Place and Duration of Study: The surve...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/21760
Responses to recent infectious disease outbreaks, such as to Influenza Pandemic 2009 and the on-going Ebola outbreak in West Africa, reveal the need for new and strengthened approaches to risk communication and governance. The article argues for a fundamental re-conceptualisation...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24033
Aims: The Prague classification for the reporting of Barrett’s oesophagus has been validated in previous studies and is recommended by the British Society of Gastroenterologists (BSG) in their latest guidelines. In this short study we aim to audit the adherence to the use of this...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24283
Aims: The purpose of the report is to study Structure of the Small Intestinal Mucosa after Acute Hemorrhagic Shock and Reperfusion of the Ischemic Limbs. Place and Duration of Study: The Department of Histology and Medical Biology, Tashkent State Institute of Dentistry, between M...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23197
Aims: Anxiety sensitivity (AS) might be the core vulnerability in the pathogenesis of AXIS I diagnosis and might be the important transdiagnostic target for the interventions for comorbid psychiatric symptoms in panic disorder (PD). This study aimed to examine the relationship of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23979
Background: Vitiligo is a common skin disorder characterized by macular depigmentation of the skin. Although the etiopathogenesis of the disease is still unclear, several studies have shown that within the cascade of pathogenesis of vitiligo, cytokines play an important role. Obj...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23959