Aims: A mother’s diet during pregnancy is considered one of the most important external factors affecting health of her child further in life. Unfavourable diet, together with advanced maternal age, high pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), and excessive pregnancy weight gain are...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15527
Fresh fruits are major sources of nutrients and vitamins which help to promote good health. However, fresh fruits may also harbour a wide range of microbial contaminants of public health significance. To assess the bacterial contaminants of fruits sold in Ugbowo campus of Univers...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15356
Aims: In order to inform public health action, we sought to compare the fetal outcome of adolescent pregnancies with the non-adolescent ones. Study Design: Retrospective cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Yaoundé Central Hospital, the largest facility of Centre...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15704
Molecular serotyping methods have advantages and disadvantages in terms of different parameters. Since different methods depend on different parameters there is a possibility that one serotype detected by one method maybe missed by another method. So it is very important to use c...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/15210
Background: The effect of crude extract of Erythrophleum suaveolens was studied on isolated tissues of the Rat’s phrenic nerve-diaphragm muscles. Study aimed to investigate the relaxant effect of crude extract of E. suaveolens on the skeletal muscle using isolated rat phrenic ner...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/14688
Context: Lactic acid bacteria particularly Lactobacilli are considered to be the most useful group of microorganisms for potential uses as biopreservatives. Lactobacilli preserve dairy foods like curds by producing various organic and inorganic compounds that are antagonistic to...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/15657
Aims: The main aim of this study was to find out the salinity tolerant varieties of potato and to evaluate the growth and yield performance of potato varieties under different salinity level. Study Design: The experiment was laid out in the two factor completely randomized design...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/15879
In some human infections including those of blood, skin and respiratory tract, the causative bacterial agents tend to overlap, especially Staphylococcus spp. and Streptococcus spp. Such overlaps constitute difficulties in the choice of diagnostic tools, antibacterial chemotherapy...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/12934
Review of 3D vibration control on turbo-generators is reported. Vibration has been identified as the symptoms of likely deadly and life threatening potential problems affecting Turbo-generators which eventually lead to their degradation. The causes and consequences of vibration i...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/12203
Heavy metal accumulations in the environment are major sources of pollution and contamination. Soil samples were collected from Kotur industrial area and analysed for heavy metal concentration such as Vanadium, Chromium, Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Barium, Lead, Rubidium, Stron...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15858
Whether or not tax evaders join tax amnesty programs, an important indicator is the influence of tax amnesty programs on compliance. To study this question, the paper sheds light on a relatively neglected but important area of prevailing tax amnesty literature in the economic ana...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15345
Considerable interest in this article is to introduce the sequence space derived by generalized difference Fibonacci matrix in which r,s ∈ \ {0}, also to discuss and compare with some wellknown spaces defined previously. In addition to those, after demonstrating that the spaces...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15923
In this paper, we study the possibility of finite time or asymptotic compensation of disturbances f, for a class of linear lumped systems augmented with the output equation ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14872
The recognition of the non-accelerating, periodic pattern of sea levels as described by the tide gauges measurements does not require any special mathematical tool. Providing enough data of sufficient quality have been recorded, If the classical linear fitting is used to compute...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/15652
In this paper, we give the notion of (∈, ∈ ∨q)-fuzzy soft group and introduce its some properties and structural characteristics. Moreover, the definition of (∈, ∈ ∨q)-fuzzy normal soft group is given and some of its basic properties are studied. Also, the theorem regarding of ho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15518