Starch, one of the commonly used additives in drilling fluids, degenerates with time under cyclic temperature and pressure loads, causing changes in mud properties. This study was designed to establish the effect of temperature and aging on water base mud treated with starches pr...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14870
The study compared the relationship of academic performance of Secondary School Students in English language with Mathematics, Biology and Economics in relation to school type and parents educational background. The study was conducted in some Secondary Schools spread across four...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15562
Studying the health behaviours of adolescents essential for the promotion of healthy lifestyles for adolescence and beyond. The aim of this study was to determine differences in health behaviours in two groups of post-secondary students: One group which presented the holistic app...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14366
Geoelectrical investigation of soils in Umudike area of Abia State was undertaken in order to determine the competence of the soils as foundation materials. A total of 18 Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES), using Schlumberger configuration was carried out. The results revealed t...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14667
In this paper a genetic algorithm to solve the problem of load balancing in green cloud computing environment was proposed. For a specified total load on N clouds, the proposed algorithm finds an optimal load vector of length less than or equal to N. It helps in avoiding overheat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15412
A mobile ad-hoc network is a collection of mobiles nodes forming an ad-hoc network without the assistance of any centralized structures [1]. It is a collection of communication devices or nodes that wish to communicate without any fixed infrastructure and pre-determined organizat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14987
Background: Serological tests remain the basis of toxoplasmosis diagnosis since direct detection of Toxoplasma gondii by microscopy is less sensitive and PCR is inaccessible for routine screening. Unfortunately, serological screening in pregnant women for T. gondii-specific antib...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/15117
Aims: Malaria is a major endemic public health problem in Nigeria and its diagnosis is often either missed or over-diagnosed. It is therefore necessary to determine the use of malaria diagnostic tests by the Community Health Physicians in Nigeria to make the appropriate diagnosis...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/13283
Breast cancer is becoming very prevalent in developing countries including Nigeria which is now being bedeviled by the twin public health challenge of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Aims: This study was conducted to assess breast cancer knowledge and screening p...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/15449
Introduction: Children are the creators and the shapers of tomorrow and school marks an important early milestone in the child’s life long journey of intellectual and psychological development. Objective: To assess the school health services in government and private schools of B...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/14972
Aims: The study aimed to determine the level of awareness and status of tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination among female undergraduates in Port Harcourt. Study Design: This was a cross sectional descriptive study carried out among female undergraduate students. Place and Duration of...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/15468
Synthesis, Characterization and Screening of Some Schiff Bases as Potential Antimicrobial Agents Schiff bases derived from 4-amino antipyrene were prepared, and IR and NMR spectral analysis characterized their structure. The Schiff bases produced were (1) 4-((4-chlorobenzylidine...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/3613
We analysed geographic variation in the number of males per 100 females at birth also called the secondary sex ratio (SR), the crude birth rate (CBR), the total fertility rate (TFR) and the twinning rate (TWR). Earlier studies have noted geographic variations in the TWR and racia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15182
Blood group antigens were associated with peptic ulcer disease, which is potentially caused by Helicobacter pylori. It was recently demonstrated that the receptor for H. pylori is the blood group antigen lewisb, which is exposed only in blood group O. Objectives: To report the po...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14044
Diarrhoea is one of the foremost public health problems worldwide especially among Children under five years in developing countries. Only few studies have investigated the epidemiology and virulence of Escherichia coli pathotypes in South-Eastern and South-Western Nigeria leavin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15623