Background: Practicing fasting during Ramadan by pregnant women might be risky. Controversies still exist about the nature and the magnitude of metabolic changes in healthy pregnant women who practice fasting. Objectives: To systematically review literature pertaining to the prac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15022
Aims: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a marker used as an indicator of severe bacterial infection, which causes febrile seizure (FS). In this study, the level of PCT in patients with FS during the first hour of attack was investigated. Furthermore, the correlation between PCT and serum Ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13252
Aims: Hydraulic conductivity plays an important role in the evaluation of various soil functions, which in turn may become decisive in urban development plans. Different approaches to measure hydraulic conductivity often inhere in methodological artefacts. To address the subjecte...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16969
Three years field studies were conducted at teaching and research farm of faculty of Agriculture, Bayero University Kano to evaluate the effect of various tillage practices on weed control and yield of groundnut. The study consisted of nine (9) treatments comprising of two (2) ze...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14540
This paper investigate the optimal control problem for a modified Novikov equation with dissipation. The existence and uniqueness of regular local solution to the corresponding initial boundary value problem is guaranteed by the Faedo-Galerkin method. A critical estimate of the s...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2014/15087
Aim: To assess the factors influencing registration for antenatal care in Nigerian pregnant women. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The antenatal clinic of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospit...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/13357
Aims: To determine the nutrient composition and phytochemical properties of Psidium guajava (Guava) and Cucumis sativus (Cucumber) fruits grown in Gashua fadama area of Yobe State, Nigeria in order to provide an up-to-date nutrient composition data and phytochemical potentials...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/13775
Surface soil samples were obtained from six (6) urban dumpsite soils namely: Uyo, Abak, Eket, Onna, Ikono and Ikot Ekpene within Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Control samples were also collected from a forest in Etinan local government area of the same State. Samples collected were t...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/15331
Soil water and nitrogen (N) are the two most important factors in wheat for obtaining higher grain yield. In this context, a field trial was conducted at the research farm (25â°38´ N, 88â°41´ E and 38.20 m above sea level) of the Wheat Research Centre (WRC), Bangladesh to ident...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15091
The paper presents two methods for solving the fractional Fornberg-Whitham (FFW) equation. Based on the peaked solutions of FW equation, suppose the solution’s variable-separated form, and the FFW equation is transformed into a constant fractional differential equation (FDE). To...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15392
Every organisation has an objective to optimise the utility function of its available operational assets. For commercial vehicle transport operators, the goal is to operate the vehicles for as long as they can make net contribution to the organisation’s corporate objective. Hence...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15454
This paper deals with the problem of delay-dependent robust H∞ ï¬ltering for switched T-S fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delays and parameter uncertainties. This represents a novelty in this research domain since to the best of our knowledge there is no paper, in the l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13916
In this paper the study of unsteady hydromagnectic free flow of viscoelastic fluid (Walter’s B) past an infinite vertical plate through porous medium was conducted. The temperature is assumed to be oscillating with time, also the effects of hall-current is taken in to account. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13849
Cloud computing is an evolutionary approach that completely changes how computing services are produced, priced and delivered. Cloud computing allows to access services that reside in a distant datacenter, other than local computers. Resource provisioning is the key process in cl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/12641
Aims: Phlomis cancellata is an aromatic and native plant that is a member of Labiatae. Not only a traditional medicine but also the plant is considered in modern medicine and different industries because of its essential oil characteristics. The features of essential oils in arom...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9642