Aims: Immune-mediated mechanism, such as deposition of complement (C3b) on erythrocytes leading to enhanced receptor-mediated uptake by macrophages has been proposed to contribute partly to the destruction of non-infected cells leading to anaemia. The extent of complement deposit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/9438
This study was aimed at determining the pattern of some assessors of obesity including body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) and the effect of these parameters on blood pressures in the studied population. The sample consisted of three hundred and fifty (350) undergr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/9663
Aims: To determine the incidence of sigmoid volvulus in Northern Uganda. Study Design: A cross-sectional (2 years retrospective and one year prospective) study design was conducted on patients’ medical records and those admitted, surgically managed or referred from the 19 hospita...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12451
Aims: Dementia is common among the elderly but it can also affect the younger age group. Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI) in Alzheimer Dementia (AD) are extensively studied and widely used. This case report aims to illustrate the usefulness of ChEIs in other non–age related neuro...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12752
The building of proper policies for the promotion of organic farming should be based on good understanding of the factors that affect farmers' decision to shift to organic farming. This study aims at defining the determinants of farmers' decision to convert to organic agriculture...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/11708
We examine the initial returns volatility of initial public offering by determining: (1) whether mispricing actually takes place during and after IPOs in Nigeria and Sri Lanka; (2) whether the mispricing (overpricing or underpricing) could constitute corporate fraud tendencies si...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12762
Bitcoin has two major roles: as currency and as financial asset. This paper attempts to address these roles: whether Bitcoin is a real currency, and what its financial features are. Using daily data of the exchange rates quoted from the world major Bitcoin dealer since the incept...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13308
In this paper, we propose an ecient modication of a New Homotopy Perturbation Method (NHPM) to obtain approximate and exact analytical solutions of Partial Dierential-Algebraic Equations (PDAEs). The NHPM is rst applied to the PDAE to obtain the exact solution in convergent serie...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12168
This work is devoted to study a doubly non linear elliptic-parabolic problem with quadratic gradient term by Rothe's method. We investigate the long time behavior of the solution to the discrete problem and prove the existence of compact global attractor. Our method relays on sem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8392
We use tensor product to introduce a new approach to the theory of integration. Such an approach will strengthen the existing various classical concepts of integral and will provide a continuous thread tying the subject matter together. The integral of vector-valued functions wit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12274
The paper examines the recent entrepreneurship education in senior secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. This is to ascertain the level of compliance with the curriculum’s contents, teachers’ competence and the extent to which it has empowered students for self-employment. The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11548
By imposing a particular constraint of solvability on the Liouville normal form of the BenDaniel-Duke type variable mass Schr¨odinger equation, we have derived a class of solvable potentials and harmonic oscillator type solutions for the system. The method has been shown to be ap...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/9756
‘Biofilm’ is a multi-community microbial association living on submerged substrates. Using the online search engine www.OJOSE.com to identify the 100 most recent journal articles, we found that the term ‘biofilm’ had been extensively used by journals from medical/pathological dis...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/10368
Aims: To investigate the hepatoprotective and nephroprotective potential of the methanolic extracts of the leaves, stem bark, seeds, fruit pulp, fruit bark and roots of Tamarindus indica Linn in acute and chronic rat model of organ injuries. Study Design: The acute-injury model i...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/8838
Objective: The assessment of midwifery competency in final examination is the one of the most important tests in midwifery educational course of students in bachelor’s degree. As objective structured clinical evaluation (OSCE) has become popular and is now part of the midwifery c...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/12775