Aims: To study the admission patterns and outcome of children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Nepal. Methods: Demographic profile, diagnosis, treatment, supportive measures and outcome of children admitted to the PICU of B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10318
Aims: Injection snoreplasty was recently introduced as a safe, effective, and minimally invasive treatment for primary snoring. We assess the effectiveness of the treatment in our patients. Study Design: It was a prospective, non-randomised study on 54 patients with primary snori...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7928
Aims: The aim of this paper is to provide a note on “Soft matrix theory and its decision making”. Study Design: In a recent paper [N. Cagman, S. Enginoglu, Soft matrix theory and its decision making, Computers and Mathematics with Applications 59 (10) (2010) 3308-3314], Çaðman an...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10507
Two response surface methodologies involving historical data designs have been successfully developed with the aim of predicting optimum operating parameters for bioelectricity generation from sugar wastewater. The regression models evaluated the effect of waste water concentrati...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10402
Aims: Saline and brackish water has been encountered in more than half of the boreholes across Kilifi County. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between lithology and structural geology and the quality of water encountered in boreholes in the study area. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8784
Aims: The expression of gene and gene product is typically inhibited by a small non-coding RNA (microRNA) or DNA methylation. The aim of this study is to investigate mechanisms involving microRNA let-7f by which the repeated cycles of ethanol exposure and withdrawal provoke mitoc...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/11533
Aim: Intellectual disability often referred to as a mental, cognitive or mental retardation is a lifelong condition that affects intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors. Information about children with intellectual disability attending regular schools is limited in India...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/10610
Aims: In this study, we investigated three lottery strategies: random, low and high frequency strategies, usually employed by lottery players. For the three strategies, we considered whether the selection of numbers in Oyo State lottery occurred with equal probability, whether th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11432
Namibia became independent in 1990. Since then, the democratic government has pursued various development policy tools to empower Namibians economically. The 4th National Development Plan identified four strategic economic growth enhancing activities, namely agriculture, manufact...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9299
This study empirically assesses the livelihood and crop diversification of rural farm households in Remo Division of Ogun State Nigeria. The study drew a sample of 120 rural farm households through a multi-stage sampling technique and the primary data obtained were analyzed using...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/8608
Background and Aim: Acalypha wilkesiana, commonly called Irish petticoat, is native to the south pacific islands and belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae. The plant has antimicrobial and antifungal properties and in traditional medicine, the leaves are eaten as vegetables in the m...
In this paper, we implemented a very important method to solve nonlinear partial differential equations known as the exp(-Φ(ξ))-expansion method. Recently, there are several methods being constructed for finding analytical solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. H...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11563
This paper presents the development of fractional order PIλDμ and fuzzy- controllers for control of dynamic plant. The fractional order derivative and integral are described. The designs of fractional order PIλDμ - and fuzzy controllers have been done. The parameters of fractiona...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11540
The young and old stock stem barks of Parinari polyandra Benth. were air-dried, chopped into smaller pieces and cold extracted exhaustively with ethanol. The phytochemical screening of the crude extracts was carried out using standard procedures while the young stem bark crude ex...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/11267