This article helps to understand that there is no theory of optimal capital structure of the company in a perfect market where there are no transaction costs, costs of bankruptcy and tax and where information is perfect. It recalls that the consideration by some authors of marke...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/8381
Aims: Anxiety and depression are common in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The longitudinal relationships between mental health and disease severity, progression and symptom burden are unknown. This study aims to identify if the prevalence and severity of anxiety and depress...
Yong X. Gan, Jeffrey Zampell, Ryan N. Gan, Juan C. Miranda, Marla Lopez, Andrew Vitaljic, Bruce Y. Decker, James L. Smith & Jimmie C. Oxley·Archives of Current Research International·2014
Kinetic behavior of ammonia decomposition at titanium dioxide nanotube photosensitive anode was studied. Ammonia was dissolved into water to form solutions with difference concentrations. The ammonia concentration ranges from 0.025 wt% to 10 wt%. Time-dependent open-circuit poten...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25848
Background: Shoulder dystocia is an unpredictable, unpreventable obstetric emergency fraught with a universally accepted definition, no consensus management, and a wide variation in reported incidence worldwide. Aim: The aim of this review is to create awareness to Obstetricians...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8515
Saudi Arabia produces about 0.5 million tons and about 130,000 tons of poultry meat and eggs respectively per year and depends mainly on imported protein concentrate for feeding these birds. Therefore, it is important to produce poultry feed using locally available materials. The...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9524
Background: Despite the assumptions that people with disabilities are considered sexually inactive, this group of people is likely to engage in sexual risk behaviours. People with disabilities are the neglected group of population; investigating their sexual behaviour helps to de...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2014/8918
Wan Aliaa Wan Sulaiman, Fan Kee Hoo, Hamidon Basri, Shariful Hasan, Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim, Yoke Loong Foo, Siew Mooi Ching, Ramachandran Vasudevan, Mohd Hazmi Mohamed & Hasnur Zaman Hashim·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Aims and Background: Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) and extrapontine myelinolysis (EPM) are recognized as osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS). ODS is pathologically characterized by non-inflammatory demyelination of several brain structures with sparing of axons. This condit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9615
In this paper, non-Bayesian and Bayesian approaches are used to obtain point and interval estimation of the shape parameters, the reliability and the hazard rate functions of the Kumaraswamy distribution. The estimators are obtained based on generalized order statistics. The symm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9193
Aims: To construct a stable and functional lactic acid bacteria community that can be used in the ensilage of bamboo-shoot shell to improve the taste and flavor. Methodology: Using naturally fermented bamboo-shoot shell as initial sample, a qualitative microorganism source had be...
Ethno-communal conflict is a major bane of the Nigerian local government system. This paper examined the social and political conditions that predispose communities and groups to conflict, the impact of conflict on the citizenry and how it vitiates development. A descriptive rese...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9061
The amino acids, alanine (Ala) and phenyl alanine (Phe) and their Schiff bases (Ala-Sal), (Phe-Sal) were complexed with iron [III] metal. The complexes (Fe-Ala), (Fe-Phe) and Schiff bases complexes (Fe-Ala-Sal) and (Fe-Phe-Sal) were characterized by the UV, IR, NMR and SEM. The c...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9185
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) and adjunctive Strontium-90 (Sr90) beta radiotherapy with trabeculectomy in the management of neovascular glaucoma (NVG). Methods: Thirty seven eyes with NVG were randomly selected and divided int...
Konstantin Balayan, Maria Kahloon, Gabriel Tobia, Anna Postolova, Holly Peek, Araks Akopyan, Marie Lord, Alexandra Brownstein, Amira Aziz, Uju Nwabueze, Brian Blackmon, Alexander Joseph Steiner, Enrique Lopez & Waguih William IsHak·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2014
Aims: To review the relevant literature on Quality of Life (QOL) impairment in PTSD and the impact of treatment interventions on QOL. Methods: A database search from 1980-2012 was conducted using Medline, PsycINFO, and the PILOTS database using the keywords: “PTSD”, “posttraumati...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7649
K. Wooi Seong, M. Nor Asiah, M. Normi, M. Y. Aliza, A. Norhanim, A. Yasmin, A. T. Nur Syimah, K. Roslaili & M. Y. Narazah·International Blood Research & Reviews·2014
Aims: In South East Asia, there is no regional or local HHV-8 seroprevalence data on blood donors. Thus this study was aimed to determine the seroprevalence of HHV-8 among blood donors in National Blood Centre, Kuala Lumpur (NBCKL) and to test its association with donor socio dem...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/9537