The increase in groundwater demand for various human activities has placed great importance on water science and management globally. Human health, industrial and agricultural development as well as the ecosystem is all at risk unless soil and water resources are effectively mana...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/7160
Reproductive tourism is the act of crossing an international border to seek assisted reproductive services, which can include maternal surrogacy. Ethical analyses of this phenomenon may be poorly served by considering the Western liberal framework alone. In previous studies, we i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7394
AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between excess body weight gain and plasma insulin, lipid profile and anthropometric indices in overweight/obese civil servants urban city dwellers in Nigeria where fast food outlets are fast growing. Study Design: This...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7075
Aim: To determine the factors associated with a low CD4 count among HIV-1 positive patients. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Adult HIV clinic at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, between October 2010 and April 2011. Methodology: Data on...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8469
Aims: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other related species. It typically affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can affect other sites (extra-pulmonary TB). A profusion of articles have been published on the accuracy and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7832
The Ferrocene additive is also reported as UV active and giving absorption peak of 220-260 nm at 2.8 X 10-3 mol/l. Ferrocene additive was melt blended with LDPE at 3 different concentration of ferrocene i.e. 1, 2 & 3% using twin screw extruder. After blending with LDPE the pe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4813
Background: Pediatric mortality rates are high throughout sub-Saharan Africa with most deaths occurring within 48 hours of admission to hospital. Early identification and treatment of at risk children is essential to improve outcomes, however, few studies have identified disease...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7251
The rising trend of crime in Nigeria is usually blamed on the high rate of unemployment. There is need therefore, to empirically investigate the relationship between unemployment and crime. Hence, this paper examined the impact of unemployment on different types of crime in Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5991
Aim: To evaluate the association between serum lipids and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in type 2 diabetic subjects. Study Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Diabetes and Ophthalmology units of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi in the A...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/4183
Aims: Female genital mutilation is a harmful traditional practice which is an infringement on the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls and has profound psychosocial as well as reproductive health morbidities. This study aimed at measuring the change in the incidence...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/1683
Aim: This study seeks to examine the cure characteristics and rheological properties of modified kaolin – Natural rubber vulcanizates. Methodology: Metal salt of rubber seed oil (RSO-Na) was used to modify kaolin and was then introduced into Natural Rubber (NR) by melt intercalat...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/6575
A very simple, ultra-sensitive and highly selective non-extractive spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace amount of cadmium using 2/, 3, 4/, 5, 7- pentahydroxyflavone (morin) has been developed. Morin reacts in a slightly acidic (0.000001-0.000012M H2SO4) in 50%...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/5829
Colloidal particles with controlled size and composition are of fundamental and technological interest as they provide solution to many technological and environmental challenges. In this study, an environmentally friendly approach was adopted to synthesize silver colloidal parti...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/6810
To identify the onset time of bacterial proliferation in mechanical ventilator circuits in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and the colonizing agents involved, as well to verify any possible pre-use contamination, we conducted a prospective microbiological analysis of the c...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6153
In this paper, we use a method in order to find exact explicit traveling solutions in the subspace of the phase space for coupled KdV equations. The key idea is removing a coupled relation for the given system so that the new systems can be solved. The existence of solitary wave...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/5474