Aims: To determine the prevalence and severity of cardiac arrhythmias in a rural Australian population using ECG assessment. Study Design: This is a University-based research project. Comparative design with random samples used. Place and Duration of Study: School of Community He...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4047
Aims: Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is an identified risk of systemic antibacterial therapy with fluoroquinolones. The risk and its severity, including the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) between individual agents is uncertain. This study examines the association betwee...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/6954
Sugarcane is an important crop of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. However, the yield per unit area is below some advanced sugarcane growing areas of the world, and the national average of Pakistan. Improved methods of selection resulting in higher yielding sugarcane cult...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6086
Potato is the world's fourth important food crop after wheat, rice and maize because of its great yield potential and high nutritive value. In Kenya, potato is constrained by low seed tuber production in the informal sector. This is partly due to improper fertilizer regimes and i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6738
Sugarcane breeders often face significant genotype x environment interactions in their trials grown under multiple environments. Hence, genotypes need to be tested for their stability across different environments keeping in view the significant interactions. An experiment compri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6615
The aim of this study is to show that geometric phase is a consequence of curvature in non-Euclidean geometries being related to the areas of spherical and hyperbolic triangles. In hyperbolic geometry it is well-known that the angular deficit of a hyperbolic triangle is related t...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/6837
Aims: To evaluate the thermodynamical parameters and their excess functions to find the molecular interactions between unlike molecules in ternary liquid mixtures. Study Design: Ultrasonic velocities, densities and viscosities have been measured for the ternary mixtures of quinol...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/6636
The production of bio-ethanol from corn chaff and cassava waste water was carried out after pretreatment with liquid hot water. Proximate analysis was carried out on the wastes using standard methods and the results obtained for corn chaff were carbohydrate (1.64%), fibre (22%),...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/6913
Three pot experiments were conducted to assess the capacity of asclite in reducing arsenic (As) contents in vegetable plants from arsenic contaminated soil. Asclite is an artificially made granular amorphous iron (Fe)-hydroxide material having high ability in adsorbing As(III) as...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6766
Background: Brucellosis is a serious re-emerging zoonosis which vastly afflicts human health and animal productivity. The reported incidence may under-represent the real burden of the disease that has drastically evolved during the past decade. Incomplete epidemiological data par...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7025
Challenges of water resources in Lebanon are well pronounced. Even though sufficient water resources exist and high precipitation is often recorded, Lebanon’s water is threatened by several physical and anthropogenic challenges that make it a country under water stress. This issu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/6990
Aims: The aim of the present work is to estimate and to predict the pollutant concentrations coming from vehicles in Yaounde city. Study Design: A sample of vehicles was selected and experimental measurements of pollutants were made using a combustion analyser. Place and Duration...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/6368
Aims: The present study w as set up to investigate the physicochemical and microbial contents of waste water discharged into the Ikpoba Rivers as well as water samples obtained from the river at different points of collection with a view to determining impact on the water body. S...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7061
Aims: Flow over gravel dunes is investigated. Measured velocity and Reynolds stress distributions over gravel dunes are compared to those for sand bedforms under similar geometric and hydraulic conditions. Place and Duration of Study: Experiments were carried out at the hydraulic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7456
Purpose: Starting the Conversation was a pilot project to test an intervention for childhood obesity, a major public health epidemic, using a free smartphone application (app). The primary aim was to assess students’ knowledge of nutritional indicators, physical exercise and use...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5512