Aim: Currently a variety of different colour vision tests exist in clinical practice each with its own merits and limitations. The Ishihara test is commonly used to test for congenital deficiency, causing red-green deficits. However acquired deficiency is also common in any ocula...
Aims: To measure the nose of the Hausa and Yoruba ethnic groups in Nigeria and to compare same with other ethnic groups. The working hypothesis is that the two ethnic groups will have the same nose type since they share same environmental conditions. Study Design: This was a pros...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/3958
Aims: To use the ubiquitous dirt scavenger, Chlorella sp. as an affordable, low tech transducing device in the interplay between energy utilization and extreme climatic and ecological impacts which is a key to sustainable development. Methodology: Chlorella sp. was isolated from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7064
Aims: Control of microbial pathogens by using antagonistic microorganisms is a promising alternative to chemical fungicides. The objective of the present study was to isolate and characterize soil actinomycetes and to their inhibitory activity against some fungal plant pathogens....
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6619
Background: Fertility is declining in many countries and there has been substantial interest in the potential adverse effects of exposure to environmental hazardous chemicals, including pesticides on male reproduction, and it was evident that using pesticides play as the major re...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4925
Aims: Adolescents and young adults engage in risky sexual behaviors that may expose them to risk of contracting sexual transmitted diseases. The aim of this study is to assess the attitude, sexual practices and risk perception to STIs including HIV/AIDS among students of the Univ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/6103
The aim of this study is to assess the concentrations of selected toxic metals (Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn and Cd) in some herbal plants sold in 3 markets within Ibadan, Nigeria. Sampling was done on a daily basis for 7 days in 2012. Blended plant samples were heated at 550ºC for 4 hours and...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/5929
Let f6(x, y, z) be a symmetric homogeneous polynomial of degree six. Based on cancelling the high coefficient of f6(x, y, z), we give some practical sufficient conditions to have f6(x, y, z) ≥ 0 for any nonnegative real variables x, y, z. Some applications are given in order to e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7062
This paper sought to study and examine the need to investigate with quantitative data whether the objectives of higher enrolment has been met with the introduction of School Feeding Programme in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Time series analysis was used to analyze the data obtain...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/4949
Aims: The study was aimed at isolating, identifying and assessing the effectiveness of indigenous rhizobia nodulating P. vulgaris in Lake Victoria Basin (LVB). Study Design: Randomized complete block design. Place and Duration of Study: Soil and nodule samples were collected from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5757
Transparent Conducting Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) and Zinc Oxide (ZnO) thin films were deposited with Pulsed Laser Deposition PLD at 300°C. The ITO films have small grain size of 5-10 nm and a high value transmission (95%) in the wavelength range from 300 to 700 nm with a low resisti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/6812
Buruli ulcer (BU) is a tropical disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans (M. ulcerans) but with “unknown” means of transmission. In order to help reduce this disease, many preventive and treatment measures have been recommended and used in the past years around the globe. This ai...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6245
Luigi Menghini, Claudio Ferrante, Lidia Leporini, Giorgio Pintore, Annalisa Chiavaroli, Rugia Shohreh, Lucia Recinella, Giustino Orlando, Michele Vacca & Luigi Brunetti·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2013
Aims: Oxidative stress is an imbalance in the pro-oxidant/antioxidant homeostasis, characterized by excess accumulation of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) and free radicals that can be toxic for cells by initiating disruptive peroxidation reactions on cellular substrat...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/7150
Ion nanobeams are used to write data bits of nanometer diameter into storage materials and photon near-field technology is employed to read this novel kind of digital memory.
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/6711
This article discusses the importance of innovation and knowledge as a sustainable competitive advantage in the value chain of avocado exporters located in Uruapan, Michoacán. The measurement of these dimensions is made to indicators used in this research model, in bringing the m...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6493