This paper investigates empirically the long-run relationship and short-run dynamic linkages between financial development and economic growth in Sudan during the period 1970- 2011. The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration. The analys...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3387
Aims: The aim of this article is to come to the conclusion whether Porter’s five forces model can be adjusted for the purpose of assessing competitive environment of the tourist destination, in order to attract Tourism Foreign Direct Investments (TFDI), and use it as such as an a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4180
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the three northern regions of Ghana continue to find ways of meeting the aspirations of the poor. One way they try to achieve this goal is by adopting technological innovations. This paper explored technological innovations in a sample of 41 MF...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4951
The challenges that originate from changes in the global trade regime and the relative competitive environment in the global markets are reasons for deep concern for Bangladesh. Because of quota system abolition many of the less efficient suppliers will lose quota rents and marke...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4321
Background: Blind spot enlargement can be caused by a range of medical conditions and monitoring the size of the blind spot scotoma can indicate progression of disease. Objectives: The aim of this review is to establish the size of the blind spot scotoma in adults free of ocular...
Aims: 1) To compare mortality rate and causes of death between psychiatric patients of a Mental Health Department (MHD) and local population of Modena. 2) To appraise the impact of selected demographic and clinical variables on suicide. Study Design: Retrospective analysis. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2013/4825
Aims: To assess pharmacokinetic (PK) bioequivalence between a newly developed formulation, rapid-relese paracetamol plus sodium bicarbonate and caffeine (RAPC), containing 500 mg paracetamol + 65 mg caffeine + 325 mg sodium bicarbonate), and the currently marketed Panadol® Extra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/4104
Aims: To determine the effect of the hydrophobic forces involved in the interaction of cellulase (endo-β-1,4-glucanase from Aspergillus niger), and cationic surfactant n-alkyl trimethyl ammonium bromides (CnTAB), with varying chain lengths (n = 10, 12, 14, 16, 18), steady-state f...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4229
A Tolterodine tartrate (TLD) (R)-N, N-diisopropyl-3-(2-hydroxy-5-ethylphenyl)-3-phenylpropanamine L-hydrogen tartrate reagent. Its molecular formula and molecular weight are C26H37NO7 and 475.6 respectively, was employed for the sensitive spectrophotometric determination of gold(...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3541
B. Zh. Elmuradov, Kh. A. Bozorov, А. Zh. Kurbanbayeva, I. S. Ortikov, Kh. M. Bobakulov, N. D. Abdullayev, A. Yili2, H. A. Aisa & Kh. М. Shakhidoyatov·Chemical Science International Journal·2013
Interactions of 5,6-dimethyl- (1), 3,5,6-trimethylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-ones (2) and 2,3-dimethyl- (5-7), 2-methyl-3-methoxycarbonylthieno[2,3-d]dihydropyrrolo-, -tetrahydropyrido-, tetrahydroazepino[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones (14-16) with nitrating mixture were investigated....
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/4203
Aim: To develop simple, accurate and precise spectrophotometric and chromatographic methods for the estimation of Raloxifene Hydrochloride (RXF) in pure and pharmaceutical dosage forms. Study Design: Spectrophotometric and chromatographic methods. Place of Study: Pharmaceutical C...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/4598
Studying the influence of a nanoinclusion embedded in nanofiber reinforced composite alongside a nanofiber is the objective of the present investigation. The analysis is done based on 2D, linear elastic finite element through using finite element package ANSYS/Mechanical to explo...
Aims: We propose a gravitational potential method (GPM) as a supercluster finder based on the analysis of the local gravitational potential distribution measured by fast and simple algorithm applied to a spatial distribution of mass tracers. Methodology: the GPM performs a two-s...
Aims: To investigate the effects of time interval, age and gender on recall efficacy of Nigerians with the newly introduced vehicular plate numbering system using a tachistoscope. Study Design: A repeated measure design Place and Duration of Study: Ibadan, Nigeria, February 2013...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/3628
Aims: The main purpose of this research was to develop a new method to extract the most valuable texture features to differentiate between cyst and solid nodule classes in breast echography images. T-test coupled with leave-one-out cross-validation analysis technique was develope...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2013/3852