Background and Objectives: There is paucity of reliable information on knowledge about hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in rural southwestern Nigeria. This study assessed the level of awareness, basic knowledge and management of hypertension and CV risk...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2685
Aims: We studied the variability in telomere length in cord blood collected from newborns of different birth weights and gestational ages. Study Design: Prospective cohort study. Place and Duration of Study: Samples were collected from KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital between M...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2676
Trichoepithelioma multiplex is a rare, benign cutaneous genodermatosis of disputed histogenesis, consisting of tumors of trichogenic origin. Aim: To explore the relationship between the anatomical location and the histopathological features of the trichoepitheliomas in a patient...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2930
In this paper, an extended spectral conjugate gradient method is proposed for solving unconstrained optimization problems, where the search direction is a linear combination of the gradient vector at current iteration and the search direction at the previous iteration. Instead of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2342
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology is widely used in many industries and also in scientific computing. This paper will first explore the term itself and then tries to find how it typically manifests itself in the softwares used in physical sciences. Some details regarding...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2878
Aims: We give some families which are meromorhic outside a compact countable set B of essential singularities. Our aim is to give some examples of the stable set (called the Fatou set) and the unstable set (called the Julia set) since there is not study of examples of any paramet...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2507
In this article, we consider a stochastic inventory system with two different items in stock, one is major item (I- commodity) and other is gift item (II- commodity). The maximum storage capacity for the th commodity is The demand time points for each commodity are assumed to fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/1862
Aims: Using Simple Artificial Neural Networks, and away from strict Boolean logic, this paper proposes a new design of memory array that has the ability to recognize erroneous and deformed data and specify the rate of error. Methodology: To achieve this work, artificial neural ne...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2632
In the present paper, we construct the analytical solutions of some nonlinear evolution equations involving Jumarie’s modified Riemann–Liouville derivative in mathematical physics; namely the space–time fractional modified Benjamin-Bona-Mahony(mBBM) equation and the space–time fr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2908
Aims: Raphia gentiliana De Wild fruit is edible. The aim of this work is to evaluate the anti-hyperglycemic activity of this fruit for its use as medicinal food. Study Design: Phytochemical analysis; extraction by lyophilzation process; measure of blood glucose level; calculation...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2013/2459
Aims: To establish a cell suspension culture of Jatropha curcas, family Euphorbiaceae for the biotransformation of the diterpenoid anti-cancer compound paclitaxel. Study Design: The development and maintenance of callus lines from the leaves and petioles of J. curcas and the stud...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2013/2881
Three simple, sensitive and reproducible spectrometric methods for the selective determination of nalbuphine–HCl in presence of its oxidative degradate were investigated. The first method depended on the quantitative densitometric evaluation of thin layer chromatograms of the dru...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/2443
Ocimum sanctum Linn. (Tulsi), a sacred and traditional medicinal plant of India which belongs to the family Lamiaceae possesses innumerable health benefits and therefore regarded as the “Elixir of Life”. The entire plant body including its leaves, stem, root, inflorescence and se...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2013/2433
Cherenkov radiation is an electromagnetic Radiation that occurs in different medium depending on the physical properties of the medium”. The sufficient scientific condition for the phenomenon to be occurred is that the velocity of charged particles moving with should be greater t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2826
Biostratigraphic work using palynology was undertaken in order to re-assess the lithofacies, chronostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of deposition of sediments in Murshe-1 well, Bornu Basin, northeastern Nigeria. Two hundred and ninety ditch cutting samples obtained from the expl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2665