Aims: To examine teachers’ and observers’ perceptions of classroom climate and goal orientation in high school biology classrooms in Kenya. Study Design: A mixed design utilizing quantitative and qualitative approach. Place and Duration of Study: A boys’ and girls’ boarding high...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/2413
Aims: The study constructed and tested a seven variable model for providing a causal explanation of student midwives’ achievement in Anatomy and Physiology in terms of student performance indicators of entry qualifications, academic self-concept and academic support seeking and s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/2375
The paper examined community participation and sustainable development in the Niger Delta. The research question addressed the extent at which sustainable development of the Niger Delta and improved welfare of oil producing communities is dependent on their participation in the d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/2392
The purpose of this research is to ascertain the impact of fair reward system on employees’ job performance in Nigerian Agip Oil Company limited Port-Harcourt. The research question addressed the extent at which improved employees job performance/reduced rate of industrial action...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/2529
Research Context: The aim of the study was to investigate students’ affinity for lecture attendance using differential equations and to explore reasons why students absent themselves from lectures. Research Methods: The study employed a quantitative methodology which was adopted...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/2048
Aims: The modern educators have minimized didactic teaching by lectures, as outdated spoon feeding that dampens creative thinking and keeps the student away from reflective practice and lifelong learning. There are diverse ways for delivering medical curriculum ranging from teach...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/2258
Kolb's classifies learners as divergers, convergers, assimilators and accommodators. Do these learners adopt different learning strategies? Phenomenology is concerned with the study of experience from the perspective of the individual and is based on a paradigm of personal knowle...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1249
The assessment of climate change impacts on frequency of floods is important for management of flood disasters. It is recognized that methods for the assessment are subject to various sources of uncertainty (choice of climate model and emission scenario, course spatial and tempor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2813
Aims: To compare isotopic signatures of contrasting (due to the structure and metabolism) organs in mice of two contrasting ages. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Biology Department of Moscow State University; Institute of Geochemistry and Analyti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1591
It is noticed that intelligent buildings are aimed to consider social, environmental and economic values beside a substantial focus to the automated technological attributes. Due to many promising green building initiatives, the accelerated level of interests towards the applicat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2531
Syndromes associated with acute bilateral lesions of the basal ganglia in diabetic uremic patients are uncommon, and usually have reversible clinical and imaging findings. Such syndromes are seen almost exclusively in patients with diabetes mellitus and renal failure. Previously...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2068
Aims: This paper examines the interactions between climate parameters and cardamom capsule yield and its sustainability in Indian Cardamom Hills. Methodology: Temporal trends were evaluated at annual, seasonal and monthly time scale using Mann-Kendall method. Significant trends w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1495
Aim: To investigate anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive potentials of aqueous stem bark extract of Khaya senegalensis A. Juss (Meliaceae) in rodents. Methodology: Anti-inflammatory activity of aqueous stem bark extract of K. senegalensis (AKS) was studied in different models. E...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1931
Climate change will deeply affect the precipitation and evapotranspiration around the world. The sustainability of groundwater resources is crucial for regional and local communities, which is intimately tied to the changing recharge rate. To accurately assess the recharge rate,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2503
Aims: Among the antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) applied for secondary prophylaxis of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), carbamazepine (CBZ) may cause severe side effects and worsen traumatic brain injury (TBI). Presentation of Case: Two days after a bicycle accident causing severe TBI, a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2306