Aims/ Objectives: To develop a compartment based mathematical model, fit daily quarantine data from Ministry of Health of Kenya, estimate individuals in latency and infected in general community and predict dynamics of quarantine for the next 90 days. Study Design: Cross-sectiona...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1030287
Sexual dimorphism, defined as phenotypic differences between males and females, is a common phenomenon in animals. In this line, Rensch’s rule states that sexual size dimorphism increases with increasing body size when the male is the larger sex and decreases with increasing aver...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1030286
Chinedu Ifeanyi Atama, Chioma Julieth Onovo, Chioma Janefrances Okeke, Ossai Nelson & Christopher Didigwu Nwani·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2020
The multiple industrial, domestic, agricultural, medical, and technological applications of heavy metals have led to their wide distribution in the environment, raising concerns over their potential effects on human health and the environment. This work focused on the determinati...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1030285
Bilateral asymmetry is defined as a deviation of a whole organism or a part of it from a perfect symmetry, and different categories can be recognized. One is the fluctuating asymmetry, defined as the random developmental variation of a trait (or character) that is expected to be...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1030284
CoViD-19 pandemic is a viral disease caused by SARS-COV-2virus and since December 2019, has spread rapidly in all the world countries; At the end of June 2020, over 10 million peoples were infected in the world and more than 500,000 deaths have been identified. Due to its fast tr...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i930282
Lonchophyllinae comprises four genera of Neotropical nectarivorous bats. Inside this subfamily the genus Lonchophylla is one of the most diverse. A total of 51 Lonchophylla skulls from Colombia (L. robusta n=34 and L. thomasi n=17) was studied by means of geometric mo...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1030283
Weder Ferreira dos Santos, Osvaldo José Ferreira Junior, Lucas Carneiro Maciel, Joênes Mucci Peluzio, Flávio Sérgio Afférri, Layanni Ferreira Sodré, Lucas Alves de Faria, Lucas Sodré Vieira, Adriano Silveira Barbosa & Rafael Marcelino da Silva·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2020
Aims: This study aimed to select efficient and responsive maize genotypes to the use of nitrogen for silage. Study Design: The experimental design was randomized blocks in a 2 x 11 factorial scheme, the first factor being two nitrogen levels: 165 kg ha-1 of N and 15 kg ha-1 of N,...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i930281
Dynamics of the blood flow play an important role in the development and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. In recent decades, blood flow simulation has been widely used to better understand the symptomatic spectrum of different diseases, in order to improve existing or develo...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i930274
This paper presents the dosimetric parameters characterizations of a megavoltage therapeutic photon beam. The main focus of this study is to investigate and analyze the parameters of percentage depth dose (PDD) and tissue maximum ratio (TMR) due to the importance of treatment sys...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i930280
COV-19, HIV/AIDS, Flu H1N1 and many other zoonotic diseases are emergent during Anthropocene epoch due to climatic anomalies. Bacteria’s, viruses, pathogens are associated with human cause zoonoses mainly resulting from domestication. Minimum 61% of human pathogens are zoonotic c...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i930271