Aim: Register new species gradually becomes more difficult as sampling of a community progresses, addressing increasingly rarer species. Thus, although biodiversity assessments would ideally require complete samplings, only partial samplings are ordinarily achieved when species a...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18809
A country’s socioeconomic condition and quality of life is reflected in the rate of child mortality in that country. This paper examined the differentials in child mortality rate across socioeconomic, demographic and selected health characteristics in rural Nigeria, employing the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9643
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Although great advancements have been made in the treatment and control of cancer progression, significant deficiencies and room for improvement remain. A number of undesired side effects such as vomiting, hair loss, immunosu...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18862
Background: According to the role of estrogens in metabolic responses to high-fat diet and/or stress, this study aimed to investigate the effect of high- cow intra-abdominal fat diet either alone or combined with acute foot-shock stress on glucose metabolism at proestrus and die...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18905
Aims: The main objective of the present study is to compare between indirect ELISA and TBIA for detecting some faba bean (Vicia faba L) viruses in naturally infected faba bean plants. Methodology: Fifty four samples with different mosaic and mottle symptoms were separately collec...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/19181
Aim: Corchorus olitorius is indubitably one of the most important vegetables in Benin. It is grown in most regions of the country and also in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Therefore, the aim was to determine th...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/17642
Aim: To investigate whether Glasgow Coma Score at admission can be used to predict one year mortality in a resource constrained scenario lacking prehospital care. Study Design: Prospective observational study Place and Duration of Study: Study was conducted at the King George Med...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18159
Sunil Kanti Mondal, Rabindra Nath Das, Sudip Kundu, Jinseog Kim, Gurprit Grover & Shamim Akhtar Ansari·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
The present article focuses how the genome size and GC content are explained based on codon and amino-acid usage. This current study aims to identify the statistically significant factors of genome size and GC content using statistical modeling. The present analyses show that hab...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/16709
I. J. Barde, J. O. O. Bale, S. B. Oladele, M. Y. Fatihu, P. R. Kumbish, A. G. Rimfa, I. S. Teki, G. D. Moses, J. S. Ahmed & P. A. Okewole·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aim: To determine some haematological changes in Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) experimentally infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum Methodology: A total of 160 (108 males and 52 females) Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were used in this...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18450
Between the months of May and August, 2014, a disease outbreak in two small poultry farms consisting of 600 and 550 Isa Brown layers both located in Umuahia, Abia state was reported to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike. The two f...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18418
Midchannel subtidal Polychaete Fauna were collected at the Bonny-estuary and analysed for their composition and abundance in relation to biotic and abiotic factors that are associated with life history strategies through a twelve-month cycle. The diversity index of Shannon-Weiner...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18321
Molecular analyses were performed on 14 isolates of Penicillium species. The Penicillium isolates examined were collected from different localities and habitats of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and maintained on Czapek Dox's and Waksman's media. Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR)...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/13657
Aims: The specific objective of this study was to estimate the genetic components for some physiological parameters to use in breeding programs. Place and Duration of Study: The present research was conducted in the Experiments Farm at University Putra Malaysia (UPM) during crop...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/8215
Background: Nowadays, there is a great interest towards medical and nutritional properties of Spirulina platensis due to its beneficial compounds. The purpose of this study was to incorporate Iranian traditional cookies with S. platensis biomass as a supplement ingredient. Materi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/13492
Rajeev Pratap Singh, Abhijit Sarkar, Chandan Sengupta, Pooja Singh, Roberta Lima Miranda, Luis Alfredo Pinheiro Leal Nunes, Ademir Sérgio Ferreira de Araujo & Wanderley José de Melo·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
The use of organic wastes, from municipal and industrial activities, as source of plant nutrients and soil conditioners increased worldwide. However, there is a concern with the environmental pollution. Currently, these organic wastes are disposed in open dump in developing count...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11040