Unsteady MHD free convective flow past an exponentially accelerated inclined plate has been investigated in the presence of radiation, Dufour and Soret effect. The usual transformations have used to get governing equations in dimensionless form. Then the obtained dimensionless eq...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/29100
An optimal estimator in the light of future data (i.e., a predictive estimator) is obtained using numerical simulations. The predictive estimator is assumed to be one of various functions of the maximum likelihood estimator. We then formulate an estimator that yields better resul...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/29941
José Eduardo Soubhia Natali, Paulo Nogueira Starzynski, Ingird Machado Cusin Ahmed El-Dash, Thiago Paes de Barros de Luccia, Vivian Machado Cusin Ahmed El-Dash & José Guilherme Chaui-Berlinck·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2016
Aims: There are several entropy estimators to address the organization of time-series. However, the behavior of a given estimator in relation to the size N of the data is not often studied in terms of improving the analysis. Here, we investigate size-related properties of the est...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29596
Abdelhakim Bouyahya, Jamal Abrini, El Ouardy Khay, Saoulajan Charfi, Nadia Boujida, Abdeltif EL Harsal, Ahmed Talbaoui, Abdeslam Et-Touys, Youssef Bakri & Nadia Dakka·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Aims: This study was designed to evaluate the antibacterial activity of methanol, ethanol, ethyl acetate and n-hexane extract from the leaves of Myrtus communis (L.) growing in North-West of Morocco. Study Design: In vitro evaluating of antibacterial activity and determination of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2016/28500
In this paper, we investigated the possible interactions of the moon and Earth, mainly in the period 1996-2015. Initially, we considered the gravitational force of Moon vs. Earth by Newton’s equation. The Moon has an elliptical orbit around the planet that reaches two points of...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29227
Tomato is grown in many regions of the world; and processed tomato products account for 80% of total tomato consumption. A worldwide tomato processing industry has since evolved with a range of technologies which are able to convert tomatoes into products such as paste, sauces an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2016/29320
Enset is a herbaceous perennial crop used as a basic diet for millions of people at various agro ecological settings of Ethiopia. As it takes up the nutrients from the soil environment, it makes mutual relation with rhizospheric microorganism which can contribute to the discovery...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2016/29388
Aim: To determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 associated with gastroenteritis in Minna, Niger state. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in the Department of Microbiology, Federal University of technology, Mi...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/29277
During the Roman Empire, two women Carfinia and Calphurnia, offended the sensibilities of the Courts. Carfinia vexed a praetor with her pleading and Calphurnia, pleading before the Senate, lost her case and in an act of extreme contempt of Court, turned her back to the judges, li...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28732
This paper replicates the three types of patterns of child sexual abuse of Canter, Hughes and Kirby [1] based on frequency and co-occurrence of different patterns of abusive behaviors. In a sample of 206 Spanish men convicted of child sexual abuse, three abusive patterns are obta...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29789
Aim: To determine the prevalence of hyperhomocysteinemia amongst chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients at a Teaching Hospital in Nigeria and to determine its relationship with the severity of kidney disease. Study Design: A comparative cross sectional study carried out in the dep...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28282
Background and Objective: The symptoms of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are nonspecific; symptoms can mimic those of other common diseases such as nonspecific viral illness, flu- like syndrome and hypertensive attack. Elevated blood carboxy-hemoglobin (COHb) measurements are use...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26047
Simulation has been successfully used since antiquity in medicine, especially for life support training programs. Part-task trainers allow trainees to acquire primary professional skills in a safe environment rather than to be trained for the first time on human beings. Cupping t...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2016/30027
Rafael do Nascimento Pereira, Francisco Sávio Gomes Pereira, Chesque Cavassano Galvão, Ana Maria Ribeiro Bastos da Silva, Valdinete Lins da Silva, Maria Aparecida Guilherme da Rocha & Nelson Medeiros de Lima Filho·Chemical Science International Journal·2016
This study shows viability energetic with residual frying oils. The oils collected and filtered were characterised in some analytical parameters and converted into biodiesel by homogeneous alkaline transesterification (molar ratio of 6:1, methanol: oil, 60 minutes, 60°C, and stir...
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Research Article10.9734/CSJI/2016/29455
Being toxic, Congo red is one of the most important dyes to be treated before being disposed of into waters. In the present study, dried powdered branches and leaves from an ornamental plant (Polyalthia longifolia) have been investigated for the biosorptive removal of Congo red d...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/29758