Background: We recently documented better efficacy of glimepiride in non obese subjects for delaying progression from Pre diabetes to type 2 diabetes as compared to metformin in obese subjects over duration of 5-9 years (mean, 7.2±0.2). Moreover, no deaths or adverse cardiovascul...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29466
José Fernando Vila Nova de Moraes, Orlando Laitano, Marcelo Magalhães Sales, Sérgio Rodrigues Moreira, Ferdinando Oliveira Carvalho, Vinicius Carolino de Souza, Otávio de Toledo Nóbrega & Carmen Silvia Grubert Campbell·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Background: The Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) is responsible for converting Angiotensin I into Angiotensin II, which has vasoconstrictive properties. Polymorphisms in the ACE gene have been associated to higher levels of Angiotensin II and, therefore, higher blood pressure...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29554
Aims: To evaluate serum FGF-21 concentrations in coronary heart disease patients (CHD) whether or not associated with diabetes and/or hypertension. It also investigated the possible association between serum FGF21 and the coronary angiographic findings in terms of number of coron...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29581
The capacity to address marine accidents could be enhanced through a thorough knowledge of what constitutes human factors and how they affect marine safety performance. This study investigated human factor issues that are responsible for maritime accidents in Nigeria and therefor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/29548
A fundamental role of universities is to develop independent and critical thinkers. An effective strategy to do this is a good command of argumentative skills. This paper presents the results of a one-year pilot study examining the teaching and learning practices of argumentation...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/29659
Objective: To study the incidence of nodal metastasis in early stage operable cases of cancer cervix and to correlate the nodal metastasis with different parameters like stage, degree of differentiation, lympho-vascular space invasion (LVSI) and deep stromal invasion. Materials...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/29494
This short commentary reviews, on the one hand, the authentic formation and development of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, an innovative branch that is featured by the transformation of negative emotions (NEs) to a valuable vehicle to reach the enlightenment of consciousness via achiev...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29736
Ultrasonic velocity (u), density (r), refractive index (n) and relative viscosity (hr) measurements were carried out for ranitidine hydrochloride in aqueous-sodium chloride/sucrose solutions at 30°C in order to understand the effect of electrolyte and non-electrolyte on physicoch...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/29691
The availability of phosphorus (P) in derived savanna soils differs among soil types and the effect of amelioration on the soil P are site specific. The study was conducted to determine the effect of P fertilization and poultry manure on the distribution of P in some derived sava...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/9107
In this paper, the Homotopy Perturbation Elzaki Transform Method (HPETM) and Homotopy Decomposition Method (HDM) are used to solve nonlinear fractional Heat - Like equations. Both methods are very efficient techniques and quite capable, practically for solving different kinds of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/29922
Aim: To examine the suitability of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in predicting infant mortality and compare its performance with Logistic Regression (LR) model. Study Design: A cross-sectional population based study was conducted. The 2013 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDH...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/28870
This paper presents a logistic differential equation model of customers’ consumption of electrical energy in Ghana. The objective is to model the industrial and commercial consumption of electrical energy of customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Sekondi-Takoradi Me...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJOM/2016/29618
Aims: The aim of this study was determination of antioxidant activity and total phenolic content and antibacterial activity of Pelargonium graveolens organic extracts. Study Design: Different methods implemented for isolation and analysing of organic ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/29040
Christine O. Wangia, Jennifer A. Orwa, Francis W. Muregi, Patrick G. Kareru, Kipyegon Cheruiyot & Japheth Kibet·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2016
Medicinal plants play a significant role in treatment and prevention of many diseases in humans worldwide. Ruellia species belong to the family Acanthaceae and have been used widely for medicinal purposes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the comparative In vitro anti-...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/29853
Energy Market Integration (EMI) has been a goal for many regions, including East Asia, for quite a long time. This study treats trade and income as endogenous and estimates the overall impact of trade openness on environmental quality using the instrumental pricing variable techn...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28506