An experiment was conducted at the field laboratory of Department of Crop Botany and Tea Production Technology, Sylhet Agricultural University from May to October 2013 with a view to select the superior Okra cultivar (s). The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20799
Aim: To evaluate the influence of tillage practice on growth and yield performance of three cowpea varieties. Study Design: The treatments were laid out in a randomized complete block design with a factorial arrangement and replicated three times. Place and Duration of Study: Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/26894
Rational prescribing is vital to achieving rational drug use but limited studies exist on the prescription practices, causes, and types of prescription error in developing countries. Prescription error is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally. However, due...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/26864
Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess eating habits and nutritional status of nursing and midwifery students in Ekiti State so as to identify their nutrition education need. Study Design: The study adopted descriptive research design. Place and Duration of Study: Samples w...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29287
Aims: The present study was conducted aiming at the isolation of the pathogenic bacteria from the family enterobacteriaceae in raw, edible and apparently healthy fishes, from different fish markets of Allahabad. Study Design: Forty fish specimens were collected from eight differe...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/28284
The study assessed the perspectives of nurses in Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria on the effectiveness of substance abuse management. It made use of a descriptive research design. The study was conducted at the Department of Nursing, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Ar...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2016/28159
The aim of this paper is to identify the determinants of the various agricultural activities selected and adopted by producers in the cotton zones of Benin. With a multilogit estimation, a sample of 702 producers of different agricultural activities is extracted in a random way....
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/26261
Background: According to the Convention of the Right of a Child, every infants and child has the right to good nutrition. In delivery of good nutrition to the child, it is however important to encourage a child to eat in a responsive-feeding (RF) rather than forced-feeding (FF) m...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/19826
Anterior plagiocephaly is the third most common form of non-syndromic craniosynostoses and results from the premature unilateral fusion of the coronary suture. The main features consist of forehead, supraorbital arch and anterior cranial fossa deformation with orbital asymmetry....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28075
Aim: To evaluate the performance of nutritionally optimized millet porridges against F-100 which is a therapeutic food recommended by World Health Organisation for rehabilitating severely malnourished children. Study Design: Controlled and longitudinal. Place and Duration of Stud...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28355
Background: Globally, there is an increasing unmet need for safe and effective family planning services. Most women in Africa, just like in many parts around the world, desire to control both the number and timing of births but lack an effective contraceptive method. Utilization...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28941
Nigeria has the largest number of people living with diabetes mellitus in Africa and through a period of ten years, there was an over 50% increase in morbidity rates. There is also a twin burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Nigeria which influences the poor li...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/28781
The Mediterranean Sea receives domestic, agricultural and industrial untreated wastewaters from many cities and surrounding villages between Damietta and Port Said. The present study was to obtain a preliminary assessment about the level and distribution of some heavy metals (Fe,...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26887
Aims: To formulate, analyze, and perform investigative computer simulations for clinically plausible mathematical model depicting the patho-physiodynamics of HIV-1 associated Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) during Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) of AIDS and Adoptive Cellular Im...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20358
Soil degradation and nutrient depletion have become serious threat to agricultural productivity in Nigeria. Substantial improvement in the systems is required to support the ever-increasing rural and urban population. During the 2013 and 2014 cropping season, field experiments we...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/25308