Alkaline Phosphatase (s-ALP) has been extensively used to monitor the disease and screen the patients for cancer metastasis. Both the baseline s-ALP and changes in s-ALP have been reported as prognostic factors for treatment effect and survival in bony and liver metastatic breast...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/26755
The great target for mankind is always to achieve the optimum use of available resources against the increasing food and other demands of the world population versus the shrinking resources. This paper provides snapshots of research and practical implementation of optimum design...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28828
Mohammed Sani Sallau, Ahmed Jibrin Uttu, Hamisu Ibrahim, Abdullahi Yunusa Idris & Habila James Dama·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Medicinal plants have been used as traditional remedies for the treatments of different ailments, and large number of human population still depends on these medicinal plants for their preventive and curative properties Glossonema boveanum is a medicinal plant widely used in a fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24436
The present paper aims to study the axioms of covariant almost analytic vector field on Q-quasi umbilical hypersurface M of a trans-Sasakian manifold with structure (∅, g, u, v, λ) and obtained the scalars a and b using 1-forms u, v covariant almost analytic for the hypersurface...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27176
This paper presents a recognition system for Yorùbá handwritten words using Hidden Markov Model(HMM).The work is divided into four stages, namely data acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction and classification. Data were collected from adult indigenous writers and the scan...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27567
Wellington Torgby-Tetteh, Abraham Adu-Gyamfi, Adjoa Kesewaa Sarfo, Dora Duah-Bisiw, Stanley Akwesi Acquah, Jonathan Nii Okai Armah & John Apatey·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2016
Aims: This study investigated the effect of gamma irradiation on the bacteriological and sensory qualities as well as some physicochemical properties of peanut butter irradiated at different doses. Methodology: Peanut butter samples were pre-packaged and sealed in plastic jars wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28411
Aims: Broiler production fulfils important socio-economic functions, but inadequate nutrition, scarcity and high cost of feedstuffs in developing countries undermines broilers in expressing their full potential. Therefore a 28 day feeding trail was conducted to determine the grow...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27949
The aim of the study was to determine the proximate composition, phytochemical composition and the antimicrobial potentials of the extracts of Xylopia aethiopica and Gongronema latifolium on some commonly encountered pathogens. The proximate composition results reveal that both p...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/28423
Aim: We report the first case of recurrent erosion of a glaucoma drainage device (GDD) associated with chronic infection with biofilm-producing bacterial organisms. Presentation of Case: A 68-year-old Caucasian female was referred to a tertiary glaucoma service with uncontrolled...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/28289
Quality is a key attribute in marketing of cut flowers. A number of factors may determine quality in cut flowers, among them being the pre-harvest conditions under which the plant was grown. This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of light transmission through sele...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/28999
The structure-functional model of development of students' readiness for intercultural communication is presented in this article. The short introductory paragraph is devoted to the definition of university students’ readiness to intercultural communication. Then the units of the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/28678
Background: The thrust behind this study was the poor academic achievement of students recorded in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in social studies. Aim: This study examined the Effects of Concept Mapping and Brainstorming Instructional Strategies on Junior Second...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/29057
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common community-acquired bacterial infection affecting people of all age groups and both sexes. Aims: This study was performed to isolate bacterial pathogens usually cause community-acquired uncomplicated UTI and to evaluate their sensi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28576
Aims: This study designed to describe the spectrum of Magnetic Resonance in brain lesions and to show its diagnostic importance in differentiating neoplastic, non-neoplastic and other lesions. Also to show the importance of MRS in differentiating of other brain lesions and correl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28984
Dengue virus, a positive sense RNA virus, involve in spreading dengue infection worldwide, consists of four related but genetically different serotypes. The present study depicts the outbreak and prevalence of dengue infection in different parts of Pakistan from 1982 to 2013. In...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/13961