Edible clay from Enyigba in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State of Nigeria was analyzed for, Ca, Na, Mg and K, using AAS. The results showed that the sample contains 249.000+1.73 mg/g, 71.960+3.63 mg/g, 198.570+0.90 mg/g and 84.330+2.73 mg/g of the metals respectively. The analyses of the br...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/26972
Ana Cláudia do Nascimento, Eliana Leonardo dos Santos, Lorem Krsna de Morais Sousa, Alerico Dias Vieira, Sérgio Eberson da Silva Maia, Raquel Gonçalves Vieira-Andrade, Carolina Carvalho de Oliveira Santos & Thiago Fonseca-Silva·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Background: Amelogenesis imperfecta is a complex group of hereditary conditions characterized by malformation of the dental enamel. Although to be well described in literature, this condition may be related to others local and systemic disorders and present a peculiar hereditary...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28765
The textile industries wastewater is one of the most serious sources of environmental pollution due to presence of the textile dyes. In the present study, five bacteria and three fungi were isolated on Mineral Salt Medium (MSM) supplemented with 200 mg/l of Direct Blue 71 azo dye...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/28843
In this paper, we introduce the concept of co-common neighborhood domination number (CCN-domination number) γccn(G) of a graph G and we study its relation with the standard domination number γ(G). We also define CCN-independence number βccn(G), total CCNdomination number γtccn (G...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJOM/2016/28756
In this paper we present some original contributions to the problem of controllability of bilinear systems control whose dynamics is determined by elements that lie on the Lie algebra of special linear Lie group. Our study provides a sufficient condition for controllability of ho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/28996
In this study, the author investigates the distribution of the zeros of solutions of the sixth order linear homogenous differential equations (LHDE) with boundary conditions. An analytic approach is employed in this paper that is based on the semi critical intervals of boundary v...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/28722
The present study is designed to compare profitability of growing crops by the selected disadvantaged smallholders living inside and outside the Polder No. 29 in Khulna district of Bangladesh. Primary data were collected from 120 respondents, of which 65 from inside the Polder 2...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28456
The standard method of measuring wellbeing or poverty is usually by associating poverty with material deprivation and describing the poor per incomes or nature of consumption. In other words, poverty is viewed in material terms as not having a sufficient level of income to pay fo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28064
An assessment of storage changes within the Cretaceous sandstones of Lokoja Formation constituting the sedimentary part of Lokoja and its environs was carried out using USGS GSFLOW-1.0 software to investigate reasons for water problems such as drying of streams and failure of wel...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28505
Aim: This anthropometric study assessed the morphological characteristics of male (n=65) and female (n=48) undergraduate medical students of the University of Lagos. Methodology: Subjects were aged 18-29 years, with male mean age 23.6 ± 3.3 and female mean age of 22.7 ± 3.4. Stat...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/20022
Aim: Insects secret antimicrobial peptides into the hemolymph to protect themselves against bacterial infection. This study aimed to test the antibacterial activity of the usherhopper, Poekilocerus bufonius hemolymph against positive (two species) and negative (six species) gram...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/29030
Aim: The aim of our study is to evaluate the impact of serum miR-377 and miR-29a on the development and pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy in type II diabetic patients. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/28039
Error reduction is important for quality medical services and certification requirements. Patients have mostly complained of poor medical quality in the emergency care department. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a risk assessment procedure for the emergency tr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2016/28922
Aim: To detect heavy metals resistance genes in an environmental Pseudomonas aeruginoas (S 7) isolate. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, between January and March 2016. Methodology: Detect...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/28655
Judith Ndongo Torimiro, Laure Arlette Tchapda, Maurice Boda, Jude Saber Bimela, Dale Netski, Desire Takou, Donald Scot Burke, Ubald Tamoufe, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole, Henry Namme Luma, Oudou Njoya, Wilfred Fon Mbacham, Nathan Wolfe & Stuart Ray·Microbiology Research Journal International·2016
HCV infection is endemic in Cameroon. A Direct acting agent (DAAs), sofosbuvir that target the HCV non-structural 5B RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (NS5B RdRp) has recently been incorporated into the standard of care in Cameroon but no drug resistance study to this DAA has been rep...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/28823