The study was on economics of cocoyam production in Anambra State. Data used were generated through structured questionnaire and interview schedules administered on 120 cocoyam farmers selected randomly from the study area. Net farm income analysis was used to capture the profita...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27424
Introduction: Serratia marcescens is a motile, facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rod of the Enterobacteriaceae family and has been implicated mostly in contact lens related keratitis. We report a case of lacrimal duct canaliculitis seen in an elderly patient with no known ris...
Aims: Amanita phalloides contains alpha-amanitin, inhibiting RNApolymeraseII. Due to overexpression of switch genes in tumor cells, RNApolymeraseII is used to full extent there. Partial inhibition with amanitin influences tumor cell - but not normal cell - activity. A patient wit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27895
Youngji Kim, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Kiyoshi Matsuoka, Taketo Okubo, Naoko Okubo, Yu Tanabe, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Yuichiro Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2016
Background: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term “locomotive syndrome” (LS) to designate a condition in high-risk groups with musculoskeletal diseases who are highly likely to require nursing care. The JOA developed two screening tools for LS: The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28194
Introduction: Ginseng is a herbal plant that is known for its therapeutic medical importance for many diseases; it acts as a tonic and provides energy with significant reduction in mental and physical fatigue. Objectives: The aim of the present study was evaluating the ergogenic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28168
Aims: To explore the association between serum uric acid levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in hypertensive subjects treated with (WD) or without lipid-lowering and antihypertensive drugs (WOD). Study Design: Three groups of subjects with age range 50-70 y were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27559
Aims: This work is a survey of the distribution of vascular plant species that have medicinal values. Methodology: The census, medicinal uses, economic benefits and existence threats of the plants were reassessed. Results: Additional members of Asteraceae have been discovered fro...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/26233
The morbidity and mortality rate is reduced by premature and exact diagnosis of melanoma, which is the deadliest type of skin cancer. Timely identification of melanoma needs extremely complex and subjective test and laboratory samples. It is not insignificant even for experienced...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/28336
This paper contains several generalizations of the theorems for common fixed point of R. Kannan, S. K. Chatterjea and P. V. Koparde & B. B. Waghmode types of mappings. These generalizations are done by using a sequentially convergent mappings. Trough several examples, we have...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27906
Nowadays potentially toxic metal removal from the environment, particularly wastewater, is moving from the use of conventional techniques to the use of biosorption, which utilizes diverse natural materials of biological basis, including bacteria, fungi, algae and yeast, for the b...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/27942
Aim: Comparative analysis of local expression of IL-2, IL-10 and TNF-α was carried out to provide an insight to the extent and type of localized immune response associated with yeast colonization of the urogenital tract. Study Design: Descriptive Observational study. Place and Du...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27438
This study was carried out to investigate resource use efficiency of women cassava producers in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. A multi stage random sampling technique was used to select 120 women farmers in the local government in the year 2013. Percentage response wa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/17839
It was realized that both boric acid (BA) and secondary fibers (S) from recycled newsprint papers had negative impact on thickness swelling (TS) properties of boards in water. The highest TS value of 48% was observed in both type boards that produced only from 100% secondary fibe...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/27276
This paper empirically examined the impact of domestic debt on economic growth of Nigeria for the period 1985-2014 using annual time series data on variables as gross domestic product, treasury bonds, development stocks, federal government of Nigeria bonds and interest rate, sour...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/27224
Aims: To evaluate the relationship between Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and visual and anatomical outcomes in eyes following treatment with intravitreal anti vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents and corticosteroids for diabetic macular edema (DME). Study Design: Retrospecti...