Aims: The purpose of the study was to observe if hormonal contraceptive use increases CV risk in women from Ghana through increasing CV RF. Study Design: The study was longitudinal and purposive random sampling was done. Place and Duration of Study: A community in the Upper West...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26391
Minimal intervention dentistry initiates from the traditional surgical approach to the elimination of caries lesions seen as radiolucencies in the inner half of the enamel, at the dentin-enamel junction (DEJ), and slightly into dentin, with the removal of the minimal amount of he...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27526
Lamia A. Galal, Omar M. Shaaban, Ahmed M. Abbas, Abo Bakr A. Mitwaly, Andrew N. William & Tarek K. Al-Hussaini·International STD Research & Reviews·2016
Aims: This study primarily aims to compare the sensitivity and specificity of OSOM® Trichomonas Rapid Test with Giemsa stained direct microscopic examination in the diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) The secondary aim is to evaluate the effect of vaginal douching (VD) on the...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2016/27967
Philippines is the world’s largest producer of abaca fiber, accounting for about 85% share of the global production in 2013. Plant tissue culture technology is being widely used for a large scale plant multiplication. Even though it is possible to produce a large number of plants...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28353
Aim: We estimate the recreation value of Lengwe National Park (LNP) in Malawi using the travel cost method (TCM). The TCM is one of the techniques used for estimating economic values of environmental goods and services that do not command a market price such as National Parks. St...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/26631
Allocations and job scheduling are mainly solved with the help of Assignment Problems. By choosing the best element from set of available alternative elements the optimization processes in mathematics, computer science and economics are solved effectively. The key idea of best ca...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJOM/2016/27952
Objective: Access to quality healthcare has been a prerogative of the middle and high socioeconomic class leading to the introduction of health insurance in developing countries to share the burden, reduce cost, and step up health care financing and coverage. This study assessed...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/28320
Aims: To detect and determine the prevalence of Brucella antibodies in goats and farmers’ awareness and practices towards Brucella infection in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Experimental Design: A cross sectional study was used in this research. Place and Duration of Study: Giwa area in...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27092
Oxidative stress plays an important role in different disease processes. Some studies conducted on diabetic patients also support it. But very few studies have been conducted in the Indian subcontinent so far. Lipid peroxidation refers to the oxidative degradation of lipids. In t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/27764
Aim of the Study: The treatment of preeclampsia (PE) is symptomatic till date, as the etiology of this condition has remained elusive for many centuries. Appreciating polymorphonuclear activation and oxidative stress as the early events in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia, we hyp...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/27595
Aims: To evaluate the suitability of Mucuna cochinchinensis and Tithonia diversifolia residue mulches for improving tropical soil fertility and tomato productivity, by determining the residue quality and their effect on specific soil properties and crop yield. Methodology: Experi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/28093
Introduction: The burden of cervical cancer is more in developing world where it is a major killer among reproductive age group. Available evidence suggests factors responsible for this escalating mortality among Nigerian women as lack of awareness and poor use of early detection...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/27118
The use of plants to prevent and cure diseases traditionally has been a common practice all over the world even with no scientific evidence of why they have been used. Xylopia aethiopica is one of such plant known to be a medicinal plant of great repute in West Africa in the trea...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2016/28514
The disposal of a large amount of polymer waste is one of the major challenges of this century. Use of bio-degradable polymers obtained from sustainable sources presents a solution to this problem. Poly lactic acid (PLA), a bio-degradable polymer, can be synthesized from sustaina...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/27469
This study was carried out to investigate the effect of cassava chips and DL-methionine supplementation on performance and tibia bone characteristics of broiler chickens. Broiler chickens were randomly assigned to 20 treatments in a 4x5 factorial arrangement with 5 dietary levels...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/27355