Purpose of Study: To assess adequacy of relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) and permeability index in differentiating radiation necrosis and tumour necrosis. Materials and Methods: In this study we analyzed relative cerebral blood volume rCBV and permeability index from the enh...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/25637
Background: Malaria, typhoid, and dengue have become significant diseases worldwide, especially in Africa due to their increasing endemicity. Similarities in signs and symptoms in infected individuals make it difficult for healthcare providers to clinically diagnose these disease...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27668
Purpose: Health care research increasingly concentrates on the putative dependence of health care access of socioeconomic determinants. For the particular aspect of ophthalmic health care the intention of this cross sectional study was to assess a possible association between soc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27096
Internal resorption is generally noted in teeth with previous history of trauma. Often the tooth is asymptomatic. The diagnosis of this condition at an early stage improves the prognosis of such teeth. Therefore it is important for the dental fraternity to have adequate knowledge...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2016/24411
This paper presents a new approach for solving a class of linear quadratic fractional optimal control problems (FOCPs). The necessary optimality conditions for this problem are achieved in terms of two-point boundary value problem(TPBVP). In this way, an approximate approach is c...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJOM/2016/27606
Recently, a new symbolic algorithm for solving comrade linear systems is given by Karawia [A. A. Karawia, Symbolic algorithm for solving comrade linear systems based on a modi fied Stair-Diagonal Approach, Appl. Math. Lett. 2013; 26:913-918.]. This paper introduces different nume...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/27679
Second hand children socks were analysed for microbial contaminants. A total number of 50 samples were collected from three major markets in Makurdi metropolis namely; Wadata, Wurukum and Modern markets and were transported immediately to the laboratory in the Department of Biolo...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/26754
Vegetable oil was extracted from Curcubita pepo seeds in n-hexane using Soxhlet extractor at 60°C. The physico-chemical parameters of the purified oil was analysed according to American Oil Chemist Society method. The physico-chemical of oil gave the free fatty acids of 0.83 mgKO...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/27821
French bean, a sub-group of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), is grown for its tender green pods. It is a major export crop in Kenya but production levels are constrained by both biotic and abiotic stresses. Angular leaf spot (ALS) disease, caused by Pseudocercospora grise...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26874
This study was conducted to investigate the suppression effect of four cyanobacteria species viz. Nostoc muscorum, Oscillatoria agardhii, Spirulina platensis and Anabaena sphaerica, against Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium solani and Macrophomina phaseolina as the causal agent of lup...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27883
Aims: Efflux pumps, particularly resistance-nodulation-division family such as Mex pumps in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are the major contributors to multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. Since the well-known efflux pump inhibitor (EPI), phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylami...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27374
Oil production involves the extraction of petroleum, gas and produced water, with some associated natural radionuclides from the sub-surface which could enhance background ionization radiation. This study presents the radiological analyses and computation of radiation risk parame...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28041
Aim: The research study aimed to extract Cymbopogon citratus leaf using various solvents with view to determine the phytochemical constituents and antimicrobial effect of the plant extracts on some selected microorganisms. Methodology: The cold maceration and agar well diffusion...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2016/26783
Aims: The aims were: i) To ascertain the applicability of a model for the determination of the effect of calcium depletion, to the effect of the presence of the calcium chloride, ii) Quantify the thermodynamic activation parameters for unfolding of the enzyme with increasing temp...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/27650
This study was carried out to examine the thermo-chemical decomposition of postconsumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in alkaline solutions of C1 – C3 primary alcohols with a view to developing a simple, yet effective method for the chemical recycling of post-consumer PET. The...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/27697