Objective: To describe the serum level of urea and creatinine, and as well as CD4+ T cell count of blood among HIV positive patients before and after initiation of HAART in St. Paulo’s general specialized hospital. Methods: A retrospective follow up study was conducted among HIV...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19358
Technical difficulties which affect the outcomes of abdominal operations are common in obese patients, especially in rectal and gastric cancer cases. In several studies, it has been shown that increased body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased morbidity, reduced lymph n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25148
Introduction: Epidural analgesia is said to have depressive effects on neonates. There seems to be sufficient instances in the literature that have compared maternal outcomes in relation to epidural analgesia. However, there is lack of instances in the literature on neonatal outc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24182
Anatomical knowledge of the coeliac trunk and its branches is indispensable for surgeons in order to avoid post-surgery complications and malpractice and that’s what inspired us to review this important topic. The coeliac trunk is the first ventral branch of arising from the abdo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23879
Aim: To examine the effects of ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol on the locomotor functional recovery of rats with incomplete spinal cord injury. Methods: A total of 80 male Sprague-Dawley rats (180–200 g) were used. Seventy of them were subjected to spinal cord injury (SCI) and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24533
Aims: This study aimed to determine the use of specific medicinal plants based on traditional medicine from community of Attars (Traditional healers) in the province of Mazandaran (North Iran). Place and Duration of Study: The province of Mazandaran in north Iran, between March u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24795
A field experiment was established at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources to evaluate the effects of organic fertilizer on yield and yield attributes of tomato from October 2014 to March 2015. The experiment was laid out in a randomised complete block des...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24630
Tur is the most important Kharif pulse crop of northern Karnataka. Over the years, the farming community is shifting to cultivation of cash crops due to higher profitability leading to decrease in acreage under pulse crops in general and Tur in particular. The current study was c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/24718
Aims: Enterococcus faecalis strain SLT13, isolated from the Leben microbiota was investigated for their technological properties. Place and Duration of Study: The study was undertaken in the LETMi laboratory, Tunis, Tunisia with collaboration with CWBI, Gembloux, Belgium, and at...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/17309
Aims: Xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) also known as endo-1,4-β-xylanohydrolase is a type of hydrolytic enzyme participated in the hydrolysis of hemicelluloses particularly in xylan to generate xylose and xylo-oligosaccharides. Due to its enormous potentials, xylanase is frequently used in...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/22959
Oladipupo A. Lawal, Isiaka A. Ogunwande, Andy R. Opoku & Adebola O. Oyedeji·Advances in Research·2016
Aims: The study investigates the essential oil obtained from the rhizomes of Cyperus distans collected from different location, and compared the result with previous sample and other reports on the chemical composition of essential oils from several species of the genus Cyperus....
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/25252
Leomara A. da Silva, Sandra Layse F. Sarrazin, Ricardo B. Oliveira, Chieno Suemitsu, José Guilherme S. Maia & Rosa Helena V. Mourão·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2016
Aims: The leaves of Myrcia sylvatica have traditional use in the control of dysentery and intestinal parasites for the riparian inhabitants who live in savanna areas along the Amazon River, Brazil. Methodology: The constituents of the oils (fresh and dried leaves) of this plant...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/25494
The degree of usefulness of a document to the resolution of a decision problem is not only a function of terms in the document index matching terms in the user query. It is also a function of the user’s ability to express the problem in query terms that will facilitate document r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/24576
The search for antifungal agents with possible novel application in battling plant diseases cannot be overemphasized. Hence, a study was carried out to investigate the antagonistic ability of some hard palate isolates; Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus sp.,...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/16971
The objective of this paper is to determine whether the introductory computer course in Preparatory Year Program (PYP) influences students’ performance and attitude towards computer studies in Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. The instrument employed for examining the attitude tow...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/24989