Background: Food poisoning, household poisoning, and cosmetic poisoning are becoming a very important health problem both worldwide and locally at the level of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The aims of this study was to assess knowledge, attitude and practice about the stora...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/23115
Background: Cockroaches are insects recognized to be mechanical vectors of disease-causing agents but in the Philippines there is little information on what particular parasites inhabit these organisms. Objectives: This study assessed the parasitic infestation in cockroaches obta...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/23820
Objectives: Experimental infections of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense in albino rats was done to compare their haematologic effects and then treated with Pantizen®, a brand of diminazene aceturate to ascertain its therapeutic effect on the heamatological value of t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/22862
Aims: Anorectal manometry is the current gold standard to explore anorectal functional disorders. Recently, three-dimensional high-resolution anorectal manometry (3DHRAM) was developed. However, although procedures are usually performed in the left lateral decubitus position, ano...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23049
Aims: To determine the type of superficial fungi infections of the skin affecting different ages and gender at a dermatology clinic in a developing country. Study Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Dermatology Clinics of Obafemi Awolowo Univ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23455
Abhishek Bandodkar, B. Justin William, T. A. Kannan, A. Arun Prasad, M. Bharathidasan, R. Jayaprakash & Ravi Sundar George·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2016
Aims: The study was conducted to evaluate the beneficial effects and clinical outcome of intra-articular administration of ascorbic acid and dexamethasone for the management of osteoarthritis in dogs. Study Design: The study was conducted on 6 clinical cases of dogs suffering fro...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/23345
Aim: Total serum vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) concentration was measured in a group of 499 individuals (males and females age range 18-60 years) with different health conditions (diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, pregnancy) and a group of 432 healthy individuals (males and f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2016/23044
The main purpose of this study was to describe 10 selected characteristics of the Saotal farmers, to determine the extent of participation of the Saotal farmers, to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of Saotal farmer and their participation in agricultu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/23147
In vitro direct plantlets’ development from different explants of cotton was studied using nine cultivars which have been developed in Sudan. The influence of various phytohormones on morphogenetic response of different explants of each cultivar was tested. The best medium for mu...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23109
Aims: The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of drying and salting on the nutrient content and sensory properties of Talinum triangulare leaves. Study Design: The methods of drying and salting were: oven drying to constant weight at 40°C without any pretreatmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/21788
Sanamicky plant as a source of natural dye was used to dye silk fabrics; this plant has not been exploited as natural dye by far. Optimization of natural dye extraction from sanamicky leaves with respect to dye bath concentration to aid exhaustion was done. The effect of changed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23390
This paper describes the development of a new Arabic isolated word speaker dependent recognition system based on a combination of several features extraction and classifications techniques. Where, the system combines the methods outputs using a voting rule. The dataset used in th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23034
N. Naveen, C. Bharath, N. Vanishree, M. Vinitha, Deepa Bullappa, P. Guru Suhas & Swati Patnaik·Advances in Research·2016
Introduction: Nosocomial infections are a major concern to both clinicians and health care seekers. Investigations have suggested that laptops & mobile phones may contribute to cross-contamination and can serve as vehicles for infection transmission. Methodology: The samples...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/22946
Introduction: Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) is a disorder characterized by the progressive accumulation of fibrillary extracellular deposits in several ocular tissues including the iris, anterior chamber angle, lens capsule and zonules. Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome is known to be a...
Aims: To isolate and characterize a new secondary metabolite, zygadenine-N-ribofuranoside derivative from the leaves of water lily (Nymphaeae alba L.). Methodology: The ethanol extract of the dried leaves was partitioned between chloroform and water (1:1), then the chloroform fra...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/19929