Background: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic and disabling condition that negatively affects quality of life (QoL) of patients with this disorder attributable to sociodemographic, clinical and illness-specific factors. However, findings vary across studies that ha...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2016/21469
The present study investigates the solubilities of calcium sulphate (CaSO4) in NaCl-H2O solutions at 5 and 10 Kg/cm2 pressures respectively under boiling water temperature. As no previous work has been carried out to account for the effect of very low concentrations of NaCl the s...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/22661
Background: The visual impairments caused by stroke have the potential to affect the ability of an individual to perform activities of daily living. An individual with visual impairment may also have reduced level of independence. The purpose of this review was to investigate the...
The determination of the number of representations of a positive integer by certain quadratic forms is an important goal of number theory. Formulae for N(12i, 22j, 32k, 62l; n) for the nine octonary quadratic forms appear in the literature, whose coefficients are 1, 2, 3 and 6. H...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23292
The authors examined the effect of an instructional material designed through Ausubel's expository learning related to the "Human and environment" Unit in 7th grade Science and Technology Curriculum on students' academic achievement, attitudes towards science and computers. The q...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23320
At post modern era in which man is stuck and at the mercy of ever increasing technology many things have been abridged for the sake of saving time, energy, and budget. In the realm of literature, too, the dramatic art has turned to be as minimal as possible to convey the appropri...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/9324
Rising unemployment has become a global phenomenon with its attendant social vices. Both developed and developing countries now grapple to cope with the problems of unemployment arising from global recession. Unemployment in Nigeria has assumed a more dangerous dimension with ove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/22685
Lack of fingerlings is still hampering aquaculture development in Sub-Saharan Africa. African catfish Clarias gariepinus do not have developed stomach at onset of exogenous feeding. Absence of fully developed digestive system at onset of larval exogenous feeding makes catfish un...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/22201
The aqueous extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa leaves is popularly consumed in the form of “Zobo” drink in Nigeria and it is assumed to have haematological benefits. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of aqueous extract of H. sabdariffa leaves on possible changes...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2016/23170
Aim: To evaluate and compare the effect of four different sugar free chewing-gums on salivary pH at 0, 10, 20, 30 minutes. Study Design: Double blinded, parallel arm Randomized Clinical Trial. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Public Health Dentistry, College Of Dent...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23388
This paper addresses the problem of automatically tuning in an intelligent manner so that a balance between efficiency and computational speed is reached. In this paper a new proposed technique which uses Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to compute the best optimal value for the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23146
This study was intended to evaluate the extent of contamination of soils in the vicinity of some selected dumpsites (Enyimba, Ogbor Hill and World Bank) in Aba Metropolis by anions (nitrate, sulphate and phosphate), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and total petroleum hydrocarbo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22084
Removing deposits is one of the most important maintenance activities that applied to irrigation canal. This research aims to study experimentally the effect of different flow conditions such as discharge and water depth on removing sand by using jet pump. To achieve this goal, a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23000
New and known 1, 3-benzo- and naphtho- oxazine monomers were synthesized using a modified step-wise procedure in which formaldehyde which is a suspected human carcinogen and a confirmed animal carcinogen was replaced with methylene bromide for ring-closure reaction. Salicylaldehy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23494
Iron has limited solubility in alkaline soils and, consequently, alkaline soils may have insufficient available iron for optimal plant growth. Plants of the family Gramineae secrete phytosiderophores, plant-derived compounds such as mugineic acid (MA) that chelate iron, enabling...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22571