Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of different cutoffs applied to the cellularity and various biochemical parameters (BP) (metabolic and enzymatic) to contribute to the etiologic diagnosis of pleural fluids (PF). Design and Methods: We studied 150 s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22971
Traffic saturation in both pedestrian and vehicular situations is common on all the principal streets of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The situation has become to a large extent unbearable to the inhabitants of the city. In the study, the following surveys were conducted: Manual C...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22626
Objective: We performed a one year follow up case series study to evaluate any residual systemic diseases in the patients who presented to our intensive care unit with H1N1pdm09 infection during the 2010/2011 flu epidemic. Twelve patients were admitted with H1N1pdm09 infection ov...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/20420
Background: Diarrhoeal diseases remain the second global leading cause of infant mortality accounting more than the combined effects of AIDS, Measles, and Malaria. It remains the leading cause of under-5 mortality, in poor underdeveloped regions. The protective effects of good br...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/22830
Pedro Carnieli Jr, Karin Corrêa Scheffer, Willian Oliveira Fahl, Jonas Yoshitaka de Oliveira Lima, Rafael de Novaes Oliveira, Juliana Galera Castilho, Keila Iamamoto, Carla Isabel Macedo, Paulo Eduardo Brandão & Helena Beatriz de Carvalho Ruthner Batista·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Introduction: Viruses have been identified as the main etiologic agents of both zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and various species of wild fauna can be involved in the maintenance of these diseases. The very wide variety of bats, together with their ability to a...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/23295
R. B. Cuvas-Limón, Montañez Sáenz Julio, Contreras Esquivel Juan Carlos, Cruz Hernández Mario, Solange I. Mussatto & Belmares-Cerda Ruth·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Providing products that beyond a high nutritional value brings health benefits to consumers is a major challenge to food industry. Functional foods, including prebiotics and probiotic as components, are the protagonists to promote these advantages. Aloe vera is a medicinal plant...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2016/22622
This study seeks to measure the effectiveness of the internal control mechanisms in the disbursement and utilization of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) in Ghana (with Karaga District Assembly as a case in point). The study employed both primary and secondary data. The re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/22266
Transition economies have entered to the literature of economy with the collapse of the Eastern bloc and dissolution of the USSR's. For many years, these countries had been managed by the centrally planned economic system. In the central planned economic system, the government w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/22784
Aims: - To find out the extent of marketing mix adoption in Ghanaian local authority setting. - To investigate the factors that hinder smooth adoption of marketing mix Ghanaian local authorities. - To find out whether effective adoption of marketing mix really leads to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/22239
Aims: The present study aimed to evaluate the role of natural abundance of the ectoparasitoid D. isaea as biological control agent. Place and Duration: Alzawia region, Libya from March to June 2014. Methodology: Fifty tomato leaflets infested with L. trifolii Burgess were taken f...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/23119
Passive buildings are capable of achieving the lowest energy requirements by optimizing heat losses and gains through the building envelope. Therefore, the thermal comfort in winter and summer can be maintained mostly without requiring the energy inputs and during the peak temper...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23116
The proximate compositions of processed Jackbean (Canavalia ensiformis) meals and their effects on the performance on grower pigs was investigated. Whole jackbean seeds were divided into two batches; the first batch was cracked into pieces (2 – 4 parts/seed) while the second batc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/18996
Aim of Study: The study aimed at assessment of level of task performance as affected by working experiences of the primary healthcare workers (PHCW) in Enugu. Nine Local Governments. Research Design: Descriptive survey research was used. Methods of Data Collection: 302 PHCW were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21379
Field experiments were conducted to estimate the combining ability and nature of gene action governing inheritance of characters in tomato (Lycopersicon escullentum Mill) under high temperature stress. The experiment was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of Department o...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20434
The paper estimates factors responsible for the variation of rice yield in Northern region of Ghana. A multivariate empirical regression model was used to determine the parameters of the internal and external factors that influence rice yield. The results from the double logarith...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/22922