In recent years, educational researchers in particular have started showing more interest and awareness towards ethical guidelines and codes while conducting educational researches. This trend stems from the popularity of the online researches and sophisticated software to crossc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/21821
This study investigated factors that demotivate student affairs personnel from developing a career in student affairs profession at a Christian Faith-Based university, southeast Nigeria. The study employed questionnaire to collect information from a sample of 110 respondents, dra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/21615
Background: The issue of residential neighbourhood crime is no longer a new discourse as many studies have been done on it. However, the most pressing issue is its unabated trend especially in the developing nations mostly in Africa and Asia. One of the prescribed crime preventio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/21796
Web intelligence can be considered as a subset of Artificial Intelligence. It uses existing data in web to produce new data, knowledge and wisdom to support decision making and new predictions for web users. Artificial Intelligence is ever changing and evolving field of computer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22654
Declining soil fertility attributed to soil acidity is a major soil productivity problem in sub-Saharan Africa. A study was carried out in nine counties across the Kenya highlands, namely Meru, Embu, Kerugoya, Nyeri, Kiambu, Kinangop, Siaya, Busia and Eldoret, where the problems...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/22519
Aims: The Savanes region of Togo is characterized by frequent droughts and floods which adversely affect farming, the primary source of livelihood for majority of households in the region. Given the rapidly changing climate, these adverse shocks are expected to become more pervas...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/21364
Resveratrol is a potent antioxidant, demonstrated to ameliorate adverse effects of heat stress-induced toxicity. Information on the ameliorative effect of resveratrol on heavy metals induced organ toxicity is scanty. The aim of this experiment was to investigate the effect of res...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/21835
J. C. Nwite, B. A. Essien, C. I. Keke, C. A. Igwe & T. Wakatsuki·Advances in Research·2015
The development of agriculture in inland valleys of Southeastern Nigeria could not be realized merely due to inability of the farmers to develop these potential and abundant inland valleys for such water loving crops like rice using appropriate water management systems. In an att...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/20792
Aims: This study investigated the prevalence of infection, implicated bacteria species and antibiotics for better treatment of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) among undergraduate female students of the Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, South East Nigeria. Study Design: The study w...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/22390
Adekunle Sanyaolu, Chuku Okorie, Olanrewaju Badaru, Alex Adler, Michelle Boucher, Kurtis Carlson, David Johnson, Myriam Jolicoeur, Aleksandra Marinkovic, Philip Mead, Delini Sivakumar, Madison Stewart & Alexander Stirpe·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2015
EVD is a disease of humans and other non-human primates caused by Ebola viruses, which was first discovered in 1976. Between 1976 and 2013 there had been 24 outbreaks of the disease. The recent outbreak is the 26th and has seen more deaths than all other outbreaks from the diseas...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/22284
The water footprint refers both direct and indirect water use in production process. Not only the water footprint of products, but also the water footprint of nations can be determined. The main factors which determine the Water Footprint (WF) of a country are gender (since water...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/22146
Background: Self-care behaviors are the most important way to prevent frequent hospitalization, improve the quality of life, and reduce mortality in patients suffering from heart failure. Aims: To assess the preventive self-care behaviors and its associated factors in heart failu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21499
Background and Aim: Cervical Traction (CT) is a vital physiotherapeutic modality in the management of cervical musculoskeletal disorders. This study determined the cardio-respiratory responses to CT using different percentage body weights on Apparently Healthy Individuals (AHI)....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21885
Background: Sickle cell anaemia (SCA), a common haematological genetic disorder, could affect both the growth and haematological profile of the sufferer. Objectives: This study aims at determining any correlation between anthropometric variables and haematological parameters amon...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21621
Background: While malaria rarely occurs in many parts of the world, it still causes serious complications like acute kidney injury (AKI) in endemic areas and needs to be reported. Methods: This study was carried out at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Paki...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21471