Aim: The aim of the study was to determine trypanosome infection rates in cattle brought to Makurdi central abattoir during a devastating flooding of 2012. Study Design: Cattle of mixed sexes and breeds were randomly sampled three times a week. Place and Duration of Study: The in...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/15757
Aim: The present study was designed to evaluate the protective effects of ethanolic extract of whole plant of Scleria lithosperma (EEWSL) against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats. Methodology: EEWSL was orally administrated in two different doses (250 mg/kg/day and 500...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11369
There is an increased interest worldwide in developing wheat cultivars that are more efficient in utilizing nitrogen (N) and better fitted to N limitations. The objective of this investigation was to study the effects of contrasting soil N levels on the genetic parameters control...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/21938
Academic institutions have plentiful of unexploited compounds. A cost-effective repositioning strategy from abandoned molecules coming from different research projects was applied. This strategy was based on the creation of a 2D-database then the biological assaying following adh...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/22023
Aim: Integrase inhibitors are an essential enzyme required for replication of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome virus. It is a potent target for anti- HIV therapy. A QSAR study is performed on the series indole -diketo, diketo acid and carboxamide derivatives in order to ana...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/22227
With the rapid development of Internet, e-mail has become an essential communication tool. But, the security of e-mail communications is an important issue. Recently, Chen et al. [6] proposed a new protocol of wide use for e-mail. Chen et al. claimed that the proposed protocol is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/21889
The current Ebola Virus disease outbreak in West Africa is so far, the worst outbreak of the disease in any part of the world. It began in Guinea in December 2013 and then spread to Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal. It has already claimed so many thousand lives an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/21930
Starting from the observation that the ratio of the number of twin primes to the number of primes up to a given number n, is similar to the ratio of the number of primes to the number of positive integers in the same interval, and from Goldbach’s conjecture that any even integer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22064
The paper proposes a new method for finding an initial solution in the problem of geometric programming. The paper describes the conditions, under which the geometric programming problem of obtaining a positive solution of the matrix equation is solved. This equation describes th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/21873
Adulterated and counterfeit drugs are problems in Nigeria. Over 150 children died in 1989 as a result of paracetamol syrop containing diethylene glycol. This was so severe that neighbouring countries like Ghana and Sierra Leone officially banned the sale of drugs, foods and bever...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/18615
This study examined the adaptive mechanisms employed by farmers in stabilizing crop yield against the wave of climate variability in Calabar, Nigeria. The study adopts a participatory approach based on focused group discussion and questionnaire survey to examine the farmers’ perc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/13011
Background: Dengue is one of the rapidly emerging arboviral infection in many parts of the world including India. The metropolitan city, Delhi is one of the worst affected areas by dengue. In the last two decades, it has witnessed frequent outbreaks with the continuous changing t...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/21728
Aim: To evaluate the antimicrobial and phytochemical effects of acetone, ethanol, methanol and aqueous leaf extracts of Calotropis procera on human pathogens. Study Design: Five pathogenic and two fungi species were obtained from the Department of Biological Sciences, Afe Baba...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/16372
Hilbert’s Fourth Problem is one of the most important mathematical problems, formulated by Hilbert in 1900. Unfortunately, attempts to solve this problem during 20th century did not lead to the generally recognized solution, and now modern mathematicians believe that the problem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/21849
An interval-valued fuzzy set denotes a fuzzy set whose membership function is many -valued and form an interval in the member ship scale. The notion of cubic sets as an extension of fuzzy set in which not only a membership degree is given but also a non-membership degree is invol...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20217