No cure or acceptable treatment exists against bladder problems and urinary retention in spinal cord-injured (SCI) patients. Although some non-central nervous system (CNS)-acting drugs exist, as symptomatic treatment, most have been associated with significant side effects and de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19011
This paper examines factors influencing income per person and inequality, applying hybrid Cobb-Douglas and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The explanatory variables were found to be positively and significant, at one per cent. PCA found that three components “economic opportu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/19249
Background: GLA nonsense mutations seem to be associated with more severe clinical phenotype. Aims: Main aims were to identify the disease-causing mutation, to screen high risk family members and to predict the severity of clinical phenotype and age of onset based on genotype-phe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21432
Aims: To present the clinical findings and intensive care management of Hyoscyamus niger (HN) intoxication in a 7-year-old patient. Presentation of Case: A seven-year-old girl was admitted to the emergency department who had eaten a plant in large amounts. She had psychomotor a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21777
Aims: Quantitative assessment of trace elements in enamel of sound and carious permanent and deciduous teeth, and evaluation of correlation between the presence of caries and trace elements Study Design: Using powdered enamel from extracted primary and permanent human dentitions...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21613
Background: Mobile phones may harbor pathogenic bacteria, so studying bacterial relationships between cell phones and the face is important. Aims: To isolate and identify Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas from the cheek, ear, and mobile (cell) phones of college students. Study Desig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20616
Objective: To compare the efficacy of oral to intratympanicsteroids for treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL). Patients and Methods: A total of 39 ISSHL patients were included in this study. They were consecutively randomized into the “control” group,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21732
Background: Assessment of optic disc size is an important component of optic nerve head examination which is often overlooked in the diagnostic evaluation for glaucoma. Measured values of optic disc size vary with the measurement technique utilized. The actual disc size varies wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20587
In open normative multi-agent systems, norms are created dynamically. Some of these norms emerge and persist due to their benefits and strength. While other norms emerge for a short period of time, then vanish due to several reasons that lead to loss in their benefit or strength....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21653
The theoretical study of supersalts Na2MgX4 (X = F, Cl) has been performed. The formation of the supersalts was considered through association reactions between different building blocks: superalkalies and superhalogens, ionic (Na2X+ and MgX3−) and neutral (Na2X and MgX3), as wel...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21677
Eco-design and degrade remanufacturing of steel shells of high remanufacturability through increasing of disassembly and accumulation of drawbacks that prevent facilitation of recovery to be of smallest partition. Recovered steel is small uniform pieces which can be nested within...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21370
This study, was conducted between April 2011 and July 2012, to estimate the degree of impact of road traffic noise on the exposed population in terms of sleep disturbances in daytime and nighttime periods in order to suggest ways of minimizing the impact if it appears adverse. Ac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/5974
Introduction: Emissions from a variety of air particulate sources have resulted in atmospheric pollution that, in turn, has produced serious problems, causing irreversible reactions in the environment and hence is posing a major threat to our very existence. Aim: Identify monthly...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19232
Aim: To determine the effects of leaking septic tanks on underground water quality in Owerri Municipal. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Geosciences, Federal University of Technology Owerri, and Department of Chemistry, Alvan Ikoku University of Education, Owerri, I...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20410
Trypanosomosis is a disease that causes extensive physiopathological effect in the blood and tissues which may affect normal immune response in the infected host. The condition is exacerbated by the seeming existence of some resistant strains of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18464