Head and neck cancers is one of the common health problems in our environment affecting relatively the youth. The paucity of literature on community based studies in Nigeria to determine the incidence of the disease obscure its burden, pattern and magnitude. This study presents e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20344
Aim: This study was designed to explore and exploit the phytotherapeutic and fertility effects of ethanolic leaf extract of Dracaena arborea in type-1 Alloxan-induced diabetic rats. The phytotherapeutic effects of Dracaena arborea on hematological parameters, appetite, spermiogra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21640
Prostheses in the oral cavity are constantly attacked by microorganisms. Bacteria and fungi colonize these surfaces concurring in the material’s biodestruction; the corrosive action generates debris of different size, with particles ranging from few micrometers to nanometers. Tra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20290
Aims: To characterize the fatigue parameters of some stainless steels at a wide range of temperatures, and also to evaluate the influence of temperature on their mechanical properties. Methodology: Two ferritic stainless steels and one austenitic stainless steel were tested. Tens...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20658
The depth of cut is one of the important parameters of machining. It influences a great number of factors of machining like the surface finish, the tool wear, the temperature/heat, energy/power consumption etc. It is of course obvious that the depth of cut affects the rate of hea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/18856
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of fermentation on proximate composition, titratable acidity and microbiological changes of sorghum and pumpkin blend. The raw materials used were sorghum and pumpkin flour blend which had three combinations: SpA = 100:0, S...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/19260
The removal of sulfur compounds from Tawke diesel fuel is processed by the use of granular Na-Y type zeolite, MOR type zeolite, molecular sieve 3A type, local clay and activated charcoal. The results are characterized by sulfur meter and infrared spectroscopy to improve the resul...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/18119
In this paper, we introduce an implication operation, called weak implication, which will be quite useful in order to characterize subdirectly irreducible monadic Heyting algebras. Furthermore, it is shown that deductively semisimple algebras are the non trivial ones such that th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20464
A simple graph G is said to be Hausdorff if for any two distinct vertices u and v of G, one of the following conditions hold: 1. Both u and v are isolated 2. Either u or v is isolated 3. There exist two non-adjacent edges e1 and e2 of G such that e1 is incident with...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20509
As a new biometric technique, finger recognition has attracted lots of attentions and used in wide range of applications. Finger vein recognition is a physiological characteristics-based biometric technique; it uses vein patterns of human finger to perform identity authentication...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20268
We introduced the class of generalized weakly C-contractive mappings in G-partial metric spaces by combining the characteristics of Hardy and Rogers maps with weak contraction maps. The existence and uniqueness of xed point for those maps in ordered G-partial metric spaces are es...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/18991
Billions of people all over the world are being affected by zinc deficiency that causes stunted growth and poorly developed immune system. The approach to enrich the grains of food crops with nutrients is biofortification. To overcome the human zinc deficiency, improving wheat gr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19739
Structural porosity is a dynamic soil property with high spatio-temporal variability affected by many factors. In order to develop a quantitative understanding of root driven changes in soil hydraulic properties adequate measurement setups are required. A modular soil column setu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20604
Aims: The objective of this study was to describe and photograph the initial symptoms and the development of nutritional deficiencies in cucumbers, and determine the concentration of the omitted macronutrient in leaves, on which symptoms of deficiency were observed. Study Design:...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20243
The present storage experiment was conducted at Seed Testing Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences (SHIATS), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh during 2014 - 2015 with black gram cv. T-9 obtained from Dep...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20369