We describe the presentation of substantial neck thinning due to stress shielding about a well-fixed Birmingham Mid Head Resection femoral implant. Despite significant resorption of proximal peri-articular bone adjacent to the modular femoral head, secondary bone remodeling about...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/20640
Aims: Transcranial direct stimulation (tDCS) is recently discussed as a therapeutic option in psychiatric disorders and has brought preliminary convincing results in the treatment of depressive disorders. Hence the optimal stimulation parameters still remain elusive as randomized...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/19719
Aims: This paper demonstrates a method for calculating electrodynamics stress in single-phase and three-phase isolated conductors. Conductors are coated with a cylindrical shield made out of the material containing a magnetic parameter. Special emphasis is placed on induced eddy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20541
Aim: The purpose of this study was to analyze the surface roughness of three mechanically polished feldspathic ceramics by using two different polishing systems after simulated occlusal adjustment. Methodology: Thirty feldspathic ceramic discs were fabricated: 10 with Duceram, 10...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20589
The temperature effect of 25, 50, 70 and 80ºC on the dissolution of copper in different concentrations of Lithium Bromide (LiBr) from 3x10-2 to 9M was investigated. Three types of corrosion have been detected: General dissolution due to the formation of soluble complex of CuBr2- ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20045
The wild yam species (Dioscorea bulbifera), known as edu in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria, has two types of edible tubers (underground tubers and aerial bulbils) produced by the same plant. The yam species is highly neglected in the region and all over the world such that it i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20249
In this paper, an efficient method for compressing color image is presented. It allows progressive transmission and zooming of the image without need to extra storage. The proposed method is going to be accomplished using cubic Bezier surface (CBI) representation on wide area of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20480
This paper presents some analytical considerations regarding the dynamical behavior of an access control structure, based on the mathematical model associated to this structure. This structure type is largely analyzed in the literature. A modern approach of this structure based o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19280
Ray tracing is a method to convert 3D image to high quality 2D realistic image. In traditional Ray tracing technique generating an image is an expensive process due to the large number of transmitted rays and the intersection tests of these rays with the scene primitives. This pa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19879
Object recognition is one of the fundamental challenges in signal processing, image processing and computer vision, where the goal is to identify and localize the extent of object instances within an image. A novel approach for performing the matching by normalized cross-correlat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16461
The methods of characterization of complex compounds with the intent of their applicability in identification procedures have been critically appraised. In this work, the principle, sensitivity, selectivity and applicability of the different analytical techniques have been system...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/20257
Heavy metals constitute a major threat to humans due to the fact that they unlike some other pollutants are not biodegradable. Different Sources of these metals when dumped with municipal solid wastes raise the level of heavy metals in dumpsites. A study of the effect of solid wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/18039
The research paper focuses on to design a laboratory scale cylindrical fluidized bed column. The column was fabricated successfully having a height of 1.5 m and 5 cm inner diameter. Glass beads of spherical shape are packed up inside the column up to 2.4 cm height having 8 mm siz...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/20086
Ocimum gratissimum consumed as a vegetable is used to treat cough, tuberculosis and dysentery in Nigeria. Hydro-distillation of the fresh leaves of O. gratissimum yielded a golden yellow essential oil 0.5% v/w which exhibited minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 48 µg/ml aga...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/19141