Understanding what is happening with teachers’ availability, training and quality is one of the most pressing issues facing education in Africa today. Over the past decade many African countries have been reducing their investments in teacher training and recruiting nonprofession...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18207
Aim: There is dearth of research on the mental health correlates of bullying in sub-Saharan Africa. The current study aimed to determine the association between bullying victimization (being bullied) and the presence of emotional and behavioral problems among secondary school stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19295
Aims: To synthesize small molecule alkylating compounds and analyze the kinetics of the alkylation in aqueous solution. Determine molecular properties and the drug likeness of these four compounds as potential antineoplastic agents and apply statistical analysis to identify inter...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2015/19813
In this paper, we consider some available models and then introduce a model which simulates the interaction between ATM protein and DNA damage signal, which motivated biologically. Next we find a Hopf bifurcation for this system. Biologically we find a region for the DNA damage s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14435
Aim: To describe the imaging features of a case of abnormal lymphadeno-duodenal communication caused by caseating lymphadenitis. Presentation of Case: The case discussed is of a thirty-five year old Indian woman who presented with abdominal pain, vomiting, fever, loss of appetite...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18593
One of the psychological symptoms of major concern in palliative care is hopelessness because it is a risk factor for poor treatment adherence, suicidal ideation, suicide, and the desire for a premature death. Objectives: To identify the psychosocial and clinical factors associat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18890
Aim: Approximately 3% of the world population is infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) which is the main cause of chronic liver disease. Blood transfusion is thought to be the leading cause of global epidemic of HCV. The envelope proteins E1 and E2 are involved in the early stage...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16720
Aims: Despite guidelines and recommendations, a pragmatic approach, i.e., that treatment will improve patient-centered outcomes when performed by typical clinicians in typical patients, is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in urological surgery. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19726
Chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), clonal disorders of hematopoietic system resulting in abnormal proliferation of one or more hematopoietic cell lineages, express different clinical, hematologic and biological features. The majority of classical MPNs -95% of polycythem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17689
Aim: Every society uses a kind of strategy to provide health care for schools, so the aim of this study was to determine health care strategies for elementary schools. Study Design: This is a qualitative study that conducted content analysis. Place and Duration of the Study: This...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19638
Peptic ulcers are common although the pattern of aetiology is changing. The traditionally most frequent causes of Helicobacter pylori infection and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory toxicity are likely to assume less relative importance as the proportion of cases attributed to othe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19580
Background: Better understanding of the prevalence of unappreciated cognitive dysfunction among patients with cardiovascular disease during hospitalization is integral to patient-centered care. We tested the hypothesis that there is a substantial prevalence of debilitating cognit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18618
Introduction: Urinary tract infections pathogens are common among pregnant women but the detection and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy will prevents urinary tract infection and its consequences in pregnancy. Therefore, this research set out to determine the pre...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18857
When diabetes model mice and control mice were intranasally infected with the influenza virus (1 LD50), a significant higher mortality rate was observed in the diabetes model. The mortality rate became 100% at 10 days post infection. Furthermore, histopathological examination of...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18799
Aims and Objectives: To determine the baseline CD4 positive T lymphocytes count of HIV/AIDS treatment naïve adults clients presenting for the first time treatment in Benue State University Teaching Hospital. Subjects and Methods: A total of 700 subjects age between 18 years to 7...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/19294