Background: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) comprises a wide spectrum of sleep-associated breathing abnormalities; those related to increase upper airway resistance include snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). This concept...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19026
Introduction: Medical students experience difficulty transferring what they have learned in the classroom into the clinical workplace. Learning environments based upon whole-task learning can help medical students to apply knowledge, skills and attitudes into their clinical pract...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19601
Introduction: Delirium is a common problem among elderly patients seen in the emergency department (ED). Under-diagnosis of delirium by the ED team is common and can have serious implications. In a previous study we found poor quality of cognitive assessment and no mention of de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19443
Background: The role of Computed Tomography (CT) in the medical diagnosis of diseases has greatly expanded, despite the potential risk of cancer following exposures to ionising radiation (X-Ray) from this modality. This risk is particularly of great concern in children, who are m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18079
Objectives: We aim to report here a series of cases developing AKI after scorpion stings. Patients and Methods: During a period of 25 years that is; from January 1990- December 2014 all the patients coming to Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, with AKI after scorpion...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19611
Background: Conflict within the health team is a recognized problem known to hinder quality health care service delivery. In order to achieve the objective for which a hospital is set up, interactions between all members within a medical team must be conducted in such a way that...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15839
Cases: Case 1: A 71-year-old male with a long history of chronic alcoholism was transferred to our emergency department because of a disturbance of consciousness. On arrival, his Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was E1V1M2 (4/15) and blood glucose level was 30 mg/dL. Case 2: A 66-year-ol...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/19534
Chylothorax is defined as accumulation of lymph within the pleural space. It is the most common cause of pleural effusion causing respiratory distress in the first few days of life. Congenital chylothorax and Down syndrome are independently have been found in association with non...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/19624
Noise, it is said, is any sound that is unpleasant to the ear. Medically, when it persists, it can damage the ear. Considering the ear organ, it has been said that human ears were designed to process naturally-occurring sounds, and they are beautifully adapted to handle that task...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18466
This work studies feasible trilateral thermal cycles which undergo controlled isothermal expansion path functions. The interest of the study focuses on choosing some working fluids that exhibit operating characteristics such that, first, fulfil the necessary conditions to yield h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19147
A livestock dewatering machine was designed, fabricated and evaluated to improve on-farm management of animal waste. This is in response to the need to reduce and eliminate the many challenges of improper waste handling in livestock production farms in Nigeria. The machine consis...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17858
Because of the importance of fiber Bragg grating in designing new devices to meet a need range of optical communication systems, it has attracted a great deal of attention. Fiber Bragg gratings have become a key technology in many applications. They are widely used in optical com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18898
Chemical modification of cassava starch was carried out by acetylation and the resultant modified cassava starch was blended with high quality cassava flour and wheat flour as composites for bread production. High quality cassava flour (HQCF) and cassava starch were produced from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14309
This paper presents a fourth-order nonlinear conjugate gradient method in equality constrained optimization. The idea is to transform the constrained problem into unconstrained type through the Lagrange multipliers scheme. Using four terms of Taylor series development, we approxi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18695
Aims: The experiment was conducted to determine the response of albino rats to diets containing three differently processed false yam seed meals. Study Design: Completely Randomized Design (CRD) was used for the study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Agricultural Eng...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18333