Aims: The tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum, has been one of the major risk factors for oral cancer. However, the literature has endowed it as “holy herb” since the pre-Columbian era as being used for treating pain, poisonous bites, ulcers, nasal polyp. So we designed a study to e...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18568
Cytomegalovirus has been implicated as one of the causes of congenital defects in babies of infected mothers. This study was therefore conducted to determine the prevalence of Human Cytomegalovirus IgM antibodies among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the General hosp...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/16863
In the present paper, we study curvature properties of projectively flat Kropina metric and prove that two Finsler metrics re projectively related if and only if they have thesame Douglas tensors. Further we showed that corresponding Riemannian metrics are projectively related.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15700
Aim: To ascertain common challenges militating against the attainment of the health related Millennium Development Goals in 2015 in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and to make policy recommendations. Methods: A systematic qualitative review of related studies aimed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16885
Aims: The aim of this work is to identify and evaluate the impacts related to the traced of high voltage on the flora of Agboville in order to put forward measures of attenuation or correctives. Study Design: The vegetations were delimited into small squares plots or pieces. Thes...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/16154
This paper presents an improvement of power factor on inductive loads in Nigeria machine tool plant. Due to the fact that most of the electrical loads are inductive in nature and to provide reduction in distribution losses and the electricity bill charges, a form of power factor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16815
Aim: Efficient use of irrigation water is one of the main goal for turfgrass keepers. In this study, the ability of selected symbiotic microorganisms to improve turfgrass visual quality and growth under two different irrigation regimes was investigated. Study Design: Three soil i...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19359
Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz is an oilseed crop used for biofuel production. By-products from oil extraction are high in protein (about 35%) and can be used for animal feed. The aim of this study was to characterize the protein fraction of camelina meal. The protein fraction of ca...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19003
Soil physical properties have been subjected to a growing number of studies in recent decades. Although, these parameters can be measured directly, their measurement is difficult and expensive, especially in terms of time, sampling date, storage and cost of measurement. Overcomin...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12316
Landfills imbued with heavy elements are major threats to the environment. To assess anthropogenic enrichment, soil, leachate and groundwater samples were collected from active landfills in Lagos and analysed for some heavy elements. The geology of the sampled areas is essentiall...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19197
Introduction: Opportunistic infections (OIs) remain the single main cause of ill-health and death among HIV/AIDS patients in resource poor countries. We assessed the prevalence of 17 OIs and associated factors among HIV positive patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (H...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18953
Background: Malaria is the infectious disease causing the highest morbidity and mortality in Angola. Existing tools for the diagnosis of malaria include microscopy, rapid diagnosis tests (RDTs) and molecular tools. Nested-PCR is commonly used as a reference technique in the diagn...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18744
Introduction: The prevalence of rifampicin, isoniazid and pyrazinamide induced elevations in serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels were compared in a cohort of Nigerians with and without HIV seropositivity. Methods: Records of all the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (2...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/19448
Textile wastewater is strong colored and contributes immensely to water pollution if not appropriately treated. However, it is hard to treat by the conventional biological methods if applied singly, hence, the application of a physicochemical technique for the treatment was propo...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/19303
The kinetics of thermolysis of laboratory safety gloves (LG), was studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at two consecutive isotherm temperatures: 333°C, and 422°C as well as two thermal scan between these two temperatures. Three methods were used to evaluate the kinetics pa...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/19024