Aims: To investigate if salivary cortisol can be used as an alternative to serum cortisol in the management of diabetes mellitus. Study design: The design of the study was cross sectional. Place and Duration of Study: Diabetic Clinic of the Department of Internal Medicine and th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/19286
Being a growing problem, plagiarism is generally defined as a “literary theft” and an “academic dishonesty” in the literature, and it is really has to be well-informed on this topic to prevent the problem and stick to the ethical principles. Due to the hug of digital libraries an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14673
The structure and function of the family farm in Israel might become a central theme in discussions on the question of food security in 2050. Therefore, a discussion of the future organizational structure for agricultural production required is an important issue. The purpose of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/19189
In this study the long run and short run supply responsiveness of Nigerian fisheries sector to price and policy variables for the 1971 to 2010 period were estimated using the bounds testing approach to cointegration. The goal was to present policy makers with empirical evidence o...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/17086
Aim: To determine the relationship between the volumes of biogas that can be produced using different biomass/water ratios. Study Design: Biogas was produced by the anaerobic digestion or fermentation of plantain leaves. A practical laboratory scale experimental design was used t...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/18140
Aniko Polo-Akpisso, Kpérkouma Wala, Soulemane Ouattara, Yao A. Woegan, Mamadou Coulibaly, Abalo Atato, Wouyo Atakpama, M’Tékounm Nare, Tano Yao & Koffi Akpagana·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aims: Assessment of plant species diversity and habitat typology. Study Design: Stratified random sampling design according to defined land categories of a land cover map. Place and Duration of Study: Complex of protected areas Oti-Keran-Mandouri (Northern Togo) from March to Dec...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/19271
Aim: Register new species gradually becomes more difficult as sampling of a community progresses, addressing increasingly rarer species. Thus, although biodiversity assessments would ideally require complete samplings, only partial samplings are ordinarily achieved when species a...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18809
A country’s socioeconomic condition and quality of life is reflected in the rate of child mortality in that country. This paper examined the differentials in child mortality rate across socioeconomic, demographic and selected health characteristics in rural Nigeria, employing the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9643
Aims: The lack of prospective studies on abdominal non-aortic true or false aneurysms results in insufficient data to predict their natural history and propose a treatment of choice. The experience provided by case reports is important to discuss their management and prevention....
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/19030
Black tea extract was estimated as high carbon steel corrosion inhibitor in 1 M H3PO4 solution using non-electrochemical technique (Weight loss, FT-IR and SEM analysis). The maximum inhibition efficiency was found to be 93.79 at 4 g/ L. The results indicated that inhibition effic...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/18723
Background: Reports had revealed that internet addiction is a newly emerging social and mental health issue among the youths and has attracted much attention around the world. Furthermore excessive use of the internet has negatively affected the daily life routines of adolescents...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/18933
A predictive estimator for estimating the parameter of binomial distribution is suggested. This estimator aims to maximize the expectation of expected log-likelihood. The results given by this estimator are superior to those given by the maximum likelihood estimator in terms of t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/19191
Gaussian elimination method is one of the widely used methods for solving linear equations. An interval version of Gaussian elimination method has been used by simply replacing each real arithmetic step by the corresponding interval arithmetic step. Two interval arithmetics techn...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18825
This paper studies Strassen’s algorithms for fast multiplication of two finite dimensional matrices. However, one pertinent issue that has deterred Strassen’s scheme from been considered for practical usage is determining the cross-over point. In this light, large matrices with d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18772
This paper is presenting a fourth-order nonlinear conjugate gradient method in large scale optimization. This method solves unconstrained optimization problems. It is based on a nonlinear polynomial approximation of the objective function. The idea is to approximate the minimizin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/18694