Aim: Using a qualitative approach, the aim was to investigate the existence of a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, in tertiary health education students following a sexuality education course. Study Design: Qualitative research using Nvivo analysis was utilised. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17891
José A. Villarruel-Sahagún, Genaro G. Ortiz, Fermín P. Pacheco-Moises, Evelia Martínez-Cano, Salvador G. Gómez, Efraín Gaxiola-López, Gustavo Marín-Pineda, Pedro G. Fajardo, Erika D. González-Renovato, Sergio A. Sánchez-Luna, Moisés A. Alatorre-Jiménez, Fernando Cortés-Enríquez & Juan P. Sánchez-Luna·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2015
Background: The overall aim of this work was to study the impact of combined aerobic and anaerobic training in relation to hemodynamic response (heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and double product), serum oxidative stress markers (lipoperoxides, nitrites-nitrates) and platele...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15421
Objective: Metabolic syndrome is a widespread disease associated with cardiovascular pathologies and diabetes mellitus. The underlying mechanisms for development of the metabolic syndrome are currently being intensively discussed. Contradictory data regarding the role of lipid me...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18536
Consideration of alternative reservoir in reservoir network for flood control is born out of the need to provide a complete formulation and provide solution to problem associated with sediment inflow. A set of (m+2) coupled nonlinear ODE is formulated for design and management of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/17200
Introduction: The study aimed to assess the relationship between early pregnancy Hemoglobin (Hb) concentration and weight gain status in pregnant women and birth weight. Material and Methods: This is a retrospective study that was carried out on the 1994 under-five-year children....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16613
Aims: Vegetable oils are fats, which are extracted from plant materials especially from seeds, which may change its chemical composition when heated. Therefore the present study investigated the effect of heating of sunflower oil and sesame oil on the in-vivo antioxidant status a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/17862
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) remains a major health burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and the management requires regular monitoring of the patients. The monitoring includes routine assessment of haematological parameters and any deviation can best be appreciated when steady...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/18339
Aims: Identify and document medicinal plants used for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Investigate the secondary metabolites present in those plants. Study Design: A questionnaire was employed for the survey and different chemicals and reagents were used for phytochemical scre...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/18777
Muritala A. Adebayo, Sherifat A. Aboaba, Olanrewaju I. Eresanya, Adeleke A. Ajetunmobi & Isiaka A. Ogunwande·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2015
The characterization of the leaf essential oil of Ficus benghalensis L. (Moraceae) was performed by gas chromatography-flame ionisation detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Monoterpene compounds (5.9%) are less common in the oil while the sesquiterp...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/18803
Objective: To determine the intraocular pressure-lowering effect and safety of opening the Gold Micro Shunt Plus’ (GMS+) windows with a titanium-sapphire laser. Design: Retrospective case series. Participants: The charts of 5 patients were reviewed. Diagnoses included primary ope...
In this paper, we investigate the influence of an electric field on the ground state energy of a polaron in a spherical semiconductor quantum dot (QD) using the modified Lee Low Pines (LLP) method. The numerical results show an increase of the ground state energy with the increas...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/18439
In this work we studied a series of polar Diels-Alder reactions using different heterocycles derivatives acting as electrophiles joint to dienes of different nucleophilicity, analyzing the effect of the microwave irradiation in these processes. We employ the technique in two cond...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/18867
Aims: The specific objective of this study was to estimate the genetic components for some physiological parameters to use in breeding programs. Place and Duration of Study: The present research was conducted in the Experiments Farm at University Putra Malaysia (UPM) during crop...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/8215
This paper seeks to promote turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn) through increased awareness of the potentials of the crop in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries in Nigeria. Nigeria can take the lead in turmeric production but this potential has not been fully tapped as the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16517
The study was carried out to appraise tomato value chain in order to promote the development of tomato production and processing industry in Nigeria. Currently in Nigeria, about 1.8 Million tonnes of fresh tomato are produced per year, but over 50% of these are lost due to poor s...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16921