Joseph Aondowase Orkuma, Simji Samuel Gomerep, Julie Ochaka Egesie, Jennifer Hembadoon Orkuma, Adebayo Osaikhume Ejele, Joseph Aondowase Ngbea, Raymond Akpobome Vhriterhire & Anthony Michael Onoja·Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science·2015
Background: Voluntary non-remunerated blood donors (VNRBD) that provide safe blood needed to save lives and improve health or used as a necessary adjunct to emerging modern Medicare are scarce in Nigeria. Aim: To assess the contribution of donor socio-demographics characteristics...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18263
Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs of two colleges that train secondary school teachers. Place and Duration: Tonota College of Education and Tlokweng college of education in the month of October, 2013. Methodology: The sample included 324...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13144
Background: Intestinal parasitosis remains a major public health burden in developing countries such as Ghana. The burden of disease is heaviest among vulnerable populations and yet epidemiologic data from these populations are limited. Objectives: The present study aimed at asse...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18026
Malaria caused 350 to 500 million clinical episodes in the year 2000 and remains the fifth most deadly infectious disease worldwide after respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, diarrhoeal diseases, and tuberculosis. Though malaria remains a global health concern in developing nations,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18502
Aims: The potential activity against Candida albicans of five commonly used medicinal plant species of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in southwestern Uganda was investigated. Study Design: The phytochemical profiles of Tetradenia riparia, Erucastrum arabicum, Plectranth...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18056
Background: Pentazocine abuse in patients with Sickle cell disease (SCD) has not received adequate attention in Nigeria. Many of these SCD patients have had their conditions unduly worsened and quality of life severely breached by complications of pentazocine abuse. Despite the g...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18336
Aims: To identify strengthens and weaknesses of Tuberculosis (TB) surveillance system of District Hyderabad and suggest recommendations for improvement. Study Design: Descriptive evaluative study Place and Duration of Study: This research work was conducted in Provincial director...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/17492
Aim: We intend to ascertain the experience of Sunni Hospital Maiduguri on the use of TBAs in enhancing Maternal Health Care Services. Study Design: It was a retrospective observational survey of a community health project. Place and Duration of Study: Maiduguri, Borno State North...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18474
Background and Aim: Meningitis is an emergency condition, particularly bacterial meningitis for young and elderly patients. Differentiation between septic and aseptic meningitis may be difficult, the search for biochemical markers and laboratory tests to help in this task is cruc...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/18410
Aim: To study antibacterial activities of the dichloromethane extract of cocoa pods infected with P. palmivora on selected bacteria pathogens using paper disc bioassay technique, agar diffusion techniques and spectrophotometric methods. Place and Duration of Study: Departm...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/17904
Aims: Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced in biological wastewater treatment processes are from substrate metabolisms and biomass decay and mainly consist of proteins, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids. The chemical functional groups associated with these polymeric...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/18402
Anderson Silva, Robério Silva, Gleidson de Carvalho, Fabiano da Silva, Túlio Lins, Lúcia Zeoula, Selma Franco, Ana Paula Silva, Venício Carvalho & George Abreu·Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology·2015
The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between ingestive behavior and apparent digestibility of grazing cattle supplemented with or without propolis extract (LLOS®), during the rainy season. Thirty-two uncastrated crossbred steers (269±4.92 kg) with an averag...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/13846
The effect of crude leaf extract of Morinda lucida on germination and growth of Amaranthus spinosus and Amaranthus hybridus was studied. However, the aim was to use crude water extract from leave of M. lucida to germinate, nurture and compare the growth of A. hybridus and A. spi...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/18173
Many econometric testing problems are potentially either one-sided or partially one-sided because econometric models often come with prior information about the sign of some or all of their unknown parameters. In most cases, time series data suffer from both heteroscedasticity...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17035
Petroleum refining is accompanied by the release of toxicants into the environment, including suspended particulate matter (SPM), poisonous gaseous oxides of carbon (COx), nitrogen (NOx), and sulphur (SOx) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S), ammonia (NH3), volatile organic compounds (VO...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/13627