Aim: The study was designed to investigate the hypoglycaemic potential of lycopene in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic Wistar rats. Methodology: To achieve this, a total of thirty (30) adult Wistar rats of both sexes were used. The animals were made diabetic by single intrap...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15908
Aims: To assess the relation between the grade of steatosis and anthropometric measures, lipid profile and serum adiponectin in non-diabetic patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Tropical Medicine a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16594
Aims: To determine the prevalence of hyperuricaemia in adult Nigerians with untreated newly diagnosed hypertension and to evaluate its relations with serum lipid abnormalities. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: General Out-patient Department, Medic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16448
New concepts of organization development are not always useful in practice [1]. Moreover, they rarely refer to the achievements of other sciences. There are many reasons for that, for example, debasing other specialisations by showing their allegedly non-scientific qualities or n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16096
Aims: It was aimed in the present study to explore the effect of gender on environmental awareness of the post-graduate students. When education diversity was controlled to be science and social-science the environmental awareness was expected to be influenced by the gender of in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16206
This study was focused on the comparative effectiveness of using the group discussion method and the lecture method in the teaching and learning of history by form four students at Dakamela Secondary School in Nkayi District with the aim of finding which of the two methods better...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14560
The aim of the study is to examine the possible dissociative effects of bilingualism on the complex and cognitively challenging task of reading. The underlying assumption is that there are two paths to reading: the lexical (semantic) path and the non-lexical (phonological) path....
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16760
Employment-related problems of psychiatric patients are attracting attention in the field of mental health and welfare. Employers’ social distance from psychiatric patients negatively influences patients’ chances to work. Therefore, social distance should be carefully measured an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17245
Personal selling is a paid personal communication that seeks to inform customers and persuade them to purchase products in an exchange situation. It is a powerful two-way form of communication. It allows an interactive relationship to develop between buyer and seller in which the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15807
This paper attempts to examine the effects of job rotation and employees’ performances in business organizations. It was mainly concerned with assessing, evaluating, and ascertaining the overall impact of job rotation on productivity, improvement of skills, talents, and correctio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12051
Kola nuts do not undergo any other additional form of post harvest processing before storage and consumption, hence there is an urgent need to develop new post harvest storage pest control strategies that are safe, of low cost, convenient to use, and environmentally / user friend...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/13462
We present and prove a set of necessary and sufficient conditions that the inequality f4(x, y, z) ≥ 0 holds for all nonnegative real variables x, y, z, where f4(x, y, z) is a cyclic homogeneous polynomial of degree four which satisfies f4(1, 1, 1) = 0.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16723
In this paper, we consider a discrete multispecies Gilpin-Ayala type competition-predator system. Firstly, permanence of the system is studied. Assume that the coefficients in the system are almost periodic sequences, we obtain the sufficient conditions for the existence of a uni...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16779
Aims/ The structure of the solutions to the one dimensional focusing nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation (NLS) for the order N in terms of quasi rational functions is given here. We first give the proof that the solutions can be expressed as a ratio of two wronskians of order 2N and...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/16827
Stem rust is a devastating disease in barley that is caused by a fungi (Puccinia graminis f. sp tritici, Eriks. and E. Henn). The disease has been controlled for quite some time due to the presence of cultivars carrying the resistant gene Rpg1. It has been effective in controllin...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16332