Aim: To compare the bias magnitude between logistic regression and Bayesian structural equation modeling (SEM) in a small sample with strong unmeasured confounding from two correlated latent variables. Study Design: Statistical analysis of artificial data. Methodology: Artificial...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/16185
Food allergy is an increasing and potentially serious problem that can significantly limit patient’s quality of life. The incidence of this disease has been augmenting in recent decades. Classic allergy tests do not reflect the exact immunological reality of allergy. Recently, ma...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/16073
Aims: Caenorhabditis elegans nematode pathosystem has been used to study both bacterial and fungal pathogenesis. Apart from Candida and Cryptococcus, studies using this model for other fungal infections especially filamentous fungi however, are still lacking. This work aimed at d...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/15838
This article explores the growing number of students with disabilities enrolled in postsecondary educational settings and the need for faculty to reconsider the format of the traditional lecture by utilizing learning strategies and interventions that have proven successful in the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14946
Introduction: Aplastic anemia is characterized by decreased bone marrow function with inadequate production of erythrocytes, granulocytes, and platelets. Marrow failure may be caused by absence of or defects in hematopoietic stem cells, abnormalities of the bone marrow microenvir...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/15735
In the paper UHMWPE coating with different materials is analysed. Such coatings are made using magnetron sputtering method. The friction tests of these coatings are accomplished. SPM surface morphology images of coatings are analysed before and after the friction test. It was det...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15679
Aims: To investigate antioxidant related effects of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger) in humans. Study Design: Venous blood from healthy volunteers was used to conduct ex vivo experiments. For in vivo study, nine healthy volunteers, each received orally 250 ml of aqueous extrac...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/16618
This study presents the synthesis, spectral analysis and in vitro antimicrobial evaluation of a new series of Schiff bases of 1,3,4-thiadiazole and 1,2,4-triazole (1-10). The structure of obtained compounds was confirmed by spectral analysis (IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR) and elemental...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/16459
Eventual ecotoxicological risks associated with the presence of hazardous metals depend on their identity, chemical forms of association in soil, mobility and bioavailability. Based on this understanding, determination of the chemical form of a metal in soil is important. Sequent...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/16340
A. R. Adetunji, D. A. Isadare, K. J. Akinluwade & O. O. Adewoye·Advances in Research·2015
Cassava plant and its products have long been used as food and feed but lately as industrial ingredients. The present study unveils various agricultural and industrial applications of cassava especially the waste cyanogenic component which hitherto has constituted a huge agricult...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/15417
The boundary values of problem that are determined from observations play a decisive role in solving any problem in mathematical models of dynamic systems. They lead to the search of answer to the following questions: From observations, is it possible to find such boundary values...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/15327
D. M. Nazmul Alam, Khandkar- Siddikur Rahman, Sourav Bagchi Ratul, Arifa Sharmin, Tania Islam, Md. Abu Wabaeid Hasan & Md. Nazrul Islam·Advances in Research·2015
Aims: This paper explores the properties of single layer particleboard produced from bamboo wastes and branches. Experimental: Three types of single layer particleboard i.e., branch-waste mixed particleboard (WBPB), bamboo branch particleboard (BPB) and bamboo wastes (shavings ob...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/15581
The effect of blanching on the proximate composition, nutritive value and antioxidant properties of five leafy vegetable species (Basella alba, Colocasia esculenta, Corchorus olitorius, Solanum melongena and Talinum triangulare) used in the preparation of Ivorian diets was invest...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/14509
Aims: Aims of the study were to describe socio-economic characteristics of cocoyam farmers, profitability of cocoyam production and determine the profit efficiency of cocoyam producers in Kaduna state. Study Design: Primary data were collected from cocoyam producers through the u...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16219
Aims: The aim of the project is to detect and enumerate the presence of indicator organisms in drinking water sources of open defaecation free (ODF) village development committees (VDCs) of Kaski district; to compare distribution of Total coliform (TC) and Faecal count (FC) among...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/16162