Ghana is undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition from solely communicable to a double burden of infectious and chronic disease such as hypertension. Aims: We aimed to compare the association between different lifestyle practices, adiposity indices, atherogenic dyslipidaemic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14308
Aim: The Spontaneously Diabetic Torii (SDT) fatty rat is a metabolic syndrome model, showing obesity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. Moreover, female SDT fatty rats exhibit hepatic steatosis. In this study, metabolic abnormalities, particularly in the liver, were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15922
Many sources of formation damage exists which normally contribute to a reduction in well productivity by introducing an extra positive skin near the wellbore. The main objective of matrix stimulation treatment is to remove this damage. Such treatment was a new approach in Amal fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14026
MHD free convection, heat and mass transfer flow over a rotating inclined permeable plate with the influence of magnetic field, thermal radiation and chemical reaction of various order has been investigated numerically. The governing boundary-layer equations are formulated and tr...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/15194
Aims: The objective was to investigate the effect of copper at low concentrations in an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor performance under continuous conditions and its geochemical distribution in anaerobic sludge through sequential extraction. Study Design: Continu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15219
Aim: The present study hypothesizes that recurrent insulin induced hypoglycemia (RIIH) elevates renal interstitial ATP levels which in turn enhances AngII production. This interrupts the normal tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) mechanism by stimulating afferent arteriolar vasoconst...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/16184
Aim: Estimate the economics of surgical cotton production in the natural home of G. arboreum cottons and advice the surgical cotton enterpreneurs. Methodology: Field experiments, on farm trials, gin/surgical cotton unit surveys were conducted and economics was calculated from the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11236
The effect of indoor air drying on the mass of irrigated and rain-fed green and black olives has been investigated in the present study. Mass loss data were collected over a drying period of about four months. Several measurements were carried out on the pit and pulp fractions of...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/15127
Agroforestry has been practiced for a long time in Vietnam. In this study, the cost-benefit was analyzed in four agroforestry systems, which have been widely established in north mountainous provinces with Star Anise (Illicium verum) + tea (IT), bead tree (Melia azedarach) + cass...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/15750
The Northern region of Ghana hosts the largest number of livestock producers compared to the other regions, but output is still low despite the introduction of improved technologies which have the potential to increase livestock yields when adopted and provide better livelihoods...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/15996
Introduction: Appropriate medical care-seeking could prevent a significant number of child deaths and complications due to ill health. Objectives: The purpose of our study was to assess care-seeking behaviour of mothers during childhood illnesses and its influencing factors. Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/16088
There are numerous studies on the practice of education curriculum, problems and prospects of special education programmes. However, studies on enrolment and achievement pattern of persons with special needs in science subjects are limited. This study is therefore designed to inv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15039
Aims: The aim of this study was to elucidate the factors that influence maternal acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for their school-aged daughters. Study Design: The survey was cross-sectional and conducted using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. Pl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15917
Introduction: Erythrophleum suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.) Brenan (Caesalpiniaceae) and Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae) are important medicinal plants that have been reported to possess various medicinal properties including wound healing. In the present study methanolic ext...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15222
The phytocheimcal components and antihyperglycemic potential of methanol and ethanol leaves extracts of Combretum paniculatum Vent (Combretaceae) and Morinda morindoides (Baker) Milne-Redh (Rubiaceae) grown in Nigeria have been studied. The phytochemical composition was determine...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/15929