Aim: To describe the determinants of primary pyomyositis in Northern Uganda. Study Design and Setting: A case-control and a cohort study designs were conducted in Hospitals in Northern Uganda. Methods: Primary pyomyositis patients were consecutively recruited and followed to disc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14596
Aims: Unilateral hopping (UH) is one of the common tests for footedness assessment. Inter-limb differences between vertical stiffness (KVERT), ankle dynamic joint stiffness (ADJS) and knee dynamic joint stiffness (KDJS) are expected to exist between the dominant and non-dominant...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15821
Aims: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosome abnormality among live born infants. The aim of this study is to determine the Clinical outcome of patients with DS and congenital heart disease (CHD). Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: On 10...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15098
Background: The increasing incidence of high blood pressure, its complications and associated fatalities has led to an upsurge in the use of alternate forms of medicaments in its management. The oral ingestion of the hemolymph of Archachatina marginata is commonly used as an anti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15674
In this paper different modulation formats NRZ and RZ and different wavelengths 1550 nm and 1310 nm and two photodiodes APD and PIN has been investigated on free space optical communication link. The value of Q has been observed in all the cases in different eye diagrams. It is c...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15503
Aims: Aims of the study were to describe socio-economic characteristics of cocoyam farmers and ascertain the constraints associated with cocoyam producers in Kaduna state. Study Design: Primary data were collected from cocoyam producers through the use of structured questionnaire...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16167
Aims: To explore the sensitivity and specificity values for aspiration with the blue dye food test (BDFT) in tracheotomized patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation and explore what impact, if any, the accumulated oropharyngeal secretion level has upon the accuracy of the BDF...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/11652
In the present work Stilbite (Natural Zeolite), Na-Zeolite are exchanged with Sr(II) metal ion to study the removal of heavy metal ions from the industrial waste water. The analysis of the parent zeolite and the exchanged derivative has been carried out using Inductive Couple Pla...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/10798
Aims: The objective of this study is to create an experimental model of intestinal endometriosis in pigs, which might allow better understanding of deep infiltrating endometriosis and development of new treatment techniques. As secondary objective, we intend to create endometrial...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13615
Aim: To investigate the possible antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of purified extract obtained from aerial parts of Astragalus glycyphyllos (EAG) using in vivo model of CCl4-induced liver damage in male Wistar rats. Study Design: A total of 36 animals were randomly alloca...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/16259
In this study, the applicability of a multiple regression equation to predict breeding values based on the high-density SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) markers that are found in the whole genome sequences of animals and plants was evaluated. The genotypes of a large number o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16480
This paper deals with the performance evaluation of multi-server queuing system subject to breakdowns under transient frame work. The system does not accept the queue of the waiting customers. If the new customer upon its arrival finds 'n' customers already present in the system,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14430
Given a Lipschitz pseudocontractive mapping T from a closed convex and bounded subset K of a real Hilbert space H onto itself, and an arbitrary x1 ∈ K, a Krasnolselskii-type sequence defined by is proved to be an appr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/16020
Aims: Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), the routine technique of molecular cytogenetics, is widely used to detect and localize the presence of specific nucleic acids sequences in chromosomes, cell nucleus space, cells and tissue samples through the use of highly complemen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15991
We have studied perturbations of Hammerstein’s Type Operator Equations in general Banach Spaces. In this paper, two different levels of perturbations have been studied in Hilbert spaces. We prove that these levels satisfy the regularization conditions for Hammerstein type operato...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15896