Aims: To investigate the antibacterial activity of different parts of Aerva lanata against Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Xanthomonus citri, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus vulgaris. Study Design: An experimental study. Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/15738
Biosurfactants was extracted from a locally fermented milk (pendidam), characterized and their antimicrobial activity on Candida spp. and E. coli were determined. The results obtained show that the crude extract of biosurfactants exhibit emulsifying activity with an emulsificatio...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/15025
Aims: The aim of current study is to evaluate the Polygonum glabrum aqueous extract for anti-leishmanial activity, with the hope to find less expensive and common drug for this neglected disease. Study Design: In vitro Susceptibility of Leishmania tropica. Place and Duration of S...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/15204
The pipoid frogs belonging to the super family Pipoidea of the order Anura are mostly represented in fossil forms with only limited data from the extant materials. Pipidae is a pipoid family of the clawed, tongueless and toothless aquatic frogs with pertinent morphological charac...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2015/15016
Aims: To investigate the catalytic activity of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid in the redox reaction of Cr(VI) and phenylsulfinyl acetic acid. Study Design: The mechanism of the reaction was designed on the basis of the observed results of kinetic, spectral and substituent effect...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/15998
Background: The persistence of toxic herbicides in water and soil has been considered to be potential environmental concern. As atrazine is still used in Nigeria as a major herbicide, a continuous search for atrazine degrading microorganisms is required. Objectives: The effects o...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2015/14345
Aims: To study the host-guest interactions of α-, β- and g-cyclodextrin with herbicide bifenox. Study Design: Binding constants of the complexes were determined by Benesi-Hildebrand method and stoichiometry of the complexes was confirmed by Job’s method. In addition, by means of...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/16078
Aims: To evaluate plant diversity and to show the structural variation of the vegetation in a cocoa agroforest of various ages. Study Design: Slash and burn agriculture is one of the processes of deforestation and degradation of forests. Cocoa agrosystems that consist to plant co...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/10347
Aim: To investigate the changes of carbonyl stress parameters in rats with combined streptozotocin induced diabetes (STZD, hyperglycemia model) and glycerol stimulated rhabdomyolysis (RM, oxidative stress model). Methodology: RM was induced by glycerol injection and confirmed by...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2015/15161
Aims: To enrich fresh-cut tropical fruits such s papaya, guava and banana with calcium and Vitamin D by applying based-alginate edible coatings, and to evaluate its adequacy levels in the daily requirements of children in school age, and as well as, to study both their physicoche...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/15964
Background: Previously we have described the "cavitary” type of angiogenesis by gastric cancer (GC) consisting of the formation of “cavitary structures” (CS) in tumor stroma, which are then lined by endothelial cells and merged into the blood vessels of the organ. The morphologic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15695
Aims: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and degree of expression of the carabelli trait in the permanent first and second maxillary molars in a selected Nepalese population residing in Madi village of Chitwan district. Study Design: Cross sectional descript...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14450
This paper focused on the thermal technique of activating pozzolanic activity of natural pozzolans, specifically calcined kaolinite clay in the form of metakaolin. The effect of heating temperatures over the range 450ºC-1050ºC in steps of 150ºC on the dehydroxylation of the kaoli...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/13146
In paper [1] Ahmad et al. investigated the use of sharp function, known from functional analysis, in image processing. The sharp function gives a measure of variations of a function and can be used as an edge detector [2]. We extend the classical notion of sharp function to prove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14868
We employ bifurcation method of dynamical systems to investigate exact traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear evolution equation. We obtain some exact explicit expressions of solitary wave solutions and some new exact periodic wave solutions in parameter forms of Jacobian ellipt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15751