Aims: Evaluate the in vitro effects of essential oils and water extracts of Laurus nobilis, Rosmarinus officinalis, Mentha suaveolens and Fraxinus angustifolia on the growth of Anabaena cylindrica and Chlorella vulgaris. Study Design: Experimental research. Place and Duration of...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/12898
Aims: Cardiac hypertrophy develops from prolonged, severe iron deficiency (ID), but little is known about its function. We hypothesized that 4 weeks of ID would result in enhanced cardiac function, but would transition to loss by 9 weeks. Study Design: 38 rats were fed either con...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13376
In vitro and in silico Approach to Evaluate the Urease and Collagenase Inhibitory Activity of Embilica officinalis Gaertn Fruit Aim: The key virulent factors of bacteria are enzymes. Urease and collagenase enzyme play a vital role in pathogenesis of wide array of bacterial strain...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/12339
Aims: To determine the factors that influence outcome of management of sigmoid volvulus in Northern Uganda Study Design: A prospective observational study was conducted on 103 sigmoid volvulus patients admitted and surgically managed in 19 hospitals in northern Uganda and followe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12283
Aims: Immune-mediated mechanism, such as deposition of complement (C3b) on erythrocytes leading to enhanced receptor-mediated uptake by macrophages has been proposed to contribute partly to the destruction of non-infected cells leading to anaemia. The extent of complement deposit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/9438
This study was aimed at determining the pattern of some assessors of obesity including body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) and the effect of these parameters on blood pressures in the studied population. The sample consisted of three hundred and fifty (350) undergr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/9663
Aims: To determine the incidence of sigmoid volvulus in Northern Uganda. Study Design: A cross-sectional (2 years retrospective and one year prospective) study design was conducted on patients’ medical records and those admitted, surgically managed or referred from the 19 hospita...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12451
Aims: Dementia is common among the elderly but it can also affect the younger age group. Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI) in Alzheimer Dementia (AD) are extensively studied and widely used. This case report aims to illustrate the usefulness of ChEIs in other non–age related neuro...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12752
The building of proper policies for the promotion of organic farming should be based on good understanding of the factors that affect farmers' decision to shift to organic farming. This study aims at defining the determinants of farmers' decision to convert to organic agriculture...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/11708
We examine the initial returns volatility of initial public offering by determining: (1) whether mispricing actually takes place during and after IPOs in Nigeria and Sri Lanka; (2) whether the mispricing (overpricing or underpricing) could constitute corporate fraud tendencies si...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12762
Bitcoin has two major roles: as currency and as financial asset. This paper attempts to address these roles: whether Bitcoin is a real currency, and what its financial features are. Using daily data of the exchange rates quoted from the world major Bitcoin dealer since the incept...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13308
In this paper, we propose an ecient modication of a New Homotopy Perturbation Method (NHPM) to obtain approximate and exact analytical solutions of Partial Dierential-Algebraic Equations (PDAEs). The NHPM is rst applied to the PDAE to obtain the exact solution in convergent serie...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12168
This work is devoted to study a doubly non linear elliptic-parabolic problem with quadratic gradient term by Rothe's method. We investigate the long time behavior of the solution to the discrete problem and prove the existence of compact global attractor. Our method relays on sem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8392
We use tensor product to introduce a new approach to the theory of integration. Such an approach will strengthen the existing various classical concepts of integral and will provide a continuous thread tying the subject matter together. The integral of vector-valued functions wit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12274
The paper examines the recent entrepreneurship education in senior secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. This is to ascertain the level of compliance with the curriculum’s contents, teachers’ competence and the extent to which it has empowered students for self-employment. The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11548