Background: Interest in avoidance of antibiotic resistance development through non-antibiotic therapeutics prompts development of topical vaginal preparations that may inhibit vaginal microorganisms. Prior data on boric acid, zinc salts and probiotic microorganisms suggests a pot...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/12327
Objective: To explore the neuroprotective effect of Irvingia gabonensis (IG) against cadmium-induced oxidative damage in rats brain. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemical sciences, (Biochemistry laboratory), Afe Babalola University and Department of Biochemistry, Ek...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/12249
Aim: Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella enteric serovar Typhi and S. enteric serovar Paratyphi A. B. C. Accurate diagnosis of this illness will greatly reduce the mortality and morbidity associated with it. This study therefore evaluated the available diagnostic methods for ty...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/12380
Background: Pegylated interferon (peg-IFN) alpha in combination with weight-based doses of ribavirin is currently recommended as a standard-of-care treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. However, the low response rate with interferon as well as the high occurren...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/11789
Aims: Analysis of the nutrient content of maize (Zea mays), soybean (Glycine max) and Moringa oleifera leaves commonly consumed by infants in Nigeria were done to determine the nutrient composition of the complementary foods and leaves. Methodology: Yellow maize (Zea mays) grain...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/11949
Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1993 to replace Sales Tax. The aim was to increase the revenue base of government and make funds available for developmental purposes that will accelerate economic growth. The paper empirically examined...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11013
Customs clearance is a force step on international trade. The evolution and grow of international trade has made more important and complex the task assigned to customs services. Now day’s customs administration is a relevant regulatory operator in international trade and goods m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12156
Aims: This paper examines the causal links among Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), exports and economic growth in Burundi. Methodology: The paper applies bootstrap causality tests to account for non-normality in error terms and the presence of ARCH effects in which case the Wald s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/12454
Aims: The aim of the present study was to qualify and quantify the toxicological researches in the Middle East countries. Comparisons were made with the rest of the world. Place and Duration of Study: The current study was carried out during the 1st of January to the 31st of Dece...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/11484
Malaria as among vector-borne diseases is reemerging in areas where control efforts were once effective and emerging in areas though free of the disease as a consequence of human migration and rapid growth of international traffic from malaria prevalent areas of the world to mala...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/12044
In this paper synthesis and characterization of a new hybrid polymer composites reinforced with electroless nickel coated glass fiber with the addition of 0.5 % of nano iron oxide as filler is reported. Nano Iron oxide is introduced into the matrix as fillers at the minimum conce...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/12703
This work was carried out in order to study the possibility of using pinecones as inexpensive sorbent material for the removal of copper ions in solution. The experiment was carried out in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Batch adsorp...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11115
Aims: To study the antimicrobial activities of methanol, acetone and aqueous extracts of Mangifera indica Linn crude leaves on Salmonella and Shigella in order to provide natural therapy against them. Study Design: Salmonella and Shigella isolates were obtained from twenty-five s...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/11001
Viruses are well known for their ability to hijack and manipulate the host cellular machinery to ensure immune evasion, viral survival and pathogenesis. Most animal viruses exhibit exclusive tropism and thus, infect only specific target cells. However, reports on the existence of...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2014/9370
This article presents some topical ideas about effectiveness of foreign language education of little children and some trends in this sphere. The special attention is paid on bilingual education of children at preschool and elementary school age. The author underlines the strateg...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10873