Aims: Recently, digital wax-up is proposed as a tool to aid prosthodontic planning. Accuracy is a requirement of the diagnostic wax-up in order for its information to be transferrable clinically.The purpose of this study is to evaluate the precision of digital prosthodontic plann...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12331
Particulate air pollution is the major concern in four major cities, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Chittagong, in Bangladesh and thus it is necessary to understand the characteristics of the pollutant as well as sources for further improvement of the air quality. In this view parti...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11247
Capital infrastructure such as road construction weighs heavily on the budget of countries having large geographical area and growing population. The paper presents an emerging computer aided valuation appraisal technique for verifying design and quantifying the material-cost com...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11489
Joseph Nunoo, Enoch Selorm Kofi Ofori, Emmanuel Kwatei Quartey, Emmanuel Kwame Gasu, Ebenezer Ato Ewusie, Bernard Tawiah Odai, Wellington Torgby-Tetteh & Wisdom Selorm Kofi Agbemavor·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2014
Aims: In an effort to improve the breeding lines of tomatoes for further breeding work; this work was done to evaluate the physico-chemical properties of selected lines. Study Area and Duration: The research was carried out between May-September 2012 at Nuclear Agriculture Resear...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/11087
The study investigated the influence of parents, teachers and government attitudes towards sexuality education on inappropriate sexual behaviours of secondary school students. One hundred and twenty-five senior secondary school students were used for the study. Related literature...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10315
Many Japanese people in modern society experience stress that may contribute to various kinds of diseases, sometimes resulting in death. One important source of stress comes from an excessive need for approval from others, or sekentei. Recent evidence has shown that ikigai, i.e.,...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/4189
A Self starting Stomer Cowell Hybrid Block Method of uniform Order 8 for Direct solution of General Second Order Initial Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations is presented in this paper. The method produces simultaneous approximation of the solution in a Block of Seve...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/6749
The world’s cotton production and export industry has for some time now witnessed protests from various producers and exporters on distortionary measures (notably subsidies) instilled by some major players (including the United States, India and China) and the downward pressure s...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/11913
The rapid and accelerating development of information and communication technology (ICT) has caused an unprecedented expansion in Hong Kong’s ICT industry and a simultaneous increase in the demand for ICT practitioners. With the intention of helping ICT-related companies in Hong...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10056
Access to productive resources at the level sufficient for economic and scale efficiencies by farmers is constrained by limited resource endowment and poor access to farm credit. This study examined the existence and determinants of credit constraint on poultry egg farmers in Nig...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10018
Aims: To examine the protective properties of vitamin C (vitC) and E (vitE) on DM induced nephrotoxicity in male guinea pigs. Study Design: Twenty male rats were randomly grouped into four. “1” = Control, “2” = Vitamins (C & E) treated, “3” = Dimethoate (DM) treated and “4” =...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10503
The paper examines changes and the extent of poverty in rural Nigeria from 1996 to 2004. It investigates the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty within these eight years. The analysis is based on household National Consumer Survey (NCS) of 199...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11239
Faiza Khan, Zubaida Yousaf, Hafiza Saadia Ahmed, Ayesha Arif, Hafiza Ayesha Rehman, Afifa Younas, Madiha Rashid, Zoya Tariq & Nadia Raiz·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Taxonomic information provides the base line for most of the studies in biological sciences. Most of taxonomic information based on phenotypic characteristics of plants. As phenotypic markers are under the influence of environment, therefore it may leads toward the taxonomic conf...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10073
We review the use of diatoms in monitoring and assessment of river health in the world. First, we summarize the use of diatoms as indicators of nutritional status, acidification, and organic and metal pollution. We then examine some problems that have been associated with diatoms...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/11963