Aim: The study is aimed at analyzing blood samples from 192 females school going adolescents (randomly selected) in a public boarding secondary school in Katsina metropolis for the levels of serum total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-CH), low density...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10324
Addition is considered as the basic operation for every digital circuit or system, digital signal processing and control system. The fast and accurate operation of any digital system is mainly influenced by the performance of its resident adders. In this paper a 4-bit full adder...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10586
Water quality assessment of a tropical river arises due to the importance of such rivers as main sources of water for domestic, agricultural, tourism and industrial purposes. The spatial distribution of the physical, chemical and microbial contents of Nworie River water was asses...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10700
The present study was aimed to investigate the drying kinetics of gum karaya (S. urens). Three grades of gum (I, II, III) were dried using a cabinet-type convective dryer. Particle size equivalent to US Sieve size-6 and air temperatures of 50, 60 and 70°C were used for the drying...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/10104
Complications of chronic otitis media are still a common otological problem in the developing countries. Though the incidence has been reduced with the introduction of higher antibiotics, they are still seen commonly in the developing countries and in rural areas. The incidence o...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10494
Aims: Evaluation of natural antioxidant potential of Kalanchoe pinnata leaves attributable towards its therapeutic properties. Study Design: In vitro experiments to validate antioxidant potential in aqueous and lipid phase. Methodology: The aqueous-alcoholic whole leaf extract de...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/11374
Aims: Primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas of the oropharyngeal region are rare. We report a case of a small B-cell lymphoma (MALT lymphoma) involving base of tongue. The patient was successfully treated with wide excision of the lesion followed by radiotherapy. Presentation of Case:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10789
Aims: To study the admission patterns and outcome of children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Nepal. Methods: Demographic profile, diagnosis, treatment, supportive measures and outcome of children admitted to the PICU of B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10318
Aims: Injection snoreplasty was recently introduced as a safe, effective, and minimally invasive treatment for primary snoring. We assess the effectiveness of the treatment in our patients. Study Design: It was a prospective, non-randomised study on 54 patients with primary snori...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7928
Aims: The aim of this paper is to provide a note on “Soft matrix theory and its decision making”. Study Design: In a recent paper [N. Cagman, S. Enginoglu, Soft matrix theory and its decision making, Computers and Mathematics with Applications 59 (10) (2010) 3308-3314], Çaðman an...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10507
Two response surface methodologies involving historical data designs have been successfully developed with the aim of predicting optimum operating parameters for bioelectricity generation from sugar wastewater. The regression models evaluated the effect of waste water concentrati...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10402
Aims: Saline and brackish water has been encountered in more than half of the boreholes across Kilifi County. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between lithology and structural geology and the quality of water encountered in boreholes in the study area. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8784
Aims: The expression of gene and gene product is typically inhibited by a small non-coding RNA (microRNA) or DNA methylation. The aim of this study is to investigate mechanisms involving microRNA let-7f by which the repeated cycles of ethanol exposure and withdrawal provoke mitoc...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/11533
Aim: Intellectual disability often referred to as a mental, cognitive or mental retardation is a lifelong condition that affects intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors. Information about children with intellectual disability attending regular schools is limited in India...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/10610
Aims: In this study, we investigated three lottery strategies: random, low and high frequency strategies, usually employed by lottery players. For the three strategies, we considered whether the selection of numbers in Oyo State lottery occurred with equal probability, whether th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11432