The effects of black cumin seed or curcumin on blood glucose level, lipid peroxidation and gene expression of selected antioxidant enzymes and insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in diabetic rats were studied. Thirty two rats were assigned into four groups (8 rats in each). Rats...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/11121
Aims: The focus of this study was to evaluate the antimycobacterial activity of Alcaligenes faecalis BW1 extract and to purify it partially. Study design: Partial purification of A. faecalis BW1 extract was performed by using thin layer chromatography and active substances respon...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10595
Five Rhizobium strains (Cb1, Cb2, Cb3, Cb4 and Cb5) were isolated from root nodules of cluster bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.)] on yeast extract mannitol agar (YMA) medium. All the five Rhizobium isolates have shown the Indole Acetic Acid( IAA) production in culture medium sup...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6871
Stock market collects huge amount of data which is uncertain, insufficient or fuzzy in nature. To make predictions for such data is very complicated task and one of the biggest challenges to the AI community. Various traditional and statistical indicators have been proposed for t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9819
In this paper, we determine coefficients bounds for functions in certain subclasses of analytic functions of complex order, which are introduced here by means of the nonhomogeneous Cauchy-Euler differential equation of order m: Our main result contain some corollaries as special...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10194
We propose in this work two Automatic Arabic (Indian) digits recognition systems using a real-life dataset of 3000 bank checks. The systems extracts features from training-set images of 7390 isolated digits (0-9). These features are multi-scale in which they capture narrow, inter...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11601
The paper deals with the effects of radiation and Soret number variation in the presence of heat source/sink on unsteady laminar boundary layer flow of a chemically reacting fluid along a semi-infinite vertical plate, taking the term Eckert number into account. A magnetic field o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10069
Trace metal contamination of vegetables grown around urban city of Owerri southeastern Nigeria was assessed. Vegetables: Fluted pumpkin – Telfairia occidentalis, Waterleaf – Talinum triangulare, Green – Amaranthus hybridus) were sampled along major locations of the metropolis bas...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2014/11183
Background: Dentists see many patients with undiagnosed or diagnosed HIV and Hepatitis B infection, posing threat to both doctor and patients. The aim of this study was to investigate dental students’ knowledge, awareness and attitude towards HIV and Hepatitis B patients. Methods...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8419
International trade is an important contributor to Malaysia's economic growth and development. Malaysia's trade policy is to pursue efforts towards creating a more liberalizing and fair global trading environment. While Malaysia continues to accord high priority to the rule-based...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10536
Salinity, a severe environmental factor, has limited the growth and productivity of crops. Many compounds have been applied to minimize the harmful effects of salt stress on plant growth. A laboratory experiment was carried out to assess the effects of seed priming with ascorbic...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9970
With employers increasingly demanding a greater range of softer skills such as effective communication, the paper is intended to identify current accounting students’ perspectives on soft skills, identify their self-assessed competence in the respective soft skills, and suggest w...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11000
Objectives: This work focuses on the effect of cigarette smoke exposure toxicity on the ultrastructure of selected albino rats’ cardiovascular and respiratory systems tissues from and their recovery within three months after exposure. Materials and Methods: Sixty male albino rats...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10893
The present study was carried out to show the effect of brassinolide on normal and salt stressed wheat plant. Grains of wheat (Triticum aestivum sakha 93) were divided into four groups: seeds supplemented with 20 ml distilled water (control); seeds treated with NaCl solutions (25...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/11089
Adventitious bud regeneration was achieved from hypocotyls, cotyledons and leaf explants of Achyrocline satureioides. Organogenesis was induced from every explant cultured on Murashige and Skoog semisolid medium (plus sucrose 30g·L-1) containing different combinations of 6-benzyl...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/8800