Aim: to determine cut off points for The Homeostatic Model Assessment Index 1 and 2 (HOMA-1 and HOMA-2) for identifying insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome among a Cuban-American population. Study Design: Cross sectional. Place and Duration of Study: Florida International U...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8988
This study investigated the reasons for high perinatal deaths among newborns delivered in health facilities in rural northwest Ethiopia. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 survivors of obstetric complications and 11 normal home deliveries. The interviews were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9254
Background: Leptin is an adipocyte derived hormone which is thought to be a key regulator of food intake and body weight. Agouti-related protein also called Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) is a neuropeptide produced in the brain by the AgRP/NPY neuron. It is one of the most potent...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10178
Aims: To study the frequency of occurrence of the components of Metabolic Syndrome [MetS] among MetS patients in urban south Indian population, with a view to suggest preventive measures. Study Design: Descriptive hospital based study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10476
Penicillium citrinum Aims: A white fungus which commonly infects blue petals of Clitoria ternatea L. (CT) was identified and total anthocyanin content and antioxidant activity of CT extracts from infected and uninfected CT were compared. Study Design: Experimental research. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/10370
Aim: To determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of clinical isolates of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Method: A total of 400 S. aureus isolates recovered from various clinical specimens at Mbara...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/9909
Soyabean, one of the main ingredients commonly employed as a source of vegetable protein in broiler diets is expensive and may sometimes be unavailable. Thus, there is the need to assess the utilization of other legumes in broiler diets. Therefore, effects of dietary toasted sesa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10502
This research was conducted to find out the effect of four plant methanol extracts against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood in laboratory at the University of Gaziosmanpasa, Turkey. For this purpose, bead tree (Melia azedarach), hops (Humul...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10525
Technology is the main cause of emerging careers in life science. As technological change occurs at unprecedented speeds, it becomes increasingly important to develop mechanisms that can foster skills highly demanded in emerging careers. Technical and Vocational Education and Tra...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10439
The aim of this work, as an extension to SAFERNAC model, was to establish economically optimum combinations of N, P and K application to Arabica coffee in the Northern coffee zone of Tanzania. The study was conducted in Hai and Lushoto districts between 2010 and 2012. Prices of n...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8361
Estimation of evaporation from reservoirs in arid and semi-arid regions is a very crucial issue. This paper presents an application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and climate based models (Penman, Priestley-Taylor and Stephens-Stewart), for the estimation of evaporation from...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3557
Aim: To develop a model of matter that will account for electro-gravity. Matter is characterized by force fields and in non-inertial and non-geodesic motion as a result of interactions. The measurement of how non geodesic a test particle is can be done by non-geodesic acceleratio...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/11129
Aim: The aim of our project work was to assess the thrombolytic activity of five common Bangladeshi plant extract in different solvent. Five plants are Geodorum densiflorum (Shankhamul), Pistia stratiotes (Topa Pana), Smilax zeylanica (Kumarilata), Pandanus foetidus (Keya) &...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/9623
This paper presents the derivation and implementation of a block integrator for the solution of stiff and oscillatory first-order initial value problems of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). The integrator was derived by collocation and interpolation of the combination of po...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8563
Aims: This paper presents a trace-based model in Knowledge Acquisition System for Valuing Knowledge. In Case Based Reasoning (CBR), solving problems is based on the solutions of similar past problems. From the system’s point of view, this might be true, but from the user’s point...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10027