The importation and refurbishing of second-hand electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is a major concern all over the world and Nigeria is not in exception owing to the generation of e-wastes. The assessment of the levels of Pb, Cr, Ni, Cd and Zn in the dust at dismantling si...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/7694
Hans-Hartmut Peter, Sigune Goldacker, John Haraldseide, Kay Großmann, Wolfgang Gross, Klaus Warnatz, Bodo Grimbacher, Stephan Rusch, Alexandra Nieters & Werner Vach·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Aims: A self-reporting tool for identifying adults at risk for immune-based diseases was designed and termed immune system assessment questionnaire (ISAQ). It was the aim of this study to validate this novel questionnaire in groups of patients with defined immunodeficiency or aut...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10823
Genetic Variability in Cultured and Wild Population of Clarias gariepinus Using Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) Aim: The present study was undertaken to determine the genetic differences between cultured and wild populations of Clarias gariepi...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/11228
Scientific Background: Non alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) is accumulation of fat in the liver cells of peoples who drink little or no alcohol causing mild steatosis with mostly no signs, symptoms or complication but this may progress to steatohepatitis (NASH) and may liver cirrhos...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2014/10240
When renting or purchasing a terrestrial laser scanner, consideration must be given to a variety of factors including ease of use, accuracy, speed and cost. The following paper considers these aspects with respect to civil engineering applications in urban areas. One particular c...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7482
Aims: This work seeks to provide information on the proximate and anti-nutritional constituents of Abelmoschus esculentus (okra) grown in Fadaman Kubanni farms where effluents from Zaria Industrial Estate are discharged, and compare it with that grown in Rafin Yashi (control) in...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9031
A four weeks feeding trial was conducted using 160 four-week old Arbor acre chickens to assess the effects of soyabean oil and garlic (Allium sativum) in-water on performance, carcass characteristics, organs weight, haematological variables and serum cholesterol content of broile...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10542
Aims: The investigation of some physiochemical juice characteristics of 37 varieties of Citrus genus, maintained in the Department of Citrus Research in Tartous, Syria. Place and Duration of Study: Laboratory of Molecular Genetic, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Latt...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/10505
This paper is devoted to study the existence of positive solutions for singular second-order periodic boundary value problem with impulse effects. Existence is established via the theory of fixed point theorem in cones.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11628
We introduce the notion of summable bases that naturally generalizes the notion of unconditional sequence bases for Banach spaces. We shall be particularly interested in some classical results on sequences and series in separable Banach spaces that carry over or naturally extend...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11589
To study the stability of Browder type fixed points, two kinds of usual metrics for set-valued mappings are discussed. Noting that the set of fixed points for a Browder type set-valued mapping may be noncompact, a metric is introduced to construct a complete metric space on a kin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/11216
We consider Tuba’s representation of the pure braid group, P3, defined by the map Ψ: P3 → GL(V ), where V is an algebraically closed field. We then specialize the indeterminates used in defining the representation to non- zero complex numbers. Our objective is to find necessary a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8776
Aims: This study examined the influence of Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and Perceived Social Support (PSS) on marital satisfaction of individuals with dual-career family. Study Design: The study adopted a correlational research approach Place and Duration of Study: The study took p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9114
The fact that Nigerian economy has experienced some setbacks over the last four decades despite the growth of public expenditure cannot be overemphasized. This study thus investigates the incessant rises in government expenditure and the implications of deficit financing on Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10618
An orthogonal double cover (ODC) of any graph H is a collection of spanning subgraphs of H such that every two of them share exactly one edge at most, and every edge of the graph H belongs to exactly two of the spanning graphs. In this paper, we are concerned with the orthogonal...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10262