Background: There is a strong relationship between hypertension and dyslipidaemia, and both can increase the risk of developing coronary heart disease. Methods: A total of One hundred and eighty (180) participants were recruited for this study; out of which, there was one hundred...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10678
The simplest six-dimensional treatment of the expanding Universe in the form a three-dimensional sphere appeared as a result of the intersection of three simplest geometrical objects of finite sizes in the six-dimensional Euclidean space – of three uniformly expanding five-dimens...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/10270
This paper argues that the requirement of applicableness of quantum linearity to any physical level from molecules and atoms to the level of macroscopic extensional world, which leads to a main foundational problem in quantum theory referred to as the “measurement problem”, actua...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/11144
Abstract: This study investigated the effect of personal worries and religion on the academic achievement among students with hearing impairment in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. Forty three students with hearing impairment participated in the study. Three (3) research questions wer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/10051
Aims/ Objectives: A protein-protein interaction network is considered as a simple indirected graph, weighted or non weighted. A partition of the vertex set, into connected, eventually overlapping, clusters having an edge density larger than the whole graph, is searched. Such a cl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10472
Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) was used for simultaneous quantification of mesalamine and its metabolite N-acetyl mesalamine in human plasma with N-acetyl mesalamine D3 as an internal standard (IS). Chromatographic separation was performed on a Thermo,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/5350
O. M. T. B. Ochiabuto, A. Nwankwo, I. B. Enweani, J. O. Okoye, C. O. Okeke, M. Nwankwo, I. Nwafuluaku & C. M. Obi·International STD Research & Reviews·2014
Aims: This study aimed to investigate fungal isolation in HIV infected patients and its relationship with CD4 count. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was carried out in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State,...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2014/10408
A very high demand and limited stock of fossil fuels, renewable energy in very particular solar energy is the mainly focused area for research these days. This review paper presents the nondestructive optical testing techniques for the solar cells. The impacts of microcracks in s...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/8754
Our previous study showed that the thickness of the cathode fall region in magnetized DC argon plasma was about 3.3mm has been investigated using two different methods, namely: the axial potential distribution and the current density distribution along the glow discharge regions....
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/9605
A fine NiO powders were prepared by a homogeneous precipitation method with an aqueous solution of nickel nitrate hexahydrate and citric acid. The microstructure, surface morphology of NiO were characterized by thermo gravimetric (TGA) analysis and differential scanning calorimet...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/11068
To forecast the market risk, assessing the stock price indices is the foundation. Multi-fractal has lots of advantage when explaining the volatility of the stock prices. The asset price returns is a multi-period (multi-fractal dimension) market depending on market scenarios which...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10971
This paper assesses the role of (foreign) education in determining the adjustment profile of immigrants in employment using the Dutch Labour Force Survey and regression analysis techniques. The disadvantaged labour market position of immigrants from developing countries is often...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/10388
Following recent declines in volume and value of cotton lint exports from Mali, we made use of the Johansen Full Information Maximum Likelihood test to identify the magnitude and effects of key drivers of cotton lint exports from the country. In this regard, we estimated two prim...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11440
This review describes the phytoplankton species in the Egyptian waters of the Red Sea and some surrounding habitats namely; Gulf of Suez, Aqaba Gulf and Suez Canal as well as the species abundance during the period from 1990 to 2010. Although many reviews on the phytoplankton spe...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10866
Carmen Medina-Mendoza, Georgina Margarita Beltrán-Ríos, Abimael López-López, Lily Xochilt Zelaya-Molina & Ernestina Valadez-Moctezuma·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Background: Fusarium oxysporum Schl. is a cosmopolitan fungus that causes severe damage to many important crops. This fungus is the causal agent of chickpea fusariosis, a very important disease in this crop, resulting in 10 to 60% of annual losses. These symptoms have generally b...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10672