A 35-year-old man was admitted to hospital 2 weeks after rough oral sex with Streptococcus pyogenes bacteremia, toxic shock syndrome and extensive necrotizing fasciitis of the abdominal and pelvic walls requiring debridement. His partner was diagnosed with strep throat shortly af...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2014/10911
Osteogenic osteosarcoma of the orbit is a rare and aggressive type of osteosarcoma. Head and neck osteosarcomas occur most commonly in the third and fourth decades and have equal sex predisposition. A 56-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with proptosis on the left...
Aim: To recognize the rice genotypes based on stress indices which would give higher yield both under sulfur stress and non-stress conditions. Design Factorial Randomized design with two factors Place and Duration of Study: It was conducted in the farmers field( Chidambaram and K...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/10145
Aims: Knowledge and skills needed to be possessed and used by marketing practitioners in order to improve marketing management and firm performance are identified in this paper. Study Design: The data from a survey, where marketing managers, academics and senior students in Slove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10300
In this work, the structural, surface potential, and antimicrobial aspects of a set of recently synthesized and published complexes of five transition metals(II) are investigated using the semiempirical PM6 and B3LYP/6-31G* methods. The complexes ML2 [M = Ni, Cu, and Zn] are main...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10427
Interaction of 5,6-dimethyl-3,4-dihydrothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine-4-one (1), -thione(2) with alkylation agents (methyl-, ethyl-, n-propyl-, n-butyl iodides, allylbromide, benzyl chloride) in different conditions (in the presence of catalyst and/or without catalyst) were investigated...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10495
Irina Zhigacheva, Elena Mil, Vladimir Binukov, Inna Generozova, Aleksandr Shugaev & Ludmila Fatkullina·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: In nature, plants are exposed to not one but several environmental factors. In this connection, the problem of studying the rearrangements of plant cell metabolism under exposure to several abiotic factors is of special importance. Various stresses lead to dysfunction of mi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10255
African rice gall midge (AfRGM), Orseolia oryzivora Harris and Gagné (Diptera: Ceccidomyiidae) is a serious insect pest of lowland rice in Africa, and is capable of causing total crop failure in endemic areas. Of all the control measures adopted in the management of African rice...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9527
Aims: The present work is aimed to find out the enzymatic activities and phosphate solubilizing efficiency of indigenous rhizobia confined to rice fallows. Study Design: In this experiment we maintained random block design (RBD). Place and Duration of Study: This work was carried...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10512
An investigation on the compressibility and settlement duration of a lateritic soil of Yaoundé, Cameroon, was performed to check on its ease to carry loads of civil engineering structures. The increase in settlement with water content is more accentuated with a stronger load than...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10281
Meteorological events are posing serious environmental challenge especially in freshwater pollution control. Imo River serves as a source of water for domestic uses, agricultural irrigation, fishery and recreational activities and exposed to pollution. Surface water samples were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10403
The study carried out seasonal study of some potentially toxic heavy metals: Lead, copper, cadmium, chromium, Nickel, and zinc in soils was conducted in five different vegetation zones of (Oli Camp) Kainji Lake National Park at two different levels. The vegetations are Isoberlini...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9579
Aims: This study aimed to identify the degree of aggressive behavior among the university students. Study Design: This study used the analytical descriptive design. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at Tafila Technical University, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9483
Aims: Contamination of surface water, sediment and fish samples by heavy metals have been a problem of developing countries as a result of growing rate of industrialization. This study was aimed at determining the level of heavy metal toxicants in water, sediment and fish samples...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8199
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the heavy metals toxicity in vegetables irrigated with wastewater. Different experimental sites were selected from district Sargodha, Pakistan. Samples of wastewater, contaminated soil and vegetables irrigated with wastewater were collected...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10216