Aim: It is known that blood viscosity and erythrocyte aggregation are increased and erythrocyte deformability is decreased in diabetic patients. Blood rheology is known to be affected by numerous factor including anaesthetic drugs. Accordingly, we aimed to investigate the effects...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8749
Aims: To alert practitioners to complications regarding inflatable penile prostheses. Presentation of Case: A 56 year-old male with a history of an inflatable penile prosthesis and multiple revisions was found to have a small bowel obstruction. Computed tomography scan and subseq...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10316
Aim: To assess G-6-PD, Pyruvate kinase enzyme activity and some coagulation parameters in HIV positive patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) and those not on antiretroviral treatments with varying durations of infection and Antiretroviral treatments. Study Design: Case-contr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10211
Aims: The objective was to evaluate the single exposure of general anesthetics with or without a surgical procedure at postnatal day 14 (P14) on nociceptive behavioral responses. Furthermore, we evaluated ectonucleotidase activities at P14 and P30. Place of Study: All experiments...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6571
Aim: A study was conducted to assess the magnitude of stalking experienced by psychiatrists, its’ effects and actions taken to ameliorate the problem. Methods: A cross sectional study to assess the magnitude of stalking the consequent effects on the psychological, social and occu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/9856
Aim: Nigeria has been classified among the nations highly endemic for viral Hepatitis with a seroprevalence of 2.7-13.3% in normal population. The study determines the seroprevalent rates of hepatitis B virus based on trimester stages in a population of pregnant women. Study Type...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10498
The research was designed to estimate variations in hematological variables between sex and varieties of extensively reared helmeted guinea fowl with the objective of recommending parameters that are suitable as markers during selection. The study was carried out in the Teaching...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10066
The aim of this study was to evaluate the soil fertility status of selected coffee growing districts of Northern Tanzania and recommend immediate and long term soil management intervention strategies. The study was conducted in Hai and Lushoto Districts, between May and September...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8203
The research was conducted in the years 2009-2011. The research material included narrow-leaved lavender Lavandula angustiolia and its three cultivars: ‘Hidcote Blue Strain’, ‘Hidcote Superior’ and ‘Rosea’. Five variants of seed stratification were used: 1. control (seeds which d...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/9861
Aim: To study the combined effect of Rhizobium isolate and Saccharomyces cerevisiae on the growth of Lablab purpureus (hyacinth bean plant) as a potential bioinoculum for preparation of a novel biofertilizer. Place of Study: The study was done in the laboratory of MITCON Biotechn...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/9284
Conservation agriculture (CA) relies on soil management systems that include three basic principles aiming to produce high crop yields while reducing production costs, saving labor cost, avoiding crop risk failure, maintaining soil fertility and conserving moisture. On-farm exper...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8797
Aims: To evaluate the effect of different concentrations of corn flour on the quality of gilthead sea bream patties, and their refrigerated storage stability under aerobic conditions. Study Design: Completely randomised block design. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Fis...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10612
Aims: The aim of this paper is to investigate group decision making based on induced generalized uncertain linguistic aggregation operators Study Design: In this paper, we propose some new operational laws of linguistic variables and uncertain linguistic variables on the basis of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10169
Aims: This study was performed to detect the effects of certain environmental conditions mostly physical ones on the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites produced by Streptomyces spp. Study Design: Interventional study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of biology, Col...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8614
In this paper, we introduce the concept of the harmonically P-functions, give Hermite-Hadamard’s inequalities for harmonically P-functions and define a new identity. By using this identity, we obtain new estimates on generalization of Hadamard and Simpson type inequalities for ha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10338