Lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) can be absorbed and transported effectively by rice plants and could easily enter into the food chain. This research aimed at identifying rice germplasm with low Pb and Cd concentrations, and to assess their potential risks to human health. A 2-year pot...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8993
Aims: The goal of this paper is to understand suitable behavior in social media, by first investigating the purpose of social media, followed by the various ways people use social media, and finally the boundaries for suitable behavior on social media. Study Procedures: This stud...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/10082
Aims: This Briefing Paper aims to know mergers and acquisitions activity in banking sector all over the globe. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Selecting Countries of the World with different time period. Methodology: The analysis has been made on...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/7709
Aim: This study examined the nutritional knowledge, infant feeding practices of mothers and the nutritional status of children in Lagos State, Nigeria. Study Design: A cross sectional survey design was used. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in three selected L...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7604
This paper uses a data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) from Nigeria and World Bank to analyze how the receipt of international remittances (from the rest of the world) affects the National Household Disposable-Income in Nigeria being one of the top 10 remittance-rece...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/4879
Aims: Considering competition concept changed from an inter-organizational concept to competition in Supply Chain level and made organizational competition concept to have competitive and survival ability in its activity area in current complicated environment by planning marketi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/8864
The goal of this work is to provide a new outlook on the possibilities of water-resource management in the Republic of Croatia. Water resources and water supply systems are of vital and strategic significance for Croatia. Therefore, it is essential to develop a sustainable model...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9545
This study aims at investigating the impact of Zakat on aggregate consumption and poverty alleviation in Egypt. To achieve this, the study presents the concept of poverty and the strategies of poverty alleviation in a conventional economy, and then discusses the concepts of pover...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9516
In this research work the level of the metals: Pb, Cd, Zn, and Cu were determined in soil samples collected within Maiduguri Metropolis. Samples were collected from places of high anthropogenic activity such as automobile maintenance workshop (AMW), Car park or Bus stops (CP), an...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/9924
This work presents the evaluation of extracellular hydrolytic activities involved in the degrading of organic compounds from several natural salt lakes located in the southern part of Romania. The paper approaches the extracellular enzymatic decomposition activity in accordance w...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2014/10239
Abbas Bahador, Safia Khalil, Babak Pourakbari, Roghayeh Ghorbanzadeh, Mohammad Zaman Kassaee, Solmaz Ohadian Moghadam, Azad Khaledi & Ahmad Sodagar·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: The activities of cariogenic bacteria in biofilm on acrylic baseplates of removable orthodontic appliances and partial denture contribute to dental caries, inflammation of gingiva and periodontal disease. This in vitro study evaluates the photocatalytic antimicrobial activi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7166
Aims: Nowadays, computational intelligence is frequently used in diagnosis and determination of the severity of various diseases. In fact, different tools of computational intelligence help physicians as an assistant to diagnose with fewer errors. In this paper, a fuzzy Hopfield...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9183
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) residual levels are available several commercially dry fishes. So these fishes were detected and determinate the contamination status of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The most popular dry fish-Ribbon fish (Lepturacanthus savala), Chi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9043
Removal of acid red 37 from aqueous solutions has been studied using red mud waste material after its modification with laccase from Russulaceae (Lactarius volemus). Laccase was purified by using saturated precipitate (NH4)2SO4, diethylaminoethyl celulose (DEAE-cellulose) and imm...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10080
Aims: The results will be used to design and construct a collecting device, specially the main sucking part. Study Design: In order to determine the physical properties of autumn leaves, twenty leaves from each tree of maple, bitter orange, oak, boxwood, yellow poplar, and brown...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9647