Aims: Extracellular heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) is an adjuvant molecule that stimulates the immune system. The C-terminal domain of Hsp70 (C70), without the ATPase domain, is sufficient for antigen cross-presentation. However, the mechanism by which the receptor mediates the u...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2014/8699
Aim: In view of the increase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mannan content, the culture medium and condition for S. cerevisiae were optimized in this study. Study Design: The mathematical model was established by the quadratic rotary combination design via Response Surface Methodolo...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8712
Introduction: The menstrual disorder is very frequent complaint in adolescence age. Our aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of menstrual disorders in teenage girls and associated with sport. Method: This cross sectional study was conducted in 8 urban and rural areas i...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7504
Aim: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is One of the important factors that could induce adverse developmental outcome. They include intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR), intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) and embryonic resorption and preterm delivery in rodents. That is demonstrated tha...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8054
We define a q-analogue of r-Stirling numbers of the second kind using their combinatorial interpretation in terms of set partition. Some properties are obtained including recurrence relation, explicit formula and certain symmetric formula. Moreover, a q-analogue of r-Stirling num...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8093
In this paper, we present a generalized exponential distribution that contains four parameters. This distribution further generalizes previously established generalized exponential distributions which now serves as special cases of the new four-parameter generalized exponential d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8191
Financial measures have been and continued to be used for measuring and understanding the health of business organizations. These measures have been criticized as backward looking and debates on the usefulness of non-financial measures (NFM) have been on. This paper examined the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6303
The optical functions and effective masses of electrons and holes of ternary compound InGaTe2 crystallizing in a tetragonal syngony are calculated in the energy interval 0-12eV using pseudo-potential method. Imaginary and real parts of dielectric permeability, optical conductivit...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/7555
This study was carried out to assess the variation in nitrification inhibition (NI) activity of neem leaves obtained from trees growing in same agroclimate. The study was accomplished in the year 2012, in Lucknow city of Uttar Pradesh State of India. Dried leaves of four neem tre...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8518
Aims: The study aims to understand the wound healing potentials of a 50% aqueous ethanolic extract of Premna latifolia stem using excision wound model. Study Design: The wound healing potentials were simultaneously supported by observing the bacterial functional diversity of woun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/8787
Aim: The focus of this work was to investigate any relationship between ABO blood types and malaria parasitaemia among students of a private University based in Western Delta, Nigeria. Study Design: Whole blood samples were obtained from a randomly sampled number of students and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/8479
Aims: Despite of intensive investigation of alcoholism consequences for nervous system, the full complex of such metabolic alterations in brain remains unknown. The aim of present work was to study the influence of chronic ethanol consumption on rats’ brain contents of free amino...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2014/8809
Yaxuan Sun, Ting Liu, Xueling Dai, Zhaofen Jiang, Zhaolan Gao, Mei Zhang, Dong Wang & Qiusheng Zheng·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential neuroprotective effects of Dracocephalum moldavica L. total flavonoids (DMTF) on cerebral oxidative stress and damage as well as apoptosis induced by transient cerebral ischemia in rats. Methodology: Wistar rats...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8970
Aims: To develop a new selective approach for the extraction and determination of trace amounts of As(III) and As(V) in some food samples by cloud point extraction (CPE) using two new synthesized ligands coupled with hydride-generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HG-AAS). St...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8043
The current paper focus on solving k-tridiagonal linear systems of equations via transformation. It investigates numeric and symbolic algorithms for solving such systems. Based on the symbolic algorithm, a MAPLE program is written. The computational cost of the algorithms is give...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8613