Aims: The objective of this study was to synthesize and characterize the poly (acrylic acid) or PAA with different molecular architectures, use these polymers to formulate the cements with glass fillers, and evaluate the mechanical strengths of the formed cements. Materials and M...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8760
A sound system of internal control depends on an effective management, and the awareness of its employees of the policies and procedures adopted. It is a combined responsibility to maintain it properly and make sure it's effective and reliable. Its management responsibility to ma...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8130
Perception of odors and orientation of parasitoids in the direction of food sources are essential for good performance. I investigated the olfactory and behavioral responses of naïve female Cotesia vestalis (Haliday), a larval parasitoid of the diamondback moth, Plutellaxylostell...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8865
Aim: To determine the proximate, mineral composition, antioxidant capacity and total phenolic content of the flours of four varieties of cow pea commonly consumed in Nigeria and to examine the influence of the colour of the beans’ hull on the antioxidant capacity of the bean vari...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7501
Aims: In Iraq, ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of death, and the 6th in the list of most common cancers. While TP53 is the most common tumor suppressor gene involved with human malignancies, ovarian cancer is already known to be linked to the variations in the breas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7944
Aims: This study investigates the influence of Supply Chain Management on production processes in order to analyze the performance of manufacturing SMEs. Study Design: This quantitative research with the support of EQS 6.1 software and structural equation-based statistical treatm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/7429
Aims: The objectives were to determine the rural communities’ knowledge on cause, transmission, spread of malaria, breeding sites of mosquitoes, signs and symptoms, health seeking behaviour of respondents, preventive measures and patterns of home management of malaria in the rura...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/8606
Atif I. Abuali, Awadalla A. Abdelmula, Mutasim M. Khalafalla, Nada B. Hamza, Abdelwahab H. Abdalla & Atif E. Idris·Biotechnology Journal International·2014
This study was carried out to identify the yield stability and adaptability of the grain maize genotypes (parental inbred lines, F1-hybrids and check varieties), using Additive Main Effects and Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI). A field experiment was executed during the winter a...
Aims: In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to explain lipase immobilization by adsorption on three minerals matrixes, i.e. Celite 545, Silica gel (60G) and Avicel (PH 101). Study Design: immobilization by absorption on minerals matrixes, water content by volumet...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/8004
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal stem cell disorders that primarily affect older persons and are associated with peripheral blood cytopenias, increased risk of conversion to acute myeloid leukemia and shortened survival. Treatment strategies in MDS are guided by patient...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/8580
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of leaf essential oil of Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae) on haematological parameters of alloxan – induced diabetic rats. Methodology: Diabetes was induced in albino rats by intraperitoneal administration of single dose of allox...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2014/7952
The main purpose of this paper is to establish the sufficient condition for the restricted isometry constant δs in compressed sensing by using T. Cai and A. Zhang idea. Let h ≡ x* − x and h = (h1; h2; _ _ _ ; hn), where x is an unknown signal and x* is the CS-solution. For simpli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/9002
Background: According to the World Health Organisation [1] obesity is now a “global epidemic”, ranking as the fifth most common cause of death worldwide. Obesity prevalence has more than doubled over the past two decades [2], with particularly high levels in Scotland [3]. Obesity...
Ghana’s agriculture is characterized by low productivity, low farm incomes and low levels of technological adoption and use of inefficient production techniques. This poor state of Ghana’s agriculture is related to farmers’ attitudes towards risk in the adoption of new production...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/5401
Background: Evidence supports the effect of protein to increase diet induced thermogenesis and satiety; promoting effective weight loss in the management of obesity [1,2]. However, there is limited evidence to indicate the optimum protein source that will elicit maximum effects o...