The achievement goal framework has undergone a number of evolutions over the past three decades. The 2x2 model of achievement goals [1,2] in particular, has been researched extensively, with a recent articulation and revision of measurements that emphasize four different goal typ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/7564
Aims: This study investigated purpose in life among seminarians. This was motivated by the evident and apparent dearth of literature on research on seminarians and particularly their purpose in life. The present study therefore extended what is known in existential psychology lit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/6393
Aims: Riboflavin is a B vitamin that is required for a wide variety of cellular processes. The absorbance spectrum of riboflavin was determined at different pH utilizing several buffers. The buffer at pH demonstrating stable absorbance peaks with high numerical values of molar ab...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8598
Aims: To investigate the abundance and prevalence of endoparasites of landed food-fishes from the Calabar River, Cross River State and the public health implications to fish consumers. Place and Duration of Study: Weekly fish samples were collected for a period of six months (201...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/6918
Introduction: Testis is an important male reproductive and endocrine organ whose structure and function are altered in diabetes complicated disorders. Aim: This study evaluated the protective effect of Moringa oleifera (MO) and Ocimum gratissimum (OG) on diabetic rat testes. Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7078
Purpose: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition that can severely impact the quality of a woman’s life. POP will generally get worse in time and is likely to become more common, as the population ages in the coming years. Epidemiologic studies point to vaginal childbir...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5708
The Enterprise Excellence (EE) philosophy is a holistic approach for leading an enterprise to total excellence by achieving a sustainable significant growth in revenue and profitability, and a reduction in business cycle time while mitigating the enterprise risk and primarily foc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6759
Background: Kerosene is a commonly available product used for cooking and lighting purposes in many parts of Asia and Africa where it is sold in beverage bottles and jerry cans in both commercial and residential places because of inadequate filling stations. Therefore excessive e...
The proximate, mineral, functional properties, anti-nutrients and amino acid compositions of African mango (Irvingia gabonensis) seeds have been investigated. The results showed that seeds contained ash (2.49 g/100g), moisture (5.79 g/100g), protein (10.64 g/100g), fat (54.67 g/1...
This study investigated the influence of age of the cotyledons, cut from primary somatic embryos (PSE) developed from shoot meristems (SM) or immature leaf lobes (LL), on secondary somatic (SSE) and cyclic (CSE) embryogenesis of two cassava cultivars at the Central Biotech Labora...
Background: Medicinal herbs have long been used in the treatment of malaria in the endemic tropical and subtropical regions of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria has remained as a top killer disease to children under five years and expectant mothers. Among...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/6528
Background: Reports of adverse drug reactions (ADR) in the era of increasing uptake of antiretroviral drugs particularly in Sub Saharan Africa and especially in Nigeria have been on the rise. Aim: We set out to collate and characterize the pattern of adverse drug reactions in pat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/6520
Aims: Darunavir is widely used in HIV/AIDS therapy. It is a HIV protease inhibitor that has excellent efficacy against the virus. The aim of this study is to develop and validate an analytical method fast and free of interferences for determination of darunavir ethanolate as raw...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/6326
In rural Africa, a number of alternative treatment options are explored because of poverty and unawareness. Kerosene is one such agent used for the treatment of a myriad of diseases. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of trace amounts of kerosene on lung, heart,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/2983
Background: Cowpea, a major source of vegetable protein for millions in Africa is mostly preserved using synthetic chemicals e.g. phosphide. Because a large number of people who carry out grain fumigation are largely untrained, sometimes contamination of fumigated grain with spen...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2014/3129