Aims: Nanoparticles have the potential to be used in medical imaging, disease diagnosis, cancer treatment and other procedures. These nanoparticles accumulate in the body tissues and result in oxidative stress with the generation of reactive oxygen species. This study investigate...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5370
Nonlinear waves have been an important subject in the field of astroplasmas under the action of Coriolis force because of rotation could be the progenitor of many heuristic feature on waves. Our main interest is to study the nonlinear ion-acoustic wave in a rotating plasma. Pseud...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/3746
We compare two ways of calculating the optical response of metallic nanoparticles illuminated by near field dipole sources. We develop tests to determine the accuracy of the calculations of internal and scattered fields of metallic nanoparticles at the boundary of the particles a...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/7549
Rosa María Ribas-Aparicio, Hilda-Alicia Valdez-Salazar, Gerardo Aparicio-Ozores & Martha-Eugenia Ruiz-Tachiquín·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
The World Health Organization has estimated that 2 billion persons are infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) with 360 million persons chronically affected. Worldwide, HBV is the causal agent of cirrhosis (30%) and hepatocellular carcinoma (50%). Methods of transmission for HB...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7901
Aims: Liposomes are spherical vesicles composed of concentric phospholipid bilayers that can entrap hydrophilic, hydrophobic and amphiphilic drugs. Liposomes can be prepared from natural phospholipids, synthetic lipids or bacterial lipids. Regarding to the easy access to microorg...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7611
Aims: Posttraumatic syringomyelia (PTS) is a devastating complication of spinal cord injury (SCI) because of its association with delayed neurological deterioration. In our case report, diagnosis of very early detected asymptomatic syrinx in a patient with incomplete SCI was made...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7571
Microbial lipases have been heightened in bioremediation and various industries. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Microbiology, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, between September 2010 and August 2011. To identify the lipolytic enzyme producing mi...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6587
Tomatoes constitute an important fruit vegetable crop in Ghana. However, its diversity is low and may be associated with numerous biotic stresses that pose serious threat to production. Aim: To characterize 216 germplasm gathered from Korea (RDA), Taiwan (AVRDC), Burkina Faso and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6466
Aims: Poor management of P- and K-fertilizers can affect Nitrogen effect in rice grain yield and nutritional quality as the most limiting nutrient for rice production in second order lowland of Guinea savanna in West Africa. For the development of best management strategy of N, P...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6532
Midori Ishii, Yongji Kim, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Takayuki Kawasaki, Joe Matsuoka, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Taketo Okubo, Tsuyoshi Saito, Tatsuya Takagi & Kazuo Kaneko·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2014
Background: To prevent locomotor dysfunction, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the concept of locomotive syndrome (LS) in 2007, and has carried out numerous campaigns to increase the awareness of LS. We previously surveyed the recognition of LS and reported tha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14207
Genetic variability among the fruits of 22 date palm cultivars was studied using 6 nutritional characters to enable us classify the available germplasm into distinct groups on the basis of their genetic diversity using their nutritional characteristics from proximate composition....
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6973
Aims: To study the growth, yield and quality in two sugarcane varieties inoculated with Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus and phosphate solubilizing bacteria in normal, sodic and saline-sodic soils. Study Design: 6 x 2 x 2 factorial completely randomized design (FCRD). Place and D...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6246
The objective of this study was to evaluate the coconut hybrid varieties based on Genotype by Traits (GT) biplot to examine its usefulness in visualizing coconut trait relationship and its application in genotypes comparison. The experimental design was a randomized complete bloc...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/7083
One of the trading techniques that become popular among many traders is the technical analysis, which prospers through the first half of the 20th century. In recent years, this method is used less frequently and works only for less liquid securities. However, Aldridge (2009) find...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6937
Aims: To investigate the constituents and antimicrobial activity of essential oil from Vitex negundo seeds. Study Design: The essential oil of Vitex negundo seeds was prepared by hydrodistillation. GC/MS technique was used to determine the volatile constituents in the oil. A tota...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/7079