Aims: The objectives of this work were to study the influence of proximate composition and physiological changes during storage, on the shelf life some Dioscorea sp. This is needed to complement knowledge of the influence of extrinsic factors of the storage environment in improvi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7013
Objective: The study gives a view of the major textural and compositional components of subsurface sediments around Tennis Island and its environs. It provides data on distribution and frequency of diatoms in the subsurface sediment as well as describes and combines the achieved...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/5524
Aim: Some unstable compounds namely ascorbic acid, anthocyanin and reducing sugar contents were used to monitor the stability of differently processed cocoyam flours stored under different relative humidities. Place and Duration of Study: Federal Polytechnic Idah, Nigeria; Januar...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7132
Aims: To investigate the concentrations of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), nickel (Ni), vanadium (V) and zinc (Zn) in commercially available inorganic fertilizers (calcium superphosphate and urea). Place and Duration of Study: Urea and superphosphate fertilize...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7465
Aim: The aim of this study was to formulate and develop a low calorie and low glycemic index (GI) soft ice cream by using mixture of sucrose and date. Methods: Five different formulations of ice cream were produced by using different proportions of sucrose and date. Physicochemic...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7178
Aims: The work seeks to extract oil from Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) using both solvent and enzymatic processes, and to find out which of the processes will be better in terms of quantity and quality Study Design: Box-Behken model of response surface methodology with three-leve...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/4199
The German Nutrition Society publishes a national Nutrition Report on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection on a regular basis. Lastly the 12th Nutrition Report was published in December 2012. The Nutrition Report 2012 is an important instrum...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7894
Aim: To describe a case of acute hepatic injury related to the use of Grifola frondosa in a patient with colon cancer. Case Presentation: Patient is a 67 year old female with stage IV poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the colon, who presented with epigastric pain one month...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5263
Aims: This study aims to analyze the dose and length of hypnotic and sedative drug prescriptions under a free-to-visit health insurance system. Study Design: Outpatients aged 15 years and older covered by the Taiwan National Health Insurance during 2007 (N=1,337,444) are included...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7188
Aims: Despite their high analgesic efficacy, opioids can provide only partial pain relief during a migraine attack and their tolerability profile is unsatisfactory. The aim of the present study was to investigate the potentiating properties of Hypericum perforatum L. (SJW) to ide...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7138
The convolution sum m<n=8 _3(m)_3(n - 8m) is evaluated for all n 2 N. This evaluation is used to determine the formulae of the convolution sums etc., and the number of representations of n through the sum of eight triangular numbers.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7519
Aims: The main aim of this study is to determine the influence of foliar and soil fertilization upon the nutritious value of fruit of marrows and to clarify the opportunity for using Blue tetrazolium chloride (BTC) as a reagent for determination of micro quantities of manganese i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/3649
Spermatogenesis is an extremely active replicative process capable of generating approximately 1000 sperms a second with correspondingly high rates of mitochondrial oxygen consumption by the germinal epithelium. This process generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) through reactio...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4453
Aims: To investigate fungal contamination in ethnographic objects from the Museu do Índio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), from a particular indian community named Urubu-Kaapor. Results were compared to the same investigation on objects from other indian tribes, to determine possible cr...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7174
This study was carried out to evaluate the obtainable drugs, chemicals and antibiotics used in aquaculture activities in Bangladesh for increasing aquaculture production. This study was carried out using data collection method through questionnaire interview and personal contact....
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7287