Aims: This study investigate the role of four fungi species in the removal of phosphate and nitrate in a low nutrient synthetic wastewater. Also investigated was the effect of initial inoculum size on the nutrient removal ability of the strains. Materials and Methods: The fungal...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6406
Governments and agencies around the world are continuously seeking new ways and measures to promote the establishment of efficiency and efficacy leading to development of quality deliverance of public services. Saudi Arabia is of no exception. In this paper we examine, ethical pr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/7248
Ludwig’s angina is a potentially lethal deep neck infection associated with rapid airway obstruction due to swelling of the neck, tongue and submandibular areas. Despite the name, it has no relation to angina pectoris. We report a case of an 80-year-old gentleman who presented wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7365
Sebastião David Santos-Filho, Milena Oliveira Bravo Monteiro, Dulciane Nunes Paiva, Adriano Arnóbio, Severo de Paoli, Danúbia da Cunha Sá-Caputo, Eliane de Oliveira Guedes-Aguiar, Giuseppe Antonio Presta, Pedro J. Marin & Mario Bernardo-Filho·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aims: A stroke is a neurological disorder and muscle weakness is the most prominent impairment. Whole-body vibration (WBV) is a possible modality of exercise that is useful for improving physical capacity, bone mass, balance, proprioception and the quality of life in healthy subj...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5562
Aims: To determine the prevalence and severity of cardiac arrhythmias in a rural Australian population using ECG assessment. Study Design: This is a University-based research project. Comparative design with random samples used. Place and Duration of Study: School of Community He...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4047
Aims: Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is an identified risk of systemic antibacterial therapy with fluoroquinolones. The risk and its severity, including the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) between individual agents is uncertain. This study examines the association betwee...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/6954
Sugarcane is an important crop of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. However, the yield per unit area is below some advanced sugarcane growing areas of the world, and the national average of Pakistan. Improved methods of selection resulting in higher yielding sugarcane cult...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6086
Potato is the world's fourth important food crop after wheat, rice and maize because of its great yield potential and high nutritive value. In Kenya, potato is constrained by low seed tuber production in the informal sector. This is partly due to improper fertilizer regimes and i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6738
Sugarcane breeders often face significant genotype x environment interactions in their trials grown under multiple environments. Hence, genotypes need to be tested for their stability across different environments keeping in view the significant interactions. An experiment compri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6615
The aim of this study is to show that geometric phase is a consequence of curvature in non-Euclidean geometries being related to the areas of spherical and hyperbolic triangles. In hyperbolic geometry it is well-known that the angular deficit of a hyperbolic triangle is related t...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/6837
Aims: To evaluate the thermodynamical parameters and their excess functions to find the molecular interactions between unlike molecules in ternary liquid mixtures. Study Design: Ultrasonic velocities, densities and viscosities have been measured for the ternary mixtures of quinol...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/6636
The production of bio-ethanol from corn chaff and cassava waste water was carried out after pretreatment with liquid hot water. Proximate analysis was carried out on the wastes using standard methods and the results obtained for corn chaff were carbohydrate (1.64%), fibre (22%),...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/6913
Three pot experiments were conducted to assess the capacity of asclite in reducing arsenic (As) contents in vegetable plants from arsenic contaminated soil. Asclite is an artificially made granular amorphous iron (Fe)-hydroxide material having high ability in adsorbing As(III) as...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6766
Background: Brucellosis is a serious re-emerging zoonosis which vastly afflicts human health and animal productivity. The reported incidence may under-represent the real burden of the disease that has drastically evolved during the past decade. Incomplete epidemiological data par...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/7025
Challenges of water resources in Lebanon are well pronounced. Even though sufficient water resources exist and high precipitation is often recorded, Lebanon’s water is threatened by several physical and anthropogenic challenges that make it a country under water stress. This issu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/6990