Aims: To assess the agreement of a global land cover map to reference imagery when applied to a region (state) of the southern United States and to determine whether different sampling designs or the use of broader land class definitions can overcome problems associated with the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7167
Coffee production is a major source of income for farmers in the DakLak province in Vietnam. Although Vietnam is one of the largest coffee producers in the world, research to improve the coffee industry is lacking, in particular, evaluating production efficiency in coffee farming...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6599
Aims: The objective of this review is to explore the methods of eye protection from corneal abrasions during general anesthesia as they relate to procedures utilizing visual evoked potentials (VEP) monitoring. Because these protective measures may lower the accuracy of the VEP eq...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6925
Aims: Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms are rare anomalies. Aneurysmal dilatation of the sinuses of Valsalva in Marfan syndrome has been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to investigate clinical manifestation, diagnosis, histopathological findings and management of sinus o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7057
Aim: Although guidelines and pharmacological interventions exist to manage pain, poor assessment and under-medication are prevalent. It was reported that inadequacy of pain management can be due to nurses’ lack of knowledge and training regarding pain management. Therefore, this...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5241
Aims: One of the ways to treat HIV/AIDS is Antiretroviral therapy (ART), which consists different schemes and includes numbers of drugs. However, in view of the HLA polymorphism it is necessary to determine the best association of ART with the HLA class II haplotypes. The purpose...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5664
Aims: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness QuikClot Combat Gauze (QCG) to a control group on hemorrhage control and investigate the effects of intravenous volume resuscitation on rebleeding and movement on hemostasis in a porcine model of hypothermia. Design...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7262
Introduction: Patients with hypertension have an increased prevalence of type II diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance. Prevalence of prediabetes is increasing worldwide and experts have projected that more than 470 million people will have pre-diabetes by 2030. A prop...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6977
Aim: Relationship between virus titers of live Infectious Bursal disease (IBD) vaccines and their serum-conversion abilities was studied. Study design and Methodology: Five batches of each, of five IBD vaccine brands used in Nigeria, were tested for virus titers. Each of the vacc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6205
Background: Dichotomizing a continuous outcome variable is a common approach to estimate the odds ratio (OR) as a measure of association. In the present study we aimed to compare a non-dichotomizing technique with logistic regression which exploits dichotomizing the response for...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6951
The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of desiccation and chilling treatments on somatic embryogenesis of rough lemon (Citrus jambhiri Lush.). Styles were cultured on seven culture media (MS I-MS VII) containing Benzylaminopurine (BAP), Kinetin (KN) and Malt Extract fo...
Aims: To evaluate the antibacterial and antioxidant potential of various extracts of S. pinnata leaves. Study Design: Cold extraction of the leaves using various solvents followed by in vitro antioxidant and antibacterial assays. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Pharm...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/7048
Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of ethanolic extract of coriander leaves as a potent in vivo antioxidant agent in an effort of finding possible sources of antioxidants for future use in food and pharmaceutical formulations. Study Design: Randomized controlled...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2014/7238
Milk has good quality protein and is a unique substance in that it is consumed as fluid milk with minimal processing and also it is the raw material used to manufacture a wide variety of products. Milk is susceptible to contamination by many pathogenic microorganisms, which resul...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6596
Aims: The purpose of this research is to examine antimutagenicity and anticancer effect of Biebersteinia multifida. Study Design: Currently cancer is considered as one of the main factors of mortality globally. Many chemicals in our environment can cause genetic mutations and are...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7193