Aims: Acenocoumarol, a commonly prescribed oral anticoagulant drug, exhibits wideinter-individual variability in response. This study aimed at evaluating the contribution of genetic variations in Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex, subunit 1 (VKORC1), to variability in the respo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7067
Aims: To validate the CIN predictive risk score developed by Mehran et al in the study population. Study Design: This is a hospital-based prospective observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, University of Benin Teaching...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6132
Aims: Previous comparisons of Octopus and Humphrey threshold programmes have shown differences, particularly for depth of defects. Recent developments have altered the Octopus background illumination. Thus, we sought to determine the subsequent extent of differences in results fr...
A new metaheuristic scheme based upon Cuckoo Search algorithm for the exudates detection in diabetic retinopathy using multi-level thresholding is presented in this paper. The proposed method is applied for edge detection and the results obtained by this method were compared with...
Aims: Typhoid fever is an acute illness associated with fever that is most often caused by the Salmonella typhi bacteria. This study was carried out to determine the prevalenece of typhoid fever and distribution among different groups in Al-hodiedah and Taiz hospitals, and to det...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6768
Aim: To select good strains of Bacillus subtilis for use as starter culture in the fermentation of Parkia biglobosa. Study Design: Fifteen (15) strains of Bacillus subtilis group obtained from commercial samples were used in starter-culture fermentation of Parkia biglobosa seeds...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/6471
Aims: The main aim of this report is to set forth a survey of the Romanian Mathematics and Informatics Education at the present time. We emphasize some of the recent, specific and significant Romanian methods concerning the teaching and learning of Mathematics and Informatics, st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/5940
Background: Malaria is an important cause of morbidity and mortality especially among children less than five years in the Akwapim North Municipality of the Eastern Region of Ghana. Knowledge of community members in malaria is a major factor that can influence malaria prevention...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/6398
Background: Recent scientific reports have shown that high blood pressure is a major public health problem in urban populations of sub-Saharan African countries. Yet, information on this morbidity in the rural areas is limited. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of hypertensio...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/6240
Background/Aims: Gastric aspirate specimen is accepted as an alternative specimen of choice to sputum in the diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (TB); and specimen microscopy is usually the only available bacteriologic confirmatory test for streaming cases into the Nati...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/5966
Aims: The present study refers to developing an artificial neural network (ANN) that can be designed exclusively for ex ante forecasting in technoeconomic contexts using an ensemble set of sparse and insufficient sampled-data availed ex post. Study Design: In general, the samples...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/4185
Aims: Objective of the study was to investigate the wound contraction and anti-inflammatory activity of the 50% ethanolic extract of Fumaria indica (Hausskn.) Pugsley (Fumariaceae) by excision wound model and estimation of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Study D...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/5387
Aims: The aim of this study is to examine the issue of motivation of physicians employed at Greek public hospitals. Methodology: Through the review of relevant literature, an attempt to examine the trends in this issue in Greek public health care sector has been made. Various ele...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6821
Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)/asthma and pneumonia are the major reason for the hospitalization and emergency room visit in the US. In 2011, chronic lower respiratory diseases and pneumonia were among top ten causes of mortality in 2011. Hospi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6469
The dominant view that cancer arises from successive mutations in somatic cells is so unquestioned that accumulating challenges from experimental and observational results are rarely addressed in the scientific literature. Based on these challenges, we argue that the scientific u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6855