Aims: The modern educators have minimized didactic teaching by lectures, as outdated spoon feeding that dampens creative thinking and keeps the student away from reflective practice and lifelong learning. There are diverse ways for delivering medical curriculum ranging from teach...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/2258
Kolb's classifies learners as divergers, convergers, assimilators and accommodators. Do these learners adopt different learning strategies? Phenomenology is concerned with the study of experience from the perspective of the individual and is based on a paradigm of personal knowle...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1249
The assessment of climate change impacts on frequency of floods is important for management of flood disasters. It is recognized that methods for the assessment are subject to various sources of uncertainty (choice of climate model and emission scenario, course spatial and tempor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2813
Aims: To compare isotopic signatures of contrasting (due to the structure and metabolism) organs in mice of two contrasting ages. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Biology Department of Moscow State University; Institute of Geochemistry and Analyti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1591
It is noticed that intelligent buildings are aimed to consider social, environmental and economic values beside a substantial focus to the automated technological attributes. Due to many promising green building initiatives, the accelerated level of interests towards the applicat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2531
Syndromes associated with acute bilateral lesions of the basal ganglia in diabetic uremic patients are uncommon, and usually have reversible clinical and imaging findings. Such syndromes are seen almost exclusively in patients with diabetes mellitus and renal failure. Previously...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2068
Aims: This paper examines the interactions between climate parameters and cardamom capsule yield and its sustainability in Indian Cardamom Hills. Methodology: Temporal trends were evaluated at annual, seasonal and monthly time scale using Mann-Kendall method. Significant trends w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1495
Aim: To investigate anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive potentials of aqueous stem bark extract of Khaya senegalensis A. Juss (Meliaceae) in rodents. Methodology: Anti-inflammatory activity of aqueous stem bark extract of K. senegalensis (AKS) was studied in different models. E...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1931
Climate change will deeply affect the precipitation and evapotranspiration around the world. The sustainability of groundwater resources is crucial for regional and local communities, which is intimately tied to the changing recharge rate. To accurately assess the recharge rate,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2503
Aims: Among the antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) applied for secondary prophylaxis of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), carbamazepine (CBZ) may cause severe side effects and worsen traumatic brain injury (TBI). Presentation of Case: Two days after a bicycle accident causing severe TBI, a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2306
A green roof test bed, established at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, was used to investigate its benefit for storm water management and urban heat island effect mitigation. The system comprised 3 units, 2 in the form of vegetated roofs and the other a bare roo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/2704
Aims: Catecholamines represent a cornerstone in the hemodynamic management of septic shock (SS). However, development of toxicity may adversely affect patient outcome. We describe the outcome of 460 consecutive SS patients who were treated with an institutional hemodynamic protoc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2072
Objective: Psychopathological symptoms, depression, apathy, memory and sleep disorders, have been reported in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, but psychotic symptoms without psychiatric background are extremely rare. Method: A 74 year male patient without previous psychiatr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1675
Objectives: Depression unfortunately, remains an under-recognized and misdiagnosed condition, especially in the aging population. We aimed to research the relation of depression, LUTS and ED in elderly men. Methods: In this prospective study, 364 elder male patients were evaluate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1700
Isolated pancreatic trauma is extremely rare because of pancreas’ anatomic localization. Also, diagnosis of pancreatic injury may be difficult due to lack of sensitivity of initial clinical findings, laboratory and imaging examinations in emergency department. Morbidity and morta...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/2487