Aims: Clinical and pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that alcohol abuse, aging, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are associated with increased risk of fractures compounded with impaired fracture repair. We note that these and other pathologies are characterized by chronic i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1547
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the immunological and histological profiles of adult coeliac patients after commencing Nigella sativa (NS) oil with gluten free diet (GFD) for a period of 1 year ± 1month to prove its validity in treatment of refractory coeliac disease (CD...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1608
Aim: This study aims at identifying some delivery outcome determinants in teenage mothers and evaluating the effect of booking in light of these parameters. Study Design: A retrospective study. Place and Duration of Study: Teenage mothers who delivered in a teaching hospital in...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2012/1509
Aims: To utilize hydrate slurry for phase change refrigerants, the rheological properties are essential. In the present study, the viscosity characteristics of hydrate slurry are investigated. Additionally, the effect of cationic surfactant on viscosity is also evaluated. Study D...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1616
New palladium (II) and platinum (IV) complexes with a series of unsymmetrical tetradentate Schiff bases derived from aromatic 2-hydroxy aldehydes in an ethanolic medium were synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, melting points, magnetic susceptibility, thermogravim...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1584
Aims: The objective of this study is to establish the fundamental model on methane hydrate formation and to accelerate the rate of methane hydrate formation with a small amount of ionic liquid and to investigate the effect of ionic liquid on hydrate formation. Study Design: Exper...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1512
The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the relationship between per-capita sales and per-capita GDP is given by an inverted U. The paper considers that lottery sales increase together with increases in GDP up to a point where a country has reached a level a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1411
Background: The Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) established by the World Health Organization (WHO) is dedicated at estimating the global burden of a selection of foodborne diseases. Peanut allergy has been included in this initiative because of the se...
This paper adopted the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) test and the error correction model (ECM) techniques to establish the long-run and short -run relationship between worker remittances and economic growth in Pakistan during the period 1976-2010. The results demonstrate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1426
Aim: This study focuses on the construction of a multi-dimensional dynamic indicator of the persistence of poverty over time between different generations from the quantitative and qualitative survey Vulnerabilities and Chronic Poverty in Senegal carried out in 2008/2009. Place a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1239
The paper focuses on the effects of risk assessment (Hirarc) on organisational performance in selected construction companies in Nigeria. Risk assessment (Hirarc) is a structured approach for identifying, evaluating and controlling hazards in the workplace with a view to achievin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1317
This study examined the awareness and adaptation to climate change among farmers in the Sahel Savannah agro-ecological zone of Borno State, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from 225 respondents selected through the Multi-stage sampling technique. A socio-economic profil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1475
An intelligent electronic module for managing battery power in a wind/diesel, solar/diesel or wind/solar/diesel hybrid systems was designed, fabricated and tested. It is made of five blocks mainly a power supply unit, a battery voltage monitor, a programmable interface controller...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1513
Aims: In this article, we will consider the possibility of raising children to be good and moral people and what kinds of ethical challenges this aspiration involves. We will discuss these issues, the problems that arise when raising children to be good—including its moral dimens...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1331
Assessment of climate change impact on hydrology at watershed scale incorporates downscaling of global scale climatic variables into local scale hydrologic variables and evaluation of future hydrologic extremes. The climatological inputs obtained from several global climate model...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1505