Harmonic Analysis technique has been employed in predicting the hourly air temperature variations over Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. The variations in hourly air temperatures over the two stations are periodic and thus have strong tendency of being repeated the next day, if all other...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2011/353
Preliminary studies of the estimates of the horizontal dilution potential of air pollutants over some cities in Nigeria have been carried out using wind impact area diagrams, obtained by using standard deviation to calculate angles of spread of the pollutants, whose concentration...
Aims: Soluble cytokeratin (CK) fragments and inflammatory interleukins (ILs) in bone marrow (BM) aspirates of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are expected to indicate presence of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) and anticancer response of the host, respectively. The present study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/508
Retroviral vectors based upon the Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) have been used due to their high efficiency of stable gene transfer. Core binding factors (CBF) are heterodimeric transcription factors containing a DNA binding Runx 1, Runx 2, or Runx 3 subunit, along with a n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/483
Background: Popcorn is cereal grains originated from a wild grass (Zea mays everta). Human consume popcorn as snacks. Popcorn provides a full complement of nutrition benefits, including dietary fibre, protein and essential micronutrient. Processing methods, such as, sprouting and...
Objective: To determine delayed viral response and its influencing factors in non responders patients of chronic hepatitis C who were not taking any antiviral treatment 6 months after completion of their conventional interferon therapy. Study Design: Retrospective; Cohort Study ...
Anatomical alteration of leaf tissues components were investigated in regards to adequate and inadequate watering in Mungbean, Vetch and three Lentil cultivars namely Baraka, Adlib and Nineveh. The possibility of mitigating the alteration of these adversities by the aid of GA3 wa...
A novel fly ash supported solid base catalyst (MgO/fly ash) has been synthesized by using F-type fly ash and Mg(NO3)2 as precursor. The synthesized solid base possessed stable Si-O-Mg phase with sufficient hydroxyl group to catalyze liquid phase, solvent free and single step cond...
Aim: This study was designed to enhance the scope of sputum analysis by using it as a clinical tool in gene/protein expression, by making the paraffin embedded blocks. Methodology: The specimens were prepared as smear and cell blocks for cytopathologic examination. The preparatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2011/421
This experiment was carried out during the fall season 2009-2010 in the vegetable greenhouse, Horticulture Department, Dohuk University. Three pea cultivars namely Local crinkle, Local Smooth and Canadian were subjected to three irrigation levels where plant irrigated whenever 25...
Three watermelon cultivars were grown on land flooded with an irrigation depth 10 cm which was sustained for 1, 2, and 3 week periods before planting date besides, unflooded control land. The obtained results revealed that growing watermelon on land flooded with 2 weeks period wa...
An experiment was conducted at Shambat Agricultural farm to study the effect of pesticides residues on soil and potatoplant. Potato was planted on January, 2009 on ridges with a spacing of 70 cm between rows and 10 cm between plants. Sevin and Malathion pesticides were added at d...
Currently, the International Diabetes Federation estimates that 194 million people live with diabetes worldwide are 5.1% of the adult population and this number is estimated at 333 million in 2025. In Africa, there are about 13.6 million people suffering from diabetes. Despite ma...
Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R.Br belonging to Apocynaceae family is traditionally used by people in many parts of the world to treat various disorders. The present study was undertaken to investigate anti-ulcer property of Tabernaemontana divaricata flower methanolic extract...
This study looked at the effect of depth on the microbial pollution of shallow wells in the three floodplains of Makurdi metropolis of Benue State, Nigeria. Water samples from the wells were collected and analyzed monthly for seven months from February to August (covering both we...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2011/354