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PhIJ Conceptual Paper Feb 28, 2019
Toward A Posthuman Humanism: Serresian Federative Humanism between Natural Contract and Political Ecology
Rignani O*

Intended as a step of a general attempt to grasp further philosophical meanings/implications of the posthuman galaxy, which without much doubt still deserves many insights, this ar…

Federative Humanism Michel Serres Natural Contract
JEASc Research Article Feb 28, 2019
Commercializing Beef Sub-Sector in Arusha and Dar-es-Salaam Cities, Tanzania: Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Quality Beef
Kamugisha PP*

Tanzania has huge livestock resource base of cattle herds amounting to 28,435,825; diverse feeds to satisfy 4.9m TLU annually and several modern slaughter houses. Despite its impo…

Consumers’ preferences Contingent Valuation Method Principal component analysis
PPEJ EBOOK Feb 27, 2019
Synthesis and Fabrication of Silica Based Superhydrophobic Surfaces
El-hoshoudy AN*

Superhydrophobic surfaces with very high water contact angle >150° and very low roll-off angle have received more attentions due to their huge potential in environment, energy…

Surface coating Silica coating Hydrophobicity
PSBJ Research Article Feb 26, 2019
Rheological and Microstructural Properties of Thermal and Mechanically Treated Shea Butter
Iyasele JU, Oseni NT* and Uwadia OE

Shea butter, like other polymorphic fats are susceptible to morphological changes due to post harvest practices to produce either smooth and consistent fat containing predominantly…

Shea butter Modification X ray
CRIJ Case Report Feb 26, 2019
Resolution, SNR, Signal Averaging and Scan Time in MRI for Metastatic Lesion in Spine: A Case Report in a 74 Years Old Patient
Waseem Zafar*, Ahmed Masood, Basit Iqbal and Sohail Murad

Background: MRI image quality is compromise between resolution, scan time, Signal Averaging (NSA/NEX.), SNR and Integrated parallel acquisition technique (SENSE). Any compromise i…

MRI Signal-to-Noise Ratio SNR
ADOAJ Perspective Feb 26, 2019
Drug Abuse Treatment - The DAIRRC Perspective
Merchant Y*

The paper addresses the issue of Drug Addiction treatment, from a holistic perspective, examines some misconceptions, and briefly outlines the DAIRRC treatment plan as a viable opt…

NHIJ Review Article Feb 25, 2019
Patient’s Voices on Nurse Competence. Are we there?
Kaur Gill B*

Nurse competence is discussed and assessed globally and the importance of nurse competence plays a significant role in providing quality healthcare to the patients and the develop…

Nursing Patients Professional values
IJPBP Research Article Feb 25, 2019
Understanding Aspects of the Theory of Evolution Using Paleontology
Kouzas D and Athanasiou K*

The need to strengthen the teaching of the Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection (TENS) is undoubted, as it has so far been taught in a fragmented way, without any emphasi…

Evolution Theory Teaching Science Museums
CCLSJ Investigation Paper Feb 25, 2019
The Effect of Antiphospholipid Antibodies on the Structure of the Placental Villi
Olivar Clemente CS*

Two placentas at term were obtained of two woman pregnancy with diagnostic of phospholipid syndrome who were treated by means of antithrombotic therapy using acetylsalicylic acid a…

Antiphospholipid Syndrome Antibodies Placental villi
OAJUN Research Article Feb 25, 2019
Does it need to Take Digitally Targeted Biopsies Additionally to TRUS Guided 12- Core Systematic Prostate Biopsies? A Single Center Prospective Clinical Study
Ali Erol, Sarp Korcan Keskin* and Huseyin Akyildiz

Purpose: To investigate whether digitally targeted additional biopsies enhance the detection rate of standard 12-core TRUS guided systematic biopsies. Methods: A total of 119 pat…

Prostate cancer Tumors 12-core Systematic biopsies
JQHE Research Article Feb 25, 2019
Influence of Emotional Labour on Burnout among Nurses: A Sem Approach
Kaur S*

Background: Over the last few years, India is experiencing a revolution in health care sector. Due to increase in diseases, it has become the responsibility of hospitals and medic…

Emotional labour Burnout Employees and Hospitals
JQHE Editorial Feb 25, 2019
Public Health Economics Citizen Expectations, Rights and Responsibilities in the Digital Age
Wortley D*

Digital Technologies are creating an unprecedented and disruptive challenge to all aspects of society. Whilst it can be argued that these technologies, like all previous advances …

Rights and Responsibilities Public Health Economics
ACT Research Article Feb 23, 2019
Risk Assessment of Dietary Exposure to Aflatoxin Contamination in Spices
Ali N* and Watt J

This study highlights the daily consumption of spices in human diet and the potential of aflatoxin B1 (AFBI) contamination which attributable to the risk of developing liver cancer…

Risk Assessment Margin of Exposure Aflatoxins
ACT Research Article Feb 23, 2019
Preclinical Safety Pharmacology Studies of Taiwanofungus camphoratus Extract
Lin JY and Chiu E*

Taiwanofungus camphoratus is a unique mushroom that only grows in Taiwan. It has been used as fold medicine for a long history. Recent studies have demonstrated T. camphoratus poss…

Taiwanofungus camphoratus hERG Central Nervous System
ACT Mini Review Feb 23, 2019
Carbon Nanotubes-Doxorubicin Conjugates Molecular Dynamics and Bio-inspired Approaches for Clinical Toxicology
Contreras ML* and Roberto R

Doxorubicin as a therapeutic drug is used in several human pathologies related to cancer. It has however some side effects that needs to be understood and controlled. This article …

Defected Carbon Nanotubes Encapsulated Doxorubicin Toxicity Factors
ACT Mini Review Feb 23, 2019
Oxytocin: The Neurohormone
Tabassum Zafar* and Vinoy K Shrivastava

Oxytocin is a peptide hormone, which serves important functions in body including labor management and lactation. Indiction of milk ejection and easy delivery there are many other …

Oxytocin Love Hormone Neurohormone
ACT Research Article Feb 23, 2019
Addiction and Evolutionary Process, Common Aspects in Physio-Pathologic Pathways Useful in Pharmaco-Toxicological Approach
Luisetto M*, Almukhtar N, Mashori GR, Ahmadabadi BN and Sahu RK

Observing vertebrates evolutionary in mammalian are present characteristic pathways involved in progeny take care in first period after birth. In this behavior and instinct, learni…

Addiction Toxicology Physiology
IJOAC Review Article Feb 22, 2019
Water Security Plan for the Sustainable Development of Water Resources of Amini Jalgram, Union Territory of Lakshadweep, South India
Joji VS*

The Water Security Plan for the sustainability of Water Resources of Amini Jalgram, Union Territory of Lakshadweep, South India has been studied. Amini Island is one of the smalle…

Hydraulic Continuity Hydrogeology Corals
PHOA Research Article Feb 22, 2019
The Sources of Water Supply, Sanitation Facilities and Hygiene Practices in an Island Community: Amassoma, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Raimi Morufu Olalekan*, Abdulraheem Aishat Funmilayo, Major Iteimowei, Oluwaseun E Odipe, Isa Hussain Muhammad, Onyeche Chinwendu

Background: The polarization of the Nigerian society with a population of about 198 million people, growing at the rate of 3.2% per annum, into a large rural sector and a small ur…

Community Stakeholders Partnerships Sustainable Development
OAJMB Research Article Feb 22, 2019
Toxoplasmosis Sero- Prevalence among Aborted Women by Different Techniques in Atbara Area- River Nile State, Sudan
Mohamed Taha RK, Abd Alla AB* and Nasir Hamad AE

This cross-sectional study was conducted in River Nile state (Atbara locality) during the period from February to May, 2017. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence …

toxoplasmosis Latex Elisa
PPRIJ Research Article Feb 22, 2019
Song for Eternity. An Interpretation of The Beatles' Music
Vas JP*

The aim of this paper is to specify the components of effect The Beatles group exerted on mass-culture in the 60s of 20. century. Their new music style possesses such features, wh…

Tonality Consonance of text and music Synthesis between eras and cultures
AABSc Research Article Feb 22, 2019
K-means Clustering Algorithm for Myocardial Infarction Classification
ElAmin A, Alotaibi YM, Abaida EA, Malaekah E, Ismail Saied HF* and Mukhanov VV

Heart attack is one of the main causes of death around the world. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is considered as an effective method to diagnose heart diseases. In this study, the c…

Myocardial Infarction K-means Clustering Stemming Algorithm
AABSc Research Article Feb 22, 2019
Developments in Segmentation of Abdominal Liver CT Images for Cancer and Other Disease Lesion Detection
Hariharan S*

Segmentation is one of the most important and widely used methods in medical image analysis. It is considered to be a high level image processing technique and can be used for man…

Medical imaging Image Segmentation Image Analysis
AABSc Research Article Feb 22, 2019
Planning Method for Safety Neurosurgical and Computed Tomography Contrast-Data Set Visualization
Avrunin OG and Husham Farouk IS*

Discussed the issues' associated with the development of a computed neurosurgery planning system. An important part is to determine the value of invasive surgical access. The stud…

Data visualization Data processing and displaying Planning system
AABSc Research Article Feb 22, 2019
The Effect of Mastery Cooperative Learning Strategy and Individual Inquiry on Attaining the Technical Aspects of the Stages of Shot Put and Digital Achievement using the Linear Method among Vietnam University Students
Dao Chanh Thuc* and Hang Quang Thai

Physiological indicators say a lot about the preparedness and performance of athletes. This study investigates the Effect of mastery cooperative learning strategy and individual i…

Mastery Learning Individual Inquiry Shot Put
OAJUN Research Article Feb 21, 2019
A Randomised Prospective Study Analysing the Effects of Lowering Serum Uric Acid in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Progression and Cardiovascular Outcomes
Gupta A, Choudhary SS, Pursnani L*, Mahapatra H and Verma H

Uric acid is an independent risk factor for the development and progression of kidney disease. In last two decades number of observational studies has examined the potential link …

Chronic kidney disease Uric acid Hypertension
EOIJ Research Article Feb 21, 2019
The Relationship between Front Crawl Swimming Performance and Strength Variables in College Swimmers
Lopes TJD, Goncalves CA, Graca C, Neiva HP and Marinho DA*

Swimmers are tested in both dry land and specific swim protocol. The purpose of the present study was to verify the relationships between dry-land exercises and sprint swimming pe…

Front-Crawl Dry-Land Resistance Training
PHOA Research Article Feb 21, 2019
Biochemical Changes of Ethanolic Leaf Extract Psidum Guajava of on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats
Egege AN, Akubugwo EI and Nwaogwugwu JC*

Background: Diabetes mellitus (or diabetes) is a chronic, lifelong condition that affects the body's ability to use the energy found in food due to absolute or relative deficiency…

Keywords: Psidium Guajava Diabetes Mellitus Streptozotocin
AEOAJ Editorial Feb 21, 2019
Netizen: The Population of Cyber Ethnography
Dipayan D*

It has rightly been said, “Where there is culture, there can be Ethnography”. Ethnography is understanding life from the native point of view.

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