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Guidelines for Community-Based HIV/AIDS Stigma Reduction Intervention in a Rural Community
(Scientific Research, 2016-03)Research encourages evidence-based guidelines for practice. This paper describes the guidelines for HIV/AIDS stigma reduction in the community. These guidelines were developed by the authors based on findings of the study ... -
Association of XbaI GLUT1 Polymorphism with Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetic Nephropathy
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-03)Objectives: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the chronic microangiopathic complications of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and has become the most frequent cause of end-stage renal disease. The XbaI polymorphism in the glucose ... -
Entrepreneurship as Facilitator for Sustainable Development? Editorial for the Special Issue “Advances in Sustainable EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship as Facilitator for Sustainable Development? Editorial for the Special Issue “Advances in Sustainable Entrepreneurship"
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Functional Boundaries as a Tacit Knowledge Sharing Factor and Its Effect on Public Sector Performance in Kenya
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)Knowledge is a crucial component in the growth of any organization and it forms a significant fraction of all the resources required for organizational growth. Out of the renowned factors of production namely land, labor, ... -
Megaprojects, Complexity, and Investment Decisions
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)The need for basic infrastructure for economic development in developing countries has made megaprojects popular, in such parts of the world. Megaprojects can be very important to a host country: the Nigeria Liquefied ... -
Impact of Corporate Agriculture on Sustainable Rural Development in Nigeria
(Open Access library journal, 2016-04)This study sets out to investigate whether corporate agriculture has any significant impact on Nigeria’s economy. The dimensions of impact assessed are mainly capital investment, private sector’s participation, employment ... -
Genetic Variation among Fragmented Populations of Atriplex halimus L. Using Start Codon Targeted (SCoT) and ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 Region Markers
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04)Two forms of A. halimus shrubs: erect habit (A. halimus) and bushy habit shrub (A. schweinfurthii) are used naturally isolated by a considerable distance from each other and occupy the same area. To explore the effect ... -
Quantitative Gene Expression of Peroxidase, Polyphenoloxidase and Catalase as Molecular Markers for Resistance against Ralstonia solanacearum
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04)Brown rot or bacterial wilt of potato caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is an economically important disease. Potato, cv. Nicola, was found to be relatively highly resistant to the infection with R. solanacearum and ... -
Constitutive and Secretory Expression of the AiiA in Pichia pastoris Inhibits Amorphophallus konjac Soft Rot Disease
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04)Amorphophallus konjac is an important economic crop widely cultivated in Southeast Asia and Africa. However, A. konjac is seriously infected by soft rot pathogen. The endocellular acyl homoserine lactonase (AiiA) which ... -
Study the Attenuation Coefficient of Granite to Use It as Shields against Gamma Ray
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04)The present work investigates the linear and mass attenuation coefficients for gamma rays practically and theoretically by using spectroscopy gamma ray (UCS-20) and program (XCOM)) for various types of common use granite, ... -
Anisotropy of Photocatalytic Properties in Nanostructured Photocatalysts
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)Energy band engineering and the nature of surface/interface of a semiconductor play a significant role in searching high efficiency photocatalysts. Actually, the active facets, morphology controlling, especially the ... -
Value of Waiting and Excess Entry Theorem
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)By reformulating the Cournot model by making use of the optimal stopping theory, we reconsider the excess entry theorem for a stochastic market. It is revealed that: 1) free entry in a stochastic oligopolistic market is ... -
Postharvest Handling Practices and Treatment Methods for Tomato Handlers in Developing Countries: A Mini Review
(Hindawi, 2016-04)Tomato production has increased in recent years due to the economic and nutritional importance of the crop. This increase is made possible by the numerous research advances made along the entire value chain. However, ... -
Agricultural Sector and HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa: The Economic Retrogression Model
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)Objective: Agricultural activities in most African countries demand human labour, the supply of labour to agriculture may be threatened if humans could no longer farm because of HIV/AIDS pandemic. Past studies have ... -
Tourism and Employment Spillovers in a Small Island Developing State: A Dynamic Investigation
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)Using a dynamic vector error correction model, and catering for dynamism and endogeneity, the present study attempts to address the question on whether tourism development enhances employment in Mauritius using time ... -
Does Innovative Financing Increase the Firm Performance? An Empirical Investigation of Indian Manufacturing Firms
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)The firms mobilizing resources using innovative debt from market reduce dependence on the traditional banking and financial institutions. The firms raising resources by directly approaching public have some incentive to ... -
Social Capital, Perceptions and Economic Performance
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)This paper describes how social capital emerges, relates to economic performance and evolves in the long run. Using the concept of psychological equilibrium, two types of individuals are generated in the population ... -
Analysis of Geo Positioning System Using RF & DA
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04)Indoor positioning systems (IPSs) have been intended to provide position information of persons and devices. Higher user percentage of handheld devices such as tablets or mobile phones had led to the development of a number ... -
A Study of Efficient Power Consumption Wireless Communication Techniques/ Modules for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04)A study of wireless technologies for IoT applications in terms of power consumption has been presented in this paper. The study focuses on the importance of using low power wireless techniques and modules in IoT applications ... -
Burnout as Alienation in the Counselling Field: The Descent from Homo-Faber to Homo-Economous
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04-08)The concepts burnout and alienation are routinely connected in a linear unproblematic trajectory (Tomei et al., 2011) perpetuating more of an ideological conflation than providing any insight into either concept. This ...