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Public Expenditures, Private Investment and Economic Growth in Togo
(Scientific Research, 2017-02)This paper assesses firstly the impact of the level and the composition of public expenditures on growth and secondly the link between public investment and private investment in Togo. For this purpose, a neoclassical ... -
Public Sector and Corruption in Nigeria: An Ethical and Institutional Framework of Analysis
(Scientific Research, 2014-08)The paper examines the imperatives of good ethical conduct in the conduct of government business in Nigeria. As government business grows in complexity with the adoption of technological innovations in government, ... -
Purification of Dengue Virus Particles by One-Step Ceramic Hydroxyapatite Chromatography
(Scientific Research, 2012-08)Dengue virus type 2 ThNH7/93 retained infectious activity after purification by ceramic hydroxyapatite chromatography. Dengue virus type 2 culture fluid was loaded onto the ceramic hydroxyapatite column and eluted with a ... -
Quadrature formulas for integral equations of kinetics and digital reactimeters
(2017-08)The aim of this work is to derive quadrature formulas for nuclear reactor kinetic equations in the form of Volterra integral equations of the second kind and reactimeter equations in the form of integral convolution, the ... -
A Qualitative Study on the Outcomes of Social Media Advertising
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)In this modern digitalized world, almost everyone is attached with internet. So there is an opportunity for the advertisers to use the social apps/internet for the purpose of advertising. This study was conducted to check ... -
Quality and Nutritional Evaluation of Regina Tomato, a Traditional Long-Storage Landrace of Puglia (Southern Italy)
(2018)Regina tomato, a locally cultivated Italian landrace, is listed as an item in the ‘List of Traditional Agri-Food Products’ of the Italian Department for Agriculture and itemised as ‘Slow Food presidium’ by the Slow Food ... -
Quality Assurance in Wound Management in a Developing Country: How Satisfied Are Our Patients?
(Scientific Research, 2013-01)Background: Quality is important in every setting especially in the health service where the needs of patients should be an utmost priority. However, this is sometimes not the situation in most health care centres due to ... -
Quantitative detection of Streptococcus mutans from saliva using FTATM elute cards and real-time polymerase chain reaction
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-07)Dental caries is a localized, transmissible, pathological infection process that ends up in the destruction of hard dental tissue. Numerous reports have shown the close relationship between salivary levels of Streptococcus ... -
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 ... -
Quantum Chemical Studies on the Corrosion Inhibition of Mild Steel by Piperidin-4-One Derivatives in 1 M H3PO4
(Scientific Research, 2014-12)The corrosion inhibition properties of 2,6-diphenylpiperidin-4-one (DPP) (1A) and 2,6-diphenyldihydro-2H-thiopyran-4(3H)-one (DPDT) (1B) for mild steel in 1 M phosphoric acid were studied using weight loss, potentiodynamic ... -
Quantum entanglement in theoretical physics as a new insight into cancer biology
(African Journal of Biological Sciences, 2019-04-12)Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in theoretical physics that happens when pairs or groups of particles are generated in such a way that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the others, ... -
Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Fluoromethylated-pyrrol Derivatives a Study on their Reactivities, Structures and Vibrational Properties
(2014-02)In this work, the structural and vibrational properties of 1-5-(difluoromethyl-1H-pyrrol-2-yl-) ethanone (DFPE) were studied by using the hybrid B3LYP/6-31G* method. The properties were analyzed and compared with those ... -
Quantum Mechanical Study on the Effect of Solvent in the Properties of Benzophenone
(2017-09)The effect of solvents on spectroscopic properties of benzophenone is analyzed using DFT/6-311G method. The data on effect of solvents is used to estimate excited state dipole moment using the theoretically determined ... -
Rain Attenuation at Terahertz
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2010-10)Rain attenuation values were calculated using empirical raindrop-size distributions, which were, Marshall-Palmer (M-P), Best, Polyakova-Shifrin (P-S) and Weibull raindrop-size distributions, and also calculated using a ... -
The Rationality and Irrationality of Financing Green Start-Ups
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2015-07)Green start-ups contribute towards a transition to a more sustainable economy by developing sustainable and environmentally friendly innovation and bringing it to the market. Due to specific product/service characteristics, ... -
Readiness of human resource departments of agricultural enterprises for implementation of the new roles of human resource professionals
(2017)This paper is part of a broader study which aims to investigate the success factors of agricultural enterprises. It attempts to present the partial results of a questionnaire survey whose goal was to determine the quality ... -
Receptive Anal Intercourse and HIV Infection
(Scientific Research, 2017-12)Objective: Inform the public that receptive anal intercourse (RAI) is a key transmission route of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in the United States. Method: The role of receptive anal intercourse (RAI) ... -
Reclamation of Smaller Volumes of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil Using an Innovative Reactor System: A Case Study Evaluation of the Design
(Scientific Research, 2017-07)Petroleum products contamination is a world-wide problem that threatens polluting groundwater and surface water systems. However, the problem is not only large-scale in scope when viewed from a case-by-case basis. Many ... -
Reconfigurable Microstrip Double-Dipole Antennas for Personal Wireless Communications
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2011-04)In this paper, a number of reconfigurable antennas are designed to support multiband and wideband wireless applications in different frequency bands in the range between 1 GHz and 6 GHz. The proposed designs consist of ... -
Rediscovery of Termitoloemus marshalli Baranov (Diptera: Calliphoridae: Bengaliinae), apredator oftermites
(published online, 2014-09)Termitoloemus marshalli Baranov (Diptera: Calliphoridae: Bengaliinae) was known to the science only through one male holotype and two female paratypes collected from Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh, INDIA) in 1935. Since then ...