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Water, a substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and existing in gaseous (steam), liquid (water), and solid (ice) states. It is one of the most plentiful and essential compounds. A tasteless and odourless liquid at room temperature, it

In the global competitive world, the survival of banking sector is faced with a lot of challenges in maintaining the customer relationship. In general CRM is an integrated strategy which can help banks become customer-oriented and choose customer-

I had the opportunity to visit Proto Golf Club Resort on the outskirt of Kano City, along with my colleagues for a day out. To my surprise the resort and golf course was well laid out and maintained. In my view Nigeria has great prospects when it comes

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is defined as the type of disease that occurred due to narrowing arteries transporting oxygenated blood to the heart, which resulted serious cardiovascular complications including angina and heart attack [1]. CAD is one of the deadly diseases in the world nowadays, especially in the developing countries. It was estimated that, almost one third of middle aged women and one half of the middle aged men in United States were affected with the disease [2]. The disease has become number one killer in the developed countries, with over 7.4 million deaths in 2012 [3].

Genetics is a special area of Biology which focuses on heredity (inheritance). For common people, it is looked at the exercise of matching people’s look, character etc. and frequent comment comes as “the person is like father, like mother etc. It is also commonly believed that all these similarities in character, look are related to blood, which is absolutely wrong.

Millions of people across the globe are living with a “silent” disease they’ve likely never heard of. Typically, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are silent diseases. They have no symptoms. Even if cirrhosis has developed, there are often no symptoms until the liver has become so damaged that the only option is a liver transplant. NASH is set to surpass hepatitis as the biggest reason for liver transplants by 2020 [1].

Do you know how much each individual on this planet is worth? A Du Pont scientist said that the atoms of our body contain a potential energy of more than 11 million kilowatt-hours per pound. By this estimate, the average person is worth about $85 billion.

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As a concept, internationalisation has different meaning to different people, and thus they describe it differently (see, for example, Knight and de Wit, 1995; Scott, 1998; van der Wende, 2001). Although it is a widely discussed phenomenon, there is

According to a recent study [1], both very high and very low levels of Body Mass Index (BMI) are associated with an increased risk of death due to various causes. The research suggested that BMI of between 21-25 kg/m2 is associated with the lowest risk of dying from cancer and heart disease. The study looked at how BMI is associated with the risk of death both overall, and from a full spectrum of different causes.