The aim of this present study was to evaluate the effect of ethyl acetate extract of P. americana (avocado) on liver and kidney function, lipid profile as well as haematological parameters in albino rats. A total of 20 albino rats were used for this experiment and they were divided into four groups of 5 (A-D) rats each. Group...
Biochemical Indices and Haematological Studies of Ethyl Acetate Extract of Persea americana Leaf in Albino Rats
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A field trial was conducted in 2017 to investigate the interactive effect of the land preparation methods and different rates of nitrogenous fertilizer on maize performance and yield southwestern Nigeria. The experiment was a 3 by 3 factorial; conducted in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) in a split plot management with tillage systems...
Objectives: The study was conducted to determine (i) suitable waste, its quantity and dose of Trichoderma harzianum suspension and (ii) the impact of tricho-compost application on soil productivity.
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Effect of Composition Variation on the Tensile Strength of Polylactic Acid Reinforced with Natural Polymers for Biodegradable Biomedical Implants
Aims: This analysis focuses on developing a mix of natural polymers appropriate for medicine implants with normal mechanical (tensile) properties, compatible and expendable with figure
Study Design: This analysis developed a chemical compound composite from a mix of the 3 natural chemical compound materials with completely different compositions which will adequately replace non-biodegradable implants.
Place and period of Study: The analysis was conducted at the department of business and production engineering and department of scientific discipline and material engineering federal university of technology akure African country between 2017 and 2018.
Methodology: Such PLA was integrated with starch and chitosan that square measure the 2 most overabundant natural polymers mistreatment compression molding machine. The mechanical (tensile) property check dole out that provide data on the strength and stiffness of the composite mistreatment the ASTM D3039.also the impact of composition variation of every of the constituent chemical compound was analysed mistreatment multivariate analysis analysis.
Results: The results shows similarity with the mechanical (tensile) properties of plant tissue bone that is that the major bone within the figure that's prone to fracture. The results of the multivariate analysis disclosed a negative forty three.129 impact of PLA on the tensile stress; positive ten.43 impact of starch on tensile stress; negative zero.596 mix impact PLA and starch on the tensile and therefore the impact of chitosan we've a metallic element worth which means that the constant isn't quantitative.
Conclusion: Combining PLA and starch with chitosan to get perishable implant materials represents. [1]
Electronic and Optical Properties of Bi2Te3 Thin Film: A First Principles Calculations within Cooper's Exchange Potentials
Bismuth chemical compound (Bi2Te3) skinny film has received nice interests for optical device photonic, optical communication, medical specialty imaging, gas sensing and motion detection applications. Therefore, to show its hidden potentials, careful data of its optoelectronic properties at the amount of reliable and additional economical techniques is incredibly essential. during this study, theoretical calculations of electronic and optical properties of Bi2Te3 skinny films square measure bestowed mistreatment initial principles approach supported recent developed Cooper's exchange potentials (vdW-DFC09x) at intervals Density practical Theory (DFT) framework. The simulated film is within the [001] direction mistreatment supercell technique with an oversized vacuum on z-direction in order that block and periodic pictures are often treated severally. The calculated values of direct energy gap at Γ purpose confirmed the sturdy surface states from three quintuple layer (QL). The 1 QL, 2 QL, three QL ANd 4QL films show an energy gap of zero.421, 0.122, 0.023 and 0.006 electron volt severally and these values square measure in sensible agreement with experimental results. Optical properties comprising of fanciful and real components of nonconductor operate, lepton loses operate and coefficient were additionally investigated to grasp the optical behaviour of Bi2Te3 skinny films. The results of optical absorption show that Bi2Te3 skinny film has sturdy absorption within the close to infrared to ultraviolet wavelenghts, therefore, it's ANticipated that these films are often used as an gripping layer for broadband photodetector and electric cell. [2]
Mechanism of Action of Antibacterial Activity of Biosynthesised Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles - A Review
Now-a-days, technology has become progressively necessary within the medical specialty and pharmaceutical antimicrobial strategy because of their wide spectrum of action at nano-scale level. medicament agents ar important within the textile business, water medical care, medicine, food packaging etc. This review focuses on the synthesis and mechanism of medicament activity of oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs). The medicament activity of ZnO NPs is decided by the mode of synthesis, organisms used, size of the nanoparticles etc. The variations within the medicament activity of ZnO NPs ar principally attributed to their high specific surface area-to-volume ratios and their distinctive chemical science properties. [3]
Reference
[1] Gideon, O. and Wisdom, S. (2018) "Effect of Composition Variation on the Tensile Strength of Polylactic Acid Reinforced with Natural Polymers for Biodegradable Biomedical Implants", Journal of Materials Science Research and Reviews, 2(2), pp. 1-7. Available at: https://journaljmsrr.com/index.php/JMSRR/article/view/28822 (Accessed: 15April2019).
[2] Lawal, A., Suleiman, A. B. and Gidado, A. S. (2019) "Electronic and Optical Properties of Bi2Te3 Thin Film: A First Principles Calculations within Cooper's Exchange Potentials", Journal of Materials Science Research and Reviews, 2(3), pp. 1-10. Available at: https://journaljmsrr.com/index.php/JMSRR/article/view/28840 (Accessed: 15April2019).
[3] Baliah, N. T. (2018)
"Mechanism of Action of Antibacterial Activity of Biosynthesised Zinc Oxide
Nanoparticles - A Review", Journal of Materials Science Research and
Reviews, 2(1), pp. 1-8. Available at:
https://journaljmsrr.com/index.php/JMSRR/article/view/28821 (Accessed:
15April2019).
Design, Fabrication and Performance analysis of autochthonal Fish Feed Pelletizing Machine for Low financial gain Farmers in Federal Republic of Nigeria
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The design, fabrication and performance analysis of a fish feed pelletizing machine for low financial gain farmers was distributed with the read to encourage native technology, as most of the fish feed pelletizing machines offered ar foreign. The fish feed pelletizer is battery-powered by an electrical motor and it works by the rotation of a wimble that propels the feed combine through a die. The wimble is fenced within the auger casing and is propelled by an electrical motor with the help of belt and pulleys. This auger is fed through a hopper, that is ready to carry an oversized amount of the feed combine at a time. The machine was tested victimisation completely different die diameters of two millimetre, four millimetre and half dozen millimetre. The check was conducted at completely different wetness content of 100%, 15%, 20%, 25%, half-hour and thirty fifth wet basis. The machine check results showed that the pelletizing potency will increase as wetness content and die diameter increase. The machine output conjointly will increase with each wetness content and die diameter. Highest potency of ninety eight was obtained once the wetness content was maintained at twenty fifth wet basis and also the feed materials were created to submit to half dozen millimetre die diameter. the whole price of the look and construction of this pelletizing machine was one hundred and 5 thousand Nigerian monetary unit (N105, 000.00) that remains fairly cheap by tiny scale famers.
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Mid and Submontane Altitude Forests Communities on the West slope of Mount Bambouto (Cameroon): Floristic Originality and Comparisons
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Background and Aims: placed on the oceanic a part of the Cameroon mountainous chain, the Western flank of Bambouto Mountains embrace the Atlantic biafran forests made in endemic species however not documented. the target of this work is to check specific diversity, floristic composition and structure of 2 forests on this side.
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The study sought-after to look at the results of knowledge communication technology threat on the newspaper business in Rhodesia during a bid to see however ICT may be custom-made to be used within the newspaper business. The analysis used a case study of the Zimpaper goup wherever a sample size of one hundred respondents were chosen employing a purposive sampling technique. The study used a mixture of 3 instruments i.e. form guides, interviews and alternative records to cut back the disadvantage of employing a single technique. The study showed that the organisation had a healthy mixture of young and previous workers World Health Organization were extremely literate. This mixture of young and aged staff was seemingly to be an ideal mix of expertise and gracefulness to adoption of ICTs. This inexplicit that the organisation had the inherent potential to adopt ICT in its overall strategy supported the overall understanding that a young hands was seemingly to adopt ICT additional simply compared to AN aged hands. On the hand, the aged hands would supply helpful insights into the present newspaper product thereby complementing one another. Findings conjointly discovered that whereas ICT caused serious threats to the standard newspaper business it had conjointly the potential to make new business opportunities for an equivalent business. The study highlighted that the e-mail was the oldest and nonetheless the foremost rife variety of communication within the organisation. This inexplicit that the organisation had not nonetheless adopted additional sturdy and nonetheless value effective kinds of communication like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, instant electronic communication platforms and video conferencing. The study suggested that the organisation ought to develop a transparent modification management and communication strategy to articulate its business direction and justify the importance of adopting ICT. this could be followed by in depth coaching of strategic personnel in ICT skills.
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Hepatotherapeutic Tendency of magnoliopsid genus lanatus Rind Methanolic Extract on Liver Markers in Male Wistar Rats
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It is a standard observe to dispose the peel or rind of fruits. apparently, some elements of fruits humans realize unacceptable to eat truly possess bioactive nutrients that may be used for medicative functions. The result of methanolic extract of genus Citrullus lanatus rind on liver perform in traditional male wistar rats was studied. twenty four wistar rats with weight between 150-250 g were used for this study. The animals were indiscriminately divided into four teams, with vi rats in every. cluster one contained the management given traditional saline and feed; cluster a pair of, low dose, 50mg/kg of methanolic extract of genus Citrullus lanatus rind was administered, cluster three and four were administered medium and high dose of genus Citrullus lanatus rind extract one hundred mg/kg and two hundred mg/kg severally. The genus Citrullus lanatus rind extract was administered via orogastric route and also the experiment lasted for a amount of fifty six days. Blood samples were collected by left bodily cavity viscus puncture for liver perform check at the crack of doom of the experiment.
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Influence of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria's on Productivity of Crop Plants
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Worldwide growth in population, increase in demand of world food production and environmental injury inflicting issues in agriculture yield square measure major issues. These issues could before long cause insufficiency to feed all of the globe population. Adding up in to the on top of mentioned constrains, there's loss within the agricultural production because of environmental abiotic and organic phenomenon stresses expose on the crops growing within the field. Abiotic stresses like drought, salt stress and temperature stress square measure major limiting factors in crop production. On the opposite hand, organic phenomenon stresses additionally cause reduction in agricultural yield because of diseases in field crops. These diseases decrease the annual agriculture yield by a minimum of half-hour globally. So, any effective and long term solutions to produce food for the globe should embrace property and eco-friendly biological solutions. In context to the present drawback, use of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in agriculture could be a hanging technology hypothesized to beat these constrai
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Gross Margin and correlational analysis of Watermelon Production in Patuakhali District, Bangladesh
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This study examined the Gross margin and factor productivity of watermelon production in Patuakhali district, Bangladesh. A multi-stage stratified sampling design had been used for the selection of the watermelon growing farmers. Data were obtained with the aid of a pre-tested structured questionnaire. The socio-economic characteristics of the respondents was described and categorized by Descriptive statistics, Gross margin analysis was used to analyze the cost and returns to watermelon production and Cobb Douglas production function was used to evaluate the input factor productivity. Results showed that the farmers are relatively middle-aged with an average age of 41 years with a sizable number of the respondents (1.7%) having passed through tertiary education. It was also observed that the farmers are typically smallholders with an average farm size of 50-249 decimal. The result of the gross margin analysis showed that watermelon production is profitable with a gross margin of Tk 756 per decimal. The result of the Cobb Douglas production function shows that the coefficients of cost of seed (0.137), cost of tillage (0.227), cost of irrigation (0.304), cost of labour (0.156), and cost of pesticide (0.305) were positively significant at 5% and 1%. The overall factor productivity index is 1.19 implying an increasing return to scale in water melon production in the study area. However, lack of irrigation facility and pesticide were identified as major production constraints.
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A sustainable world is one in which human needs are met equitably without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs and without harm to the environment and ecosystem function and service. Meeting this formidable challenge requires a substantial effort under climate change impact, economic development and population growth. International Journal of Environment and Climate Change aims to publish original research articles, review articles and short communications. This is a quality controlled, double blind peer-reviewed, open access INTERNATIONAL journal. It has long been recognized that the long-term viability of natural capital is critical for many areas of human endeavour under climate change impact. The aims are to support engineering science research with the goal of promoting sustainable development with environmentally benign engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. All relevant research work of engineering science and natural science that seeks to balance society's need to provide sound environmental management and ecological protection related to climate change are encouraged to submit. As the use of systems engineering approaches is highly encouraged, the principal general research areas of this forum include but are not limited to the following thematic topics:
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A field trial was conducted in 2017 to investigate the interactive effect of the land preparation methods and different rates of nitrogenous fertilizer on maize performance and yield southwestern Nigeria. The experiment was a 3 by 3 factorial; conducted in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) in a split plot management with tillage systems...
Objectives: The study was conducted to determine (i) suitable waste, its quantity and dose of Trichoderma harzianum suspension and (ii) the impact of tricho-compost application on soil productivity.
The aim of this present study was to evaluate the effect of ethyl acetate extract of P. americana (avocado) on liver and kidney function, lipid profile as well as haematological parameters in albino rats. A total of 20 albino rats were used for this experiment and they were divided into four groups of 5 (A-D) rats each. Group...
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The impact of liquid extract of Moringa leaves on postharvest time period and quality of tomato fruits inoculated with flora pathogens in Makurdi made up our minds. recent leaves of Moringa were collected, washed, surfaced sterilized, air dried at temperature and grounded to powder. Tomato fruits of the Roma selection were collected at...
Aims: This study was targeted on the impact of Roman coriander seed oil on the in vitro growth of eubacteria mycoides subsp mycoides (Mmm).
This study seeks to compare the senior secondary school science teachers and students' knowledge, attitudes and practices to global warming in Kwara State, Nigeria. The descriptive research design of the ex post factor research method was adopted in this study. Simple random technique was used to select the participants. The instruments used for...
Developing a Practice-based Model for Designing Instructional Activities for Preschool Teachers
10/30/2018
Objective: In order to break through the gap between conceptual policy and practical implementation of thematic instruction by novice teachers, and help novice teacher reduce the exploration period and quickly become familiar with the development of thematic curriculum activities, this study focuses on the topic of how senior preschool teachers...
The absence of quality and creativity in the performance of primary school leavers was one of the problems that gave rise to the preparation of the current primary school curriculum in Nigeria. The achievement level of Nigerian primary school children had been poor and unacceptable. It is believed that implementing teaching strategies that have the...
Aims: The aim of the study was to find, isolate, identify and characterize a phenanthrene degrader strain, and examine its ability to degrade phenanthrene.