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May 22, 2015Open Access
Agriculture is one
of the main economic activities in the world, with its significance magnified especially
among the world’s poor. This paper seeks to explore how climate change would
impact on the agricultural sector and consequently food security. Agricultural
activities in most developing countries entirely depend on rainfall patterns, on
the contrary, climate change has emerging as an environmental challenge with
adverse impacts expected on food security. This is mainly through incidences o...
May 22, 2015Open Access
Fried potato products, mainly French fries and potato crisps, are
consumed across all age groups and socio-economic status. These products are
sources of energy and provide between-the-meal snacks for many consumers all
over the world, Kenya included. There exist different food preparation set-ups
that process these products under different conditions while using a variety of
additives. A number of safety issues have, however, risen in the past that can
be linked to glycoalkaloids in raw potatoe...
May 21, 2015Open Access
Cosmological models with a large cosmological constant are unstable due
to quantum critical fluctuations at the de Sitter horizon. Due to this
instability the space-time in these models will quickly evolve into a
Friedmann-like expanding universe containing dark energy stars and radiation.
In this paper it is pointed out that this provides a simple explanation for
both the observed radiation entropy per gram of dark matter and the level of
temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave backgro...
May 20, 2015Open Access
Nanoparticles of pure and Zn 1-xCr xS with concentrations (x = 0.00, 0.02, 0.08 and 0.10) were
prepared successfully by co-precipitation technique. Crystallographic study was
intervened by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy. There were no extra peaks
observed in the XRD pattern. From XRD peaks it is confirmed that the samples prepared
were highly pure and cubic in structure. The particle size calculated from XRD
data was around 3 nm. It confirms that the qua...
May 20, 2015Open Access
Four food samples namely fried chicken, fried
rice, meat pie and cake from four different fast food restaurants in Lokoja were
purchased and assessed microbiologically. Ten bacterial species were identified as Streptococcus sp., Bacillus sp., Staphylococcus sp., Flavobacterium sp., Proteus sp., Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp., Salmonella sp. and Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. Four fungal species namely Penicillium sp., Rhizo...
May 19, 2015Open Access
Trichomonas vaginalis is one of the most common human sexually
transmitted disease pathogen that colonizes the urogenital mucosa. Based on the
research status of Trichomonas vaginalis infection in China, the training methods, pathogenic mechanisms and treatment
on this parasite has been reviewed in this paper.
May 19, 2015Open Access
The paper proposes a logical model of combinatorial problems; it also
gives an example of a problem of the class NP that cannot be solved in
polynomial time on the dimension of the problem.
May 18, 2015Open Access
Recently, along
with the development of biochemical and molecular immunological techniques, the
diagnosis methods have been improved in which preparing natural parasite
antigens, and genetically engineered recombinant antigens have been applied by using
agglutination test, complement fixation methods to detect the human’s serum
antibodies for parasite identification of paragonimus infections. To improve
the detection rate, some scholars have used phage peptide library technology to
further impro...
May 15, 2015Open Access
The study aimed to develop bamboo shoots as a healthy snack alternative. Healthy
snacks can be an important part of nutritious diet. A healthy snack can offer health
benefits. Modern research finds that the bamboo shoot has a number of medicinal
benefits, from cancer prevention and weight loss to improving appetite and digestion.
Bamboo shoots are not only delicious but also rich in nutrients, and rank among
the five most popular healthcare foods in the world. The main raw material used
in this ...
May 15, 2015Open Access
Hypothesizing that a mere binary partition in symbolic analysis may not
be sufficient to capture the dynamics in gait signals, we attempted to find how
far the symbolic analysis with six partitions helps to characterize the nonlinear
properties of gait signals and thereby discriminate between healthy control and
neurodegenerative disordered gait signals. Differences found in the symbolic
entropies of the healthy control and neurodegenerative disorder groups
facilitated classification between the...
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