ABSTRACT The phytochemical contents of some milled Nigerian softwood chips were carried out in a quest to evaluate their potentials as sources of alternative medicine as well as uses in other industrial applications. The qualitative and quantitative analysis were ascertained. Tannin was found in all the Nigerian softwoods examined with the highest quantities obtained in Sterculia oblonga (1240 mg/100 g) and Barteria nigritiana (1230 mg/100 g). Highest quantities of alkaloid were obtained in C...
Abstract: The synthesis and characterization of new complex monoaza and pentaaza angular phenothiazine derivatives is reported. The first derivative, 6,10-dichloro-17-azadibenzo[a,n]triphenodithiazin-5,11-dione 10 was obtained by a basecatalyzed reaction of 2,6-diaminopyridine-3,5-dithiol 5 and 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthaquinone 9, while the second derivative, 7,9,15,17-tetraamino-6,8,16,18,25-pentazadibenzo[a,n]di([1,4]benzothaizino[3,2-c,l])triphenodiathizine 11 was obtained by the reaction o...
ABSTRACT Cymbopogon citratus, commonly known as lemongrass due to its lemon fragrance when crushed. Due to the presence of many phytochemicals in lemongrass, their use in the treatment of illnesses has increased. The antimicrobial activity of Cymbopogoncitratus (Lemongrass) was evaluated on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus pyogenes and Candida albicans. The extract was obtained using two solvents; ethanol and methanol. The antimicrobial activity of the extracts was test...
ABSTRACT Airports require complete safety initiatives with a maximum of 20 minutes response time to distress situation. They are therefore regulated by International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards. However, in Nigeria, airport safety and distress response have been of great concern due to inadequate infrastructure. This study, therefore, examined safety facilities and response capability to distress situations in Nigeria international airports. The effects of haphazard spatial ...
ABSTRACT A sequence stratigraphic approach was applied to K-Field, within the western Niger Delta by integrating wireline logs of four wells; 001,003, 004 and 005; and high resolution biostratigraphic data of wells 001, 004 and well 005. The study is aimed at deducing key bounding surfaces, depositional sequences and their corresponding systems tracts as well as the palaeodepositional environment of the hydrocarbon bearing Agbada Formation in the study area. Two sequence boundaries at 8900 ft...
ABSTRACT Subsurface samples from Kinasar-1 well, in the Bornu basin, northeastern Nigeria, were studied to deduce the lithofacies distribution, provenance, palaeodepositional environment and paleotectonic conditions of the basin. In addition, the hydrocarbon potential of the associated shales has been highlighted. The lithological sequence comprised a basal unit of over 1300m coarse grained sandstone of the Bima Formation, overlain by 1200m shaly unit with a sandy base, belonging to the Gongi...
Vitamin C and Coronavirus: Not a Vaccine; Just a Humble Cure Commentary by William F. Simmons and Robert G. Smith, PhD During the pneumonia epidemic in North Carolina in the 1940's, after American soldiers returned from the war in Europe, a small-town physician used an anti-infective protocol of intravenous vitamin C to cure 42 cases of viral pneumonia. [1] During the same period, the physician used a similar treatment to cure 60 cases of viral poliomyelitis. All patients were clinicall...
ABSTRACT The study aims to evaluate the effect of food chain mediated chronic exposure to arsenic and cadmium (singly and combined) on the level of reduced glutathione (GSH) and the activity of glutathione S-transferase (GST) in brains of rats. Fortymale Wistaralbino rats were fed with a diet containing fish fed with normal feed in water contaminated with 0.4 mg/100 ml cadmium (group B), arsenic (group C) and cadmium + arsenic (group D) respectively for three months. The control rats�...
ABSTRACT The study was to determine beneficiary community members’ expectation of the benefits of social development projects in Education Rights, Gender and Women’s Rights and Food Rights. Sixteen criteria were gotten, initially, using participatory rural appraisal. These were included in the basic information section of a questionnaire. The questionnaire also sought classification and identification information of respondents. It was administered to one hundred respondents selected thr...
ABSTRACT This dissertation is a report on efforts directed at finding the leading diseases, patterns and other characteristics of four kinds of data: Monthly Outpatient Morbidity Data, Statement Of Outpatients, Statement Of Inpatients and the Monthly Bed State Data of Kwesimintsim Polyclinic. The data spans the six-year period of 1997 to 2002. The analysis of the data relied on descriptive statistics and time series analysis. Projected values ofthe number of cases of the diseases to be repor...
ABSTRACT An assessment of Information and Communication Technology usage among teacher trainees in selected Colleges of Education in the Ashanti Region of Ghana was the main focus of this study. The population consisted of third year teacher trainees and tutors of the Colleges under the study. A sample of 123 respondents was considered for the study. These included 40 trainees and 1 tutor from each of the three Colleges under study. The instruments used for data collection were the question...
ABSTRACT Falciparum malaria and Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affect millions of people globally but the effect of the dual conditions on the cardiovascular health of the affected has not been investigated. To better understand this, a study was designed to evaluate the effect of Plasmodium falciparum malaria on levels of selected biomarkers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in diabetics compared with non-diabetic controls by measuring anthropometric indices, blood pressure (Bp), fasting levels of...
ABSTRACT This study looked at the extent to which information and communications technology (ICT) tools are used in Senior High Schools (SHS) in Tano South District. The study investigated the level of availability of ICT facilities in schools, the capacity for using ICT facilities for teaching and learning, the perceived benefits of using ICT tools and the problems affecting the use of ICT tools in SHS. Survey design was used for the study. The population consisted of all the teachers and st...
ABSTRACT The availability of numerous sources of water for consumption makes it imperative to understand the factors that influences the choice of water sources. This study seeks to determine households’ choice of water sources for domestic consumption in Dodowa and Doryumu in Shai-Osudoku, District. The study adopted the systematic and stratified sapling procedures. A sample of 300 households, 4 series of six-member focus group discussion and 5 key informants were engaged in the study. The...
ABSTRACT The application of foreign life table in Sub-Sahara Africa had been a major concern all over the world. However, assessing the error for applying the foreign life tables as well as analysing the impact of the leading causes of death on Ghanaian longevity had not been studied. This study aimed at assessing the error of applying Foreign Life Tables in Ghana and analysing the impacts of the leading causes of death in Ghana. A cohort data of 3260 were collected from the University of Gha...