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University of Nigeria, Nsukka
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About: University of Nigeria, Nsukka is a education organization based out in Nsukka, Nigeria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 10211 authors who have published 13685 publications receiving 138922 citations.
Topics: Population, Health care, Medicine, Public health, Pregnancy
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TL;DR: In this paper, aqueous extracts obtained from red flowers of Euphorbia pulcherrima were successfully synthesized via cost effective approach using a quaternions of copper oxide nanoparticles and green precipitates were obtained post-drying which were thermally oxidised to pure single phase monoclinic CuO at 500°C.
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TL;DR: It can be concluded that the automated hematology analyzer readings correlated well with readings by the standard manual method, although the latter method gave additional diagnostic information on the blood pictures.
Abstract: This study was designed to determine the correlation between heamatological parameters by Sysmex KX-21N automated hematology analyzer with the manual methods. Sixty (60) subjects were randomly selected from both apparently healthy subjects and those who have different blood disorders from the University of Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. Three (3)mls of venous blood sample was collected aseptically from each subject into tri-potassium ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid (K3EDTA) for the analysis of haematological parameters using the automated and the manual methods. The blood film report by the manual method showed that 50% of the subjects were normocytic-normochromic while the other 50% revealed different abnormal blood pictures. Also, there were statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) in mean cell hemoglobin concentrations (MCHC) between the two methods. Similarly, the mean (S.E) values of hemoglobin, packed cell volume, platelet and total white cell counts demonstrated statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) and correlated positively when both methods were compared. From the present study, it can be concluded that the automated hematology analyzer readings correlated well with readings by the standard manual method, although the latter method gave additional diagnostic information on the blood pictures. While patients' care and laboratory operations could be optimized by using manual microscopic examination as a reflective substitute for automated methods, usage of automated method would ease our workload and save time for patients.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between the sesquioxide content and other physical and engineering properties of Eastern-Nigeria laterites and concluded that no correlation was found between ironoxide content and any other physical or engineering properties as has been suggested by others.
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TL;DR: The status of Aquaculture in Nigeria, its problems and development prospects, different fish species that can adequately thrive in Nigerian pond and its preparation, and some first-rate management practices that can boost aquaculture production in Nigeria are reviewed.
Abstract: Fish is an important source of food, income, employment, and recreation for people
around the world and it is a very important source of animal protein for both man and
livestock in developed and developing countries. In Nigeria, the current demand for fish is
about four times the level of local production. Humans consume approximately 80 percent
of the catch as food. The remaining 20 percent goes into the manufacturing of products
such as fish oil, fertilizers, and animal food. Fisheries and aquaculture are integral parts of
agriculture which were found to have the capacity to increase the country’s GDP (Gross
Domestic Product) and can solve the unemployment problem for our teeming youths if
adequately managed. Therefore, this paper reviewed the status of Aquaculture in Nigeria,
its problems and development prospects, different fish species that can adequately thrive
in Nigerian pond and its preparation, and finally showed some first-rate management
practices that can boost aquaculture production in Nigeria
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TL;DR: Two of the isolates, which showed the highest growth during screening as demonstrated by an increase in their optical densities and identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia respectively, were also able to grow in anthracene and carbazole, but not very much so in 2,4-dichlorophenol and D-camphor.
Abstract: Twenty-four bacteria capable of utilizing naphthalene, as their sole source of carbon and energy for growth were isolated from three different sites in Nsukka, Nigeria. By standard bacteriological methods, these bacteria were characterized taxonomically as belonging to the genus Pseudomonas, Burkholderia or Actinomycetes. Two of the isolates, which showed the highest growth during screening as demonstrated by an increase in their optical densities (OD600) and identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia respectively, were also able to grow in anthracene and carbazole, but not very much so in 2,4-dichlorophenol and D-camphor. The isolates showed a concentration-dependent growth in all the compounds they grew in. There were visible changes in the colour of the growth medium of the isolates during their incubation, suggesting the production of different metabolites. There were also changes in their medium pH during growth. These studies demonstrate the possession by the bacterial species of novel degradative systems.
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Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh | 118 | 1025 | 56187 |
Peter J. Houghton | 63 | 228 | 14321 |
Alessandro Piccolo | 62 | 284 | 14332 |
R. W. Guillery | 60 | 106 | 13439 |
Ulrich Klotz | 56 | 213 | 10774 |
Nicholas H. Oberlies | 52 | 262 | 9683 |
Brian Norton | 49 | 322 | 9251 |
Adesola Ogunniyi | 47 | 272 | 11806 |
Obinna Onwujekwe | 43 | 282 | 8960 |
Sanjay Batra | 39 | 329 | 7179 |
Benjamin Uzochukwu | 38 | 163 | 9318 |
Christian N. Madu | 36 | 134 | 5378 |
Jude U. Ohaeri | 36 | 121 | 3088 |
Peter A. Akah | 33 | 164 | 3422 |
Charles E. Chidume | 33 | 153 | 3639 |