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Authors: Ariffin,Hani’; Advisor: -; Participants: Chong, Xiu Qing; Chong, Pei Nee; Okechukwu, Patrick Nwabueze (2022) - Energy drinks (EDs) are a type of liquid beverage that contains caffeine and may or may not contain other dietary supplements (Alsunni 2015). They are non-alcoholic drinks that claim to boost energy, stamina, sports performance, and concentration (Al-Shaar et al. 2017). Energy drinks use a combination of stimulants and energy boosters to give the consumer an “energy boost.” Caffeine is the main ingredient in most energy drinks. They typically have 80–150 mg of caffeine per 8 oz, which is about the same as 5 oz of coffee or two 12-oz cans of caffeinated soda (Alsunni 2011). Most brands on the market are high in glucose, while some do provide artificially sweetened variants. The common ingredients used in ED are being classified into 4 different categories: natural extracts (ginseng, ...
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Authors: Ibrahim, Kasimu Ghandi; Advisor: -; Participants: Chivandi, Eliton; Erlwanger, Kennedy Honey; Nkomozepi, Pilani (2022) - Effect of curcumin and fructose on body mass
The male and female rats gained significant body mass (P < 0.0001), from induction through weaning and termination (Table 1). However, there was no significant difference (p > 0.05) across the treatment groups at the different time points in both sexes.
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Authors: Youssef, Abboud; Advisor: -; Participants: Hobeiche, Joe; Zoghbi, Amine El; Mortada, Rola; Salameh, Ziad (2022) - The search strategy selected 343 articles. 178 articles were removed as duplicate from the combinations of terms used in the literature. The initial screening of titles and abstracts resulted in 165 articles; 89 irrelevant were excluded. The title and abstracts of the remaining 76 articles led to the exclusion of 50 because they did not meet the inclusion criteria (18 reviews, 10 guidelines and management comparison, 3 abstracts were not found, 7 finite elements studies, 10 case reports, and 3 animal experiments.
After a full text screening, 9 more articles were excluded from this review, 4 studies for not having the minimum implant number and 5 for being immediately loaded. Thus, 16 studies were included in this review. (Fig. 1).
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Authors: Babamale, Abdulkareem Olarewaju; Advisor: -; Participants: Abdulkareem, Adam Olaitan; Yinka, Oyewole Jamiu; Folasade, Kolawole; Olatundun, Babawale Oluwapelumi; Ayodipo, Onitayo Faith; Uddin, Mohammad Mosleh; Ugbomoiko, Uade Samuel (2022) - Prevalence and intensity of infection in this study were high, 56.6% of 572 study participants were infected with average parasite counts of 3022.25 ± 1001.51per µl of blood (Table 1) and the majority of heavy infection was due to Plasmodium falciparum (Fig. 2B). The heavily infected participants were among the younger age group particularly ≤ 20 years and transmission of infection decreases with increasing age. Although males have a significantly higher intensity of 3148.32 (95%CI 2930.64–3691.39) than females, the difference in prevalence with regard to sex is insignificant (Male vs Female: 53.3% vs. 57.8%, respectively) Table 1. The pattern of infection with respect to parasitaemia showed that heavy infection was often found among youngest and adult individuals while participants...
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Authors: Harun, Mohammedsham Husen; Advisor: -; Participants: Shimelis, Shihun; Andargie, Bamlaku; Abdi, Michael Yousuf; Bekere, Hassen Yusuf (2022) - Out of 125 biosecurity practices considered to evaluate the overall biosecurity status of dairy farms, the scores ranged from 34 to 75. The overall percentage of the biosecurity score varied from 27.2 to 60%. Out of 20 dairy farms included in the present study, nine farms gained a percentage score of greater than or equal to 50% (ranging from 50.4 to 60%), thus their biosecurity status was evaluated as “Good”. The remaining 11 farms attained a percentage score lower than 50% (varying from 27.2 to 46.4%) and therefore graded as “Poor”. In this study biosecurity categorized in to four components: traffic control (21.5 ± 4.3), isolation (14.45 ± 2.2), sanitation (16.65 ± 6.83) and health management (3.25 ± 1.07) with their respective mean ± standard deviation of each component. Out of ...
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Authors: Omara, Timothy; Advisor: -; Participants: Odero, Mark Peter; Obakiro, Samuel Baker (2022) - Cancer is listed among the leading causes of deaths globally and a great twenty-first century barrier to the increase in life expectancy (Chimezie and Ofure 2022; Dalmartello et al. 2021; Wekha et al. 2021). According to recent global statistics based on GLOBOCAN, about 19.3 million new cancer cases were reported in 2020. This led to at least 10 million cancer deaths (Sung et al. 2021). For this period, breast cancer was the most prevalent, with 2.3 million new cases (11.7%). The other malignances followed the order: stomach cancer (5.6%) < prostate cancer (7.3%) < colorectal cancer (10.0%) < lung cancer (11.4%). Nevertheless, lung cancer was the major cause of cancer-related mortalities accounting for about 18% (1.8 million) deaths. Colorectal (9.4%), liver (8.3%), stomach (7.7%) a...
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Authors: Chiroma, Samaila S.; Advisor: -; Participants: Nazifi, Abdullahi B.; Jamilu, Ya’u; Musa, Aliyu; Bichi, Lawal A.; Chiroma, Samaila M. (2022) - Effects of fractions of n-hexane, chloroform, n-butanol and RAF of crude leaf extract of Ipomoea asarifolia on PTZ-induced seizures in mice
Figure 2 shows the effects of fractions of chloroform, n-butanol, n-hexane and RAF of crude leaf extract of Ipomoea asarifolia on PTZ-induced seizures in mice. There n-hexane and chloroform could not protect the mice from the PTZ-induced seizures, while n-butanol at doses of 150 and 300 mg/kg and RAF at doses of 75 mg and 300 mg/kg have significantly (P < 0.01) delayed time onset of PTZ-induced seizures by increasing the mean onset time as compared to the standard. The standard control sodium valproate at 200 mg/kg completely protected the mice from seizure.
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Authors: Bayode, Michael Tosin; Advisor: -; Participants: Alabi, Mercy Adewumi; Babatunde, Olamide Joshua; Sadibo, Muyideen Enitan; Lawani, Blessing Temitope; Okiti, Ayomide Faith; Elabiyi, Michael Omoniyi; Lawrence, Damilola Israel (2022) - The swift establishment of the cause/origin of a microbial infection and commencement of pathogen-specific chemotherapy stands as the key foundation for the effective treatment of infections. Even with the advancement in technology engaged in the detection of pathogenic microorganisms and their resistant genes (DNA-based assays), the conventional cultural techniques and susceptibility testing are still employed as reference for bacteriological studies of infections (Tellapragada et al. 2020). Commonly used conventional assays by laboratories globally are disc diffusion test (DDT) and broth micro-dilution (BMD) assays for defining the susceptibility of the pathogens and determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial agents.
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Authors: Ogunyemi, Adewale Kayode; Advisor: -; Participants: Buraimoh, Olanike Maria; Ogunyemi, Bukola Caroline; Samuel, Titilola Aderonke; Ilori, Matthew Olusoji; Amund, Olukayode Oladipo (2022) - Growth potentials of nitrile-metabolizing bacteria on nitriles
Bacillus sp. and Corynebacterium sp. had doubling times of 12.16 and 9.46 (µ = 0.082, 0.106) on glutaronitrile (single substrate) (Table 2), while doubling times of 7.40 and 7.75 (µ = 0.135, 0.129) were recorded for the mixed culture on glutaronitrile (single substrate) and mixed substrates (glutaronitrile and benzonitrile) (Table 2). Similarly, Bacillus sp. and Corynebacterium sp. had doubling times of 11.11 and 10.00 (µ = 0.090, 0.100) on benzonitrile (single substrate), while doubling times of 8.09 and 8.71 (µ = 0.124, 0.115) were recorded for the mixed culture on benzonitrile (single substrate) and mixed substrates (Table 2). The results showed that the mixed cultures of the bacterial species had better growth in ...
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Authors: Mounir, Amr M.; Advisor: -; Participants: El-Hefny, A. M.; El-Tanahy, A. M. M.; Mahmoud, S. H. (2022) - Vegetative characteristics
Data presented in Table 2 show the effect of different low doses of gamma irradiation on growth characters of Jerusalem artichoke plants, and from the obtained results, it could be concluded that there was significant difference among different doses and 5 Gy of gamma irradiation scored the tallest plant, the highest number of branches, shoot fresh and dry weight as well as leaf area per plant compared to others doses during the two successive seasons, followed insignificantly by both irradiation doses 2.5 and 10 Gy. It was shown that all irradiation doses caused a remarkable amelioration of plant vegetative growth parameters compared to un-irradiated tubers.
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