Increased economic incentive for producing young and leaner carcasses, as well as demand for lean meat from progressively health conscious consumers, are considered drivers for change in carcass composition over time. Furthermore, many retailers trim visible fat from meat to various degrees and consumers increasingly remove visible fat from meat prior to, or after, cooking. The objective of thi...

Different studies have shown that Vernonia amygdalina is enriched with proteins, fats, fibres, amino acids, minerals vitamins, and carbohydrates but no record yet on the level of heavy metals in collected from Ojota (dumpsite) Badagry (control) Lagos state. Samples V. were analyzed for using standard method, while differences concentrations t-test analysis at significance set p=0.05. The result...

nitrate and ammonium forms of nitrogen are being applied to improve plant growth and uptake of other nutrients. given that the effect of application of different nitrate to ammonium ratios accompanied by other fertilizers (i.e. fe, mn and zn) has not been studied on wheat growth as well as uptake of fe, mn and zn, three glasshouse pot studies were conducted with factorial arrangement of treatme...

A completely randomized design, with 3×3 factorial arrangement, was conducted to test various ratios of dietary protein to energy (P/E) for rainbow trout, reared in brackish water. Three crude protein levels (35, 40 and 45%) and three energy levels (370, 400 and 430 Kcal/100g) at each protein level were utilized. Semi-purified diet containing fish meal, casein and gelatin as the sources of prot...

The proximate, mineral composition and amino acid profile of the body parts of Macrobrachium vollenhovenii (African river prawn) and Tympanotonus fuscatus (tropical periwinkle) were determined. The length and weight of the prawns varied from 15cm to 17.6cm and 72.76g to 130.65g respectively while the length and weight of the periwinkles varied from 22.72mm to 54.72mm and 1.53g to 7.59g respecti...

A completely randomized design, with 3×3 factorial arrangement, was conducted to test various ratios of dietary protein to energy (P/E) for rainbow trout, reared in brackish water. Three crude protein levels (35, 40 and 45%) and three energy levels (370, 400 and 430 Kcal/100g) at each protein level were utilized. Semi-purified diet containing fish meal, casein and gelatin as the sources o...

Muscle blood flow was measured using a radioactive tracer technique in five normal subjects. Flow values obtained during application of 2450 MHz microwave therapy were compared with resting values and in each case the treatment produced a significant increase; the mean values being 2.9 ml/100g/min at rest and 11.4 ml/100g/min during application of the microwave therapy. Comparison is made with ...

We utilized a thermal radiation method to synthesize semiconducting hollow ZnO nanoballoons and metal-semiconductor concentric solid Zn/ZnO nanospheres from metallic solid Zn nanospheres. The chemical properties, crystalline structures, and photoluminescence mechanisms for the metallic solid Zn nanospheres, semiconducting hollow ZnO nanoballoons, and metal-semiconductor concentric solid Zn/ZnO ...