The effects of purified non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) fractions (soluble, guar gum (SOL) and insoluble, cellulose (INSOL)) NSP fractions on digesta passage rate, retention time and voluntary feed intake was studied in grower pigs. Compared to control, adding SOL+INSOL increased digesta viscosity, slowed digesta flow rate and increased retention time in the total tract. Voluntary feed intake a...

Topping stage of tobacco is a key time for development of agriculture measures to promote the quality of leaves. In order to investigating influence of topping timing and suckericide content on tobacco leaf, a factorial experiment on the basis of RCB design with 3 replications was conducted in 2011 at the Tobacco Research Farm of Isfahan. Treatments were including topping time (T1: t...

The potential of tobacco waste as a viable source of medicinally important flavonoids like rutin has been investigated. Three flavonoids, apigenin, quercetin and rutin, have been isolated from waste tobacco leaves, and their identities have been confirmed by UV-visible, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. By using analytical HPLC, the amount of rutin present in the tobacco leaves, before and after...

Background: Sri Lanka became a signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in September 2003 and ratified in November 2003. Aiming to reduce tobacco burden in Sri Lanka, National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act [NATA] No. 27 was authorized in 2006. The objective of this study was to assess the behavioral changes related to tobacco use among adolescents and young adults fol...

Penelitian bertujuan mengevaluasi konsumsi dan potensi ekonomis biji asam sebagai pakan babi lokalgrower telah dilaksanakan di Laboratorium Produksi Ternak Politani Negeri Kupang. menggunakan20 jantan lokal grower. menggunakan rancangan acak kelompok dengan dua perlakuan (R0=pakan mengandung tanpa fermentasi, R1= fermentasi) sepuluhulangan. Variabel penelitian adalah ransum, income over feed co...

conclusions the results showed that the effect of several psychosocial, behavioral, and demographic risk factors on adolescents' smoking status. thus, design and implementation of interventions based on the results of the present study may be effective in preventing tobacco smoking among adolescents. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed on 810 male adolescents recruited...