Aim: The aim of present study is to investigate the antimicrobial activity of Cenchrus ciliaris (CAZRI-358) and Cenchrus setigerus (CAZRI-76) extracts in order to use it as a possible source for new antimicrobial substances against important human pathogens. Methods and Results: Crude extracts of different parts of both species of Cenchrus were evaluated against three medically important bacter...

Stretchable elastomer-based electrodes are considered promising energy storage for next-generation wearable/flexible electronics requiring various shape designs. However, these elastomeric suffer from the limited electrical conductivity of current collectors, low charge capacities, poor interfacial interactions between elastomers and conductive/active materials, lack controllability. In this st...

Abstract We propose a design, micro fabrication process, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based evaluation, of field gradient chip. The uni-axial linear z -gradient coil design was computed by stream-function method, with the optimisation goal to exhibit minimum power dissipation. coils were implemented on two bi-planes, which built-up Cu electroplating in combination photo definable dry-fi...

Seventy percent of cancer patients have detectable metastases when they receive a diagnosis and 90% of cancer deaths result from metastases. These two facts emphasise the urgency for research to study the mechanisms and processes that enable metastasis. We need to develop a greater understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that cause metastasis and also we need to do more. We must ...

The study of science at the individual micro-level frequently requires the disambiguation of author names. The creation of author’s publication oeuvres involves matching the list of unique author names to names used in publication databases. Despite recent progress in the development of unique author identifiers, e.g., ORCID, VIVO, or DAI, author disambiguation remains a key problem when it com...

Reforestation after a landslide facilitates competition between herbaceous plants and arborous plants. Tangible variations in grassland areas in regions susceptible to landslides can only be found within collections of trees. A landslide area in the Sule Watershed was investigated. Relative illuminance results reveal that the Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana Kunth) biomass in this landslide area in...

Aflatoxin, a mycotoxin found commonly in maize and peanuts worldwide, is associated with liver cancer, acute toxicosis, and growth impairment in humans and animals. In Tanzania, sunflower seeds are a source of snacks, cooking oil, and animal feed. These seeds are a potential source of aflatoxin contamination. However, reports on aflatoxin contamination in sunflower seeds and cakes are scarce. T...

Herbicide resistance is an example of plant evolution caused by an increased reliance on herbicides with few sites of action to manage weed populations. This micro-evolutionary process depends on fitness, therefore the assessment of fitness differences between susceptible and resistant populations are pivotal to establish management strategies. Loose silky bentgrass (Apera spica-venti) is a ser...

Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser systems for advanced applications such as micro and precise processing and photochemical reactions have been developed. We have been constructing a VUVMOPA system to generate output energy of sub-mJ with a pulse width of sub-picosecond at the wavelength of 126 nm. A VUV seed pulse, generated by the 7th harmonics of a 882 nm Ti:Sapphire (TiS) laser was amplified by...

Since the discovery of bovine insulin in plants, much effort has been devoted to the characterization of these proteins and elucidation of their functions. We report here the isolation of a protein with similar molecular mass and same amino acid sequence to bovine insulin from developing fruits of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) genotype Epace 10. Insulin was measured by ELISA using an anti-human in...