The study was conducted at the Ruminants section of Teaching and Research Farm University Ibadan, Ibadan to evaluate effects slaughtering weights on meat yield other chevon characteristics West African Dwarf bucks (WAD). Fifteen WAD were fed similar diets before sacrificing nine three pre-determined 15, 20 25kg relative percentage proportions Eviscerated Weight-EW, Hot Carcass Weight-HCW, Dress...

Background: Access to correct information can influence the formation of the right attitude towards mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Many individuals in Nigeria have taken up non-scientifically approved practices in a bid to protect themselves from the virus. The aim of this study was to assess the source of information, and knowledge of cause and mode of transmission of the COIVD...

This paper evaluated CSLBs as a building material for sustainable housing construction. The study focused primarily on evaluating its physical properties as a building material as well as a measure of its level of acceptability for housing construction among the populace. The study was carried out in four local governments namely; Ogbomoso North, Ibadan Southwest, (in Oyo State) Ado-Odo Ota, (O...

Extraosseous osteosarcoma (EOO) is a rare form of sarcoma. There have been few reports of cases and outcome from an African population.Out of 112 cases of sarcomas seen at the UCH, Ibadan between 1986-2005, 5 were EOO. All presented late on account of initial excision without histology and outcomes were poor. EOO occurs in the black population of Sub-Saharan Africa. The outlook for these patien...

In this paper, we constructed (2, 7)-anonymous threshold scheme from the (49, 56, 8, 7, 1) Resolvable Balanced Incomplete Block Design (RBIBD) using MATLAB codes. The (2, 7)-anonymous threshold scheme was then applied to Result Processing Scheme in the Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan. The scheme developed satisfied the security requirements of authenticity, integrity and verifiab...

Justin E. Harbison, Lara R. Dugas, William Brieger, Bamidele O. Tayo, Tunrayo Alabi, Dale A. Schoeller, and Amy Luke Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University School of Medicine, Maywood Illinois; Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland; Geospatial Laboratory, Research for Developm...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is a lifetime disease and its sequelae have been found to constitute health problems of immense proportion in children. Environmental factors such as culture, socioeconomic status, lifestyle and dietary pattern can have a great impact on cariesresistance or caries-development in a child. OBJECTIVE The present study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between de...

BACKGROUND In view of the maturing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, better understanding of its epidemiology among older adults is necessary in order to design appropriate care and treatment programmes for them. OBJECTIVES To describe the demographic and epidemiological characteristics of HIV opportunistic infections among newly enrolled patients aged 50 years and above in Ibadan, South-We...

BACKGROUND Humans can get infected through direct or indirect contact with infective stages of zoonotic parasites shed to the environment through dog faeces. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate the presence of gastrointestinal parasites present in dog faeces shed on the street of Ibadan metropolis, one of the largest cities in Africa. METHODS Twenty-three locations were random...