Two microbial mosquito larvicides, Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis (Bti) and Bacillus sphaericus (Bsph), have been shown to be highly effective in controlling mosquito larvae and have been used in larvicidal programs for many years. In exploring other modes of action of these agents, we studied the ovipositional response of Bsph susceptible and resistant Culex quinquefasciatus to aqueou...

Seeds are important to agriculture and conservation of plant biodiversity. In agriculture, seed germination performance is an important determinant of crop yield, in particular under adverse climatic conditions. Deterioration in seed quality is associated with the accumulation of cellular damage to macromolecules including lipids, protein, and DNA. Mechanisms that mitigate the deleterious cellu...

Salinity stress is one of the most important abiotic stress factors limiting the plants' growth. Seed priming is known as a method which improves the germination performance in seeds in stress conditions. The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Hydropriming and Halopriming on germination performance of Secale montanum while growing under the NaCl-salinity stress. Hydropr...

Abstract Polymer gels are an important class of soft materials with growing interest for biomedical applications due to their distinctive properties. These three‐dimensional polymer networks capable imbibing large amounts solvent while maintaining solid‐like behavior. can be classified into hydrogels, aerogels, and cryogels based on structural features. Their highly porous structure, swelling c...

Understanding phenomena such as evaporation and imbibition of picoliter droplets into porous substrates is crucial in printing industry to achieve a higher quality print speed. After printing, the residual pigment must remain fixed at desired location on substrate be volume yield high resolution vibrantly printed page that has become expectation modern technology. Current research entails not o...

Sustainable development is at the front burner of debates globally and this a result continuous challenges bedeviling survival eco-system through production activities organisations hinged towards economic gains. Owning to fact, study aims investigate significant contributions green entrepreneurs revitalisation ecosystem ensuring eco-balance. The objectives were centered on examining effect ent...

Entrepreneurship drives both industrial and economic development globally. This is particularly true for marketing tourism in emerging markets. Evidently, marketing/tourism graduates entrepreneurs (MTGE) stand better chances these markets.But MTGEs are yet to profitably effectively scale the unemployment huddles Nigeria. study attempts a qualitative adaptation of Abdullah’s (2006) HEdPERF Sulta...

Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is a biomimetic machine learning algorithm imbibing the structural and algorithmic properties of the neocortex. Two main functional components of HTM that enable spatio-temporal processing are the spatial pooler and temporal memory. In this research, we explore a scalable hardware realization of the spatial pooler closely coupled with the mathematical formulat...

The influence of pulsed electric field (PEF) (0.5-2 kV/cm) treatment of wheatgrass (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds, with different water contents, on antioxidant metabolism in the resultant seedlings was investigated. Imbibing seeds to a water content of 45% or greater prior to PEF treatment increased the glutathione level and activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione reductase, gl...

The utilization of natural and chemically modified polysaccharides as a part of drug development has increased in the past two decades. Great attention has also been focused on biopolymer based hydrogels for use as potential carriers in controlled drug delivery. Hydrogels are three dimensional, hydrophilic networks capable of imbibing large amount of water or biological fluids, mimics biologica...