In spite of the development of various improved cultivars of maize, yield in Nigeria has continued to be hampered by the over cropped nature of most farmlands as well as a wide range of pests and diseases. This study therefore carried out an analysis of agro-chemical inputs’ use in maize production among small scale farmers in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State. Specifically, the study inv...

Following the ban of synthetic antibiotics as antimicrobial agents and growth promoters, poultry nutritionists are now trying to find antibiotic substitutes. Agro-industrial by-products are abundant in tropical countries and have been used as the alternatives to conventional feedstuffs in poultry rations. These by-products are also known to contain several bioactive compounds such as oligosacch...

in recent years, mangrove forests with the high economical and environmental value are threatened with extinction by human activities. ex-situ conservation is an appropriate method to conservation this forest. this study was conducted with the purpose of studying the role of climatology factors as one of the most important environmental parameters in dispersion of mangrove forests of hormozgan ...

A Review of Acrylamide: An Industry Perspective on Research, Analysis, Formation, and Control DOMINIQUE TAEYMANS a , JOHN WOOD a , PETER ASHBY b , IMRE BLANK c , ALFRED STUDER c , RICHARD H. STADLER c , PIERRE GONDÉ d , PAUL EIJCK d , SAM LALLJIE e , HANS LINGNERT f , MARIANNE LINDBLOM g , REINHARD MATISSEK h , DETFLEF MÜLLER i , DAN TALLMADGE i , JOHN O'BRIEN j , SARA THOMPSON j , DAVID SILVAN...

Taking a food supply chain approach, this paper examines the regulation of food marketing and nutrition labelling as strategies to help combat obesity in China in an era of rapid agro-food industry growth. China is the largest food producer and consumer in the world. Since the early 1980s, the agro-food industry has undergone phenomenal expansion throughout the food supply chain, from agricultu...

Residual operations are introduced in many video compression algorithms to exploit temporal redundancy in video sequences. One of the most effective and computationally simple algorithms is 3D-DWT-SPIHT algorithm. Nevertheless, it only utilizes intra-GOF temporal redundancy. In order to eliminate inter-GOF redundancy, the Simple GOF Residual Operation (SGRO) algorithm was introduced, where resi...