Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Located on the western part of Africa, it has a population of over 140million people. The country has had an annual increase in population growth rate of 3.2% from 1991. The rate of urban growth has also been estimated at 5.5% per annum. Nigeria is made up of 36 states, excluding the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, with Lagos and Kano State...

Increase in demand for milk and their products many dairies of different sizes have come up in different places. The dairy industry involves processing raw milk into products such as consumer milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, condensed milk, dried milk (milk powder), and ice cream, using processes such as chilling, pasteurization, and homogenization. The typical by-products of milk are buttermilk, ...

It is of interest that two such books should have appeared almost simultaneously , and that such should be the case indicates a broadening point of view toward the whole problem. Herein we find a presentation of the pertinent facts relating to man and his disease, with the ecological aspects of the problem brought to the fore; a treatment wherein we find both man and parasite of essentially equ...

T here is no doubt that physical exercise is mostly good for your health and the list of benefits it provides grows with ever more studies being published. It is also helpful for the funding of research to understand the health benefits of exercise in detail, namely the molecules and metabolic and regulatory pathways that translate a workout into a healthier body. A major aim of this research w...

1. Bottle 1 with approx. 0.5 g lyophilizate, consisting of: citrate buffer, pH approx. 4.6; β-fructosidase, approx. 720 U 2. Bottle 2 with approx. 7.2 g powder mixture, consisting of: triethanolamine buffer, pH approx. 7.6; NADP, approx. 110 mg; ATP, approx. 260 mg; magnesium sulfate 3. Bottle 3 with approx. 1.1 ml suspension, consisting of: hexokinase, approx. 320 U; glucose-6-phosphate dehydr...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical effect of breastfeedings and bottle feedings in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants (birth weight </=800 g). METHODS A total of 12 ELBW infants (mean birth weight, 672 +/- 95 g; mean gestation, 26 +/- 2 weeks) served as their own controls in this prospective study comparing physiologic parameters during bottle and breastfeeding. The infants were put to ...

Blood culture bottles that accept up to 10 ml of blood have recently been introduced for the BACTEC nonradiometric blood culture system. The new formulation, designated BACTEC Plus, contains 25 ml of tryptic soy broth, 0.05% sodium polyanetholesulfonate, and mixed resins. In a collaborative study conducted at three university hospitals, we evaluated the BACTEC Plus 26 (BP26) aerobic bottle and ...

An earlier study demonstrated that oral feeding of premature infants (<30 wk gestation) was enhanced when milk was delivered through a self-paced flow system. The aims of this study were to identify the principle(s) by which this occurred and to develop a practical method to implement the self-paced system in neonatal nurseries. Feeding performance, measured by overall transfer, duration of ora...

BACKGROUND Using a multi-methods approach we aimed to explore the relative prediction of demographic, socioeconomic and modifiable predictors from the Theory of Planned behaviour (TPB) in explaining feeding intentions amongst a multi-ethnic sample. METHODS 476 women completed a questionnaire at 28 weeks gestation. They were grouped into breastfeeding (N = 258), mixed-feeding (N = 50), bottle-...