Recurrent droughts and soil degradation have had an adverse impact on food security and have increased malnutrition in Zambia. This has necessitated the promotion of conservation farming and diversification of food production. Velvet beans (Mucuna pruriens) is a crop that offers excellent soil conditioning properties and produces large quantities of beans of high protein and energy content. How...

The effect of adding Saccharomyces boullardii in soya yoghurt was studied. control made with milk and traditional starter culture (Lactobacillus bulgaricus Streptococcus thermophilus) while the other three treatments were by 1%, 2%, 3% S. boulardii starter. Proximate composition all determined after fermentation time. Shelf-life evaluation treatment observed during storage During proximate eval...

Recent neutron scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance, and scanning tunneling microscopy experiments have yielded valuable new information on the interplay between charge and spin density wave order and superconductivity in the cuprate superconductors, by using an applied perpendicular magnetic field to tune the ground state properties. We compare the results of these experiments with the predi...

Annona muricata L. (soursop fruit) is a seasonal plant with bio-geographical distribution in tropical and subtropical climates. This study evaluated the proximate, phenolic, antioxidant properties of different parts soursop fruit. The influence oven solar drying on phenolic activities extracts (pulp, seed, peel) were assessed. Proximate analysis fruit showed pulp to have high carbohydrate (32.9...

To test the hypothesis that o-hydroxy amines are proximate agents in chemical carcinogenesis paraffin pellets containing the hydrochlorides of 2-amino-l-fluorenol, 2-amino-3-fluorenol, 2-amino-5-fluorenol, 2-amino-7-fluorenol, 2-fluorenamine, and 1amino-2-naphthol were implanted into the urinary bladders of Swiss female mice. Paraffin pellets alone were implanted as controls. Histological exami...

Sibling competition is widespread among bird and animal species and sometimes leads to siblicide. By influencing the strategies that siblings employ in their struggles for dominance, birth order affects the outcomes of such contests. In our own species, birth order is a proxy for disparities in age, physical size, and status, all of which contribute to personality. In addition, birth order is r...

Forming new secure associations between wireless devices that meet for the first time and do not share a prior trust relationship is an important but challenging problem. We present ProxiMate, a system that allows wireless devices in proximity to securely pair with one another autonomously by generating a common secret key. ProxiMate works by making wireless devices in proximity tap into a surp...