The tocopherols, the major vitamers of vitamin E, are believed to play a role in the prevention of human aging-related diseases such as cancer and heart disease, yet little is known concerning determinants of their plasma concentrations. Evidence from animal studies suggests that the dietary source of gamma-tocopherol can significantly affect plasma levels of this tocopherol as well as its func...

Sixteen fonio millet and 17 sesame samples were analysed for incidence of moulds, especially aflatoxigenic Aspergillus species, in order to determine the safety of both crops to consumers, and to correlate aflatoxin levels in the crops with levels produced by toxigenic isolates on laboratory medium. Diverse moulds including Alternaria, Aspergillus, Cercospora, Fusarium, Mucor, Penicillium, Rhiz...

Soy milk and sesame seeds consumption has been linked to a lower incidence of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and atherosclerosis. In this study, fifty male adult albino rats (120-125 g) were divided into five experimental groups, healthy control group, positive control group injected with single dose of adriamycin ADR (10 mg/kg b.w) for induction of cardiotoxicity, group fed o...

Application of rhizospheric fungi is an effective and environmentally friendly method of improving plant growth and controlling many plant diseases. The current study was aimed to identify phytohormone-producing fungi from soil, to understand their roles in sesame plant growth, and to control Fusarium disease. Three predominant fungi (PNF1, PNF2, and PNF3) isolated from the rhizospheric soil of...

In this paper, we discuss our approach to constructing a dynamic and secure “Smart Home” environment and tackling the challenges associated with it. “Tiny UIUC SESAME” is a lightweight Java-implementation of a subset of SESAME. SESAME is an extension to Kerberos that supports public key technologies, access control, and delegation of access rights. We discuss our Tiny UIUC SESAME and how it cou...

Oleang, a Thai coffee drink, contained roasted robusta coffee and several roasted grains and seeds. In this research the typical ingredients of oleang that were robusta coffee, corn, soybean, rice, sesame and brown sugar, were roasted and studied for their volatile compounds. Coffee, corn, sesame, and brown sugar were roasted at 220°C for 20 min and soybean and rice were roasted at 240°C for 20...

The indication of origin of sesame seeds and sesame oil is one of the important factors influencing its price, as it is produced in many regions worldwide and certain provenances are especially sought after. We joined stable carbon and hydrogen isotope analysis with DNA based molecular marker analysis to study their combined potential for the discrimination of different origins of sesame seeds....

Dietary supplements Garlic and Black Sesame consist of phytoestrogens; it has been clinically used for treating mild depressive disorders by possible Estrogenic and Antioxidant mechanism. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of dietary supplements on depression in ovariectomized (OVX) rat by despair force swimming test and In vivo-lipid peroxidation study. After the treatment of G...

Sesame oil is being used a sole edible oil in South India. The aim of present study was to monitor the influence of sesame oil on blood glucose, and lipid peroxidation, antioxidants and lipid profile in the liver of control and streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic rats (Fifteen-week old Albino Wistar rats). Diabetes was induced in adult female albino Wistar rats weighing 180200 g by administration of ...

RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data. We have developed Sesame, an architecture for efficient storage and expressive querying of large quantities of metadata in RDF and RDF Schema. Sesame’s design and implementation are independent from any specific storage device. Thus, Sesame can be deployed on top of a variety of storage d...