11 research outputs found
Socio-Economic Importance of Honey among Traditional Healers and Orthodox Practitioners in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria
The necessity for people’s adequate and quality as well as good health and standard of living for overall National development informed the main reason for the study on Socio-economic importance of honey among traditional healers and orthodox medical practitioners in Iwo Local Government Area, Osun State. A total of 105questionnaires wereadministered, while 91 were retrieved from the respondents. Various uses of honey were investigated both for personal consumption and medicinal purpose. The result shows that 41.8 % of the respondent use honey for multiple purpose, while 35.2% use honey mainly for medicinal purpose, 16.5% use it mainly as beverages, while the remaining 6.6% for use in treatments. The Chi Square Test showed a higher calculated value of 385.71 than the tabulated value of 21.026. This confirms a strong relationship between the use of honey and social life of Iwo people. The major constraints discovered was that Traditional healers do not exercise strict control on the quantity doses of honey used for different ailments. It is therefore recommended that both rural and urban dwellers should be sensitized about the use of honey, in order to encourage sustainable consumption for improvement of health status.
Keywords: Medicinal, orthodox, traditional, hone
The Potential Role of Agro-Forestry in Honey Production-A Case Study of Federal College of Forestry, Oyo State, Nigeria
The major concern globally is the need to ensure health, economy, large
food production, sustainable management of the environment and the
renewable natural resources. Such concern has advance measure part of
which generate up to date information necessary for long term
exploitation of this resources. But this information itself requires
planning as well as machinery for its management in Nigeria. However
agro-apiculture/agro-forestry is still nonexistence. This is
attributable partly to lack of understanding, information and awareness
regarding agro-apiculture practice in forest plantation. And therefore,
to create this awareness and draw of authority concerned-Governments,
policy maker, town planning and municipal authority to the need for the
incorporation of apiculture into agro-forestry for sustainable
management. This fact therefore, justifies the growing interest in the
apiculture with agro forestry. This paper focuses on the potential role
of agro forestry in honey production in federal college of forestry
since 1999 to 2016 and its associated environmental problems are
highlighted while the potential of agro forestry in honey production
are stressed
Socio-Economic Importance of Honey among Traditional Healers and Orthodox Practitioners in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria
The necessity for people\u2019s adequate and quality as well as good
health and standard of living for overall National development informed
the main reason for the study on Socio-economic importance of honey
among traditional healers and orthodox medical practitioners in Iwo
Local Government Area, Osun State. A total of 105questionnaires were
administered, while 91 were retrieved from the respondents. Various
uses of honey were investigated both for personal consumption and
medicinal purpose. The result shows that 41.8 % of the respondent use
honey for multiple purpose, while 35.2% use honey mainly for medicinal
purpose, 16.5% use it mainly as beverages, while the remaining 6.6% for
use in treatments. The Chi Square Test showed a higher calculated value
of 385.71 than the tabulated value of 21.026. This confirms a strong
relationship between the use of honey and social life of Iwo people.
The major constraints discovered was that Traditional healers do not
exercise strict control on the quantity doses of honey used for
different ailments. It is therefore recommended that both rural and
urban dwellers should be sensitized about the use of honey, in order to
encourage sustainable consumption for improvement of health status
Effect of Light Intensities on Growth Performance of Tetrapleura tetraptera Seedlings Schum. (Thonn.)
The study assessed the effect of varying light intensities and optimum
percentage of sunlight favourable for raising Tetrapleura tetraptera
seedlings. The light intensity was measured through photometer. The
experiment was subjected to a control without wire mesh(T1) and three
other treatments (T2, T3 and T4) covered with different layers of black
wire mesh with 99.5%, 75%, 49.8% and 25% light intensities
respectively. Each of the treatments was replicated six times in a
completely randomized design. The plant height, leaf production and
stem diameter were all monitored for 12 weeks. Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA) was employed and the means separated using Least Significant
Difference (LSD). The results showed that the significance effect (P =
\u3b10.05) was only observed in the seedlings height of
Tetrapleuratetrapteraseedlings. However, the mean values obtained for
all the parameters considered revealed the treatment 1(i.e. 99.8% wire
mesh) was observed to be the best performing treatment. For the plant
height, mean value ranged between 13.09 cm and 16.8 cm, a range from
0.22cm to 0.28mm was recorded for stem girth while the mean values
between 22 and 27 were obtained for number of leaves among the
treatments. It may be concluded from the study, that light intensity of
100% i.e without interference should be used for the growth and
development as well as production of Tetrapleura tetraptera seedlings
in the nursery
Characterisation of a small electrode HPGe detector
© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Small electrode HPGe detectors in an inverted coaxial geometry are increasingly in use in applications where both high efficiency and excellent energy resolution are required. The unusual electric field configuration of these detectors results in extremely long charge collection times compared to planar and coaxial devices. In this work we have characterised such a detector using gamma-ray coincidence measurements and optimised an electric field simulation to reproduce the positional variation of detector response. We show that, alongside accurate crystal geometry and applied electric potential, a temperature correction is crucial to correctly determining appropriate charge carrier mobility parameters. This work will help to guide the future development of HPGE detectors for applications including radioactive waste assay, radio-isotope dating, and fundamental nuclear physics
The Potential Role of Agro-Forestry in Honey Production-A Case Study of Federal College of Forestry, Oyo State, Nigeria
The major concern globally is the need to ensure health, economy, large food production, sustainable management of the environment and the renewable natural resources. Such concern has advance measure part of which generate up to date information necessary for long term exploitation of this resources. But this information itself requires planning as well as machinery for its management in Nigeria. However agro-apiculture/agro-forestry is still nonexistence. This is attributable partly to lack of understanding, information and awareness regarding agro-apiculture practice in forest plantation. And therefore, to create this awareness and draw of authority concerned-Governments, policy maker, town planning and municipal authority to the need for the incorporation of apiculture into agro-forestry for sustainable management. This fact therefore, justifies the growing interest in the apiculture with agro forestry. This paper focuses on the potential role of agro forestry in honey production in federal college of forestry since 1999 to 2016 and its associated environmental problems are highlighted while the potential of agro forestry in honey production are stressed.
Keywords: Honey production, Agro-forestry, Constraints and Endowmen
Proton-coupled sugar transport in the prototypical major facilitator superfamily protein XylE
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is the largest collection of structurally related membrane proteins that transport a wide array of substrates. The proton-coupled sugar transporter XylE is the first member of the MFS that has been structurally characterized in multiple transporting conformations, including both the outward and inward-facing states. Here we report the crystal structure of XylE in a new inward-facing open conformation, allowing us to visualize the rocker-switch movement of the N-domain against the C-domain during the transport cycle. Using molecular dynamics simulation, and functional transport assays, we describe the movement of XylE that facilitates sugar translocation across a lipid membrane and identify the likely candidate proton-coupling residues as the conserved Asp27 and Arg133. This study addresses the structural basis for proton-coupled substrate transport and release mechanism for the sugar porter family of proteins