The Comparative analysis of the nutrient composition of cashew 'apple' and cashew nut has been conducted. The result show moisture content of the 'apple' and the nut to be 95.00% and 3.80%; ash content 0.50% and 2.40%; ...

In this paper, the results of seasonal modeling and subsequent forecasting of Sokoto monthly average temperature have been obtained using seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average modeling approach. Based on this ...

Hotelling's T2 statistic is one of the multivariate tests that are based on certain fundamental assumptions, one of which is the multivariate normality. The test is usually applied to investigate the equality of means ...

Changes in rhodanese activity profile in the liver, ~, heart, brain and gizzard of dl!Yeloplng domestic fOYoll (Gallus. domesticus) fed on commercially prepared normal poultry feeds (cortrol feeds) and pauley feeds ...

Several fractions demonstrating trypsin inhibitory activity were isolated from the seeds of watermelon. One of the mrnbnors was punfied to apparent homogeneity and partially characterized emploYing ion-exchange chromatography ...

Three drtferent serine protease Inhibitors were Isolated from camel plasma and purified to apparent homogeneity. The purification was achieved using (NH.hSO. predplation, affinity chromatography on Blue Sephal"O$e,Ionex ...

A survey was conducted on thc helminth parasites of Gallus gallus slaughtered at the Sokoto Central Market, In all, a total of 120 hirds of varying weights and sexes were examined for parasites through the examination of ...

Fresh samples of leaves and stems of Pergularia tomentosa were investigated for phytochemical and antibacterial properties, The samples were dried in air and ground to powder. Three solvents methanol, n-hexane and ethel' ...

Serum levels of vitamin A (VA) and zinc of sixty-one randomly selected preschool children aged 4 to 60 months from Sokoto in the Northwestern Nigeria were investigated. The serum VA was assayed spectrophotometrically by ...

The nutrient coriJpqsition of some green leafy vegetables constm8d in Sokota was investigated. Of those studied, Brassica int&gl1fo11a (KII~I) was found.Jo have the highest crude protein content (21.5 :t 0.7%); TaJinum ...