A combining ability analysis of cassava manihot esculenta Crantz genotypes to anthracnose disease.
INTRODUCTION The tropical root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the third most important source of calories for human food in the tropics after rice and maize. Over 600 million people depend on cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Cassava is grown by poor farmers, many...

Studies on biomass production in Auricularia polytricha collected from Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
INTRODUCTION Previous work have been carried out on collection, identification and isolation of indigenous Nigerian mushrooms (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) .Investigations were carried out on these fungi basically, to determine their nutritional requirements and utilization in biotechnological processes. These organisms have been implicated in lignin and...

Economic sanctions, oil price fluctuations and employment: new empirical evidence from Libya.
INTRODUCTION Libya is a small oil-producing developing economy in North Africa and its economy is heavily dependent on oil revenue. Libya plays an important role as a member of OPEC in the supply of oil to the world market. Conditions in the Libyan economy worsened...

Status of participation in physical activity among international students attending colleges and universities in the United States.
This study examined the status of participation in physical activity among international students attending colleges and universities in the United States. Participants for the study were 521 international students from five universities in the Midwestern part of the United States. Descriptive statistics revealed that international college students spent on...

Prospects of wind farm development in Algeria.
INTRODUCTION An accurate wind resource assessment is an important and critical factor to be well understood for harnessing the power of the wind. It is well known that an error of 1% in wind speed measurements leads to almost 2% error in energy output. As we know...

A touching trio: friendship isn't for sale.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As a person goes through life, he's a lucky man if he's able to pursue his passions and make a few friends along the way. Like many American Handgunner readers, my passion is shooting, in particular, competing at the World Speed Shooting Championships, known as...

Go on, do it.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] I know you want to go. I know you've dreamed about it. I know you have secretly pondered what rifle you'd want to use, what bullets you'd select, what game you'd take. I know it because I've done it. Countless times. Hundreds of times. But...

Africa Remix remix.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Between Summer 2004 and September 2007 the blockbuster exhibition "Africa Remix: The Contemporary Art of a Continent" made a three continent tour, appearing at Dusseldorf's Museum Kunst Palast, London's Hayward Gallery, Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, Stockholm's Moderna Museet, and the Johannesburg...

Kwame Bediako and Christian scholarship in Africa.
Manasseh Kwame Dakwa Bediako, late rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission, and Culture, in Akropong, Ghana, was born on July 7,1945. He died, following a serious illness, on June 10, 2008. Over many years he pointed others to Africa's proper place in contemporary worldwide Christian discourse. He...

Seabee in Africa sees a need, seeks support for orphanages.
Byline: Karen Nugent CLINTON - It was the old stories from his grandfathers and uncle that inspired Derek J. Peto to join the Navy Seabees. But it was the reality of what he sees every day on his latest mission in the Horn of Africa...