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DETERMINANTS OF YAM AGRIBUSINESS PARTICIPATION DECISIONS AMONG RURAL HOUSEHOLDS [PDF]

Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2021
Research background: Participation decisions in yam agribusiness could be one of the measures to combat hunger, poverty and enhance the income of resource-poor rural households in yam-producing areas.
Moradeyo Adebanjo OTITOJU, Danjuma AHMADU, Peter Ifeanyichukwu NWANDU   +2 more
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Colchicine-induced variations in survival rate and morphological characteristics of water yam (Dioscorea alata) [PDF]

Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2010
The effects of 0.2% aqueous solution of colchicine on the survival rate and morphological features of five accessions of Dioscorea alata were investigated.
Ajayi Abiola T., Adesoye Adenubi I., Asiedu Robert, Sartie Alieu   +3 more
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Evaluation of yam (Dioscorea rotundata) chips pre-treatment conditions (salting, sulphiting, and blanching) combined with dehydrofrozen storage for fries production [PDF]

Acta Periodica Technologica
Yam is a highly perishable commodity lacking commercial utilization, like potato for French fries production. Frozen yam chips could be a panacea for its increased utilization as fries and export commodity for Nigeria.
Jimoh Kazeem Osuolale, Adedokun Simeon Olayiwola, Osunrinade Oludolapo Akinyemi   +2 more
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Association of Postoperative Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Monocyte Lymphocyte Ratio (MLR) with the Presence of Osteoporosis in Japanese Patients after Hip Fracture Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Journal of Osteoporosis, 2021
Background. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is based on bone mineral density measurements expressed as a percentage of the young adult mean (YAM) in Japan.
Hirofumi Bekki, Takeshi Arizono, Daiki Hama, Akihiko Inokuchi, Takahiro Hamada, Ryuta Imamura   +5 more
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Effects of Different Storage Periods on the Shelf-life Quality of Fresh-cut Vegetable Yam and Iron Stick Yam

Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2023
In this study, the effects of storage at 4 ℃ for 0, 30 and 60 d on the phenolic content and browning key enzyme activities of fresh-cut yam during shelf life were investigated using 'Changshan fine hair yam' vegetable yam and 'Henan Wenxian' iron stick ...
Tian TIAN, Yaqi ZHAO, Qing WANG, Zhanjun QIN, Yuan PAN, Wenlin SHI, Jinhua ZUO, Shuzhi YUAN, Xiaozhen YUE, Bihong FENG   +9 more
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Development and performance evaluation of an effective dryer for poundo yam flour processing plant

Cogent Engineering, 2017
The process of making pounded yam, from yam, Dioscorea spp., which is mostly consumed by people of sub-Sahara region as source of carbohydrate is energy consuming, therefore, the pounded yam flour, commonly called poundo yam, through which pounded yam is
S.P. Ayodeji, T.A. Ajamu, B.O. Akinnuli, O.A. Aderoba   +3 more
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Metabolome Profiling of Eight Chinese Yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.) Varieties Reveals Metabolite Diversity and Variety Specific Uses

Life, 2021
The Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.) is an underutilized orphan tuber crop. However, in China it has been used in traditional medicine and food for centuries due to the presence of high starch, protein, fiber, and biologically active compounds.
Xiaoxuan Zeng, Dahui Liu, Luqi Huang
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Yam

Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, 2009
In this paper, we present YAM, a schema matcher factory. YAM (Yet Another Matcher) is not (yet) another schema matching system as it enables the generation of a la carte schema matchers according to user requirements. These re- quirements include a preference for recall or precision, a training data set (schemas already matched) and provided expert ...
Duchateau, Fabien, Coletta, Remi, Bellahsene, Zohra, J. Miller, Renée   +3 more
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Dynamique de gestion de la biodiversité d’igname face au développement du vivrier marchand au nord-Bénin

VertigO, 2012
In this paper, we analyzed the impact of the development of food market on the dynamic of yam biodiversity management in Northern Benin, using a mix-method approach. We conducted investigations in Tchaourou district, which is the yam barn in Benin. Three
Janvier Egah, Mohamed Nasser Baco, Ismail Moumouni   +2 more
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Comparing IM Lorazepam and IM Clothiapine for Agitated Psychosis in Hospitalized Patients

European Psychiatry
Introduction When patients in a closed hospital ward experience acute psychosis and become highly agitated or pose a risk to themselves and others, it’s often crucial to provide immediate sedative treatment.
•. Kverashvili, E. Malik, •. Shelef, •. Stryjer   +3 more
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