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Food Contamination and Safety in Nigeria: A Systematic Synthesis of Heavy Metals, Microbial Pathogens, and Health Risk Metrics

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
This is an infographic driver of food contaminants and health effects. ABSTRACT Food safety remains a critical challenge in Nigeria due to rapid urbanization and weak regulatory enforcement. This systematic review synthesizes empirical evidence from 2015 to 2025 to characterize food contaminant profiles and associated human health risks in Nigeria ...
Cecilia Nwadiuto Obasi, Naomi A. Mogborukor, Baridoo Donatus Dooka, Polycarp Dauda Madaki, Chiara Frazzoli, Mohamed Haddad, Orish Ebere Orisakwe   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food quality profile of pounded yam and implications for yam breeding

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2023
AbstractBACKGROUNDAssessment of the key preferred quality traits in pounded yam, a popularly consumed yam food product in West Africa, is often done through sensory evaluation. Such assessment is time‐consuming and results may be biased. Therefore, there is a need to develop objective, high‐throughput methods to predict the quality of consumer ...
Bolanle Otegbayo, Oroniran Oluyinka, Abiola R. Tanimola, Fawehinmi Bisi, Alamu Ayomide, Bolaji Tomilola, Tessy Madu, Benjamin Okoye, Ugo Chijioke, Miriam Ofoeze, Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu, Michael Adesokan, Oluwatoyin Ayetigbo, Alexandre Bouniol, Imayath DJibril‐Mousa, Laurent Adinsi, Noël Akissoe, Denis Cornet, Parterne Agre, Asrat Asfaw, Jude Obidiegwu, Busie Maziya‐Dixon   +21 more
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Predicting and Preventing Turnover in Industry 4.0: Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Employee Turnover

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace, employees' career paths have become more diverse and less predictable in the era of Industry 4.0. As technological transformations accelerate, employee turnover patterns are also changing, as reflected in the growing prevalence of occupational transitions and large ...
Young‐Kook Moon, Tanya Mitropoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Work Engagement: The Moderating Roles of Contract Type and Trait Negative Affectivity

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes and tests a curvilinear effect of job insecurity on work engagement, while also examining the moderating roles of employment contract type (permanent vs. temporary) and trait negative affectivity on this relationship. Utilizing two waves of time‐lagged data from a sample of 397 participants (273 permanent and 124 temporary ...
Hui‐Hsien Hsieh, Kuo‐Yang Kao
wiley   +1 more source

Transformation of fresh yams (Dioscorea trifida) into flours and starches: sustainable options for the food industry contributing to the development of this production chain [PDF]

Scientia Agricola
Despite the significant socioeconomic impact of yam cultivation in developing countries, this field needs more scientific studies and incentives. In Brazil, the absence of a developed processing chain has resulted in a considerable production loss due to
Maria Cristina Ferrari, Roseli Aparecida Ferrari   +1 more
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Yams and Liver Necrosis [PDF]

Nature, 1963
YAM (Dioscorea rotundata) is widely consumed in Ghana and other parts of West Africa and in some regions forms a staple of the diet. Toxic principles have been isolated from some species of yam, and it is widely known among farmers that the consumption of particular forms of yam may prove fatal1.
C, GILBERT, J, GILLMAN
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You, Me, and the AI: The Role of Third‐Party Human Teammates for Trust Formation Toward AI Teammates

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated in teams, understanding the factors that drive trust formation between human and AI teammates becomes crucial. Yet, the emergent literature has overlooked the impact of third parties on human‐AI teaming.
Türkü Erengin, Roman Briker, Simon B. de Jong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sacred Festival of Iri Ji Ohuru in Igboland, Nigeria

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2007
This article examines the religious significance of the New Yams Festival (Iri Ji Ohuru) among the Igbo of south-eastern Nigeria. Secondary data for the study was collected from ethnographical information on the origin of the custom by some well-known ...
Ukachukwu Chris Manus
doaj   +1 more source

Does AI at Work Increase Stress? Text Mining Social Media About Human–AI Team Processes and AI Control

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With rising use of artificial intelligence (AI) in organizations, alongside increasing mental health issues, we seek to understand how AI use affects human stress. Drawing on the automation–augmentation perspective, we propose that AI control over decision‐making thwarts human autonomy and thus contributes to stress.
Florian Klonek, Sharon Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Occurrence of Yam Mosaic Virus and Yam Mild Mosaic Virus on Dioscorea spp. Germplasm Collection in Cuba—Epidemiology of Associated Diseases

Plants
Potyvirus diseases are one of the main challenges facing the production of yam (Dioscorea spp.). The objective of this study was to identify the potyviruses present in the Dioscorea spp.
José Efraín González Ramírez, Dariel Cabrera Mederos, Vaniert Ventura Chávez, Rosa Elena González Vázquez, Katia Ojito-Ramos, Liset García Romero, Luis Fabián Salazar-Garcés, Diana Catalina Velastegui-Hernández, Elena Vicenta Hernández Navarro, Michel Leiva-Mora, Fabián Giolitti, Orelvis Portal   +11 more
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