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- ItemOpen AccessTHE MAN-CROPS-MACHINE NEXUS: MEMOIR OF A POSTHARVEST ENGINEER(Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2023-05-09) OGUNSINA, Babatunde SundayAgricultural Engineering is the only discipline in which engineering mates endlessly with agriculture, both fused into a unified curriculum that trains and produces an “all-in-one Engineer” who is well equipped to address ALL problems requiring engineering intervention in agriculture, viz: food production, conservation of soil and water resources, rural livelihoods, livestock production and environmental management. He is expected to harness all resources to ensure security and sustainability. This is the reason why we often pride ourselves as the „Jack of all trade and master of all‟. Most activities related to human livelihoods on this planet revolve - first - around food. It is commonly said in Yoruba that tí ebi bá ti kúrò nínú ìsé, ìsé bùse (i.e. when hunger is subtracted from poverty, poverty tends towards zero) Someone said lack of food is the most critical dimension of poverty). Food in this context refers to anything fit and safe for human consumption and it is as diverse as creation endowed the garden. Adekoya (2014) in his inaugural lecture, pointed that man minus machine is either a labourer or a slave.
- ItemOpen AccessTHE PAINS OF WOMANHOOD, TOILS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD AND THE ETHOS OF STANDARDISED NURSING LANGUAGES: A COMPENDIUM BY A MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSE SPECIALIST(Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2022-07-19) Olaogun, Adenike AyobolaChild marriage is a formal or informal union in which one or both parties are below 18 years old (Liang et al, 2021). Nigeria is recorded as the 11th nation with the highest rate of child marriage, globally (UNICEF, 2020). The woman, at this stage, is biologically, economically and socially not prepared for childbearing. Epidemiological reports from some northern part of the country have revealed that 93.7% of young women whose first marriage is at 14 years end up with obstructed labor while 83.8% end up with obstetrical fistula (Bello et al, 2020).
- ItemOpen AccessTHAT OUR MOTHERS MAY LIVE AND BE WELL: OBSTACLES TO MATERNAL MORTALITY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA.(Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2023-08-08) Adeyemi, Adebanjo Babalola.Obstetrics is the field of Medicine that is dedicated to the study of and care of women in pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum period (i.e. 6 weeks after delivery). Gynecology is the science of the physiology and medicine that focuses on the care for the functions and diseases specific to women and girls with particular emphasis on the reproductive system. The field of Obstetrics and Gynecology are usually combined as a single discipline in many parts of the world like in the United States of America and other English-speaking parts of the world like Nigeria.
- ItemOpen AccessTHE FOX AND THE PIGLET: A PARADOX OF UNTAPPED RESOURCE IN NIGERIA(Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2023-04-11) Adesehinwa, Akinyele O.K.Nigeria has the required resources to meet her needs but is not taking advantage of them. Therefore, it could be said that Nigeria has all it takes for self-sustenance in animal protein. It is, however, yet to take advantage of these opportunities to increase Pigs‘ contribution to the GDP of the livestock subsector. Hence, my lecture, titled “The Fox and the Piglet: a paradox of untapped resource in Nigeria”, will attempt to look at the pig‘s untapped resource in four cardinal areas.
- ItemOpen Access“PHARMACOLOGY UNRAVELS NATURE: PARADOXICAL EFFECTS OF ENDOGENOUS NATURAL SUBSTANCES”.(Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2023-07-14) Akanmu, Moses AtandaPharmacology, a term derived from the Greek word pharmakon ("poison" in classic Greek, "drug" in modern Greek) is concerned with the study of drug action. Specifically, pharmacology is the examination of the interactions between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical functions. This includes drug composition, synthesis and drug design, molecular and cellular communication, molecular diagnostics, interactions, toxicology, chemical biology, therapy, as well as medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. Pharmacology has two major branches: Pharmacokinetics, which refers to the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs. Pharmacodynamics, which refers to the molecular, biochemical and physiological effect of drugs including drug mechanism of action.