Publications by authors named "O Stephen"

The Ussing chamber is a tool for analyzing drug absorption. We investigated whether the Ussing chamber can be used to analyze the process from digestion to absorption of protein in the gastrointestinal tract. Mixtures containing infant formula, whole cow's milk, processed soy milk, enteral nutrition, or human breast milk, were placed in the apical membrane side equipped with Caco-2 cells.

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The efficient recognition and classification of personal protective equipment are essential for ensuring the safety of personnel in complex industrial settings. Using the existing methods, manually performing macro-level classification and identification of personnel in intricate spheres is tedious, time-consuming, and inefficient. The availability of several artificial intelligence models in recent times presents a new paradigm shift in object classification and tracking in complex settings.

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Article Synopsis
  • Weight stigma is when people have wrong ideas and stereotypes about people who are heavier, which can affect their health and rights.
  • The World Obesity Federation brought together experts and people affected by obesity to discuss how harmful stories about obesity impact everyone's health.
  • They came up with nine ideas to improve health research and promote better understanding of obesity in the world, aiming to reduce negative beliefs about people based on their weight.
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The need to overcome the challenges of visual inspections conducted by domain experts drives the recent surge in visual inspection research. Typical manual industrial data analysis and inspection for defects conducted by trained personnel are expensive, time-consuming, and characterized by mistakes. Thus, an efficient intelligent-driven model is needed to eliminate or minimize the challenges of defect identification and elimination in processes to the barest minimum.

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This study investigated the impact of continual discharge of untreated abattoir effluents on the water quality of River Benue. Three major abattoirs (Wurukum, Wadata and Northbank) in Makurdi, Nigeria, and their polluting strength in river upstream and downstream were measured and compared. Two water quality parameters: physicochemical and bacteriological were investigated.

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