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1. Physicochemical Properties, Phytochemical Composition, Fatty Acid Prof...
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Umar Dabai Nuhu*, Usman Rufai...
Department of Chemistry Education, Adamu Augie College of Education, P.M.B. 1012, Argungu, Kebbi State, Nigeria.
1-6

This study investigated the physicochemical properties, phytochemical composition, fatty acid profile, FT-IR functional group characterization, and cyanogenic glycoside content of Neocarya macrophylla (gingerbread plum) seed oil sourced from Kebbi State, north-western Nigeria. Oil was extracted by Soxhlet method with n-hexane and analyzed using AOCS/AOAC standard methods, qualitative phytochemical tests, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Physicochemical analysis yielded a saponification value of 153.33 mgKOH/g, iodine value of 33.07 gI2/100g, peroxide value of 45.5 meq/kg, free fatty acid content of 3.72%, and acid value of 13.41 mgKOH/g, classifying the oil as a non-drying oil suitable for soap and cosmetic manufacture. FT-IR spectroscopy confirmed key functional groups: O–H carboxylic acid stretching at 3475.84 cm⁻¹, ester carbonyl C=O at 1740.81 cm⁻¹, and C–O triacylglycerol vibrations at 721.4 cm⁻¹, consistent with a triacylglycerol-rich oil composition. Qualitative phytochemical screening confirmed alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, saponins, steroids, and terpenoids; cardiac and cyanogenic glycosides were absent. GC-MS fatty acid profiling identified eleven fatty acids; oleic acid was predominant at 42.46%, followed by icosatetraenoate/arachidonic acid (17.67%) and eicosatrienoic acid, palmitic, stearic, and erucic acids. The MUFA/PUFA ratio of ~1.31 indicates favourable oxidative stability. Collectively, these results confirm the multi-sector industrial potential of N. macrophylla seed oil for soap, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceutical applications.

2. Deconstructing the Menstrual Barrier to Education: Examining Psycholog...
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Dr. Sharlene McHolm*
Wilfrid Laurier University.
7-15

Documentation detailing the relative inaccessibility of education in Ethiopia’s Somali Region continues to grow. Structural barriers—including limited access to school programs, a shortage of qualified teachers, insufficient funding, and scarce learning resources—act as compounding disadvantages for all learners. These realities are further exacerbated for adolescent girls by inadequate access to dedicated gender-responsive washrooms (private latrines and clean water) essential for Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). When girls lack access to private, gender responsive facilities, physical limitations become a catalyst for acute psychological distress. This psychological distress (marked by shame and embarrassment), combined with social pressures (leading to planned absenteeism) and diminished cognitive engagement (distraction caused by the ongoing anxiety of leakage), results in lower overall attendance and academic achievement. These factors define the parameters of social disapproval surrounding female education. The social disapproval associated with menstruation directly impacts girls' intentions to attend school while menstruating, acting as a socially constructed mechanism of exclusion that violates the fundamental right to education enshrined by UNESCO. This study (n=450) compares girls with access to re-useable MHM kits, paired with health education to a control group. This represents a baseline study to then revisit longitudinally to see if having access to reliable MHM changes beliefs and behaviours around school attendance and engagement during menstruation. A theory-driven principal component analysis explored key factors influencing school attendance and engagement for girls in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

3. Migration and Interreligious Relations in the Global Spectrum
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OKHIFOH Kenneth Otuonkpaiwo, P...
Department of Religious Management and Cultural Studies Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria.
16-21

Man, himself is both a mobile and religious element. From time immemorial, man has always moved from place to place in search of food, security, shelter or better life. Often times, man carries his religion wherever he goes. Sometimes he finds himself in an environment where his religion is not welcomed. The new environment tries to make him give up his faith or compel him to practice it in seclusion against the reality that man is intrinsically religious and is determined to exercise his faith in the best way possible, including calling others to his faith. This struggle often leads to tension and loss of peaceful coexistence. Scholarship on migration has focused largely on migrants’ challenges and factors encouraging migration with scant attention on the impact of migration on interreligious relations. To this end, this work looks at migration and interreligious relations, with a view to determining how migration affects interreligious relations in different parts of the world. Drawing on historical and textual approach, the study makes use of both primary materials such as oral interviews and observations to achieve its aim. It also relies on secondary sources like religious texts and other documented evidences to drive home its point. The study notes that unlike historical evidences from the Bible and early Islam, most migrants today, face crass religious restrictions especially in Muslim dominated areas. It reveals that when migrants are not given the freedom to practice their religion in their foreign land, it leads to dissatisfaction, anger and distortion in interreligious relations, which ultimately affects the economy of the area. The paper cautions against unnecessary religious restrictions, especially when such does not infringe on the rights of others.

4. African Cultural Influence in Argentina
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Dr. TUO Ibrahim*
Assistant Université Alassane Ouattara Bouaké.
22-27

Argentine cultural identity has been significantly enriched by the influence of African culture. African customs have left a deep mark, especially in areas such as the coast and Buenos Aires, through dance, cuisine, religious beliefs, and music. Although its influence was ignored for a long time, today its contributions to the country's cultural diversity, festivities, and artistic expressions are valued. It is important to appreciate and recover this heritage, as African culture helped build fundamental elements of Argentine culture.





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