Oluwafemi Awolesi

Oluwafemi Awolesi
Louisiana State University | LSU · Department of Environmental Sciences| Department of Construction Management

PhD

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Purpose This study aims to investigate university students’ awareness of green residences and the factors influencing their willingness to pay for living in such accommodations. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-methods research involved 493 participants from Louisiana State University, USA. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire...
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Purpose For over 25 years, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has significantly influenced the US sustainable construction through its leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) certification program. This study aims to delve into how Baton Rouge, Louisiana, fares in green building adoption relative to other US capital citie...
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This paper surveys the energy literature and systematically reviews the path to an inclusive and sustainable energy transition by exploring factors that drive the current energy transitions, countries with advanced energy transition programs, and the roles of energy literacy and justice in energy transition. Utilizing an exhaustive literature searc...
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This study provides a comprehensive overview of the occurrence, distribution, and extraction methods of microplastics in marine organisms to present current data on the presence and distribution of microplastics in marine environments worldwide in a bid to understand the extent of microplastics pollution and their potential effects in marine ecosys...
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This study explores the crucial roles of energy literacy, transition, and justice in addressing the global climate crisis. Through a systematic bibliometric survey and thematic analysis of existing literature, we identify a scarcity in research (<0.1%, n = 17,773) concurrently integrating the three crucial terms: energy literacy; energy transition;...
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The pervasive presence of microplastics in marine environments has raised significant concerns. This review addresses the pressing issue of microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems and its potential implications for both the environment and human health. It outlines the current state of microplastic occurrence, distribution, and extraction metho...
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This study assessed the level of toxic metals and hydroquinone in skin-lightening-creams commonly use in Ogun State, Nigeria. The pH of all the cream samples was determined and metals quantification was carried out using ICP-OES after acid digestion while that of hydroquinone was done using HPLC. The health risk of dermal exposure to heavy metals v...
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Following the advent of the Industrial Revolution, plastic pollution has been a serious environmental issue while micro-and nano-plastics have been a cy-nosure of researchers' attention in the twenty-first century. This is due to the improved knowledge of its ecotoxicological effects and the global pushfor-ward towards sustainability. There is a gr...
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Telfairia occidentalis is mainly cultivated in southern Nigeria and it is used primarily in soups and herbal medicines. This study investigates the level of pollution in terms of heavy metals (Pb, Ni, Mn, Cu, and Zn) in fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) vegetable samples and its soils. Telfairia occidentalis and its soils collected from ilush...
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The need to make cellulose (natural polymer-insoluble in water) a water soluble material is essential to enhance its use in the pharmaceutical and food processing industries. This paper investigates the effect of time parameter on the physicochemical properties of carboxylmethyl cellulose from Flamboyant plant seed pods. Cellulose isolated from Fla...
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This paper is aimed at inspecting the corrosion inhibition efficiency (IE) of Phyllanthus amarus leaf extract on aluminum in acidic medium and the protective film formed on the aluminum by surface examination using Fourier Transmission Infra-Red (FTIR) spectra. Phyllanthus amarus was extracted with ethanol using rotary evaporator. The weight-loss m...
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Food consumption is one of the sources of human exposure to heavy metals. In growing medium sized cities in developed countries, heavy metal in food is caused by industry and vehicular emissions. Most foods sold in Nigerian outdoor markets are not properly packaged thus making them more susceptible to environmental pollution. Food contaminated with...
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Indiscriminate disposal of refuse and industrial effluents have continued to introduce toxic chemicals into our environment. Most of these toxic wastes, particularly the heavy metals are colourless, hence, the silent access which they often gain into the human body via food and water. This has increasingly posed deleterious effects on public health...
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Background: Cholesterol is subsumed a seminal lipid molecule in cell membranes and lipoprotein, vital for normal body function except at abnormal levels, as these have precipitated different human diseases including stroke, heart diseases and brain diseases. As a result, accurate measurement of cholesterol is pivotal particularly for people at hig...
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Industrialization has propagated the incidence of heavy metal contamination in the environment, and several life-threatening diseases which people suffer from today culminate from the impact of this group of metals. The extent of certain industrial activities on soil quality in terms of heavy metals must therefore be investigated. This study aims t...
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The oxidative instability of vegetable oils which contain polyunsaturated fatty acids and the health implication of synthetic antioxidants is the reason for the current intensive search for safer natural antioxidants. Hence, the total phenolic content and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity of Fagara zanthoxyloides root...
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While nature avails us with resources, we must use them without degrading nature per se. One of the perils that persistently plague the twenty-first century Man is global warming and climate change instigated as a result of the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) including methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, chloro-fluoro-carbons and carbon dioxide; the...
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While nature avails us with resources, we must use them without degrading nature per se. One of the perils that persistently plague the twenty-first century Man is global warming and climate change instigated as a result of the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) including methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, chloro-fluoro-carbons and carbon dioxide; the...

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