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Group Discussion, Theme 2: Networks as a vehicle for increased funding of science
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
Sub-Regional/Regional Organizations And Popular Social Engineering In Africa: Empowering Young People And The Spirit Of Volunteerism (civic service)
(2009)
One of the critical issues for Community Development, Civil Society action and Governance
anywhere and specifically in Africa is to create leaders at the fastest possible rate, at all levels of
the society/ community. ...
The SAWA corpus: a parallel corpus English - Swahili
(2009)
Research in data-driven methods for Machine Translation has greatly benefited from the increasing availability of parallel corpora. Processing the same text in two different languages yields useful information on how words ...
Investigating How The Shift From Electronic To Mobile Government Interacts With The Development Practice In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2009-11)
In this paper we try to investigate potentials of mobile technology use between the Kenyan government and its citizens. On this account the paper will interact with supply and demand side practices of e-governance specifically ...
Natural products research network for Eastern and Central Africa (NAPRECA)
(2009)
Themandate of NAPRECA is mobilization of scientists in the Eastern and
CentralAfrica subregion to contribute effectively in the development of scienceof
natural products. It is also to promote Natural Products research ...
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
In multilingual situations, language technologies are crucial for providing access to information and opportunities for economic development. With somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 different languages, Africa is a multilingual ...
Green chemistry paradigm: the role of natural products
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
The world is going
green and chemists are being asked to ‘shift’ their thinking to
Green Chemistry for sustainable development
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design processes that ‘
---
meet the
needs of the present without compromising the ...
Red hot compounds from the red hot poker plants, kniphofia species
(University of Nairobi, 2009-08)
Knipholone, the first 4
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arylanthraquinone was discovered from the stem of
Kniphofia
foliosa
(Asphodelaceae) in 1984 [1]. Since then a number of 4
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arylanthraquinones
including knipholone anthrone have been ...
Assessing alignment of an e-government project in the context of a developing country: a Heideggerian perspective
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
E-Government has increasingly become an alternative for enabling public governance at various. The situation is especially poignant in developing countries where there are increasing calls to improve governance for improved ...
Leaf surface deposited compounds as alternative animal feed preservatives
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
The presence of an array of secondary metabolites in the leaf
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surface exudates has
elicited phytochemical screening. The constituent compounds, supposedly, serve a
protective role on the plant lipids a
gainst ...