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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 ...
Anticancer effect of compounds from aloe turkanensis
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Aloe turkanensis
is a shrub and is commonly grown in the north
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western Kenya and in the
Karamajo district of Uganda. The lea
f exudates and the roots of
A. turkanensis
is used tradition
ally
to ...
Application of enzyme technology to improve the nutritive value of high-fibre feedstuffs for broiler chickens
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
Feed accounts for over sixty per cent of the production costs in the commercial
poultry sector. Maize and its by-products are the major ingredients used by the
industry in making diets for poultry and other non-ruminants. ...
The role of isotope geology in the reconstruction of the cenozoic history of Kenya
(2000)
Geochronology has had a dramatic impact on the understanding of African geology.
Consideration of the radiometrically dated geological phenomena in the continent has led to a
more complete view of the evolution of Africa. ...
Elimination of superimposed Multipath effects on Scintillations index on solar quiet ionosphere at Low Latitude over the Kenyan Airspace from a lone Positioned SCINDA system
(2010)
In communication involving links between satellites and
ground stations the most serious effects on transionospheric
radio signals is scintillation. By using
satellite Navigation Systems such as Global Position
System ...
A Framework for Predicting Droughts in DevelopingCountries Using Sensor Networks and Mobile Phones
(2010)
Drought is the most complex and least understood of all naturaldisasters and it affects more people than any other hazard.Droughts have become synonymous with the developingcountries and in particular the Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Theoritical risk analysis in insurance using copulas
(15-03-13)
This study develops credibility predictors of aggregate losses using NHIF data of
the number of patients with same ailments in two different hospitals. For a model of
aggregate losses, the interest is in predicting both ...
Poly(propylenethiophenoimine)-co-poly(3,4ethylenedioxythiopene)dendritic star copolymer aptameric nanobiosensor for estrogeneous 17β-estradiol. Rasaq A.
(2012)
A novel electrochemical biosensor based on 17-β-estradiol (E2)-binding- SELEX-synthesized 76-mer biotinylated aptamer as a molecular recognition element developed on a Poly(propylene thiophenoimine)-co-poly(3,4ethylenedi ...
Resource-Light Bantu Part-of-Speech Tagging
(2012)
Recent scientific publications on data-driven part-of-speech tagging of Sub-Saharan African languages have reported encouraging accuracy scores, using off-the-shelf tools and often fairly limited amounts of training data. ...