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To plant or protect: evaluating forest recovery dynamics under natural and aided regeneration in Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013-08)
Forest degradation remains a serious problem in Kenya, but opinion is divided on whether to protect
degraded forests in order to facilitate natural regeneration or plant th
em to accelerate forest recovery. ...
Engaging pregnant women in Kenya with a hybrid computer-human SMS communication system
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
A growing body of HCI4D research studies the use of SMS communication to deliver health and information services to underserved populations. This paper contributes a novel dimension to this field of study by examining if ...
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Normalisation of Less-Resourced Languages
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This paper describes the stages involved in implementing a corpus of spoken Irish. This pilot project (consisting of approximately
140K words of transcribed data) implements part of the design of a larger corpus of spoken ...
Introduction of hybrid rice seeds to Kenyan farmer a promising reality
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Photoperiod-sensitive genic male sterile (PGMS) rice lines are male sterile in long day-light length and revert to fertile under short day-light length growth conditions. On the other hand Thermosensitive genic male sterile ...
Characterization of C_00 Contractions and their invariant subspaces, corrected manuscript re-submitted to Opuscula Mathematica, paper under review.
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
This paper investigates the possibilities of applying emerging management theories and techniques to constitutionally created offices in Kenya and East African region. The benefits from application of these theories, ...
Red hot compounds from the red hot poker plant, kniphofia, and related taxa
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
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 have been isolated ...
Antimalarial drug discovery through in silico scaffold hopping using a database of natural products of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Despite the efforts to 'roll back malaria', statistics still shows that there are 97 countries and
territories with ongoing malaria transmission, and 7 countries i
n the prevention or ...
In silico structure of the 40s ribosomal subunit from plasmodium falciparum as drug targetby homology and de novo modeling
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The ribosome is an immensely important target for development of therapeutics. However,
current
X
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ray methods for obtaining three
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dimensional structures of the ribosome are slow and tedious.
Methods ...
Synthesis of structurally modified dipyrromethene complexes as new photodynamic therapy agents for cancer
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The ground
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state structures and binding energies of the metal cations to dipyrromethene (DIPY)
based ligands are determined using density functional theory (DFT) methods. Two lanthanide
metal ...
Two flavonoids and a rearranged clerodane diterpenoid from the leaf exudates of microglossa pyrifolia
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The fresh leaves of
Microglossa pyrifolia
, Asteraceae
(7.5 kg) were extracted by successive
dipping into fresh portions of ethyl acetate for short periods (less than or ca. 15 s) to yield (180 g,
2.4% ...