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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 ...
Over three decades of phytochemistry-where are the phytomedicines?
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
In our Natural Products research at the Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, we have
studied many medicinal plants from different t
axa
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families, genera and species. We have isolated
pure compounds ...
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% ...
Sac 520:Project in actuarial science.Equity insurance in Kenya
(2012)
Share prices are extremely volatile and therefore despite the chances of very high returns, there
are chances of huge losses in the event the price of the asset under discussion goes down. In the
European, Asian and ...