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Characteristics of Lactation Curves of the Kenya Alpine Dairy Goats in Smallholder Farms
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Lactation curves are a graphical representation of the milk production profile of a doe from parturition to drying up. Their shape provides information about the productivity of the doe and offers a means of explaining ...
Characterization of Vibrio cholerae Bacteriophages Isolated from the Environmental Waters of the Lake Victoria Region of Kenya
(2013)
Over the last decade, cholera outbreaks have become common in some parts of Kenya. The most recent cholera outbreak occurred in Coastal and Lake Victoria region during January 2009 and May 2010, where a total of 11,769 ...
Analysis of the single toggle jaw crusher kinematics
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Purpose
– This paper aims to obtain equations that can be used to describe the motion of any given point in the swing jaw of a single toggle jaw crusher.
Design/methodology/approach
– The swing jaw drive mechanism of ...
Combing ability of maize (Zea Mays) inbred lines resistant to striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth evaluated under artificial striga infestation
(University of Nairobi, Faculty of Agriculture, 2014-04-17)
The parasitic weed Striga affects maize on an estimated 20 million ha in Africa, making it a major cause of maize yield reduction from near world average of 4.2t/ha few decades ago to the present 1.5 t/ha. The objectives ...
Marker Assisted Selection for Drought Tolerance and Striga Resistance: Introgressing Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) in Farmer Preferred Varieties of Sorghum
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012, 2012-02)
In Sub-Saharan Africa, sorghum is the second most widely grown cereal crop after maize. Sorghum is largely grown in the marginal, arid and semi-arid areas where annual rainfall is very low, erratic, poorly distributed and ...
The confirmation of Peste des petit ruminants(PPR) in Kenya and perception of the disease in West Pokot
(Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, 2014)
Marakwet district is an arid district in Kenya where livestock keeping is a major activity. There have been severe outbreaks of PPR in Kenya since when it was first suspected in 1992 and confirmed in Turkana District in ...
Engineering Science and Technology Research Journal (ESTR Journal)
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
The University of Nairobi School of Engineering journal Engineering Science and Technology Research Journal (ESTR Journal) publishes scholarly articles in the field of engineering and other applied sciences. The journal ...
Journal of AICM 2014
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Design of a 50w power amplifier driven by an active 4-way cross-over network and a pre-amplifier
(University of Nairobi, 2015-04)
Most speaker boxes have an electronic circuit inside them called a crossover. Its job is to split the
sound into frequency ranges; it sends the low frequency sounds to the woofer, and the high
frequency sounds to the ...