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Comparative analysis of the small scale economic activities in two neighbourhoods of nairobi city: Kariobangi and Makadara
(University of Nairobi, 1992)
This study examines the economic performance of the planned
and unplanned small scale economic activities in low income
neighbourhoods of the city of Nairobi. Most studies on the
subject have tended to raise the need ...
Economic - social - political aspects of illicit drug use in Kenya
(1997)
The issues relating to illicit drug production, trafficking and consumption have been a
subject of three major conventions of the United Nations (UN.): the U.N. (1961).
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs; later amended ...
Lay people’s responses to illness: An ethnographic study of anti-malaria behavior among the Abagusii of southwestern Kenya
(1998-12)
Malaria is re-emerging with a vengeance after near eradication a generation ago. In
Africa, it kills between 1 and 2 million people, mostly children, each year and many more
are incapacitated leading to enormous human ...
Raingauge network designs for Uganda
(1991)
The effective use of rainfall informations for all
water use activities can only be derived from well designed
raingauge networks. The objective of this study was to
design raingauge networks for Uganda. Two basic ...
Prevalence of pica consumption among pregnant women from lower and higher economic groups.
(1993-08)
An interesting phenomenon has been observed amongst pregnant women world wide,
spanning over a number of decades; This is the consumption of non-food substances like
soil, clay, chalk and many others. This practice is ...
Genetic and environmental aspects of reproductive perforhance and pre-weaning growth of three pig breeds in large-scale herds in Kenya
(1991)
Data on reproductive performance and pre-weaning growth
of pigs from three large scale herds in Kenya were studied to
evaluate means and the effects of genetic and environmental
factors on sow and piglet performance. ...
Breeding for resistance to bean common mosaic virus, halo bllght, pseudomonas phaseolicola and anthracnose, colletotrichum lidemutttlenum in common bean (phaseolus vulgaris L.)
(University of Nairobi, 1991)
Five popular bean cultivars susceptible to bean common mosaic virus, halo blight
Pseudomonas phaseolicola and anthracnose Colletotrichum lindemuthianum were
crossed in a dial lei with two other cultivars resistant to ...