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Perspectives of young men on induced abortion in Kiambaa division, Kiambu District Kenya
(2004-05)
Context:Induced abortions are a major public health problem because they contribute to high
maternal morbidity and mortality in Kenya. In many countries including Kenya, abortion is illegal except
on medical grounds ...
Studies on the microflora in suusac, a Kenyan traditional fermented camel milk product
(2004)
The purpose of the study was to determine the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and yeasts associated with the traditional fermented camel milk product (suusac) of the Somali community in Kenya. The traditional method of suusac ...
Nutritional and micronutrient (vitamin A, Iron, and Zinc) status of children aged 9-59 months: a comparative study of kitchen and non-kitchen gardening households in ngong division, Kajiado district, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
The study sought to assess the potential of kitchen gardening on improving the nutritional
and micronutrient status of the study population. The specific objective was to compare the
nutritional and micronutrient status ...
Case Records And Commentaries
(University of Nairobi, 2004-05)
Ex-ante evaluation of the economic potential of herbicide coated maize seed in the control of striga weed in Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This study was motivated by the need to find out whether the farmers could increase their
maize production and profits through Striga control using herbicide-coated maize seed
technology. The major objective was to ...
Structural adjustment programmes and provision of higher education in sub-saharan Africa
(University of Nairobi, CEES, Kenya, 2004)
Public spending on education can be a strong instrument for equity
expanding opportunities and raising the living standards for all, and especially for the poorest. This is the rationale behind government subsidizing ...
A morpho-syntactic analysis of agreement in Gikuyu in the minimalist program
(University of Nairobi, CEES, Kenya, 2004)
The main concern of this study was to analyze agreement in Glkuyu nouns and verbs. The noun and verb movements were analyzed for feature checking under the Minimalist Program
Chapter one mainly introduces the tenets and ...
Software acquisition guidelines: The case of Kenyan private organizations and government institutions
(2004)
Software acquisition IS an everyday reality for individuals and corporate
organizations. Unlike most capital investments, software quickly becomes a liability,
regardless of the initial presentation of facility. The ...
Support Vector And Relevance Vector Machines: A Comparison And Their Use For Data Reduction
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Most machine learning algorithms suffer from the problems of over-fitting, complexity in
terms of computational time and memory storage due large training sets sizes. Two recent
kernel methods that have been developed ...