Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "East Africa"
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Prevalence of aflatoxin contamination in cereals from Nandi county, Kenya
(2015)Aflatoxins are secondary fungal metabolites that contaminate cereals, other crops and animal source foods and are a recognized health risk. Kenya has had several outbreaks of aflatoxicosis affecting humans and pets. The ... -
Quasi-periodic patterns in the East African rainfall records
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1982)In this study East African rainfall records within the period 1922-80 were subjected to spectral analysis in order to examine whether the fluctuations in rainfall during 1922-80 exhibited any periodic or quasi-periodic ... -
Recent Trends of Minimum and Maximum Surface Temperatures over Eastern Africa
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 2000-08)This study investigated recent trends in the mean surface minimum and maximum air temperatures over eastern Africa by use of both graphical and statistical techniques. Daily records for 71 stations for the period \939-92 were ... -
Right from primary school, I liked science: understanding health research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa through Kenyan training experiences.
(2014)Defining research career paths that enable Africans to address local and global health issues is essential for population health. This study was conducted to better understand how international health training programs ... -
Self-deception does not explain high-risk sexual behavior in the face of HIV/AIDS: A test from northern Kenya
(Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3050, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P5Department of Community Health, University of Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Anthropology, University of Washington, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98195-3100, USA, 2006)Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, there is resistance to changing sexual behavior despite survey data indicating high levels of knowledge about HIV transmission patterns and high-risk behavior. Previous explanations for this ... -
Spatial coherence and potential predictability assessment of intraseasonal statistics of wet and dry spells over Equatorial Eastern Africa
(Royal Meteorological SocietyMeteorology, 2012)The aim of this study was to derive components of the intraseasonal rainfall variations from the daily rainfall in the Equatorial Eastern Africa region and assess their spatial coherence, a pointer to their potential ... -
Stochastic modelling of regional annual rainfall anomalies in East Africa
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1986)ARIMA (p, d, q) models were fitted to areal annual rainfall of two homogeneous regions in East Africa with rainfall records extending between the period 1922-80. The areal estimates of the regional rainfall were derived ... -
Strengthening Agricultural Education in Africa: The Approach of the Forum for Agricultural Resource Husbandry
(2000)The attainment of sustainable food security in sub-Saharan Africa requires the efforts of a large cadre of well-trained agricultural resource specialists familiar with the constraints and perspectives of smallhold farmers ... -
Supporting Entrepreneurship Education in East Africa
(School of Business, University of NairobiDean Plymouth Business School, United Kingdom, 2013-02)The University of Nairobi School of Business and Plymouth University Business School were commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to assess the capacity of business schools and other institutions ... -
Teleconnection between Seasonal Rainfall over East Africa and Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1988)In this study, global sea surface temperature anomalies within ±300 latitudes of the equator were correlated with the time series of the major rotated principal component analysis (RPCA) modes of the seasonal rainfall ... -
Temporal fluctuations of seasonal rainfall patterns in East Africa
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1984)In order to investigate temporal fluctuations in the seasonal rainfall over East Africa, monthly rainfall records from about 100 stations during" the period 1931 -75 were subjected to harmonic analysis on the yearly ... -
Therapeutic strategies and traditional medical knowledge of the people of Bar Chando sublocation, Bondo District, Kenya
(Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, KenyaThe Catholic University of Eastern, Nairobi, Department of Social Sciences,, 2001)The AA. examine the various ways through which the people of Bar Chando sublocation conceptualise, apprehend and experience disease as well as how they organize themselves in attempt to achieve good medical care. Disease ... -
Transmission intensity and the immunoepidemiology of bancroftian filariasis in East Africa
(2001)Previous attempts to determine the interactions between filariasis transmission intensity, infection and chronic disease have been limited by a lack of a theoretical framework that allows the explicit examination of ...