Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "East Africa"

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    • The Abnormal and unseasonal rains in East Africa 

      Odingo, Richard S (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 1962)

    • Application of geophysics in the search for metallic ores in Western Kenya 

      Barongo, JO (Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, 1984)

    • Application of the NCAR regional climate model to eastern Africa 1. Simulation of the short rains of 1988 

      Sun, L Q; Semazzi, Fredrick H M; Giorgi, Filippo; Ogallo, Laban (Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 1999)
      The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Regional Climate Model (RegCM2) is employed to investigate the physical mechanisms that govern the October-December rains over eastern Africa. The model employs the ...

    • Beach erosion: case studies on the East African coast 

      Arthurton, R S (1992-10)
      Marine erosion of late Holocene beach deposits is a common problem 011 the equatorial coasts of the western Indian Ocean, damaging or threatening tourism-related investment and communication infrastructure. The problem ...

    • The changing conceptions and focus of health research in East Africa 

      Langat Simon K.; Onyatta John O. (Chemistry, 2006-06)
      Perceptions in health research are a product of the circumstances within the society, where the research activities are situated. In East Africa there has been a change in conceptualization over a period of time from an ...

    • China, region-centric infrastructure drives and regionalism in Africa 

      Otele, Oscar M (Routledge, 2020-11-30)
      This article provides a structural reading of the complexities of region-centric infrastructure drives, African regionalism and the role of China. Four structural layers underlying China’s engagement in the region are ...

    • China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Intra-Regional Dynamics in Africa 

      Otele, Oscar M (BRILL, 2020-10-20)
      This article examines the influence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on intra-regional dynamics. Given that the BRI traverses many countries, what has not been fully addressed in the literature is how the ...

    • Control of protozoal diseases in eastern Africa: The case for environmental consideration 

      Gathuma, J M (Department of Public Health, pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Nairobi, 1986)
      Malaria, African trypanosomiasis, theileriosis, babesiosis and coccidiosis are of great public health and/or economic importance in eastern Africa. Leishmaniasis is an increasing problem in this area and other protozoal ...

    • Digestive physiology of East African wild ruminants. 

      Maloiy, GMO (Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, 1983)
      The physiology of digestion of wild ruminants in their natural habitat was determined. The study consisted of fifty-one adult male animals representing sixteen species. While diet and body weight were both related to the ...

    • DNA species surveillance: Monitoring bushmeat poaching and trading in Kenya using partial 

      Kimwele, C. N.; Karisa, B. K.; Stokes, M.; Junga, J. O.; Hanotte, O.; Skilton, R. A.; McElroy, D. (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 2012)
      DNA species identification has applications in such areas as forensic science, systematics,conservation genetics and agriculture. One key anthropogenic activity threatening large wildlife fauna is illegal exploitation. In ...

    • Feeding dairy cattle in East Africa. 

      Lukuyu, B; Gachuiri, C K; Lukuyu, M N; Lusweti, C; Mwendia, S (Department of Animal Production, University of Nairobi, 2012)
      This book contains 9 chapters that discuss the nutrient requirements of dairy cows; pasture management; forage production and utilization; supplements and additives; feeding calves, heifers and cows; ration formulation; ...

    • HIV/AIDS risk and worry in Northern Kenya 

      Fujita, Masako; Ngugi, Elizabeth N; Rotha, Eric Abella (Department of Public Health, 2009)
      Data from a 2003 survey of sexual behaviour (n = 400) conducted in the Ariaal community of Karare, Marsabit District, northern Kenya, were used to delineate patterns of risk and worry about contracting HIV/AIDS. Despite ...

    • Human Evolution and Migration in a Variable Environment: The Amplifier Lakes of East Africa 

      Odada, Eric; Trauth, Martin H.; Maslin, Mark A.; Bergner, Andreas G.N.; Deino, Alan; Junginger, Annett; Olago, Daniel O.; Olaka, Lydia; Strecker, Manfred R. (2013-06-23)
      The development of the Cenozoic East African Rift System (EARS) profoundly re-shaped the landscape and significantly increased the amplitude of short-term environmental response to climate variation. In particular, the ...

    • Indigenous Snake Bite Remedies of the Luo of Western Kenya 

      Owuor, BO.; Mulemi, BA.; Kokwaro, JO. (Society of EthnobiologyCatholic University of Eastern AfricaUniversity of Nairobi, Kenya, 2005)
      Medicinal plants have been overtaken in the treatment of snake bites by serum therapy and are rarely considered efficacious remedies in biomedicine. Nevertheless, rural inhabitants rely on plant medical material and the ...

    • Kenyan Women Medical Doctors and Their Motivations to Pursue International Research Training 

      Joseph, Daniels; Nduati, Ruth; Farquhar, Carey (Wolters Kluwer, 2013)
      There is a need to understand the factors that influence African women medical doctors to pursue international health research training because they remain under-represented in research fields but increasingly represented ...

    • Mapping aflatoxin risk from milk consumption using biophysical and socio-economic data: a case study of Kenya 

      Ochungo, P; Lindahl, JF; Kayano, T; Sirma, AJ; Senerwa, DM; Kiama, TN; Grace, D (2016)
      This research reports a mapping of aflatoxin risk in the milk value chain in Kenya using a geographic information systems (GIS) approach. The objective was to spatially locate regions at risk by taking into account biophysical ...

    • Molar proportions of volatile fatty acids in the gastrointestinal tract of East African wild ruminants. 

      Clemens, ET; Maloiy, GMO; Sutton, JD (Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, 1983)
      The molar proportions of seven individual VFA's were determined at select sites along the gastrointestinal tract of sixteen species of East African wild ruminants. The resulting data were statistically analyzed for species ...

    • The new local level politics in East Africa: studies on Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya 

      Karuti, K; Peter, G; Kiondo, ASZ; Per, T (1994)
      This research report consists of three studies: Per Tidemand's Ugandan study concentrates on the politics of the new representative local state institutions which emerged in 1986. Andrew Kiondo's Tanzania study focuses on ...

    • Oldowan raw material procurement and use: Evidence from the Koobi Fora formatlon 

      Braun, D R; Harris, J W K; Maina, D N (Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology, University of Nairobi, 2009)
      Raw material availability has been shown to be a major factor affecting the material culture of Oldowan tool users. Studies of artefact provenance often focus on site-specific raw material availability. Here, we use data ...

    • PREP-PAC: a nutrient replenishment product designed for smallholders in western Kenya 

      Mukhwana, Eusebius J; Nekesa, Patrick; Mwaura, Francis M; Obura, Pamela A; Maritim, Henry K; Okalebo, J Robert; Woomer, Paul L (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2003-12)
      Continuous cropping in the absence of external nutrient inputs to soils has led to the expression of poorly productive patches in farmers’ fields of western Kenya. Farmers attempting to correct these conditions are often ...