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Why Small Firms Stay Small Risk and Growth in Nairobi's Small-Scale manufacturing
(University of Nairobi, 1993)
Despite abundant literature on the social and economic benefits of encouraging tiny "informal" firms, scholars generally agree that larger enterprises create more unskilled jobs, use resources ...
High-frequency sum rules for the quasi-one-dimensional quantum plasma dielectric tensor. II. Spin effect
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1993-04)
We derive a high-frequency expansion for all elements of the quasi-one-dimensional quantum plasma dielectric tensor atT=0 K for quantum particles with spins. In addition to the known results for spinless case, we find that ...
Pharmacodynamic effects of depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) administered to lactating women on their male infants
(1996)
Normal postpartum women, who had a spontaneous vaginal delivery of one full-term male infant, free of congenital abnormalities and other diseases, were recruited for this study. Thirteen women received 150 mg depot-medro ...
Risk factors for invasive cervical cancer in Kenyan women
(1994)
BACKGROUND:
Few epidemiological investigations of invasive cervical cancer have been conducted in Sub-Saharan African populations.
METHODS:
Using information collected as part of the hospital-based World Health Organization ...
Thyroid hormone profiles in patients with chronic renal failure on conservative management and regular haemodialysis.
(1992)
Patients with chronic non-thyroid illness (NTI) generally show biochemical features of hypothyroidism despite their being clinically euthyroid. Using assays that employ the antibody coated tubes technique, we measured ...
Tryptophan metabolism and vitamin B6 nutritional status in patients with schistosomiasis mansoni and in infected mice.
(1992)
Patients infected with Schistosoma mansoni showed an abnormal response to a test dose of tryptophan, with little increase in the urinary excretion of kynurenine, hydroxykynurenine, xanthurenic and kynurenic acids, N1-methyl ...
A new design of membrane feeder incorporating an electrical blood stirring device.
(1976)
A selection of the literature illustrating the origin and development of membrane feeding devices is reviewed. A new membrane feeding device-incorporating an electrical stirrer is described and its mode of operation ...
Evaluation and surgical treatment of solitary thyroid nodules.
(, 1995)
This is a prospective study based on 146 consecutive thyroidectomies over a two year period (July 1990 to June 1992). All patients with solitary thyroid nodules which were suspicious or equivocal on fine needle aspiration ...
Does shortening matter after clavicular fractures?
(1999)
Healing of clavicular fractures with shortening of 15 mm or more has been associated with poor function and open reduction and internal fixation has been recommended as the appropriate initial treatment. We studied 41 ...
Factors that determine utilization of modern contraceptives in East, Central and southern Africa
(1996)
A cross-sectional study to determine modern contraceptives utilization among women aged between 15 and 19 years was performed between September and October, 1991 in 5 countries of East Central and Southern Africa. The study ...