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Baseline Morbidity in 2,990 Adult African Volunteers Recruited to Characterize Laboratory Reference Intervals for Future HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials
(2008-04)
Background: An understanding of the health of potential volunteers in Africa is essential for the safe and efficient conduct
of clinical trials, particularly for trials of preventive technologies such as vaccines that ...
HIV-Exposed seronegative commercial sex workers show a quiescent phenotype in the CD4+ T cell compartment and reduced expression of HIV-dependent host factors
(2010)
Studies of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–exposed seronegative individuals are crucial to informvaccine
design. In the present study we demonstrated that HIV-exposed seronegative commercial sex workers produce
lower ...
Dynamic Resource Allocation: A comparison of First Price Sealed Bid and Vickrey Auctions
(2008)
Resource allocation involves assigning the resources to the resource users. Where the resources and the
resource users do not change with time, the resource allocation problem can be solved as a scheduling
problem. Where ...
Gestation thytoxicosis associated with emesis in early pregnancy
(2009-02)
Objectives: To determine the thyroid profile and the prevalence of gestational
thyrotoxicosis among women with emesis during early pregnancy.
Design: A descriptive cross - sectional study.
Setting: Kenyatta National ...
Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis:
(2010)
Salmonellosis is associated with massive public health and economic losses globally. It is estimated to cost poultry farmers in the United States of America up to US$114 million annually. Attempts to develop effective ...
Traditional herbal medicine in national healthcare in Kenya
(2005)
Herbal medicine is becoming increasingly popular all over the world. There are studies suggesting that herbal therapies can be effective in mating certain conditions. This has been confirmed by the classic randomized, ...
Wild Edible Fruits of lmportance for Human Nutrition in Semiarid Parts of East ShewaZone, Ethiopia: Associated lndigenous Knowledge and lmplications to Food SecuritY
(2011)
Nutrient value assessments and ethnobotanical studies of three wild edible fruit species [Ziziphus spina-christi (L) Oesf., Balanites aegyptiaca (L) Del., Grewia flavescens A. Juss.J, were carried out from October 2009 ...
Termite assemblage structure on Grazing lands in Semi-arid Nakasongola
(2011)
Termites are regarded as the primary cause of vegetation denudation in semi-arid
Nakasongola, Uganda. Despite their damage to ecosystem functioning, there have been
little efforts devoted to the description of the termite ...
Improving Hydrological Responses of Degraded Soils in Semi Arid Kenya
(2010)
A study was conducted to establish the conhibution of reseeding using
indigenous perennial grass (Bush rye) and Cenchrus ciliaris (African foxtail
grass) in improving soil hydrological properties and thus controlling ...
Rainfall distribution over Nairobi area
(University of Nairobi, Department of Meteorology, 2007)
The distribution of rainfall in time and space over Nairobi area is analysed for the 31-year base period
between 1960 and 1990. The high-resolution limited-area numerical model, Geesthacht Simulation Model of
the Atmosphere ...