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Man and elephant: spatial planning For implementation of new land use Patterns in Taita Taveta District
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
The Luhya community of Kenya has a saying, which goes that, "whoever sleeps with an
elephant must have strong ribs". Literary this can be translated to mean that whoever
decides to co-exist with an elephant must be ...
Ablation of left ventricular epicardial outflow tract tachycardia from the distal great cardiac vein
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility and safety of ablation of idiopathic outflow tract ventricular tachycardia (OTVT) from the distal ramifications of the coronary sinus (CS).
A significant minority ...
Perspective. Rice Development in sub - Saharan Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Factors affecting the use of modern prenatal and maternity services in got Agulu sub-location, Western Kenya
(2006)
A main goal of the Kenyan government’s Safe Motherhood Initiative is to increase the number of babies delivered in modern health facilities. Mothers are encouraged to
begin prenatal care visits early in their pregnancy ...
Sensitivity of global river discharges under Holocene and future climate conditions
(2006)
A comparative analysis of global river basins shows
that some river discharges are more sensitive to future
climate change for the coming century than to natural
cliniate variability over the last 9000 years. In these ...
Use of Ethnobotanical Data in the Search for and Identification of Potential Drug Plants
(2006)
Traditional medicine has utilized plants to palliate, cure and/or prevent diseases in both humans and animals. The acquisition of knowledge has been through trial and error, and observation. Today, the enhanced search for ...
Health Research Profile to assess the capacity of low and middle income countries for equity-oriented research
(Univesity of Nairobi, 2006)
Background
The Commission on Health Research for Development concluded that "for the most vulnerable people, the benefits of research offer a potential for change that has gone largely untapped." This project was designed ...
The bradley-terry model for handling categorical response variables from farmer participatory trials
(Pushpa publishing house, 2006)
This paper looks at responses from participatory on-farm farmer
participatory trials that are often measured as ratings (farmers score
each given treatment on a scale that is ordered but arbitrary) or
rankings (where ...
Computerized tomographic measurement of the cervical pedicles diameter in a Malaysian population and the feasibility for transpedicular fixation.
(University of Nairobi, 2006-04)
STUDY DESIGN:
The cervical pedicle diameter size differs between Asians and non-Asians. The authors studied the transverse pedicle diameter of the C2-C7 of the cervical spine in a Malaysian population using computerized ...
Computed tomographic morphometry of thoracic pedicles: safety margin of transpedicular screw fixation in malaysian malay population.
(University of Nairobi, 2006-07)
STUDY DESIGN:
A cross-sectional study of thoracic pedicle morphometry (T1-T12) of 180 Malaysian Malay patients obtained from computed tomographic scan.
OBJECTIVES:
To determine the safety margin in the placement of ...