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Oral health status among Kenyans in a rural arid setting: dental caries experience and knowledge on its causes
(2006)
OBJECTIVE: To determine the dental caries experience and knowledge on the causes and preventive measures for dental diseases. DESIGN: A community based cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING: Elwak sub-district hospital, ...
Kenya: Urban Settlements and Development Profile
(2006)
This paper presents a development pro¬file of a sample of urban settlements in Kenya. Kenya is experiencing very rapid population growth, particularly in urban areas. The number and size of urban settlements has grown ...
Effect of human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection on treatment outcome of acute salpingitis
(2006)
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection on treatment outcome of laparoscopically verified acute salpingitis.
METHODS:
Women aged 18-40 years with laparoscopically verified ...
Millennium development goal 5: a review of maternal mortality at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
(2006)
OBJECTIVES:
To review if there is a change in the maternal mortality rate at the Kenyatta National Hospital since the inception of the Millennium Development Goal strategy in 1990, compared to earlier reviews.
DESIGN:
A ...
Secondary and tertiary isoquinoline alkaloids from Xylopia parviflora.
(2006)
From the secondary and tertiary alkaloidal fractions of the root and the bark of Xylopia parviflora (Annonaceae), the isoquinoline alkaloids, 10,11-dihydroxy-1,2-dimethoxynoraporphine and parvinine were isolated, along ...
Meeting the methodological challenges of context and subjectivity in information systems research
(2006-07)
Information systems research in developing countries is limited by the absence of adequate frameworks to characterize their contexts, leading to preoccupation with IS project failure. A critical realist framework based on ...
Covariance differences of linealy representable sequences in Hilbert spaces
(2006)
The paper introduces the concepts of covariance differences of a sequence and establishes its relationship with the covariance function. One of the main results of this paper is the criteria of linear represent-ability of ...
Shattered Grain Loss Attributable to the Combine Harvester Reel
(2006)
Losses
of
grain
in
the
field,
which
occur
with
the
use
of
the
header,
combine
and
windrower,
have
caused
much
concern
to
farmers
and
research
workers.
Bracken
(2)
reported
that
the
combine
...
Transition from Brittle Failure to Ductile Flow of a luvisol Soil
(2006)
A comprehensive programme of triaxial compression tests was carried out on unsaturated samples of a sand, a loam soil and a clay. The samples were prepared under laboratory conditions in two microstructural states where ...
Systemic mastocytosis associated with liver failure in an adult German shepherd dog
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Ectoparasitism is an important factor associated with poor production of village indigenous chickens. A cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the prevalence of ectoparasites in free ranging indigenous chicken ...