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Does the environment in which ICT-based market information services (MIS) projects operate affect their performance? Experiences from Kenya
(2010)
The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICTbased
MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of
smallholder agriculture and ...
Growth rates of ferromanganese encrustations on rocks from the Romanche Fracture Zone, Equatorial Atlantic
(1992)
Based on radiochemical techniques, ferromanganese oxide crusts from the Romanche
Fracture Zone (RFZ) have accretion rates ranging between 1.4 and 2.8 mm/10 years. In
comparison with other ferromanganese deposits, the ...
Outcome of intervention with or without low dose oral interferon alpha in thirty-two HIV-1 seropositive patients in a referral hospital
(University of Nairobi, 1990-07)
Thirty two critically ill patients were admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital with a diagnosis of HIV-1 seropositivity on both ELISA and Western Blot between October 1989 and January 1990. Sixteen of the patients received ...
Angles of branching and the diameters of pulmonary arteries in relation to the distribution of pulmonary lesions in canine dirofilariasis
(University of Nairobi, 1983-11)
Latex casts were made of the pulmonary arteries in 10 normal dogs. These casts were used to measure the angles of deviation of the right and left pulmonary arteries from the pulmonary trunk. The measurements were made in ...
Factors Influencing Education and Age at First Marriage in an Arid Region: The Case of the Borana of Marsabit district, Kenya
(2000-04)
The role of education in development is widely recognized in many countries. However, the value placed on formal education differs from one community to the next. In this paper I argue that among the Borana pastoralists ...
Women In Conflict Management: How Traditional Roles And Perceptions Have Been A Hindrance
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
One of the major challenges we continue to face at
the close of the twentieth century is the real
involvement of women in all sectors of society. For
a long time this has been considered as a
small issue. But with the ...
Financing Medical Care through Insurance: Policy Lessons from Household- and Community-Level Analysis in Kenya
(2002)
Medical insurance is an important feature of a health care system in which patients pay user charges to get medical treatment. Without insurance, many people would not afford acceptable care in a fee-for-service system. ...
Healthcare priority setting in Kenya: A gap analysis applying the accountability for reasonableness framework
(2013)
In resource-poor settings, the accountability for reasonableness (A4R) has been identified as an important advance in priority setting that helps to operationalize fair priority setting in specific contexts. The four ...
Teachers' experiences in teaching evolution
(University of Nairobi, 2011-07)
Although prehistory and evolutionary studies are included in the Kenyan secondary school biology and history subjects, lack of consistent up-dating of the syllabi and sheer ignorance by a very large cross-section of teachers ...
History of Paleontological research in the Narok District of Kenya,
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
The geology of the Narok District of southern Kenya was first studied in the 1960s. From 1994 through 2005 more extensive paleontological and geological research was conducted on a series of late Miocene sediments of the ...