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A Community Health Worker Program for the Prevention of Malaria in Eastern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
Objective: To assess whether the development and implementation of a community health worker (CHW) project in rural Kenya was associated with an increase in knowledge about malaria and the use of insecticide-treated nets ...
Assessment of soft X-ray imaging for detection of fungal infection in wheat
(Elsevier, 2009)
The potential of soft X-ray imaging to detect fungal infection in wheat was investigated. Healthy wheat kernels and kernels infected with the common storage fungi namely Aspergillus niger, A. glaucus group, and Penicillium ...
Searching for New Opportunities from the International Space Station, and Using Them in Eastern Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
Universal acceptance of new opportunities from the International Space Station depends upon the meanings that such new opportunities have for members of the global family. While some members in the family are able to connect ...
Savanna ecosystems and origins of modern human behaviour.
(University of Nairobi, 2005)
Biotic and abiotic factors interact to influence plant and animal community structures, which in turn, influence human subsistence, land use, mobility, population density, territorial organization and social structure. ...
Pliocene and Pleistocene sites in southern Narok District, southKenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1997)
Survey in southwest Kenya above the western margin of the Gregory Rift Valley since 1994 has led to the discovery of LSA, MSA, Acheulean and possible Oldowan occurrences, as well as fossil-bearing sites representative of ...
Public Accountability Ideals in Kenya and Realities in Public Service Delivery
(2013-04-18)
The post-1990 wave of democratization and public sector reforms brought the concept of public accountability into the limelight. Prior to this, most countries in Africa had poor records of public accountability. Since the ...
Plant remains from a Sirikwa culture site at Hyrax Hill, Nakuru
(University of Nairobi, 1992)
This article reports a preliminary examination of plant remains and the tentative implications that have so far been deduced from them. The plant samples were acquired by archaeological excavations at one of the Hyrax ...
Factors associated with Theileria parva infections in small-holder dairy farms in Murang'a District, Kenya
(2002)
The association between serum antibody titres to Theileria parva in calves and potential explanatory factors were examined in a longitudinal observational study that was conducted in 5 cohorts of female calves with a total ...
Recycling of wastes as a strategy for environmental conservation in the Lake Victoria Basin: The case of women groups in Kisumu, Kenya
(2008-10)
This paper examines the roles, opportunities and challenges that women groups in Kisumu City face as
they recycle polythene papers and water hyacinth plant materials to make various saleable products
such as bags, mats ...
Wave propagation in quasi-one-dimensional quantum plasma in a magnetic field
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1988)
A cold electron gas fills the lowest Landau level for high enough magnetic fields and for low enough densities. Such a situation is expected to occur for the Malmberg-O'Neil experiment and also for pulsar crusts and ...