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Socioeconomic Determinants of Family Size in Nyeri District of Rural Kenya
(2010)
The objective of this article is to investigate the impact of social and economic factors on family size in rural Kenya and to draw public policy implications from the results. This is an important matter because the ...
Abiotic and herbaceous vegetational characteristics of an arid rangeland in Kenya
(2001)
A two-year study was conducted with an overall objective of characterising the structure and function of an arid rangeland in Kenya. A plot measuring 100 x 100m was used for this study. Data on rainfall and temperature ...
Breastfeeding and immunity to intestinal infections
(1995)
The purpose of this study was to compare immune response in breast and non breastfed children presenting with diarrhoea at Paediatric Observation Ward, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH-POW) and Maternal and Child Health ...
Psychosocial and health aspects of drug use by students in public secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2009-03)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of family, psychosocial, health, demographic, and behavioral characteristics on regular drug use. All the students of 17 randomly stratified public secondary schools ...
Cataract in children attending schools for the blind and resource centers in eastern Africa.
(2009)
The aim of this study was to describe results of a representative sample of children who have undergone cataract surgery in schools for the blind in 4 African countries.
Cross-sectional study.
Children enrolled ...
Placenta percreta with spontaneous rupture of the uterus before labour and a uterine carnual ring
(1981)
This research report studies several biochemical and histochemical aspects of cervical carcinoma and explores their use in follow-up of patients undergoing radiotherapy. Material came from 19 patients with invasive cervical ...
Early growth of very low birth weight infants
(2006)
Background: Early growth in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants has been found predictive of their later outcomes. This has led to increased interest in establishing measures to optimise such growth. In facilities without ...
Millennium Global Village-Net: bringing together Millennium Villages throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
(2009-12)
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), based at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up, community led approach to show how villages in developing countries can get out of the poverty trap that afflicts ...
Kinetics, distribution, and efficacy of ceftriaxone versus cefazolin in open heart surgery.
(1984)
The effects of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with hypothermia and systemic heparinization on ceftriaxone disposition were evaluated in seven male patients. A bolus dose of drug (14 mg/kg of body weight) was given, and blood ...
Susceptibility of Kenyan wheat varieties to head blight, fungal invation and Deoxynivalenol accumulation inoculated with Fusarium graminearum
(2002)
Fifteen wheat varieties commercially grown in Kenya were tested for their susceptibility to head blight and mycotoxin accumulation after inoculation with Fusarium gramineanuu in pot experiments. The strain or the pathogen ...