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Supporting Entrepreneurship Education in East Africa
(2013-02)
The University of Nairobi School of Business and Plymouth University Business School were commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to assess the capacity of business schools and other institutions ...
Spatial coherence and potential predictability assessment of intraseasonal statistics of wet and dry spells over Equatorial Eastern Africa
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2012)
The aim of this study was to derive components of the intraseasonal rainfall variations from the daily rainfall
in the Equatorial Eastern Africa region and assess their spatial coherence, a pointer to their potential ...
Right from primary school, I liked science: understanding health research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa through Kenyan training experiences.
(2014)
Defining research career paths that enable Africans to address local and global health issues is essential for population health. This study was conducted to better understand how international health training programs ...
Feeding dairy cattle in East Africa.
(2012)
This book contains 9 chapters that discuss the nutrient requirements of dairy cows; pasture management; forage production and utilization; supplements and additives; feeding calves, heifers and cows; ration formulation; ...
Human Evolution and Migration in a Variable Environment: The Amplifier Lakes of East Africa
(2013-06-23)
The development of the Cenozoic East African Rift System (EARS) profoundly re-shaped the landscape and significantly increased the amplitude of short-term environmental response to climate variation. In particular, the ...
Prevalence of aflatoxin contamination in cereals from Nandi county, Kenya
(2015)
Aflatoxins are secondary fungal metabolites that contaminate cereals, other crops and animal
source foods and are a recognized health risk. Kenya has had several outbreaks of aflatoxicosis
affecting humans and pets. The ...
Mapping aflatoxin risk from milk consumption using biophysical and socio-economic data: a case study of Kenya
(2016)
This research reports a mapping of aflatoxin risk in the milk value chain in Kenya using a geographic information systems (GIS) approach. The objective was to spatially locate regions at risk by taking into account biophysical ...
Kenyan Women Medical Doctors and Their Motivations to Pursue International Research Training
(Wolters Kluwer, 2013)
There is a need to understand the factors that influence African women medical doctors to pursue international health research
training because they remain under-represented in research fields but increasingly represented ...
DNA species surveillance: Monitoring bushmeat poaching and trading in Kenya using partial
(2012)
DNA species identification has applications in such areas as forensic science, systematics,conservation genetics and agriculture. One key anthropogenic activity threatening large wildlife fauna is illegal exploitation. In ...