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Exploring the sawa corpus: collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English—Swahili
(Springer, 2011)
Research in machine translation and corpus annotation has greatly benefited from the increasing availability of word-aligned parallel corpora. This paper presents ongoing research on the development and application of the ...
Effects of employee perception of planned change strategy of selected firms in the Kenyan insurance industry: A case of Madison insurance and co-operative insurance companies
(University of Nairobi, 2011-03-13)
The study examines the employees’ perception of strategic change in the Madison Insurance Company and Co-operative Insurance Company in Kenya. The objective of the study was to identify whether employee perception affects ...
Impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on malaria transmission indices on the south coast of Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2011-12)
BACKGROUND:
Besides significantly reducing malaria vector densities, prolonged usage of bed nets has been linked to decline of Anopheles gambiae s.s. relative to Anopheles arabiensis, changes in host feeding preference ...
The Effect of Organic-Based Nutrient Management Strategies on Soil Nutrient Availability and Maize Performance in Njoro, Kenya
(2011)
A field experiment based on the concept of organic nutrient management was conducted in Njoro, Kenya, to test the effect of improved legume fallows, crotalaria (CR), lablab (LB), garden pea (GP) and natural fallow (NF, as ...
Africa’s Experiences with responding to Climate change: A look at the relevant institutions
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
MUC1-C oncoprotein promotes STAT3 activation in an autoinductive regulatory loop.
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is activated in human breast cancer and other malignancies. Mucin 1 (MUC1) is a heterodimeric cell surface glycoprotein that is overexpressed in human carcinomas ...
Lake Naivasha, Kenya: Ecology, Society and Future
(Freshwater Biological Association, 2011)
We examine the degradation of the natural capital and ecosystem services of an important
tropical lake, Kenya’s Lake Naivasha, in the context of human activities and exploitation since the
mid-20th century. These factors ...
Determination of resonant frequency of a piezoelectric ring for generation of ultrasonic waves
(2011)
Ultrasound technology has become an important aspect in material handling and machining. Standing and traveling ultrasonic waves have been applied in powder transportation, feeding, dosing and supply of small amounts of ...