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To Assess the Age of Giving Complementary Feeding to Infants before Six Months and Reasons Given and the Nutritional Status of Lactating Mothers of Mwanamukia Area- Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
Exclusive breastfeeding with appropriate complementary feeding can save infants from many problems later in life.
The study found that majority of respondents were married (63.9%), single (25.5%). 43.1% had primary ...
Plant Extracts And Antagonistic Fungi As Alternatives To Synthetic Pesticides In Management Of Fungal Diseases Of Tomato
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
Incorporation of biological pesticides in integrated pest management has lately been considered effective in production of safe food for human consumption, aesthetically valuable for the prime markets and increase in crop ...
Scale And Diversity Of The Physical Technosphere: A Geological Perspective
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural and marine components, used to sustain ...
Inter-agency collaboration for fire disaster management in Nairobi City
(University of Nairobi, 2016-06)
The County Government of Nairobi faces a myriad of capacity challenges that have impeded fire disaster management in the City. This is further compounded by the lack of a comprehensive legal and institutional framework for ...
Knowledge and demand for medicinal plants used in the treatment and management of diabetes in Nyeri County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016-08)
Ethnopharmacological relevance
Non communicable diseases are currently a major health challenge facing humanity. Nyeri County has one of the highest diabetes prevalence in Kenya (12.6%), compared to the country’s ...
Serotype and genetic diversity of human rhinovirus strains that circulated in Kenya in 2008
(2016)
Background
Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) are a well-established cause of the common cold and recent studies indicated that they may be associated with severe acute respiratory illnesses (SARIs) like pneumonia, asthma, and ...
Parental socio economic status academic achievement in selected secondary schools in urban informal settlements in Westlands Division,Nairobi county
(2016)
This study sought to investigate critical parental socio-economic factors affecting the academic
achievement of students in selected secondary schools in urban informal settlements in Westlands
District in Nairobi County. ...
The Role of Employee Outcomes in the Relationship between Learning Organization and Performance of Large Manufacturing Firms
(University of Nairobi, 2016-01)
Research in human resource strategy that attempts to link learning organization strategies
with firm performance across many organizations, sometimes fails to pay attention to
intervening variables that help to explain ...
Effect of national annual budget reading on equity returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2016-01)
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of budget reading on equity returns
at Nairobi Securities Exchange. The study adopts descripting staristics design using event
model methodology to establish the ...
A Knowledge management system for indigenious crops production: A case of sorghum farming in South Tharaka, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016)