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Oral Health Knowledge, hygiene practices and treatment seeking behaviour among 12 Year old children from Kitale Municipality in Kenya
(2011)
Background: Several behavioural studies have shown a direct correlation between oral health awareness and practices. Awareness of individuals regarding their periodontal health status when accompanied with knowledge about ...
Effects of hyperbaric oxygenation on survival time of aluminum phosphide intoxicated rats
(University of Nairobi, 2011-10)
BACKGROUND:
Aluminium phosphide (AlP) is used as a fumigant. It produces phosphine gas which is a mitochondrial poison. Although this poisoning has been repeatedly reported in literature with a high mortality rate, there ...
Nutrients and antinutrients composition of raw, cooked and sun-dried sweet potato leaves
(2011)
Traditional indigenous vegetables are the most economically efficient source of micronutrients in terms of both land required and production costs per unit. Promotion of production and consumption of such micronutrient-rich ...
Quality of hospital care for sick newborns and severely malnourished children in Kenya: A two-year descriptive study in 8 hospitals.
(2011-11-11)
Background
Given the high mortality associated with neonatal illnesses and severe malnutrition and the development of packages of interventions that provide similar challenges for service delivery mechanisms we set out ...
Mortality Projection: Curve Fitting And Linear Regression
(2011)
This study was aimed at predicting future mortality rates given two main scenarios. The first is in the
case where there is a body of mortality tables from the past and the second is in the case where such a
database ...
Comparison of two microdiffusion methods used to measure ionizable fluoride in cow's milk
(2011)
Two microdiffusion methods for measuring ionizable fluoride in cows' milk have been compared. The comparison includes diffusion time, amount of fluoride in spiked and unspiked milk samples and the effect of aluminium as ...
Differential transcription of two highly divergent gut-expressed Bm86 antigen gene homologues in the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus
(2011)
The transcriptional control of gene expression is not well documented in the Arthropoda. We describe transcriptional analysis of two exceptionally divergent homologues (Ra86) of the Bm86 gut antigen from Rhipicephalus ...
Combinatorial prevention of HIV transmission in women: the case for a vaginal microbicide.
(University of Nairobi, 2011-07)
Women are now becoming pivotal in the epidemiological spread of HIV infection throughout the world, especially in developing countries, where heterosexual transmission accounts for more than 80% of all new HIV infections. ...
Hydrologic Analysis For River Nyando Using SWAT
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
The Nyando River is one of the major Rivers in the Lake Victoria Basin. It drains parts
of Nandi, Kericho and Nyando districts. It has a catchment area of about 3600km−2
of Western Kenya and an average discharge of ...
Root tensile strength of 3 typical plant species and their contribution to soil shear strength; a case study: Sasumua Backslope, Nyandarua District, Kenya
(Univesity of Nairobi, 2011-04)
The effect of root reinforcement depends on the
morphological characteristics of the root system,
the tensile strength of individual
roots, the soil-root cohesive st
rength, and the distribution of the
root system in ...