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The Introduction of Love Birds (Agapornis) to Lake Naivasha, Kenya, and Their Effect on the Lake's Agriculture and Indigenous Avifauna
(University of Nairobi, 1987)Fieldwork was conducted between August 1985 and June ;_986 in the forest surrounding Lake Naivasha. The number of lovebirds was es t imat ed by both the fixed-width 1ine-transect and mar-k -r-eccp tur-e methods. There ... -
The Role of Elephants in Habitat Dynamics and Its Effects on Other Mammalian Species in Mwea National Reserve
(University of Nairobi, 2005)The vegetation of Mwea National Reserve can be categorized into three distinct types characterized by distinctive woody plant species. These vegetation types are the woodland, bushland and the wooded grassland as previously ... -
Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Rates of Anxiety Disorders in Kenya from 2000-2018
(University of Nairobi, 2019)The goal of this project, was to use the available data from published documents to come up with a pooled e_ect estimate that can inform the Health policy and economic planning in Kenya using Meta-analysis of prevalence.Anxiety ... -
An Ethnobotanical and Phytochemical Study of the Medicinal Plants of Maku£ni District, Kenya
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Modeling the Impact of Land Use Change (Irrigation) on the Transmission Dynamics of West Nile Virus (Wnv) in Tana River County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)West Nile Virus (WNV) is an arbovirus that is transmitted by Culex mosquitoes. Birds are its amplifying hosts while horses, humans and other animals are dead-end hosts. WNV mainly causes fatalities in birds and horses while ... -
Age Related Factors and Other Social Determinants That Influence Maternal Deaths at Two Expansive Slums in Nairobi Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background; Approximately 830 women die every day from complications related to child birth or pregnancy globally. It is projected that 99% of these deaths mostly occur in low-resource settings. In Kenya, according to the ... -
Application of Raman spectroscopy in comparative study on the influence of ibuprofen and asparagus racemosus (herbal extract) on female reproductive hormones in Wistar rats
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Hormonal variation is a condition in which the body has less or more of a specific hormone which is a major cause of miscarriages, infertility, dysmenorrhea, breast cancer, among others in females. Measurements and detection ... -
A Comparative Study Of Infrasound Based And Image Based Wireless Sensor Networks For Human Elephant Conflict Mitigation.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Wireless sensor networks have been widely used in scientific studies to investigate phenomenon and acquire data from otherwise hostile environments that span over large geographical areas. Elephants have been discovered ... -
Rainfall And Temperature Trends, Farming Patterns And Rainwater Harvesting Technologies In Kieni Sub-County
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The study area was in Tigithi Sub-location of Kieni constituency in Nyeri County which is an Arid and Semi-Arid zone with unreliable rainfall and high temperatures. The area experiences a bimodal rainfall pattern. The study ... -
Hydrochemical Characteristics of Aquifers in Mwingi North - Kenya
(university of Nairobi, 2020)The arid to semi-arid area of Mwingi North, Kenya, suffers from low access to potable groundwater in part due to salinity, but also due to uneconomical development of groundwater because of the lack of understanding of the ... -
Joint Modelling of CD4 Count and Time ToWound Healing in HIV-Positive Men Following Circumcision
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background: Modelling longitudinal information and event time outcomes simultaneously helps in describing the progression of the disease over time. Past studies have mostly applied standard Cox proportional hazards model ... -
Implication of Volcano-tectonic and Fluid Movements on Seismic Activity at the Paka Geothermal Prospect in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Seismic hydraulic diffusivity at the Paka geothermal prospect is investigated to examine the implications of fluid movements and volcano-tectonic activity on the seismic activity at the geothermal prospect. This is achieved ... -
Numerical Solutions To Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems Of Conservation Laws Applied To Traffic Flow Theory Research Report in Mathematics, Number 29, 2020
(university of Nairobi, 2020)In the recent past, the rapid growing number of vehicles on long crowded roads elicited rigorous scienti c research activities in the eld of tra c ow modeling. In this thesis we present and discuss some of the macroscopic ... -
Synthesis, Structure Elucidation and Reactivity of Palladium(Ii) and Platinum(Ii) Complexes for Anticancer Applications
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The objective of the work was to come up with stable metal complexes with bulky ligands coordinated to the metal center and test them in anticancer studies. Literature reports that bulky ligands and trans geometry for ... -
Modelling the cure rates of Female Sex Workers with STIs using a Mover-Stayer Markov chain Model
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Generally human beings undergo di erent types of diseases. One such are sexually transmitted infections(STIs)which are either chronic or curable. In this study, a Markov model, speci cally a Mover-Stayer Markov Chain ... -
Characterization of groundwater aquifers in a structurally complex region: - a case study of West of Lake Naivasha Area
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Climate change, groundwater abstraction, horticulture and geothermal activities have influenced the volcanic aquifers within and around Lake Naivasha area. In the previous studies, the effects of faults on varying groundwater ... -
Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water Resources in the Rift Valley Region: a Case Study of Narok County
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Over the past century, notable changes in precipitation and temperature have been observed, which has been greatly attributed to a change in climate. These changes have altered the climate system and considerably induce ... -
Effects of Soil Characteristics and Disturbance on Floodplain Vegetation in Upper Tana River, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Floodplains of rivers in semi-arid areas of Africa are important areas for agriculture, livestock grazing and wildlife conservation. However, floods and anthropogenic disturbances affect soil properties, which subsequently ... -
Modelling Hydrological Response to Urbanization: Case Study Syokimau – Katani Area, Machakos County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The Syokimau – Katani peri-urban catchment has over time been affected by adverse urban development related flooding. The encroachment of the expanding Nairobi city on this metropolitan space has spurred the mushrooming ...
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