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Comparative study of some biochemical factors in human erythrocytes exhibiting "early"and "delayed" re-infection to placimodium falciparum"
(Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, 1997)Malaria remains themost important ofall tropical diseases. Some 200 million individuals in 102 countries are at risk. Nearly 85% of the cases and 90% of the carriers are found in tropical Africa. InKenya, out of a total ... -
A Comparative Study Of The Butterfly Fauna In Natural Forest And Pinus Plantation At North Nandi District, Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Biological Sciences,, 1986-03)The studies were conducted in two 10 ha plots in the North Nandi Forest, one in natural forest and one in planted. forest with exotic. Pinus sp. Using Malaise traps, Visual counts and Capture-mark-release recapture techniques, ... -
Comparative study of the effects of benzoquinones on mitochondria isolated from rat liver and insect flight muscle
(1992)This study was intended to investigate the effects of four biologically active benzoquinones namely: maesanin, maesaquinone, juglone and embelin on mitochondria isolated from rat liver and insect flight muscle. These ... -
A comparative study of the preparations of p-nitrophenyl and n-hydroxysuccinimido tert-butyloxycarbonyl amino acid esters, and synthesis of carboxamide protected isoasparagine and glutamine derivatives
(1978)This investigation was aimed at the synthesis of two new potential protecting groups for the carboxamide side chain of the asparagine and glutamine. A comparative study of preparations of p-nitrophenyl and N-hydroxysuccinimido ... -
A comparative study of two dynamic load balancing techniques as a means to increase performance in shared memory parallel computing
(2014)With the proliferation of multicore computing devices ranging from notebooks, tablets and smart phones, parallel computing is becoming the norm of most software developers. With the ultimate goal being increasing computing ... -
Comparative study on development of the bean beetle acanthoscelides obtectus (say) in bean, cowpea, and pigeon pea seed diets
(1980)Experiments were undertaken to compare the performance in population growth, life cycle, adult emergence pattern, oviposition preference, larval food selection and fecundity differences of the bean seed beetle Acanthoscelides ... -
A Comparative Tariff Assessment between Grid Electricity and Own Consumer Generation: A Case Study of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Consumers, particularly big companies and commercial enterprises, are increasingly moving away from the traditional national grid to own generated electricity. Arguably, with low sales, the utilities are forced to pass ... -
A Comparative Technical Portfolio Return-risk Analysis In A Segmented Equity Market--- A Case Of Nairobi Stock Exchange: 2001-2005
(University of NairobiSchool of Mathematics, 2010)The study focused on comparative evaluation of portfolio analysis models of Modern Portfolio Theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model using historical data of stock prices, trading volumes of shares, the NSE 20 share indices ... -
Comparative Tweeter Sentiment Algorithms Based on Probabilistic and Linear Classifiers
(University of Nairobi, 2016)The transition from web 1.0 to web 2.0 has enabled direct interaction between users and its environment such as social media networks. In this research paper we have analyzed algorithms for sentiment analysis which can be ... -
A comparative verification of precipitation forecasts for selected numerical weather prediction models over Kenya
(Department of Meteorology University of Nairobi, 2006)This study examined the level of skill of daily precipitation forecasts of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models over Kenya. These models are the United Kingdom Meteorological office (UKMO) model, United States' ... -
Comparing Accelerated Failure Time and Cox Ph Models:a Case Study on Employee Attrition
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The goal of this project, is to compare the AFT model and Cox PH model using the employee attrition data set. Survival analysis examines the desired outcome until the occurrence of the event. Although Cox PH together ... -
Comparing different Classification Algorithms to predict the Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment for new cases in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)This study determines factors that are associated to non-adherence to tuberculosis treatment in Kenya. In the African Region, over 25% of the tuberculosis deaths occur. Kenya is among the 30 high burden countries accounting ... -
Comparing group screening designs
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 1999)The problem of detecting defective members In a large population, consisting of defective and non-defective members has been tackled in various ways One procedure used in this kind of investigation is the group testing ... -
Comparing the effects of radiation-attenuated vaccine when administered either before or after praziquantel treatment in schistosoma mansoni infected balb/c mice
(Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi, 2006)Schistosomal vaccine candidates such as Paramyosin and Multiple antigen epitopes (MAP) are in different stages of development and clinical trials. However, it is probable that during initial field clinical trials, some ... -
Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Negative Binomial Regression Model In Forecasting Male Mortality Data Of Usa(1980-2020)
(University of Nairobi, 2018)People living in America today are living longer compared to yester years; this is due to reduced mortality rates and increase in life expectancy. According to (Dye & Williams, 2010) generally mortality rates have ... -
Comparison Between Two Simple Linear Catchment Models For The Yala River Basin
(Department of Meteorology, 1987)In this study, two simple linear catchment models were used to model the rainfall-runoff characteristics over Yala catchment. The first model was based on the response function. In this model a linear stochastic process ... -
Comparison of Activation Functions for Nse Stock Price Prediction.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)ANN timeseries prediction has been successfully implemented and tested on NSE stocks prediction by Barack (2014) and other stock exchanges (Safi & White 2017) however these studies focused on factors like training algorithm, ... -
Comparison of elastic net and random forest in identifying risk factors of stunting in children under five years of age in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background: Children with a Height-for-Age (HAZ) below-2 Standards Deviations based on the World Health Organization (WHO) child growth standards median are said to be stunted. Most stunted children are too short for ... -
Comparison of estiamators in successive sampling models
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2006)Successive sampling is a type of sampling which is carried out on two or more occasions. Such sampling could either be on the same items or different items on the same population which is sampled repeatedly and the same ...