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Mutual inhibition, competition, and periodicity in a two species Chemostat-like System
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
In this study, we developed a model that addresses competition in a periodic chemostat-like system with mutual growth inhibition. A periodic Kolmogorov system of ordinary differen tial equations ...
Antimalarial activity, acute toxicity and phytochemical Screening of selected antimalarial plants
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)
Malaria is a major cause of deaths in the world. It is a vector-borne disease caused by
protozoan plasmodia parasites. The parasites are currently becoming resistant to current
antimalarial drugs thus there is need to ...
Priming effects of Television on voting patterns. The case of the March 2013 Presidential elections
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
This study was an evaluation of the effect of priming from TV media on the decision making
patterns of the Kenyan people, during the March 2013 presidential elections. The objectives of
the study were to investigate the ...
Effect of Cannabinoid Receptor Antagonism on the Metabolism and Phenotype of Combined Anti-Retroviral Treated Sprague Dawley Rats
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)
Background: Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection with protease inhibitors
and/or nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors often results in development of a
lipodystrophic syndrome whose etiology, phenotype ...
Visibility forecast verification at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
(2013)
The economic growth of any airline is largely determined by the optimum operationalization of
the flight schedules. Bad weather and in particular low visibility at the airport may lead to
interruption of the schedule. ...
Testing ascertainment BIAS and RNA secondary structure morphology for phylogenetic signals
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Phylogenetic reconstruction is essential to many decisions in the medical and
agricultural sciences. However, a common drawback in many of these studies is the
failure of different datasets to recover the same phylogeny, ...
Ethnobotanical study, toxicity and phytochemical screening of selected medicinal plants of Tinderet district, Nandi county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Most indigenous communities depend on plants for medicine. Plants contain active principles that ensure the well being of local communities. The purpose of this study was to identify and document the medicinal plants of ...
The relationship between corporate governance and Financial performance of fund managers in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Corporate governance is an important tool. Failure to implement it can negatively affect the
financial performance of organizations. Unilateral decision making, lack of transparency in audit
and financial reports, ...
Normal mixtures in finance: a comparative study and applications
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Many studies on modelling return distributions of financial assets have been conducted.
Among them, the most used three-type distributions are the normal, the lognormal and the
non-Gaussian stable distributions. Other ...
In silico identification of universal HLA stimulating b and T-cell restricted mage epitopes for vaccine development
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)
Melanoma antigens (MAGE) are imrnunogcns expressed ill malignancies but silenced III
somatic tissues except testis. They are grouped into ten subfamilies and at least one subfamily is
expressed ill a cancer type. In ...