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Effect of Land Use on Diversity of Macrofungi in Kereita Forest, Kikuyu Escarpment and the Potential of Cultivation of Selected Species
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
Tropical forests are a haven of biodiversity with the richest macrofungi diversity in the World. However, the rate of forest loss greatly exceeds the rate of species documentation and increased risk of losing biodiversity ...
Evaluation of the Risk Management System for Medicinal Products in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
Background: All medicinal products have some inherent risks associated with them. Risk
management of medicines focuses more on reduction of risks such as Adverse Drug Reactions
(ADRs) and Medication Errors (MEs) rather ...
Urban Form and Climate Change: Enhancing the Resilience of Mathare Valley Informal Settlement in Nairobi City, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
Informal settlements within cities are often the most vulnerable areas to climate change due to their location in hazard prone areas, high density of population and poorly constructed structures, as well as the poor ...
Assessing The Solar Energy Resource Potential In Trans-Nzoia County For Decentralized Domestic Power Generation
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
The main economic activity in Trans-Nzoia County is maize farming. The cost of farming has been rising annually while the yield and maize price keep fluctuating thus making life hard for the people there. Considering that ...
Nuclear Forensics Analysis Of Fission Products By Means Of Chemometric Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
In the wake of the current global nuclear renaissance, the threat of terrorism involving nuclear materials is real. The lethality involving detonated improvised nuclear devices (IND) “dirty bombs” or even radiological ...
Laser Raman Microspectrometric Assessment Of Uranium Forensics Signature In Aerosols Over A Model Nuclear Atmosphere
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
Nuclear forensics relies on environmental sampling to detect undeclared nuclear activities. In the nuclear fuel cycle, mining and processing of uranium is accompanied by immobilization and translocation of uranium to the ...
Auto-etl: a Generic Methodology for Transforming Entity-attribute-value (Eav) Data Model Into Flat Tables Using Form Metadata to Optimize Report Generation. A Case Study of Kenya EMR
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
The use of Entity Attribute Value (EAV) data model is strongly favored by the existing research in both medical and other domains because of its flexibility and extensible nature that makes it suitable for storing highly ...
Synthesis And Antiglycemic Activity Of In Silico Designed Analogues Of Allylpropyldisulphide
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
Diabetes is a major global health challenge. The disease has a high prevalence mainly
due to change in lifestyle associated with improved economic growth. Sulfonylurea
monotherapy, sulfonylurea-biguanide combination ...
Phytochemical Evaluation of Tephrosia Hildebrandtii For Antimicrobial Principles
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
Pathogenic diseases caused by microbes are a main public health problematic around the world causing death. Medicinal plants contain bioactive compounds (metabolites) that serve an important therapeutic role in curing and ...
Numerical Solution of One-Dimensional Incompressible Steady Flow Burgers’ equation Research Report in Mathematics, Number 04, 2018
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
The aim of this project is to nd the numerical solution of one dimensional
,steady incompressible Burgers’ equation by using the Runge-Kutta method.
We shall solve the equation by rst converting the non-linear Navier ...