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Isolation and Screening of Actinomycetes From Volcanic Soils of Menengai Crater in Kenya for Antibiotic Activity Using Culture and Genomic Techniques
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Diseases are the most dangerous enemy of man despite the many strides made in medicine today.
The growing list of antibiotic resistant human pathogens in recent years has made the search for
new, safe antibiotics a top ...
Screening of Farmer-preferred Cassava Cultivars for Resistance to Cassava Brown Streak Virus Disease in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is one of the seven major constraints threatening food security worldwide. The challenge in managing the disease is lack of an effective and sustainable method of mitigating CBSD with ...
Determination of Bisphenol a Bpa in Thermal Papers, Selected Soil Samples and the Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Its Concentration
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) is associated with various health complications globally. Whereas various research have been conducted in Asia, North America and Europe, limited work has been conducted inAfrica on BPA . The ...
Interoperability Framework for National Population Register A Case Study of IPRS
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
The Government of Kenya has several different agencies all undertaking population registration functions under independent pieces of legislations. The IPRS department has the sole responsibility of hosting the National ...
E-Readiness Assessment Of A Constitutional Office
(UoN, 2019)
Most of ICT projects that fail are partly as a result of poor planning that emanates from poor e-readiness assessments to detained specific requirements of the project before any steps of adopting the same. It is against ...
Assessment Of Dissolved Ions And Microbial Coliforms In Water From Selected Sites Of The Upper Athi River Subcatchment Area, Kenya.
(UoN, 2019)
The Upper Athi River sub-catchment area has experienced exponential growth of human
population since the turn of the century. This has led to establishment of satellite towns such as
Ngong, Kiserian, Ongata Rongai, ...
Modelling Fatalities Associated With Road Traffic Accidents And Other Factors Using Poisson Model
(UoN, 2019)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), 1.35 million people died in
2016 on the world’s roads, with road tra c injuries being the leading cause of death for
children and young adults aged 529 years.
Road ...
Digital Mapping Of Food Banks In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
This research presents a case study of food banks for local level use to help identify suitable geographic
location areas with inadequate distribution of food aid. Kenya is affected by periodic drought seasons,
which ...
Comparison of Random Survival Forests Split rules in selecting the determinants of under-five mortality in Kenya using 2014 DHS data.
(2019)
Background
Survival trees and Random Survival Forests are extensions of classi cation and regression
trees and random forests in analyzing time to event data. These methods are alternatives
to Cox Proportional hazards ...
Erlang Mixtures And Their Link With Exponential And Poisson Mixtures
(University of Nairobi, 2019)