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Tackling the Tangle of Environmental Conflict: Complexity, Controversy, and Collaborative Learning
(University of Nairobi,Institute of peace and environmental studies, 2009)Environmental conflict situations are typically messy; a tangle of complexity, controversy, and uncertainty. As a means for addressing environmental conflict and decision situations and making progress on matters of ... -
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(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 2003) -
Tannin and fiber contents of rapeseed and canola hulls
(Department of Animal Production, 1982)Hulls from rapeseed and canola seed were analyzed for tannins, and the ability of these tannins to inhibit a-amylase in vitro was determined. Extractable tannin content ranged from 0.02 to O.22Vc. The a-amylase inhibition ... -
Targeting the poor: taxation of marketed forest products in developing countries
(University of Nairobi,Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, 2008)In this article, we investigate whether taxation of households’ production of marketed forest products in developing countries is likely to assist in achieving the general development objectives of resources conservation ... -
Taura syndrome virus (TSV) in Thailand and its relationship to TSV in China and the Americas
(2005)The cultivation of exotic Penaeus vannamei in Thailand began on a very limited scale in the late 1990s, but a Thai government ban on the cultivation of P. monodon in freshwater areas in 2000 led many Thai shrimp farmers ... -
Teat lesions and their relationship to intramammary infections on small-scale dairy farms in Kiambu district in Kenya
(University of Nairobi.Clinical Studies Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya., 1999-12)Mammary gland quarters of 139 lactating dairy cows from small-scale dairy herds were examined visually and by palpation for teat lesions and by California mastitis test (CMT) and bacterial culture for subclinical mastitis. ... -
Technical and allocative efficiency gains from integrated soil fertility management in the maize farming system of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-04)Declining land productivity and per capita food availability poses challenges to overcoming land degradation and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. There is a need to identify ways of improving land productivity particularly ... -
Technical Efficiency and Technology Gaps of Sorghum Plots in Uganda: a Gendered Stochastic Metafrontier Analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Sorghum plot managers in different locations have varying levels of resource endowment that in turn influence technical efficiency (TE). Therefore, plot managers operate at different levels of technology. The present ... -
Technical Efficiency in Kenya’s Sugar Production: a Stochastic Frontier Approach.
(In Press, 2009)This study measured technical efficiency overtime and explored sources of technical inefficiency of sugar mills in Kenya. A time varying translog stochastic production frontier was simultaneously estimated with inefficiency ... -
Technical efficiency of Kenya’s smallholder food crop farmers: do environmental factors matter
(University of Nairobi, 2014-01-11)Smallholder agriculture dominates Kenya’s agricultural landscape, accounting for 75 % of total agricultural output and 70 % of the marketed agricultural produce. As a result, the Government of Kenya, with the support of ... -
Technical efficiency of rice producers in Mwea Irrigation Scheme. Paper 9 presented at the 6th Conference of the African Crop Science Society at Hilton hotel Nairobi, Kenya on 16th Oc
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Technical innovation and farm productivity growth in dryland Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2000-12)This paper uses non-parametric approach to measure technical innovation and productivity growth at the smallholder farm-level in dry-land sub-Saharan Africa during the initial years of the structural adjustment programmes ... -
Technical Note: Fast two-dimensional GC-MS with thermal extraction for anhydro-sugars in fine aerosols
(University of Nairobi,institute of nuclear science,, 2010)A fast two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC-MS) method that uses heart-cutting and thermal extraction (TE) and requires no chemical derivatization was developed for the determination of anhydro-sugars in fine aerosols. ... -
Technically, Economically and Commercially (TEC) Feasible Methyl Bromide Alternatives: The Role of Value-chain Approach in Sustainability
(University of Nairobi, 2013)No abstract available -
A technique for partial marsupialization of the spleen in Calves
(University of NairobiAnimal Production and Clinical Studies, 1980) -
Technologie de réensemencement d'herbages graminacées comme moyen de réhabilitation des terres dégradées et d'amélioration des moyens de subsistance des communautés agro-pastorales dans la région semi-aride du Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Department of land resource management and agricultural technology,, 2011)La dégradation du sol constitue un problème majeur dans les zones semi-arides d'Afrique subsaharienne. La lutte contre cette dégradation du sol est capitale pour garantir une productivité durable et à long terme des terres ... -
Technology Transfer and the Innovative Process in Biomedical Sciences in the Developing World
(2002)Technology transfer may be defined as the conveyance of either a man-made tangible or intangible know-how from those who posses it to those who do not. Although the technology transfer encompasses great a many different ... -
Teleost fish granulomas: some epithelial cell characteristics in their epithelioid cells.
(1996)On examination of transverse sections of paraffin embedded specimens from 127 fish from four genera, 16 fish were found to have granulomas in various visceral organs (Kidney, liver, peritoneal fat and spleen). The number ... -
Temperature acclimation in the pancake tortoise, Malacochersus tornieri: Metabolic rate, blood pH, oxygen affinity and red cell organic phosphates
(ElsevierDepartment of Animal Physiology, University of Nairobi,Department of Physiology, School of Medicine University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 U.S.A, 1978)1. The effect of temperature acclimation (20 and 35°C) on blood gases, pH and the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve was studied in the pancake tortoise. 2. 2. Cold-acclimated tortoises had blood with a lower O2 affinity ... -
Temperature insensitive O2 in blood of the tree frogChiromantis petersi
(Springer-VerlagDepartment of Zoophysiology, University of Aarhus, DK-8000, Aarhus C., DenmarkComparative Animal Physiology Research Unit, University of Nairobi,, 1980)Respiratory gas exchange and blood respiratory properties have been studied in the East-African tree frogChiromantis petersi. This frog is unusually xerophilous, occupies dry habitats and prefers body temperatures near ...