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Radiological evaluation of plaster cast bandages
(1993)
Five plaster of Paris casting bandages including Nairobi Enterprises, salvagyps, helm, Plasrunpgyps and Veronese, available on the Kenyan market were evaluated based on their resistance to abrasion. The mean loss in mass ...
An outbreak of urticarial form of swine erysipelas in a medium-scale piggery in Kiambu District, Kenya
(1998)
This report concerns an outbreak that occurred during July/August 1997. Ten pigs from a herd of 181 pigs in a medium-scale, semi-closed piggery in Kiambu District, Kenya, contracted the clinical disease. The main clinical ...
Influence of seedling age and nitrogen application method on dry matter production and nitrogen uptake of lowland rice cultivated on an Alfisol.
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 1992)
In a field experiment during the long and short rainy seasons in 1987 at Ibadan, Nigeria, rice cv. IITA 212 DM production was not affected by transplanting 21-, 31- or 41-d-old seedlings. Placement of 60 kg N/ha at 5-10 ...
Effect of salinity level on the drinking rate in atropical teleost, Oreochromis andersoni.
(University of Nairobi, 1998)
A study was carried out to determine the euryhalinity and the effect of salinity changes on the drinking of tilapia, Oreochromis andersoni. Drinking rate of the fish in fresh water, and at 50%, 75% and 100% sea water was ...
Peddiea fischeri Engl. toxicity: effects on some sheep hematological and biochemical parameters.
(University of Nairobi, 1994)
Ten Red Maasai sheep were fed rations containing 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32% of ground dried P. fischeri leaves for 15 weeks. A decrease in red blood cell counts, haemoglobin concentration, packed cell volume and lymphocyte and ...
Photosynthesis and related physiological processes in two mangrove species, Rhizophora mucronata and Ceriops tagal, at Gazi Bay, Kenya
(1999)
Measurements were carried out of the gas exchange properties (namely, photosynthesis,
stomatal conductance and transpiration rates), water use efficiency and
water relations of two mangrove species, Rhizophora mucronata ...
Cestrum poisoning in a young horse - A case report. Bulletin of Animal Health and Productivity in Africa. 41: 139-141.
(University of Nairobi, 1993)
No abstract available
Testicular ultrasonography in bucks and rams
(University of Nairobi, 1995)
The testicles of 96 rams and 120 bucks was examined by palpation and by ultrasonography for the diagnosis of pathological lesions. 26.9% of the animals examined had palpable lesions while 19.4% had ultrasonographically ...
Laboratory calibration of a tipping-bucket device and sediment sampling tube for soil erosion plots.
(University of Nairobi,, 1993)
The calibration of runoff and sediment measuring device for erosion plot studies is described. Volume and flow rate measurements were made by a tipping bucket device. Runoff and sediment samples were collected with a ...