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Willingness to pay for improved water supply due to spring protection in Emuhaya disrict, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
This study investigated willingness to pay for improved water services due to spring protection in
Emuhaya District. Semi- structured questionnaires were used to generate qualitative and empirical
data on 200 randomly ...
Surface Modified Electrode Used In The Electro-analysis Of N-Acetyl P-Aminophenol- A Pharmaceutical Drug
(2014)
: In this paper we report on the electrochemical behavior of paracetamol or N-acetyl-p-aminophenol.
In the electro-analysis bare carbon graphite and bentonite modified working electrode has been used in
conjunction ...
Factors influencing transient poverty among agro-pastoralists in semi-arid areas of Kenya
(African Crop Science Society, 2012)
In Africa, many pastoral households are increasingly settling in response to curtailed mobility and shrinking
grazing areas. Households in pastoral areas are characterised by few resources, low income, low level of ...
Management of aphids and their vectored diseases on seed potatoes in Kenya using synthetic insecticides, mineral oil and plant extract
(2010-12)
This study was conducted in two seasons of 2002 at Tigoni, Central Kenya to determine effectiveness of insecticides; neem extract and mineral oil in managing potato aphids and their associated virus diseases. The treatments ...
Phylogeography in continuous space: coupling species distribution models and circuit theory to assess the effect of contiguous migration at different climatic periods on genetic differentiation in Busseola fusca (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
(University Of Nairobi, 2014)
Current population genetic models fail to cope with genetic differentiation for species with large, contiguous and heterogeneous distribution. We show that in such a case, genetic differentiation can be predicted at ...
Access To Child Health Care, Medical Treatment Of Sick Children And Childhood Mortality Relationships In Kenya
(2014)
Child health care factors such as medical treatment of sick children have direct and indirect effect on childhood mortality. Through international cooperation, a number of countries including Kenya have gathered information ...
Impact Of Breastfeeding On Infant And Child Mortality With Varying Levels Of Immunization And HIV/AIDS: Evidence From 2008/09 Kenya Demographic And Health Survey
(2014)
Appropriate breastfeeding is one of the cost effective measures in the broader strategy for Integrated
Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Programme which was adopted by the international community in the 1990s to ...
A cross-sectional study on the prevalence of subclinical mastitis and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the bacterial isolates in milk samples of smallholder dairy goats in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Dairy goa
t production is an emerging enterprise
, which has a lot of potenti
al for poverty
alleviation, improved nutrition, and increased income for the poor and can play a role in
contribution towards Kenya’s ...
Multilevel social organization and space use in reticulated giraffe (Giraffa Camelopardalis)
(2014)
It is increasingly recognized that association patterns of most gregarious animals are nonrandom. However, nonrandom patterns can emerge in any population that exhibits spatial structure, even if individuals associate ...
Occurrence and Distribution of Potato Pests and Diseases in Kenya
(University Of Nairobi, 2013-11)
Potato plays an important role in food security in Kenya but yields are low (<10 t/ha), and this is partly attributed to the lack of healthy planting material. This study is the first wide-scale survey to determine the ...