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Herbal management of diabetes mellitus: a rapidly expanding research avenue
(2012)
Conventional drug therapy though effective in the management of diabetes mellitus is expensive and has toxic side effects. Herbal medicine would thus provide alternative therapy if effective and less toxic. This paper ...
Incidence and severity of coffee leaf rust and other coffee pests and diseases in Rwanda
(2012)
Coffee Leaf Rust (CLR) caused by Hemileia vastatrix Berk. and Br. has a worldwide distribution and causes enormous yield losses. A survey was conducted in Rwanda to evaluate incidence and severity of CLR and other coffee ...
Anchored vs. relative best–worst scaling and latent class vs. hierarchical Bayesian analysis of best–worst choice data: Investigating the importance of food quality attributes in a developing country
(2012)
Applying best–worst (BW) scaling to a multifaceted feature, e.g. food quality, is challenging as attribute non-attendance or lack of attribute discrimination risks invalidating the transformation of choice data to ...
Optimization of PCR conditions to amplify mitochondrial COI gene fragments of wildlife species in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
PCR has been extensively used for amplification of DNA sequences. We conducted a study to obtain the best amplification conditions for cytochrome c
oxidase I (COr) gene fragments of some of the targeted wildlife species ...
Evaluation of nutrient content in red kidney beans, amaranth leaves, sweet potato roots and carrots Cultivated in Rwanda
(ajfand, 2012-05)
No data exist on the nutrient composition of some important Rwandan staples. The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutrient content of red kidney beans, sweet potato roots, amaranth leaves and carrot roots. About 6 kg ...