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Burying as an interment method and its impact on land in Kenyan urban areas
(1989)
Modern society has become increasingly concerned with how land is used. Its fixed supply and the increased demand exert pressure for land to be used more intensively. Conflicts often arise between different users that hold ...
Mechanical properties of granular materials as related to loads in cylindrical grain silos
(1987)
Physical quantities thought to be pertinent to the development of loads in cylindrical silos filled with granular materials were identified. The principles of similitude and dimensional analysis were used to formulate, ...
Harmony in Colour and design
(1989)
Colour plays a key role in determining a consumer’s response to a product’s appearance. Accordingly, this study proposes an automatic design support system which enables a designer either to emulate the colour scheme of a ...
Farm equipment Deveiopment for Small Holders in Semiarid Areas of Southeastern and Central Africa
(1985)
Before the arrival of European agricultural technology, technologies addressing the need for more efficient capture and utilisation of resources were being developed in Africa. Land invasions and displacements, the ...
Nairobi: Running on empty
(1984-05)
What would happen to a major urban area during a severe curtailment of the oil supply? How would such a shortage affect an expanding Third World city? This article offers a scenario of the sequence of events in Nairobi ...
Hygrothermal Comfort in Lamu Town (Kenya)
(University of Nairobi,, 1982-08)
Comfort measurements have been conducted over a period of one week, four times each year, inside several houses of different types in Lamu Town, a traditional Swahili settlement on Lamu Island off the Kenyan North Coast.
The ...
Monitoring and evaluation: an urban project case study in Kenya
(1981)
Monitoring and evaluation is a key activity in systematic development planning. This case study
of a large urban project in Nairobi, Kenya, looks at ways in which evaluation data and methods
can be useful in an on-going ...
Nakawa market in Uganda
(1980)
The site is located in Nakawa town, a small trading centre in the educational residential area,
kilometres from Kampala City Centre.
It covers an area of about ~ hectors part of which I develop for the market, the ...
The Potential of Sisal as a reinforcing Fibre in Cement base materials
(1982)
The inclusion of fibre reinforcement in concrete, mortar and cement paste can enhance many of the engineering properties of the basic materials, such as fracture toughness, flexural strength and resistance to fatigue, ...
Variations of Mount Kenya's Glaciers 1963–87
(1989)
In dem vorliegenden Aufsatz wird eine Karte der Gletscher am Mount Kenya vorgestellt (Maßstab 1:5000, Stand: September 1987). Diese Karte beruht auf Bodenkontrollpunkten und photogrammetrischen Kontrollpunkten, auf einer ...