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An exploratory survey of malaria prevalence and people's knowledge, attitudes and practices of mosquito larval source management for malaria control in western Kenya
(2010)
A large proportion of mosquito larval habitats in urban and rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa are man-made. Therefore, community-based larval source management (LSM) could make a significant contribution to malaria ...
Can stumps tell what people want: Pattern and preference of informal wood extraction in an urban forest of Nairobi, Kenya
(2011)
Detailed patterns and preferences of informal wood extraction were investigated in an urban forest used by slum inhabitants of Nairobi, Kenya, as such information determines the sustainability of resource use. Instead of ...
Changes in plant growth, nutrient dynamics and accumulation of flavonoids and anthocyanins by manipulating the cropping systems involving legumes and cereals- a review
(2011)
Improved crop production is very important in Africa, especially in such time when food required exceeds food produced. However,
improved yield is constrained by a number of biophysical factors including poor planting ...
l-Arginine supplementation in women with chronic hypertension: impact on blood pressure and maternal and neonatal complications
(2010)
Objective. To evaluate l-arginine (l-Arg) supplementation in pregnant women with chronic hypertension and its effects on blood pressure (BP) and maternal and neonatal complications.
Methods. We enrolled 80 women affected ...
The Effect Of Immunizing Swiss White Mice With Snail Soluble Proteins And Challenging Them With Schistosoma Mansoni -and-challenging-them-with-schistosoma-mansoni
(2012)
Schistosomiasis infects approximately 700 million people in 74 endemic countries. It causes high morbidity. Although the drug of choice, Praziquantel is effective against Schistosoma mansoni, there is a problem of rapid ...
Exploring the sawa corpus: collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English—Swahili
(Springer, 2011)
Research in machine translation and corpus annotation has greatly benefited from the increasing availability of word-aligned parallel corpora. This paper presents ongoing research on the development and application of the ...
Interphase cytogenetics using biotin and digoxigenin labeled probes. II: Simultaneous detection of two nucleic acid species in individual nuclei
(2013-08-02)
A method was developed for the simultaneous detection of viral and human DNA in contrasting colours in routine formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded biopsy specimens. This was achieved by non-isotopic in situ hybridisation ...