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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 ...
Use of MapReduce for Data Mining and Data Optimization on a Web Portal
(2012-12)
This paper studied the design, implementation and evaluation
of a MapReduce tool targeting distributed systems, and multicore
system architectures. MapReduce is a distributed
programming model originally proposed by ...
Protein-RNA interface residue prediction using machine learning: an assessment of the state of the art
(2012)
RNA molecules play diverse functional and structural roles in cells. They function as messengers for transferring genetic information from DNA to proteins, as the primary genetic material in many viruses, as catalysts ...
The Effect of Organic-Based Nutrient Management Strategies on Soil Nutrient Availability and Maize Performance in Njoro, Kenya
(2011)
A field experiment based on the concept of organic nutrient management was conducted in Njoro, Kenya, to test the effect of improved legume fallows, crotalaria (CR), lablab (LB), garden pea (GP) and natural fallow (NF, as ...