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Access, sources and value of new medical information: views of final year medical students at the University of Nairobi
(2009-01)
Summary Objectives
To evaluate final year medical students' access to new medical information. Method
Cross-sectional survey of final year medical students at the University of Nairobi using anonymous, self-administered ...
Drivers of ecosystem change and their impacts on human well-being in Lake Victoria basin
(2009)
To offer an increased understanding of the spatial patterns, temporal, social and physical predictors of the conversion and transformations of land use in Lake Victoria basin, an assessment of proximate and underlying ...
Late Pleistocene-Holocene rise and collapse of Lake Suguta, northern Kenya Rift.
(2009)
The Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene African Humid Period (AHP) was characterized by dramatic hydrologic fluctuations in the tropics. A better knowledge of the timing, spatial extent, and magnitude of these hydrological ...
Does Farm Worker Health Vary Between Localised And Globalised Food Supply Systems?
(University of Nairobi, 2009-10)
Significant environmental benefits are claimed for local food systems, but these biophysical indicators are increasingly recognised as inadequate descriptors of supply chain ethics. Social factors such as health are also ...
AGRONOMIC AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF PYMARC ON MAIZ E YIELD IN RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE OF KENYA
(2009)
On many smallholder farms in Kenya, organic materia
ls such as animal manures are commonly
used to replenish soil fertility. These soil amend
ments are however, in short supply and are unlikely
to
meet the nutrient ...
The effects of Mn2+, Ni2+, Cu2+, Co2+ and Zn2+ ions on pesticide adsorption and mobility in a tropical soil.
(2009)
The adsorption behaviour of DDT in a tropical silt-clay soil from Kenya showed that addition of increasing metal ion concentrations from 10 to 100 microg/g of soil, reduced the % DDT adsorption in the soil by factors ranging ...