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Cultural heritage as a pathway for sustaining natural resources in the Maasai’s Pastoral Social-Ecological System in Kajiado County, Kenya
(African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2021-06)
The Maasai pastoralists inhabiting Kajiado County are known for rearing large herds of animals.
Livestock has enabled them to attain food and nutritional security. However, natural resources are
dwindling fast under the ...
A CRISPR/Cas9-based genome-editing system for yam (Dioscorea spp.)
(University of Nairobi, 2021-04)
Education for Sustainable Development? An Analysis of Financing Wetland Conservation in The Wetlands of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Financing education is the future towards environmental protection including wetlands. The focus of this paper is to assess if there is conservation education in various wetlands sites of Kenya, and, to evaluate the key ...
University Students’ Perception on the Usefulness of Learning Management System Features in Promoting Self-Regulated Learning in Online Learning
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Online learning has increasingly been adopted by most institutions of higher learning to facilitate
teaching and learning as a continuum to the traditional face-to-face approach. Most of these
institutions ...
A Conceptual Educational Data Mining Model for Supporting Self-Regulated Learning in Online Learning Environments
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Self-regulated learning is attracting tremendous researches from various communities such as information communication technology. Recent studies have greatly contributed to the domain knowledge that the use self-regulatory ...
Strategies for Managing Cognitive Load and Enhancing Motivation in E-Learning
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Cognitive load and motivation are two factors that have been established as mediators of learning. It has been established that learners who experience low cognitive loads and are highly motivated to succeed in learning. ...
A Systematic Review of Gamification Within E-Learning
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
The focus of this study was to review and evaluate the effectiveness of gamification within e-learning platforms. The study deployed systematic literature review methodology to evaluate how effective gamification has been ...
Prevalence of tick-transmitted pathogens in cattle reveals that Theileria parva, Babesia bigemina and Anaplasma marginale are endemic in Burundi
(Springer, 2021-01-05)
Background
Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) constitute a major constraint for livestock development in sub-Saharan Africa, with East Coast fever (ECF) being the most devastating TBD of cattle. However, in Burundi, detailed ...
Modeling the Interruption of the Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths Infections in Kenya: Modeling Deworming, Water, and Sanitation Impacts
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
Kenya, just like other countries with endemic soil-transmitted helminths (STH), has conducted regular mass drug administration (MDA) program for the last 5 years among school aged children as a way to reduce STH infections ...
Nematodes as bio-indicators of physical disturbance of marine sediments following polychaete bait harvesting
(WIOMSA, 2021-04)
Sediment disturbance in marine environments is caused by activities including polychaete bait harvesting, trawling, dredging, sediment erosion and treading. These activities affect the benthic communities by changing the ...