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Influence Of Physical Facilities As A Component Of Institutional Capacity On Academic Performance Of Students In Public Secondary Schools In Usigu Division – Bondo District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Abstract
Disparities in performance have continued to be noticed as one of the many challenges facing education and had raised a lot of concern. The KCSE results had been poor in the recent years and as a result many ...
Understanding the long-lasting attraction of malaria mosquitoes to odor baits.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The use of odor baits for surveillance and control of malaria mosquitoes requires robust dispensing tools. In this study, the residual activity of a synthetic mosquito attractant blend dispensed from nylon or low density ...
A revision of the genus Conicofrontia Hampson (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, <br />Apameini, Sesamiina), with description of a new species: new insights from morphological, ecological and molecular data
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The aim of this study was to review the species of Conicofrontia Hampson, a small genus of noctuid stem borers (Noctuidae, Apameini) that is distributed in East and Southeastern Africa. We review the morphology of species ...
Natural and experimental studies on domestic animal infections with visceral and cutaneous leishmaniases in Kenya.
(10/3/2012)
The control of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniases in Kenya has been difficult due to poor knowledge of animal reservoirs of these diseases. Little is known about the feeding preferences of phlebotomine sand flies that ...
Spatial coherence and potential predictability assessment of intraseasonal statistics of wet and dry spells over Equatorial Eastern Africa
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2012)
The aim of this study was to derive components of the intraseasonal rainfall variations from the daily rainfall
in the Equatorial Eastern Africa region and assess their spatial coherence, a pointer to their potential ...
Multielemental Analysis of Limestone and Soil Samples of Kitui South (Kenya) Limestone Deposits
(2012)
The results of analysis of heavy metal in limestone and soil samples from the limestone deposit areas of Kitui South, Kenya
were reported in this paper. The analysis was carried out to assess the environmental impact of ...
Two sympatrics potted gum species are molecular lyhomogeneous
(Springer, 2010)
Large fruited spotted gum eucalypt Corymbia
henryi occurs sympatrically with small fruited spotted gum
Corymbia citriodora subspecies variegata over a large
portion of its range on the east coast of Australia. The ...
A note on a-self -adjoint and a-skew -adjoint operators and their extensions
(2012)
In this paper we introduce the notions of an A-self-adjoint, an A-skewadjoint
linear operator, where A is a self-adjoint and invertible operator
and related classes of operators, which generalize some known classes ...
Active fault segments as potential earthquake sources: inferences from integrated geophysical mapping of the Magadi fault system, Southern Kenya Rift
(2010)
Southern Kenya Rift has been known as a region of high geodynamic activity expressed
by recent volcanism, geothermal activity and high rate of seismicity. The active faults
that host these activities have not been ...
Occurrence of Fusarium species and associated T2-toxin in Kenyan wheat
(© 2012 SciRes, 2012)
Survey covering 120 wheat fields was conduc- ted in three wheat-growing districts of Kenya during the 2008 cropping season to determine the incidence of Fusarium head blight (FHB) and T2-toxin contamination in grain. FHB ...