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Health and Natural Resources: The Extraction of Useful Chemicals from Plants and their Impact on Socio-Economic Development
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Poverty reduction strategies in developing countries are based on the need to develop and improve the quality of life of people. The successful strategies link wealth creating activities of adding value to local resources ...
Th e role of wild host plants in the abundance of lepidopteran stem borers along altitudinal gradient in Kenya
(2006)
Presence of wild host plants of stem borers in cereal-growing areas has been considered
as reservoirs of lepidopteran stem borers, responsible for attack of crops during the growing season.
Surveys to catalogue hosts and ...
Covariance differences of linealy representable sequences in Hilbert spaces
(2006)
The paper introduces the concepts of covariance differences of a sequence and establishes its relationship with the covariance function. One of the main results of this paper is the criteria of linear represent-ability of ...
Essentiality of a newly identified carbohydrate-binding module for the function of CelB (BH0603) from the Alkaliphilic Bacterium Bacillus halodurans
(2006-10)
CelB (BH0603) from Bacillus halodurans is a modular glycoside hydrolase with a family 5 catalytic module, an immunoglobulin-like module, and module PfamB of unknown function. The recombinant PfamB module bound to Avicel ...
Heterologous expression of the benzoate para-hydroxylase encoding gene (CYP53B1) from Rhodotorula minuta by Yarrowia lipolytica
(2006)
There is currently an increasing number of cytochrome P450 (CYP450) monooxygenase encoding genes becoming available from various genome-sequencing projects. These enzymes require association with cytochrome P450 reductase ...
Deterministic claims reserving in short-term insurance contracts
(JKUAT Press Ltd, 2006)
Claims reserving for general insurance business has
developed significantly over the recent past. This has been
occasioned by the growth of the insurance market, with the risk
underwriting process becoming more and more ...
Lake Chad
(University of Nairobi., 2006)
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Thermal shock behaviour of a kaolinte refractory prepared using a natural organic binder
(Springer, 2006)
The thermal shock resistance of a kaolinite-based refractory prepared with a binder derived from a plant (corchorus olitorius) was investigated. Thermal shock tests employing water-quenching technique were performed at ...
Lignocellulolytic Activities Of Crude Gut Extracts Of Marine Woodborers Dicyathifer Mannii And Sphaeroma Terebrans
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Marine woodborers
have a close association with tropical mangrove plants whereby they
voraciously
consume
lignocellulose and play a role in nutrient cycling. T
hey represent a rich source of potential lignocellulo
...
A Simple Method for Sampling Indoor-Resting Malaria Mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Africa
(Entomological Society of America, 2006)
Sampling indoor resting African malaria vectors is traditionally done by hand catches
with oral or mechanical aspirators and pyrethrum spray catches (PSCs). In this study, we designed
and brießy evaluated an inexpensive ...