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1.5 - Water Quality Issues and Solutions in Africa
(Universty of Nairobi, 2014)
Water is a critical resource whose quality, quantity, availability, and access are unevenly distributed in Africa. The increasing human population, food production, and industrialization add stress to the available water ...
African vultures don't follow migratory herds: scavenger habitat use is not mediated by prey abundance.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-01)
The ongoing global decline in vulture populations raises major conservation concerns, but little is known about the factors that mediate scavenger habitat use, in particular the importance of abundance of live prey versus ...
Compatibility Of Rhizobium Inoculant And Water Hyacinth Compost Formulations In Rosecoco Bean And Consequences On Aphis Fabae And Colletotrichum Lindemuthianum Infestations
(Universty of Nairobi, 2014)
The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris is an important crop for food security and nitrogen fixation through Rhizobium symbiosis. Commercial Rhizobium inoculants are being promoted to fix nitrogen and enhance bean production ...
Interactive White Boards in Preschool and Primary Education
(2014)
Technologies within the domain of interactive, remote and on line science which are extensively adopted in education’s everyday life are interactive whiteboards and related applications. Interactive whiteboards indicate ...
Energy efficient house with integrated photovoltaics - a case study from South Africa
(2014-04-30)
An energy efficient dwelling with building integrated photovoltaics has been built and monitored at
the University of Fort Hare, Alice campus, South Africa, This was part of an initiative to implement
energy efficiency ...
Salary determinants in higher education of learning in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Cytotoxic Quinones from the Roots of Aloe dawei.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-03-17)
Seven naphthoquinones and nine anthraquinones were isolated from the roots of Aloe dawei by chromatographic separation. The purified metabolites were identified by NMR and MS analyses. Out of the sixteen quinones, ...
Photo Catalytic Inactivation of Escherichia coli Using Titanium(IV) Oxide-Tungsten (VI) Oxide Nanoparticies Composite. International Journal of Photocatalysis. P
(2014)
Abstract
This work focused on synthesis of Titanium (IV) Oxide and Tungsten (VI) Oxide compos'ite
and testing the composite as a photocatalyst in deactivation of Escherichi coli in water.
Modified wet chemistry method ...
Application of GIS spatial interpolation methods in auto insurance risk territory segmentation and rating
(2014)
Evolution in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has given rise to sophisticated scientific techniques for collection, analysis and visualization of location based data. These GIS analysis processes are used ...
Effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zymomonas mobilis on the co-fermentation of sweet sorghum bagasse hydrolysates pretreated under varying conditions
(2014)
Hydrolysates from sweet sorghum bagasse pretreatment normally contains hexose and pentose sugars, and this complex mixture of sugars presents a challenge for a single microorganism to effectively ferment all sugars to ...