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Climate change impact on SWAT simulated streamflow in Western Kenya
(2008)
Weather and climate extremes such as droughts and floods have far reaching impacts in Kenya. They have had implications in a variety of sectors including agriculture, water resources, health, energy, and disaster management ...
Management of Fusarium head blight of wheat and deoxynivalenol accumulation using antagonistic microorganisms
(2008)
Laboratory and green house studies were conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, to evaluate the efficacy of Epicoccum sp., Alternaria sp., Trichoderma sp. and Bacillus sp. in control of Fusarium ...
Macrofauna Settlement on Pearl Oyster Collectors in Kenya: Seasonality and Abundance
(2008)
—Collection of pearl oyster seed using artificial collectors is a critical step in the
production of cultured pearls. This paper reports the seasonal abundance of macrofauna, which
settled on spat collectors set to ...
Cloud cover estimation over selected locations in East Africa using satellite derived reflectivity data
(2008)
The study aimed at improving the estimation of cloudiness over East
Africa through establishment of the relationship between observed
cloud cover and the satellite derived reflectivity. Two types of data
were used, ...
Estimation of IBNR Claims Reserves Using Linear Models
(2008)
Stochastic models for triangular data are derived and applied to claims reserving data. The
standard actuarial technique, the chain ladder technique is given a sound statistical
foundation and considered as a linear ...
J. I. Kinyamario, T. P. Wang
(2008)
Metal cations for the determination of fluorescent phosphoinositides by capillary electrophoresis
(2008)
Phosphatidylinositol (PI) and its phosphorylated derivatives known as phosphoinositides (PIPs), are essential regulators of cell signaling and membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal dynamics, and nuclear functions. Disruption ...
Concentration - Dependent Parsimonious Releaser Roles Of Gregarious Male Pheromone Of Desert Locust, Schistocerca Gregaria
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
The responses of (i) groups of crowd-reared mature males of desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria to a choice of two columns of air, one permeated with different concentrations of phenylacetonitrile (PAN), the major component ...