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Mobile based Notifiable Disease Surveillance – Case for Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)
Identifying infectious disease outbreaks in their early stages is an important task, both for governments and international organizations working in the health sector. This study reviewed the notifiable disease reporting ...
Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments
(University of Nairobi, 1999)
ropical forests are becoming increasingly fragmented, threatening the survival of the species that
depend on them. Small, isolated forest fragments will lose some of their original species. What is uncertain is
how long ...
The Family «geraniaceae» In North-east Tropical Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Although the species of this family are all small herbs which are very rare, this paper has brought to light the most up-to-date information about the family in the Horn of Africa. The flora area is an interesting one since ...
Agent-based Scheduler for Unrelated Parallel Machines using a load balancing heuristic
(2009)
The problem of finding an optimal schedule for n independent jobs on m non-identical machines is considered.
Several solutions to this problem have been proposed but most of them do not scale well due to the large ...
Issues In Grid Computing In The Context Of Education
(2008)
Grid computing and e-Education are areas that are separately, attracting interest of several
researchers. Grid computing is concerned with provision of computing and data storage
services to a wide group of users backed ...
Chemical bond approach to optical properties of some flash evaporated Se100 −XSbX chalcogenide alloy
(EDP Sciences, 2012)
Amorphous thin films of Se100−XSbX (X = 1, 5, 10, 15 and 20) were synthesized by flash
evaporation of the premelt quenched bulk samples. The optical properties were investigated from spectrophotometric
measurements in the ...
Adoption of Open Source Software by Organizations – A Framework for Kenya
(2012-12)
Open Source Software (OSS) has emerged as an alternative to
Closed Source Software in many fields of software usage.
However, how and why OSS software is being adopted and
implemented within organizations in Kenya is ...
Application of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Technology in the Tropics: Effects of Radiation Intensity and Temperature on DSSC Performance
(2012)
Effects of radiation intensity and temperature on the
performance of a dye-sensitized solar module (DSSM) have been
investigated in a tropical area in Nairobi, Kenya. Outdoor
measurements were performed on cloudless ...
The phlebotomine sandfly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Kenya.
(2011-12)
Visceral and cutaneous leishmaniases are endemic in some parts of Kenya, where they are transmitted by phlebobotomine sandflies of genus Phlebotomus. This review is a compilation of the currently known distribution of ...
Effects of vegetation disturbance on small mammals diversity and distribution in Oloolua forest, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
ThIs thesis describes investigations carried out from October 2008 to March 2009 to asses
the effects of vegetation disturbance on diversity and distribution of small mammals in
Oloolua forest, Kenya. Four different ...