Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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The effectiveness of metrifonate in reducing hookworm infection in Kenyan school children.
(1986)The reduction in hookworm egg counts was determined in children treated with 1 and 2 doses of metrifonate. Kenyan primary school children were allocated to receive either 10.0 mg (n = 53) or 7.5 mg (n = 53) of metrifonate ... -
Broad neutralization coverage of HIV by multiple highly potent antibodies.
(Macmillan Publishers, 2011)Broadly neutralizing antibodies against highly variable viral pathogens are much sought after to treat or protect against global circulating viruses. Here we probed the neutralizing antibody repertoires of four human ... -
Changes in plasma viral load and penile viral shedding after circumcision among HIV-positive men in Kisumu, Kenya.
(2013)BACKGROUND:: We conducted a prospective cohort study of HIV-positive men ages 18-35 years in Kisumu, Kenya to determine if medical circumcision of ART-naïve HIV-positive men leads to increased viral load and penile viral ... -
Stable CD4 Expression and Local Immune Activation in the Ectocervical Mucosa of HIV-Infected Women.
(2013)Studies using genital tissue samples from HIV-infected women might provide important information about HIV susceptibility and transmission. In this study, ectocervical biopsies were obtained from 20 HIV-seropositive (HIV(+)) ... -
HIV-1 Superinfection Occurs Less Frequently Than Initial Infection in a Cohort of High-Risk Kenyan Women.
(2013)HIV superinfection (reinfection) has been reported in several settings, but no study has been designed and powered to rigorously compare its incidence to that of initial infection. Determining whether HIV infection reduces ... -
Prevalence, types and comorbidity of mental disorders in a Kenyan primary health centre.
(2013)PURPOSE: To estimate the prevalence, types and comorbidity of the most common mental disorders and the spread of suicide risk in a primary care practice in Kenya. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional descriptive ... -
Knowledge of psychiatric terms and concepts among Kenyan youth: Analysis of focus group discussions.
(2013)Psychiatric disorders and symptoms are common worldwide. However, cultural differences in symptom manifestation and knowledge of psychiatric terms and concepts represent a challenge to accurate clinical assessment. Our ... -
Factors that influence the choice of psychiatry as a career by medical students at the School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi.
(Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, 2013)The aim of this paper is to assess the particular factors facilitating and those hampering the choice of psychiatry as a career by medical students at the University of Nairobi in a cross-sectional population study of ... -
Chemosterilants With the Mosquitoes Culex Pipiens Fatigans(wiedemann and Anopheles Gamlae (Giles)
(University of Nairobischool of biological sciences, 1968)The possibility of control or eradication of an insect species by the release of overwhelming number of sterile males has been proven by experiment. On social ground it is considered that chemosterilants (chemicals capable ... -
A dynamical model for stage-specific HIV incidences with application to sub-Saharan Africa
(University of NairobiDepartment of Mathematics, 2003)Abstract In this paper a deterministic model for HIV epidemic with three stages of disease progression among infected patients is discussed. It is assumed that the patient once infected experiences disease progression ... -
Synthesis and characterization of redox-active Complexes of molybdenum(ll) nitrosyl linked to pfunctionalized Iron(iii)-schiff bases
(University of NairobiDepartment of chemistry, 2011)Characterization of heterobinuclear complexes containing molybdenum(II) nitrosyl metal fragment, Mo(NO)Tp'Cl; r,' = tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl) borate linked to p-functionalized Fe(Salen)Cl; by IR, UV, MS and elemental analysis ... -
Mathematical model for detecting diabetes in the Blood
(University of Nairobi,Department of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, 2011)This study presents a new mathematical model for Blood Glucose Regulatory System(BGRS) which includes epinephrine as a third variable in the form, Y = AY, and whose solution has been analyzed fur equilibrium and stability ... -
Texture and mineralogy of soils with repeated additions of pyroclastics (in the Nguu Volcano Area—Machakos District, Kenya)
(University of NairobiDepartment of Soil Science, 1983)From the Tertiary period onwards, Kenya has experienced repeated episodes of volcanicity, resulting in a large part of the country being covered by volcanic rocks. Soils developed on the volcanic rocks per se (for example, ... -
Geology of the Ithanga Hills are in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 1984)The geology of the Ithanga Hills area is composed of high grade late Precambrian metamorphic rocks of the Mozambique belt, Tertiary (?) volcanics, largely tuffs, that overlie the Mozambiquian rocks unconformably and Recent ... -
The Mutito and Ikoo faults in the Pan-African Mozambique Belt, eastern Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 1992)The Mutito and the Ikoo faults, two dextral strike-slip faults located in eastern Kenya about 160 km east of Nairobi, represent major dislocations in rocks of the late Proterozoic Pan-African Mozambique belt. They intersect ... -
Pan-African high pressure granulites from SE-Kenya: petrological and geothermobarometric evidence for a polycyclic evolution in the Mozambique belt
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 2004-12)Two different Pan-African tectono-metamorphic events are recognised in the Taita Hill Tsavo East National Park/Galana river area, SE-Kenya (Mozambique belt) based on petrographic and geothermobarometric evidence. Structurally, ... -
Modification of Flash Chromatography, Aldrichimica Acta, 1981, 1, 2.
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Stable isotopic composition of East African lake waters
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 2001-03-01)The investigation of stable isotopic composition of East African lake waters was conducted by scientists from the Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, as part of the International Decade for the East African Lakes ... -
The palaeo-lake Suguta and its importance for understanding lake level fluctuations in the East African Rift System
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 2010)We studied the most recent dry-wet-dry cycle in the presently arid Suguta Valley in the Northern Kenya Rift where a 300-m-deep lake has formed during the so-called African Humid Period (AHP, 14.8-5.5 ka BP). Hydromodeling ...