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Developing A Satellite Based Automatic System For Crop Monitoring: Kenya's Great Rift Valley A Case Study
(2016)The crop growth stage represents essential information for agricultural areas management. In this study we investigate the feasibility of a tool based on remotely sensed satellite (Landsat 8) imagery, capable of automatically ... -
Doctoral Training in Inorganic Chemistry for Technological Innovations and Socio-Economic Development
(University of Nairobi, 2018)In the current knowledge based world, doctoral training needs to be responsive to not only the advancement of knowledge through original research, but also meeting societal needs that are wider than academia. The knowledge ... -
Characterization of Experimental Dental Cements Derived from Locally Available Aluminosilicate Materials in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)An evaluation of locally available alkali-activated aluminosilicates (geopolymers) and clinker was carried out for the purpose of establishing a substitute material for development of atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) ... -
Nontargeted nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis to detect hazardous substances including methanol in unrecorded alcohol from Novosibirsk, Russia
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was applied to the analysis of alcoholic products in the context of health and safety control. A total of 86 samples of unrecorded alcohol were collected in Novosibirsk and ... -
Rethinking universal accessibility: A broader approach considering the digital gap
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Universal Accessibility” aims at including all people with disabilities in the target population for user-centered design. It is usually focused on the needs of people with disabilities, frequently including ... -
A preliminary assessment of the hydrocarbon potential of Kerio valley basin: gravity and magnetic interpretation
(University of Nairobi, 2016)The aim of the study was to assess the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Kerio Basin in the Kenya Rift. An Isostatically corrected anomaly map produced from a Bouguer anomaly grid was filtered using a Hanning low pass ... -
To plant or protect: evaluating forest recovery dynamics under natural and aided regeneration in Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013-08)Forest degradation remains a serious problem in Kenya, but opinion is divided on whether to protect degraded forests in order to facilitate natural regeneration or plant th em to accelerate forest recovery. ... -
Characterization of C_00 Contractions and their invariant subspaces, corrected manuscript re-submitted to Opuscula Mathematica, paper under review.
(University of Nairobi, 2011)This paper investigates the possibilities of applying emerging management theories and techniques to constitutionally created offices in Kenya and East African region. The benefits from application of these theories, ... -
Synthesis of structurally modified dipyrromethene complexes as new photodynamic therapy agents for cancer
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The ground - state structures and binding energies of the metal cations to dipyrromethene (DIPY) based ligands are determined using density functional theory (DFT) methods. Two lanthanide metal ... -
Two flavonoids and a rearranged clerodane diterpenoid from the leaf exudates of microglossa pyrifolia
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The fresh leaves of Microglossa pyrifolia , Asteraceae (7.5 kg) were extracted by successive dipping into fresh portions of ethyl acetate for short periods (less than or ca. 15 s) to yield (180 g, 2.4% ... -
Antimalarial drug discovery through in silico scaffold hopping using a database of natural products of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Despite the efforts to 'roll back malaria', statistics still shows that there are 97 countries and territories with ongoing malaria transmission, and 7 countries i n the prevention or ... -
Anticancer effect of compounds from aloe turkanensis
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Aloe turkanensis is a shrub and is commonly grown in the north - western Kenya and in the Karamajo district of Uganda. The lea f exudates and the roots of A. turkanensis is used tradition ally to ... -
+)-tephrodin: a novel flavone with antiplasmodial activity from tephrosia purpurea
(University of Nairobi, 2015)In our continued search for antiplasmodial agents with unique structures from Tephrosia species, the isolation, characterization and antiplasmodial activity of a novel flavone and three known flavonoids ... -
In silico structure of the 40s ribosomal subunit from plasmodium falciparum as drug targetby homology and de novo modeling
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The ribosome is an immensely important target for development of therapeutics. However, current X - ray methods for obtaining three - dimensional structures of the ribosome are slow and tedious. Methods ... -
Red hot compounds from the red hot poker plant, kniphofia, and related taxa
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Knipholone, the first 4 - arylanthraquinone was discovered from the stem of Kniphofia foliosa (Asphodelaceae) in 1984 1 . Since then a number of 4 - arylanthraquinones have been isolated ... -
Over three decades of phytochemistry-where are the phytomedicines?
(University of Nairobi, 2015)In our Natural Products research at the Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, we have studied many medicinal plants from different t axa - families, genera and species. We have isolated pure compounds ... -
Molecular phylogenetic and phylogeographic evidence of unrecognized diversity within nominal species of Labeobarbus from Indian Ocean drainages and Endorheic Rivers of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013-09)Studies of molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of freshwater fishes from major river drainages of the Indian Ocean and endorheic basins of the Great Rift Valley of central, western and southern Kenya have revealed ... -
Modeling techniques and data analysis
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