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Fungal and mycotoxin contamination of wheat from Nakuru and Nyandarua districts of Kenya and pathogenicity of fusarium species on wheat
(Department of plant science and crop protection, 2006)Mycotoxin poisoning resulting from contaminated cereal grains has become rampant in Kenya. Understanding the fungal causes and management is important both to the farmers and the consumers of the cereal grains and their ... -
Fungal Entomopathogens (Metarhizium Anisopliae And Beauveria Bassiana) For Aphid Management: Variability In Pathogenicity, Species Attributes And Interactions With Other Natural Enemies
(University of Nairobi, 2016-05)ABSTRACTAphids are regarded as one of the most important pest problems of vegetable crops worldwide. Most vegetable growers in sub-Saharan Africa heavily rely on chemical insecticides for control of aphids. However, the ... -
Further Chemical Analysis of Kenyan Polygonum Species
(University of Nairobi.Department of Science, 1990-03)Polygonum species enjoys a wide distribution In the highland regions of Kenya. Eleven species are reported as present in this country with four species among these being most common. The four include; P.senegalense ... -
Further investigations of Group Screening Designs
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Fusarium Species and Fumonisin in Atoxigenic Aspergillus Flavus (Aflasafe Ke01) Treated Maize Fields in Lower Eastern Kenya University of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Contamination of crops with fumonisin leads to huge losses in cereals and negatively impacts on human health, animal productivity and international trade. Management of fumonisin contamination in maize has been a challenge ... -
Fusarium wilt of carnation in Kenya and its interaction with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae
(University of AlbertaDepartment of Crop Science, 1993)Vascular wilt of carnation in Kenya was found to be caused by Fusarium oxysp orum f. sp. dianthi, Five isolates of this pathogen whose cultural characteristics differed on half-strength PDA were isolated from wilted ... -
Fusarium yellows of beans caused by Fusarium Oxysporum f. sp. Phaseoli in Kenya
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Futher investigations of group screening designs; step-wise designs
(University of NairobiSchool of mathematics, 1985)The inspection of individual members of a large population is an expensive and tedious process. Often when testing the results of manufacture, th2 work can be reduced greatly by examining only a sample of the ... -
The future and prospects of online journalism in Kenya: a case study of the Standard online
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)Online journalism is a relatively new medium in mass journalism. It has progressed rapidly in recent years since the development and widespread use of the Internet and World Wide Web. Technology changes rapidly, and thus ... -
The future of an agricultural bank in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,School of Business, 2007)This study set out to determine the factors necessary for the establishment of an Agricultural Bank in Kenya and to identify the challenges of operating an Agricultural Bank in Kenya. A cross-sectional survey was conducted ... -
The future of collective investment schemes in the Kenyan capital market
(University of Nairobi.Faculty of Commerce, 2003-02)This study set out to assess the Kenyan capital market and establish whether the conditions considered necessary for operation of collective investment schemes exist. These conditions were divided into three main groups: ... -
The future of the pastoral tribes in East Africa
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Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Differentiation: a Case of Radio Stations in Nairobi
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008)Organizations are open systems, that is, changes in the environment shape opportunities and challenges facing the organizations. Studies carried out before liberalization indicates that the reform process has led to stiff ... -
Gaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Service Differentiation Among Private Hospitals in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)Competition in both private and public hospitals in Kenya has become stiff. Hospitals therefore need to differentiate their services to remain competitive. Private hospitals especially have a challenge just like any other ... -
Gambling Behaviour of Low-income Youth in Dandora
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Gambling industry contributes significantly to national income directly or indirectly in addition to creating formal jobs which are non-agricultural based. Gambling problem amongst the youths is a risky behavior that cannot ... -
Gambling Mitigation Strategies Adopted by the Betting Control and Licensing Board of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The purpose of this study was to establish gambling mitigation strategies adopted by Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) of Kenya to enhance performance. This study was intended to provide valuable information to ... -
Game theoretic Multi-agent algorithms for the job shop scheduling problem
(2014)Job shop scheduling problem is a problem of scheduling n jobs on m machines with each job having a set of equal number of operation that are to be process in unique machine routes. The Job Shop Scheduling (JSSP) is one ... -
Game Theory and Learning at the Medium Access Control Layer for Distributed Radio Resource Sharing in Random Access Wireless Networks
(2013-02-13)Game theory is not only useful in understanding the performance of human and autonomous game players, but it is also widely employed in solving resource allocation problems in distributed decision-making systems. Reinforcement ... -
Gamma and related distributions
(University of NairobiSchool of mathematics,, 2013)The gamma distribution is one of the continuous distributions. Gamma distributions are very versatile and give useful presentations of many physical situations. They are perhaps the most applied statistical distribution ...
