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Participatory orientation to strategic planning process: Does it pay?
(2011-06)
It is postulated that a participatory orientation to the strategic planning process could influence the realization of the expected
strategic planning outcomes. Past studies investigating the relationship between strategic ...
Medicinal plants used in the management of chronic joint pains in Machakos and Makueni counties, Kenya.
(2011-09-02)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Traditional medicines play an important role in the management of chronically painful and debilitating joint conditions, particularly in the rural Africa. However, their potential use as ...
Hatchability and fertility of indigenous chicken and duck eggs, and some causes of chick and duckling mortality in Kenya
(2007)
Flocks under study are located in the suburbs of Nairobi province and Machakos district. They belonged to smallholder farmers. Twenty seven clutches of eggs given to indigenous chickens to seat on, and 10 clutches of eggs ...
Game ranching in Machakos District, Kenya : an application of mathematical programming to the study of wildlife policy
(1998)
This study employed a bioeconomic, mathematical programming model to analyse ranch resources allocation among cattle and game animals, and Kenya's wildlife conservation and game harvesting policies. The objective function ...
The Potential use of Plant Anthelmintics for the Control of Livestock Helminthoses in Kenya
(2004)
Helminthoses are a major constraint to livestock
production in Kenya. The control of these
infections by the use of synthetic anthelmintics is
constrained by a number of problems that
include; lack of foreign exchange ...
Biotechnology in Kenya
(1994)
A new species and four new records of Asterina from Kenya
(1996)
Five species of Asterina identified on 5 unrelated host genera from Mau Forest in Western Kenya are described. A. achyrospermi on Achyrospermum schimperi is described as a new species, A. dissiliens is new to the host ...
Confronting Dictatorship in Kenya
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)
Since June 1990, a battle has been raging over political pluralism in
Kenya, On one side is a movement dedicated to restoring multiparty
democracy and freeing a once-vibrant economy that is now staggering
under the ...
Early Experience with Stapled Hemorrhoidopexy in Nairobi, Kenya
(2014)
Background: Conventional hemorrhoidectomy (CH) is considered the gold standard in the surgical management of symptomatic hemorrhoids. It is however painful and has a relatively lengthy convalescence period. In the last two ...
Indigenous Snake Bite Remedies of the Luo of Western Kenya
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2005)
Medicinal plants have been overtaken in the treatment of snake
bites by serum therapy and are rarely considered efficacious remedies in biomedicine. Nevertheless, rural inhabitants rely on plant medical material and the ...