Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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The role of risk in enterprise selection in Githunguri, Kiambu district
(2006)Kenya is currently not able to meet all the appropriate food needs for its population. Agricultural productivity is on the decline despite the many technologies developed by research institutions and the application ... -
A gendered analysis of constraints to cattle production in Ijara sub-county, Kenya
(2013)The livelihoods of communities in Arid and Semi-arid lands are under growing threat due to recurring droughts and presence of animal diseases. This study was carried out among women, men focus groups and key informants ... -
Commercial and subsistence Farming: What is the future for smallholder Kenyan agriculture?
(African Crop Science Society, 2003)Smallholders in Kenya have traditionally made important contributions to food security by producing most of their own food. They are, however, resource poor and, therefore, produce below optimum. In addition, the challenges ... -
Coping with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
(1983)With mortality rates from cancer in sub-Saharan Africa approaching those in developed countries, there is clearly a need for improved methods of treatment, especially chemotherapy. But there are many obstacles in the ... -
Pulmonary embolic disease in Kenya
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East African economic review
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Factors influencing performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital - participatory action research.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-02)Background: Implementation of World Health Organization case management guidelines for serious childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. Facilitators of and barriers to implementation ... -
The Coombs direct antiglobulin test in Kenyans
(1983)The direct antiglobulin test (DAT) was performed on 243 subjects in Kenya. A high incidence of positive DAT was found in children with malaria of whom 70% had RBCs coated with IgG, C3 and C4 either separately or together. ... -
Kenya Enters the Fertility Transition
(University of Nairobi, 1992)Contraceptive prevalence is rising and fertility is falling in Kenya, and the speed with which these changes are occurring suggests that Kenya has passed a turning point and entered a transition. In this paper the author ... -
Turbulence structure in triangular subchannels of a reactor bundle model
(University of Nairobi, 1991)Presented is a study of turbulence structure in two triangular subchannels of a reactor bundle at both design condition and a case when one of the outermost rods is in contact with the wall. Measured parameters include rms ... -
Flow measurements in rod bundle subchannels with varying rod-wall proximity
(University of Nairobi, 1991-11)Detailed measurements of fully developed, turbulent, air flow through a five-rod sector of a 37-rod bundle have been conducted for the design geometry of the bundle, as well as for several cases with the central rod displaced ...