Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Finding Success in Group Mentorship
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Improving mental health in Africa
(2013-06-03)Though it receives little attention in the West, access to mental health care is one of the most critical health issues in Africa, says a Kenyan psychiatrist -
Strengthening Agricultural Education in Africa: The Approach of the Forum for Agricultural Resource Husbandry
(2000)The attainment of sustainable food security in sub-Saharan Africa requires the efforts of a large cadre of well-trained agricultural resource specialists familiar with the constraints and perspectives of smallhold farmers ... -
Light availability within an innovative maize-legume intercropping system in Western Kenya
(2003)An experiment was conducted in western Kenya to characterize the penetration of solar radiation into the canopy of different maize-bean intercropping systems. The conventional system consisted of alternating 37.5 cm rows ... -
Creating space: Sack gardening as a livelihood strategy in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya
(2015)As many countries in sub-Saharan Africa undergo rapid urbanization, a growing number of people are joining the ranks of the urban poor. Urban agriculture is a livelihood strategy used by the poor to improve their ... -
Effects of added biomass, soil pH and calcium on the solubility of Minjingu phosphate rock in a Kenyan Oxisol
(2006)The effect of added biomass (dried leaves) of tithonia (Tithonia diversifolia [Hemsley] A. Gray), soil pH, and soil calcium (Ca) saturation on the dissolution of Minjingu phosphate rock (MPR) was examined in two incubation ... -
Indigenous populations of rhizobia, legume response to inoculation and farmer awareness of inoculants in East and Southern Africa
(1997)The Rhizobium Ecology Network of East and Southern Africa (RENEASA) is a participatory research affiliation of microbiologists and agronomists which seeks to better understand biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) and promote ... -
Taking people with you
(2013)One has to recognize the value not only of one's own colleagues but also of people at all levels of the mental healthcare system. This means regarding the patient, family, community, other healthcare workers, government ... -
Mental health challenges and prospects in Kenya
(2011)Today Kenya has 77 psychiatrists, 418 mental health nurses and 30 clinical psychologists and a much bigger number of counseling psychologists for a population of just below 40 million. Kenya has been lucky in that ... -
Changes in Soil Chemical Properties in Response to Application of Phosphorus Sources in Legume Sorghum Cropping Systems
(2014)Field experiments to evaluate effect of phosphorus (P) fertilizers and integration of legumes in sorghum cropping systems on soil pH, available nitrogen (N) and P, were conducted in Njoro Kenya during the short (SRS) and ... -
The potential of underutilized phosphate rocks for soil Fertility replenishment in Africa:case studies in Western Kenya
(African Crop Science Society & Minia University, 2007)Most sub-Saharan African countries continue to have slow development rates, mainly resulting from food insecurity, poverty and poor health of the majority of the populations. With regard to food insecurity, soil ... -
1-Power normal and 1-Power quasinormal operators
(2014)In this paper, 1-Power normal and 1-Power quasinormal operators are introduced. Amongst other results, it is proved that, 1-Power normal operators have translation invariant property and that, if any operator and its adjoint ... -
Berger-Shaw inequalityfor n-Power quasinormal and w-hyponormal operators
(2014)Every reducible operator can be decomposed into normal and completely non-normal operators. Unfortunately, there are several non normal operators which are irreducible. However, every operator whose self-commutator is ... -
An Interplay Between n-Power quasinormal and w-Hyponormal operators
(2014)In this monograph, via Aluthge transformations, it is proved that every n-Power normal operator is normaloid and through paranormality, w-hyponormal operators are shown to be indepedent from n-Power normal, hence from ... -
Drought monitoring in Kenya: A case of Tana River County
(2014-07)Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is used to assess past, present and projected drought conditions while Mann Kendall trend test and coefficient of variability is used for trend analysis. Observed data from National ...