Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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The Efficacy of a Tropical Constructed Wetland for Treating Wastewater during the Wet Season: The Kenyan Experience
(2014)Constructed Wetlands are among the most promising treatment options for domestic and industrial wastewater streams in places where land is available. They need more land than conventional wastewater treatment plants but ... -
Zanthoxylum Usambarense (Engl.) Kokwaro (Rutaceae) Extracts Inhibit The Growth Of The Breast Cancer Cell Lines MDA-MB-231 And MCF-7, But Not The Brain Tumour Cell Line U251 In Vitro.
(University of Nairobi, 2012)Zanthoxylum usambarense (Engl.) Kokwaro has traditionally been used for the treatment of malaria, upper respiratory tract infections, cough, rheumatism, tooth decay and sore gums in Kenya and other African countries. Dried ... -
Evaluation Of The Antiplasmodial Activity Of Extracts Of Plants Used In Traditional Medicine In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Malaria is still a major public health problem because of resistance to therapeutic drugs. Among strategies for the development of new antimalarial, a study of plants traditionally used in Africa particularly that of Kenya ... -
The Status Of Physics In Kenya
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Spectral Analysis And Imaging Platforms For Trace Analytics In Disease And Environment
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Analysis And Spectral Imaging Approaches To Disease Diagnostics: Forays Into Malaria And Cancer
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Assessing Time Trends in Sex Differences in Swimming & Running
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Reduced expression of the small leucine-rich proteoglycans, lumican, and decorin is associated with poor outcome in node-negative invasive breast cancer
(University of Nairobi, 2003-01)Purpose: To examine the prognostic significance of lumican and decorin, two abundant small leucine-rich proteoglycans in breast tissue stroma.Experimental design: Lumican and decorin expression was examined in a cohort of ... -
Effects of sediments loads on water quality within the Nairobi river basins, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2012)This paper presents the findings of a study carried out in the years 1998-2005 within the Nairobi River basins on the effects and implications of sediment loads on water quality. The study was motivated by the worrying ... -
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal
(University of Nairobi, 2015)We evaluate the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch, since it is useful to have a consistent temporal definition for this increasingly used unit, whether the presently informal term is eventually ... -
Electrocatalytic reduction of 2, 2, 2–trichloro-1, 1-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethanol (dicofol) in acetonitrile- aqueous solution using cyanocobalamin as a catalyst
(University of Nairobi, 2015)This paper reports on the catalytic behaviour of cyanocobalamin (VB12) towards the reduction of polyhalogenated organic pollutant 2, 2, 2–trichloro-1,1-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethanol (dicofol) in acetonitrile-aqueous solution ... -
Modelling an Institutional Mobile Learning Readiness Analyser
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Due to the affordability, ease of use and availability of mobile devices, many people in Africa and developing countries have acquired at least a mobile device. The penetration of mobile devices places many learning ... -
Development and validation of climate and ecosystem-based early malaria epidemic prediction models in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background: Malaria epidemics remain a serious threat to human populations living in the highlands of East Africa where transmission is unstable and climate sensitive. An existing early malaria epidemic prediction model ... -
Seasonal rainfall forecasting using the Multi-Model Ensemble Technique over the Greater Horn of Africa
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Perceived risk factors and risk pathways of Rift Valley fever in cattle in Ijara district, Kenya: original research
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Ijara district in Kenya was one of the hotspots of Rift Valley fever (RVF) during the 2006/2007 outbreak, which led to human and animal deaths causing major economic losses. The main constraint for the control and prevention ... -
Water quality assessment linkage to remote sensing
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Relationship between tea (camellia sinensis) leaf uptake of major nutrients, Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) and leaf anatomy of different varieties grown in the Kenyan highlands
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Uptake of major nutrients (NPK) through the leaf st udies were carried out on three varieties of tea gr own in the Kenyan Highlands. A foliar fertilizers trial was se tup in three sites comprising of 36 plots per ...