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Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub- Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?

Helen M Nabwera, Osayame A Ekhaguere, Haresh Kirpalani, Kathy Burgoine, Chinyere V Ezeaka, Walter Otieno, Stephen J Allen, Nicholas D Embleton (BMJ Specialist Journals, 2021)

In 2019, 2.4 million neonates (infants <28 days of age) died globally. Of these, over 80% were preterm infants (<37 weeks gestation), with the majority born in low- income and middle- income countries.1 Complications of ...

Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?

Helen M Nabwera, Osayame A Ekhaguere, Haresh Kirpalani, Kathy Burgoine, Chinyere V Ezeaka, Walter Otieno, Stephen J Allen, Nicholas D Embleton (BMJ Specialist Journals, 2021)

In 2019, 2.4million neonates (infants <28 days of age) died globally. Of these, over 80% were preterm infants (<37 weeks gestation), with the majority born in low-income and middle-income countries.1 Complications ...

Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?

Helen M Nabwera, Osayame A Ekhaguere, Haresh Kirpalani, Kathy Burgoine, Chinyere V Ezeaka, Walter Otieno, Stephen J Allen, Nicholas D Embleton (BMJ Specialist Journals, 2021-12-01)

In 2019, 2.4 million neonates (infants< 28 days of age) died globally. Of these, over 80% were preterm infants (< 37 weeks gestation), with the majority born in low-income and middle-income countries. 1 Complications of ...

Calculations for Mutations of Quivers with Potential'

WAMBUA, Victoria Mwia (Maseno University, 2011)

From the work of Derksen, Weyman and Zelevinsky in [4], we get the definition for mutation of a quiver with potential. Stern in [l~l describes . some families of quivers corresponding to quivers with potential that can be ...

Calotropis procera: a new investment for African drylands

Alice Muchugi, Agnes Gachuiri, Nkatha Gacheri, Festus M Mutiso, Jacinta M Kimiti, Ramni Jamnadass, Jianchu Xu (World Agroforestry centre, 2017)

The genus Calotropis (Asclepiadaceae) is comprised of two species, C. gigantea and C. procera, which both show signifcant economic potential for use of their seed fbers in the textile industry, and of their bioactive ...

Can Community Land Trusts Enhance Urban Land Governance in Kenya?

Emmanuel Midheme (N-AERUS, 2012)

The struggle for land constitutes a major challenge in urban governance in Kenya today. The sheer pace of the country’s urbanization far outstrips the ability of conventional state and market mechanisms to accommodate ...

Can Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action Provide a Framework of Inspiration for Practices of Discursive Mediation in Post-Election Kenya?

Philip Visendi Lumwamu, Florence Ngesa Indede, Peter Maina Matu (Scholars Middle East Publishers,, 2019)

This article examines how Habermas‘s theory of communicative action provides insights for mediation processes and conflict resolution in general. It lays its assumptions that people in society are in relationship and that ...

Can Integrated Livestock-Fish Culture be a Solution to East Afircan's Food Insecurity? A Review

Erick Ochieng Ogello, FT Mlingi, BM Nyonje, H Charo-Karisa, JM Munguti (AJFAND, 2013-09-26)

Integrated livestock-fish culture approach envisages the integration of fish farming with cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, pigs or rabbit husbandry in a design allowing wastes from one system to be used as inputs in another ...

Can Physical Activity and Dietary Fat Intake Influence Body Mass Index in a Cross-sectional Correlational Design?

GM Mbagaya, DO Omondi, LOA Othuon (2011)

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of physical activity and dietary fat intake on Body Mass Index (BMI) of lecturers within a higher learning institutionalized setting. The study adopted a Cross-sectional ...

Candidate-gene based GWAS identifies reproducible DNA markers for metabolic pyrethroid resistance from standing genetic variation in East African Anopheles gambiae

Unknown author (Springer, 2018)

Metabolic resistance to pyrethroid insecticides is widespread in Anopheles mosquitoes and is a major threat to malaria control. DNA markers would aid predictive monitoring of resistance, but few mutations have been discovered ...

Capital Structure, Ownership Structure and Firm Value: An Econometric Panel Analysis of Firms Listed in Kenya

Mule, Robert; MUKRAS, Mohamed S; Nzioka, Onesmus M; Maloba, Mwimali H (2015)

The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of capital structure and ownership structure on market value of listed firms in Kenya. In this study, data of companies that were active in Nairobi Securities Exchange ...

Carbon dioxide compensation points of some dicots of the Centrospermeae species and their ecological implications for agroforestry.

S Sikolia, E Beck, JC Onyango (ANSInet, Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2009)

The present studies on carbon dioxide compensation point (Γ) considered species from tropical semi-arid, snowline and saline ecosystems. The aim of the study was to establish the ecological range of the CO2 compensation ...

Carbon dioxide exchange and biomass productivity of the herbaceous layer of a managed tropical humid savanna ecosystem in western Kenya

GO K’Otuto, DO Otieno, B Seo, HO Ogindo, JC Onyango (Oxford University Press, 2013-08-01)

Aims Humid savannas, as a result of high precipitation amounts, are highly productive. They are also hotspots for land use change and potential sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to the large soil carbon (C) stocks. ...

Carbon dioxide exchange and biomass productivity of the herbaceous layer of a managed tropical humid savanna ecosystem in western Kenya

GO K’Otuto, DO Otieno, B Seo, HO Ogindo, JC Onyango (Oxford University Press, 2013-08-01)

Humid savannas, as a result of high precipitation amounts, are highly productive. They are also hotspots for land use change and potential sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to the large soil carbon (C) stocks. Understanding ...