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Birth preparedness and complication readiness among women attending antenatal care clinic in health facilities within Bureti sub county of Kericho county, Kenya
(2016)Maternal mortality remains a major public health problem in Kenya with 488 deaths per 100,000 live births. Birth preparedness and complication readiness is one of the recommended strategies by the major global initiatives ... -
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya!
(Semantic Scholar, 2013)AIDS prevention interventions (Doka 1997; Sontag 1988).This paper examines the cognitive effects of metaphors and metonymies emerging from sexually explicit images and scary pictorial representations in AIDS posters among ... -
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya! The Quagmire of Sexually Explicit and Scary Pictorial Metaphors in AIDS Posters
(2013)AIDS as an incurable ailment is no stranger to humankind. Most healthconscious watchdogs, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, have lobbied for aggressive AIDS campaigns to sensitize populations within ... -
Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae meal improves growth performance, feed utilization, amino acids profile, and economic benefits of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, L.)
(AQUATIC RESEARCH, 2022-07)This study investigated the effect of replacing soybean meal (SBM) with black soldier fly larvae meal (BSFLM) on the growth performance, feed utilization, carcass body composition, and amino acids profile of Nile tilapia ... -
Black tea: Biochemical changes during processing
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BLENDING FISHWASTES AND CHICKEN MANURE EXTRACT AS A LOW-COST AND STABLE DIET FOR PLANKTONIC LIVE FOOD PRODUCTION
(Ghent University, Belgium, 2017)The global increase of aquaculture has expanded the demand for the zooplankton as live foods for larviculture. Although freshly cultured microalgae is the common diet for zooplankton, microalgal culture protocols are ... -
Blending fishwastes and chicken manure extract as low-cost and stable diet for mass culture of freshwater zooplankton, optimized for aquaculture
(IOP Publishing, 2019)This study investigated the feasibility of fishwastes and chicken manure extract (CME) as cheap diet for mass culture of freshwater zooplankton. CME and fishwastes as well as carbon source were used to make fishwaste ... -
BLOCK QUIVERS AND THEIR MUTATIONS
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Board Composition and Value-added Performance in an Emerging Securities Market: Panel Evidence from Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2017-11)This study investigates the role of board composition in influencing valueadded performance for firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) using the fixed effects panel data methodology. Using a sample of 456 firm-year ... -
Board composition and value-added performance in an emerging securities market: Panel evidence from Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2017)This study investigates the role of board composition in influencing valueadded performance for firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) using the fixed effects panel data methodology. Using a sample of 456 firm-year ... -
Body Build Stereotypes in Three-, Four-, and Five-Year-old Children
(University of North Carolina, 1978)The purpose of the study was to determine i~ a group of three-, four-, and five-year-old children exhibited the stereotypes relating to the mesomorphic, endomorphic, and ectomorphic body builds that have been found ... -
Body size and abundance relationship: an index of diversity for herbivores
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001-11-01)It is evident to any biologist that small-bodied species within a given higher taxon (order, class, phylum, etc.) tend to be represented by more individuals. Hence small-bodied species are generally more abundant than ... -
Boundary establishment and its influence on pastoral resource conflict between the Pokot and Karamojong since 1902
(International Journal of Social Science and Technology, 2016)International boundaries remain finite lines of divisions by which national geopolitical space is delineated and contained. This understanding is based on territoriality and sovereignty of each state denoting what ... -
Boys’ and girls’ relational and physical aggression in nine countries
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-07)Distinguishing between relational and physical aggression has become a key feature of many developmental studies in North America and Western Europe, but very little information is available on relational and physical ... -
Branching Processes Theory and Applications
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Breakfast Missing Pattern of Pre-Adolescent Primary School Children Kisumu County, Kenya.
(EC NUTRITION, 2020)Breakfast is an important meal of a day, especially to children and pre-adolescents. However, pre- adolescents seem to have the highest prevalence of missing breakfast despite its importance to their cognitive performance, ... -
Bridging the knowledge and skills gap in dairy husbandry
(Research Gate, 2021)Smallholder dairy production units account for over 80 per cent of total milk produced and marketed in Kenya (MoLD, 2010). Past efforts have been geared towards transformation of these units into market-oriented dairy ... -
A Bring Your Own Device Risk Assessment Model
(Computer Science Journals (CSJ), 2021)Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), a technology where individuals or employees use their own devices on the organization’s network to perform tasks assigned to them by the organization has been widely embraced. The reasons ... -
Building individual and community resilience through Open Education Resources for health literacy education in sub-Saharan Africa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Health literacy is the ability of individuals to understand health information and to make informed health decisions. As part of a larger project, we completed a scoping review to consider the question “To what extent ...