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Can Community Land Trusts Enhance Urban Land Governance in Kenya?
(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?
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Carcass Characteristic of Indigenous Chicken Fed on Diets Containing German Cockroach (Blattela germanica) Meal in Kenya
(African Journal of Education, Science and Technology, 2023-09-11)Edible insects are available for use in insect-based-feed, however there is limited information on carcass characteristics and sensory tests of chicken fed on German cockroaches (Blattela germanica). This study assessed ... -
Cardiovascular risk factors among people living with HIV in rural Kenya: a clinic-based study
(Clinics Cardive Publishing, 2019-07-01)Objectives: To determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and their association with antiretroviral therapy (ART) among HIV-infected adults in a rural sub-county hospital in Kenya. Methods: This was a ... -
Career aspirations and career development barriers of adolescents in Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(Sabinet, 2011-10-01)The purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in adolescents' career aspirations and career development barriers among secondary school students in Kisumu municipality, Kenya. The study was conducted on 348 ... -
Career aspirations and decision making self efficacy: Secondary School Students’assessment based on KCSE exams in Kenya
(Academic journals, 2021)The purpose of the study was to determine career decision making self efficacy by assessing career aspirations and attainment in National examinations. The objectives of the study were to: Find out the students sources of ... -
Career Decision Making Status of Adolescents in Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(Scholarlink Resource Centre Ltd, 2015-02-01)The purpose of this study was to establish the decision making status of adolescents in Kisumu municipality across various demographic variables. The sample consisted of 359 (162 males and 197 females) secondary school ... -
Career Opportunities with implementation of Art and Design in secondary schools
(Progressive Academic Publishing,, 2014)This research was conducted to examine the level of awareness on careers available for students learning Art and Design in secondary schools in Kenya because some schools are dropping this curriculum in Western Kenya. ... -
Caregiver’s Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Care of Schizophrenia at Mathari Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya
(American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 2018)Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which is a major public health concern since it affects the quality of life of the schizophrenic patient. The patient requires a caregiver to support them in the entire phase of the ... -
Caregiving stress and adjustment problems of Kenyan orphans raised by grandmothers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-06)The present study compared levels of caregiving stress among 115 biological mothers and 134 grandmothers raising their orphaned grandchildren. The associations between parenting stress and adjustment difficulties exhibited ... -
Carpet Characteristics of Eichhornia Crassipes [Mart.] Solms (Water hyacinth) in the Winam Gulf (Lake Victoria, Kenya)
(Asian Economic and Social Society, 2017)The occurrence and spread of the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes [Mart.] Solms), in the Winam gulf has created numerous attributes to the human population that live around the lake, thereby making its control a ... -
Carpet Characteristics of Eichhornia Crassipes [Mart.] Solms (Water hyacinth) in the Winam Gulf (Lake Victoria, Kenya)
(Asian Economic and Social Society, 2017-07-01)The occurrence and spread of the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes [Mart.] Solms), in the Winam gulf has created numerous attributes to the human population that live around the lake, thereby making its control a ... -
Carpet characteristics of eichhornia crassipes [mart.] solms (water hyacinth) in the Winam gulf (lake victoria, Kenya)
(Journal of Asian Scientific Research, 2017)The occurrence and spread of the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes [Mart.] Solms), in the Winam gulf has created numerous attributes to the human population that live around the lake, thereby making its control a priority. ...