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Factors that determine students and teachers attitudes towards art and design curriculum
(Academic Journals, 2010-04-30)Art and Design is one of the vocational subjects in the secondary school curriculum. Its implementation has not been impressive owing to a steady decline in enrolment of students, students dropping the subject at different ... -
Factors that influence local attitudes towards refugees in Kenya
(Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2004)This study focused on the factors that influence local attitudes towards refugees in Kenya. The study was carried out on two sites: Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa District in North Eastern Province, and the former Thika ... -
Factors that influence the efficiency of beef and dairy cattle recording system in Kenya: A SWOT–AHP analysis
(Springer Netherlands, 2011-01-01)Animal recording in Kenya is characterised by erratic producer participation and high drop-out rates from the national recording scheme. This study evaluates factors influencing efficiency of beef and dairy cattle recording ... -
Factors underlying stigmatization of epilepsy: A comparative case study of Suba and Meru Central Districts, Kenya
(American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (ASRJETS), 2014)Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder known to mankind. It is shrouded in mystery and associated with supernatural forces resulting in social stigma, systematic discrimination and psychological morbidity to the ... -
Factors Underlying Stigmatization of Epilepsy: Case Study of Abasuba and Ameru Communities, Kenya
(Research gate, 2020)Aims: To determine factors underlying stigmatization of People with Epilepsy (PWE) among Abasuba and Ameru communities, Kenya. Study Design: Cross sectional design was used in this study. Place of the Study: The study ... -
A failed romance: reading masculinity and love in David Karanja's The Girl was Mine
(Sabinet, 2005)Popular art is not just about entertainment, and this paper explores some of the pertinent issues that one genre of popular fiction, romance, signals. Using the novel The Girl was Mine as a backdrop, the paper concentrates ... -
Fallacious Sexuality Knowledge and its Implications Among the Akamba Adolescents in Machakos County, Kenya
(2015)Current statistics show that urban growth rates are relatively higher in the Small and Intermediate urban centres in Kenya. This study sought to analyze the impacts of urbanization driven land use changes within the Mara ... -
Family history as a risk for early-onset type 2 diabetes in Kenyan patients.
(EBSCO Industries, Inc, 2014)Early-onset type 2 diabetes is regarded as disease occurring before the age of 40 years. It is well described, and increasing in prevalence, but there is little information from Africa. We therefore assessed the prevalence ... -
Family history as a risk for early-onset type 2 diabetes in Kenyan patients.
(African Journal of Diabetes Medicine 15, 2014)Early-onset type 2 diabetes is regarded as disease occurring before the age of 40 years. It is well described, and increasing in prevalence, but there is little information from Africa. We therefore assessed the prevalence of ... -
Farm diversification benefits and technology choice: A case of the coffee-banana farming system in Central Uganda
(African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2023)Diversification has been argued to be the future of small farms and more so in developing countries given its benefits to mitigating against risk, increase economic and social benefits. This study was built on an earlier ... -
Farm management practices and-their effects on yield, disease incidence and pest density of·banana and groundnut in western Kenya: planting density, intercropping and banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus Germar (Gleoptera: Curculionidae) trapping
(East African Journal of Life Sciences, 2004-11-01)Studies on the effects of pseudostem trapping, plant density and intercropping on the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus Germar. populations and crop yields were conducted in western Kenya from 1994 to 1997. The objective ... -
Farmer perceptions of Imazapyr Resistant (IR) maize on the control of Striga in Western Kenya
(2008)For a long time, farmers in Nyanza and Western provinces in Kenya have had to deal with the Striga problem. To most of them Striga had become a way of life and they had given up hope. Striga affects their mainstay crops, ... -
Farmer Perceptions of Imazapyr-Resistant (IR) Maize Technology on the Control of Striga in Western Kenya
(2008)For a long time, farmers in Nyanza and Western provinces in Kenya have had to deal with the Striga problem. To most of them, Striga had become a way of life and they had given up hope. Striga affects their mainstay crops, ... -
Farmer versus Researcher data collection methodologies: Understanding variations and associated trade-offs
(2019)The number of non-experts (such as farmers) participating in research activities has increased over the years, with the aim of them addressing their heterogeneous conditions. The situation has resulted in them being ... -
Farmers' attitude towards risk on indigenous chicken in Nyanza Region
(Premier Publishers, 2018-06)Kenya has an estimate of 25.9 million indigenous chicken that support livelihood of over 21 million people in rural areas. Indigenous chicken production in Kenya is mainly under extensive and semi intensive systems which ... -
Farmers’ Attitude towards Risk on Indigenous Chicken in Nyanza Region
(AJAERD, 2018)Kenya has an estimate of 25.9 million indigenous chicken that support livelihood of over 21 million people in rural areas. Indigenous chicken production in Kenya is mainly under extensive and semi intensive systems ... -
Fasciola gigantica: Comparison of the tegumental ultrastructure in newly excysted metacercariae and in vitro penetrated juvenile flukes indicates intracellular sources of molecules with vaccinal and immunomodulatory potential
(Elsevier, 2019)Using in vitro procedures to prepare newly excysted metacercariae and gut-penetrated juvenile Fasciola gigantica, the ultrastructural features of the tegumental syncytium and perikarya of these ephemeral stages in the ... -
Fasciola gigantica: ultrastructural cytochemistry of the tegumental surface in newly-excysted metacercariae and in vitro-penetrated juvenile flukes informs a concept of parasite defence at the interface with the host
(Elsevier, 2019)Cytochemical staining techniques were carried out en bloc with in vitro excysted and gut-penetrated Fasciola gigantica larvae in order to visualise the glycocalyx of the tegument, a structure which comprises the parasite ... -
A Fatal Case of Infant Oral Mutilation Practice
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Infant oral mutilation (IOM) is a traditional dental practice where traditional healers enucleate primary canine tooth buds in children in the hope of preventing or curing childhood illness. The method applied is ...