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What is South African sign language? What is the South African deaf community
(2009-05-11)SUMMARY What is South African Sign Language? What is the South African Deaf Community? These two questions may look simple but answering them is quite complicated. It is a well-known fact that across the world, the majority ... -
What is South African sign language? What is the South African deaf community
(research gate, 2009-05-11)SUMMARY What is South African Sign Language? What is the South African Deaf Community? These two questions may look simple but answering them is quite complicated. It is a well-known fact that across the world, the majority ... -
When online learning and cultural values intersect: Indonesian EFL students' voices
(Institutes for Educational Research in NSW, SA and WA, 2022)During the COVID-19 pandemic, all lecturers had to replace their physical classroom teaching mode with online learning, albeit with challenges experienced by students and lecturers. Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural dimensions ... -
“When you talk it out… you will feel like the burden has somehow gone down, you will feel light”: Social Support Received by Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men …
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022)Gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) experience many sexual orientation-related stressors that negatively influence physical and mental health, making it imperative to understand their experiences ... -
Widowhood and HIV/AIDS
(Lambert Academic Publishers, 2015)Widowhood is a state unavoidable to all married individuals. Women experience widowhood differently. In Africa, widows face challenges posed by culture, stigma and poverty. Widows living with HIV and AIDS face more ... -
Widows, intersectionality and the parable in Luke 18
(Academic Journals, 2010-08-31)This article deconstructs a master category ‘widows’ by presenting nuances with regards to the term widow, which the authors consider is of interest in a global society. This article aims at stating the process of ... -
Wimbo: implications for risk of HIV infection among circumcised fishermen in Western Kenya
(Routledge, 2015-10-21)Medical male circumcision has been shown to reduce the risk of heterosexual transmission of HIV infection in men by up to 60% in three randomised controlled trials. However, not much anthropological literature exists to ... -
Within-and between-person and group variance in behavior and beliefs in cross-cultural longitudinal data
(Academic Press, 2018-01-01)This study grapples with what it means to be part of a cultural group, from a statistical modeling perspective. The method we present compares within-and between- cultural group variability, in behaviors in families. ... -
Women groups: A pathway to rural development in Nyamusi Division, Nyamira County, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, 2014): Despite their fundamental socio-economic responsibilities, rural women still have less access to knowledge, assets, services and participation in decision-making. These inequalities affect their ability to carry out ... -
Women in Colonial East Africa
(Springer, 2021)This chapter provides a contextual analysis of the role and place of women in colonial East Africa. Several factors including land, labor, agriculture, education, trade, politics, nationalism, and struggle for liberation ... -
Women Voters’ Radio Exposure by Sociodemographics During the 2013 Kenya General Election Campaigns in Kakamega County: Implications for Policy and Broadcast Journalism
(African Journalism Studies, 2020)Sociodemographics shape audience exposure to radio. However, it remains unclear whether these sociodemographics correlate with women voters’ radio exposure during elections in Kenya. Grounded in political mobilization, ... -
Women, indigenous knowledge systems, and climate change in Kenya
(Routledge, 2022)This chapter discusses women’s use of indigenous knowledge systems in response to the effects of climate change in Kenya. The chapter shows that regardless of the structural and cultural challenges that women face on land ... -
WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE ON EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION IN STAR RATED HOTELS IN KISUMU CITY, KENYA
(ajpojournals, 2020-07-24)Purpose: This paper present findings of a study whose purpose was aimed at establishing the effect of workplace settings on satisfaction of employees in star rated hotels in Kisumu City, Kenya. Methodology: Cross-sectional ... -
Wound dressing techniques and costs at a county hospital
(The Surgical Society of Kenya, 2019)Wound management is one of the commonest procedures conducted in surgical departments across health facilities in Kenya. -
Wound dressing techniques and costs at a county hospital
(The Surgical Society of Kenya, 2019)Background: Wound management is one of the commonest procedures conducted in surgical departments across health facilities in Kenya. Objective: This study aimed at exploring wound dressing techniques used at Migori ... -
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presenting as giant gluteal abscess
(Elsevier, 2020)Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) is a rare chronic suppurative granulomatous infection of the kidney associated with renal obstruction and progressive renal parenchymal destruction. We present an unusual clinically ... -
Yield advantage of maize and artemisia intercrops in a sub-humid ecozone of western Keny
(Shamokal Publications, 2012)see more details of the most beneficial system component. The experiment was carried out between 2009 and 2010 in two consecutive seasons. 8 treatments were laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) design with ... -
Yield and Yield Stability of Four Population Types of Grain Sorghum in a Semi‐Arid Area of Kenya
(Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology, 2000-03-01)Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is widely grown in semi‐arid tropics where local farmers depend on the adaptability of their rainfed crops to unpredictable drought and other stress factors. To investigate the effects ... -
Yield improvement of Kenyan sesame varieties
(University of Nairobi, 2001)In an effort to improve the yield of Kenyan sesame cultivars the seeds of three cultivars, SPS SIK6, SIK 096 and SPS SIK 50/1 were subjected to 300Gy, 400Gy and 600Gy of gamma rays. A first batch of seeds were subjected ...