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Effects of Structural Viscoelasticity in Non-Divergence free Deformable Porous Media with Incompressible Constituents
(Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2018)
In this paper, we investigate the importance of structural viscoelasticity in the mechanical
response of deformable porous media with incompressible constituents
under sudden changes in the external applied quasi-static ...
Marketing of edible insects in Lake Victoria basin: the case of Uganda and Burundi
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2018-12-07)
This paper assesses the marketing of edible insects with the aim of understanding the market opportunities, market players, and the value chain of edible insect products in the Lake Victoria basin. A pretested questionnaire ...
An assessment of facility-based care of diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure across western Kenya
(Kenya Medical Association, 2018)
Low- and middle- income countries account for three-fourths of the global non- communicable disease related mortality. In response to the increasing number of non- communicable disease diagnoses in Kenya, the government ...
Gully Rehabilitation Trusts: Fighting soil erosion through community participation in western Kenya
(Pergamon, 2018-02-01)
Soil erosion is one of many interlinked factors contributing to land degradation, which has been the focus of recent international agreements, including the Bonn Challenge and the Kigali Declaration on Forest Landscape ...
Framing Freedom of Religion or Belief for Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya: The Equivalency Framework of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya
(Routledge, 2018-10-02)
Over the past years, and in the aftermath of terror attacks, religious organizations in Kenya have issued press statements which conflate discourses on war against terror, security, and freedoms of religion. Using the ...
Lay health worker experiences administering a multi-level combination intervention to improve PMTCT retention
(BioMed Central, 2018-12)
The recent scale-up of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services has rapidly accelerated antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake among pregnant and postpartum women in sub-Saharan Africa. The Mother ...
Use of menstrual cups among school girls: longitudinal observations nested in a randomised controlled feasibility study in rural western Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2018-12-01)
Background
A menstrual cup can be a good solution for menstrual hygiene management in economically challenged settings. As part of a pilot study we assessed uptake and maintenance of cup use among young school girls in ...
The ASOS Surgical Risk Calculator: development and validation of a tool for identifying African surgical patients at risk of severe postoperative complications
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)
Background
The African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS) showed that surgical patients in Africa have a mortality twice the global average. Existing risk assessment tools are not valid for use in this population because the ...
Investigation of Optimal Temperature Distribution, Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Friction Stir Welded Copper Alloy Joints
(Research gate, 2018)
In this work to determine the maximum temperature at weld zone by using three dimensional finite element heat
transfer model is developed by ANSYS. Copper specimens were prepared under different FSW condition, by varying ...
A Spatiotemporal Analysis of HIV-Associated Mortality in Rural Western Kenya 2011–2015
(2018)
Background: Reliable data on the HIV epidemic is critical for the
measurement of the impact of HIV response and for the implementation of further interventions.
Methods: We used mortality data from the Kombewa health ...