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Planting the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018-10-25)
This concluding chapter pursues a deeper understanding of actions taken by Wangari Maathai to maintain spiritual connections between everyday life and the environment. We do so by explaining how traditional spiritual beliefs ...
Genetic and phenotypic parameters for feed efficiency in indigenous chicken in Kenya
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)
This study aims to determine the genetic and phenotypic parameters of net feed efficiency (NFE) traits namely Residual feed intake (RFI), residual gain (RG), and residual intake and gain (RIG) along the growth curve of ...
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 ...
A Unique Case of Ectopic Kidney with Variant Vasculature: A Congenital Anomaly Masquerading as Pyelonephritis
(Mara research journal, 2018)
There are several documented cases of ectopic and kidneys with supernumerary vasculature. However, we report a unique case of ectopic kidney with the right renal vessels originating from the left common iliac arteries as ...
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome components among University students in Kenya
(East African Medical Journal, 2018)
Objective: To examine the prevalence and major components of MS among Maseno University students.
Design: Descriptive cross- sectional study design
Setting: Maseno University, Medical Physiology laboratory
Participants: ...
Effects of prescribed physical therapy exercises on blood glucose, metabolic and HbA1c profiles in pre-diabetes at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
(East African Medical Journal, 2018)
Objectives: To investigate the metabolic parameters of pre-diabetes and to provide evidence of prescribed physical therapy exercises that can be quantified and reproduced.
Design: A controlled experimental study
Setting: ...
Nitrogen Doping of Hexagonal and Cubic Ge2Sb2Te5 Nanocrystals: An Ab Initio Study
(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2018)
The effect of nitrogen doping on the structural, electronic and optical properties of hexagonal and cubic Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) has been investigated from first principles. The nitrogen content was set to 10 at.% and 25 at.%, ...
Effect of Reverse Bias on Dye-Sensitized Technology: Lessons for Application in PV-Integrated Textile Fabric Designs Useable in Wajir, Vihiga, Kitui and Kajiado Counties in Kenya
(Journal of Technology Innovations in Renewable Energy, 2018)
This paper reports on the effect of reverse bias (RB) on dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that were investigated outdoor in Wajir (1o4450 North, 40o 4 8 East), Vihiga (35o0 East, 0o15 North), Kitui (3o 0 South, 37o 50 ...