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Molecular Characterization of Global Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana, L. Gaertn) germplasm Reaction to Striga in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2018)
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana, L. Gaertn) is an important food crop in Africa and Asia. The
parasitic weed Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth limits finger millet production through reduced yield
in agro-ecologies where ...
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Micro-enterprise Development in Kenya: A Study of Obunga Slum in Kisumu
(Maseno University, 2010)
—The performances of small and medium enterprises
have stagnated in the last two decades. This has mainly been due to
the emergence of HIV / Aids. The disease has had a detrimental
effect on the general economy of the ...
Health literacy knowledge and experience of bachelor nursing students at a university in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Health literacy is defined as the degree to which an individual has the capacity of obtaining, processing, and understanding basic health information and services needed for one to make appropriate decisions with relation ...
Selected genes of Human herpesvirus-8 associated Kaposi’s sarcoma among patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 and Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease Syndrome
(AJOL, 2019)
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a kind of cancer that causes flat or raised lesions containing Human herpes virus 8 (HHV8). The KS lesions are common among immunosuppressed HIV patients. Highly Active Antiretroviral (HHART) treats ...
Haemostatic disorders in patients with breast cancer at Kenyatta national hospital, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Haemostatic disorders (thrombosis and haemorrhage) are increasingly being investigated and
assessed as factors that influence outcome of treatment of solid tumors including breast
cancer. There is little data available ...
Post-Natal Care –Health Seeking Behavior Among Women of Reproductive Age in Homa Bay Town
(British Journal of Medical and Health Research, 2019)
Postnatal care (PNC) is vital for the life of both mother and child as it reduces both marternal
and infant morbidities and mortalities. However, in Kenya, PNC utilization is low (48%) but
the cause is not known. ...
Recursive Relation for Zero Inflated Poisson Mixture Distributions
(HIKARI Ltd, 2017)
The paper extends the work of Sarguta who derived recursive re lations for univariate distributions by considering the ZIP continuous
mixtures. The paper gives a recursive formular which can be used to
evaluate the mixed ...
A Novel Approach in Herbal Quality Control Using Hyperspectral Imaging: Discriminating Between Sceletium tortuosum and Sceletium crassicaule
(Wiley, 2013)
ntroduction–Sceletium tortuosumis the most sought after species of the genusSceletiumand is commonly included incommercial products for the treatment of psychiatric conditions and neurodegenerative diseases. However, this ...
Validated RP-UHPLC PDA and GC–MS methods for the analysis of psychoactive alkaloids in Sceletium tortuosum
(Elservier, 2012)
Anecdotal evidence indicates that Sceletium tortuosum has been used as a psychoactive preparation for several centuries. The psychological activity
is attributed to the production of mesembrine-type alkaloids (mesembrenol, ...
Validated RP-UHPLC PDA and GC–MS methods for the analysis of psychoactive alkaloids in Sceletium tortuosum
(Elsevier, 2012)
Anecdotal evidence indicates that Sceletium tortuosum has been used as a psychoactive preparation for several centuries. The psychological activity is attributed to the production of mesembrine-type alkaloids (mesembrenol, ...