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Association among Cases of Women with first degree Family History of Diabetes Mellitus, Previous Macrosomia and Preterm Births, and Pregnancy Weight Gain at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, Nairobi City
(Wiley, 2023)
Thisstudyinvestigatedtheeffectofbioflocandgreenwaterconditionsonthesurvival,growth,reproductivetraits,andfattyacidcompositionofthebrineshrimpArtemiafranciscana.Artemiawasculturedinglassjarsusingthreereplicatedtreatments, ...
Assessing the Influence of the Community Leadership in Monitoring and Evaluating Community Safety in Lamu West Sub-County, Kenya
(EPRA, 2023)
Despite the fact that community leadership as a key community policing element has been mentioned as a factor influencing
monitoring and evaluation of community safety, there is limited research to ascertain this in Lamu ...
Chlorophyll Content Index and Yield Responses of Maize and Banana Plants under Calliandra calothyrsus, Sesbania sesban and Leucaena diversifolia Intercropping in Vihiga County, Kenya
(Asian Journal of Research in Botany, 2023)
High population has led to more demand for food. Subsequently, there is need to expand
agricultural land. This has necessitated cutting down of trees. This has led to soil degradation.
Nutrient depleted soils and poor ...
Parenting, Adolescent Sensation Seeking, and Subsequent Substance Use: Moderation by Adolescent Temperament
(Springer US, 2023-03-24)
Although previous research has identified links between parenting and adolescent substance use, little is known about the role of adolescent individual processes, such as sensation seeking, and temperamental tendencies for ...
Determinants of fish farmers’ awareness of insect-based aquafeeds in Kenya; the case of black soldier fly larvae meal
(Cogent, 2023-03-09)
It is evident from scientific studies that black soldier fly larvae can replace the widely used fishmeal, which is costly and unsustainable for smallholder farmers, in aquafeeds. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ...
Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites using silica extracted from tropical volcanic ash
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023)
This study addresses the reliance on costly aluminosilicate sources for the synthesis of zeolites by exploring the use of silica extracted from tropical volcanic ash. The volcanic ash contained CaO, in the form of calcite ...
The role of indigenous knowledge in fisheries resource management for aquaculture development: A case study of the Kenyan Lake Victoria region
(Wiley, 2023)
Indigenous knowledge is critical in the conservation of wild fish genetic resources
and consequent development of fish seed for improved aquaculture production. Local
fisher communities rely on aquatic resources mainly ...
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(arxiv, 2022-10-29)
Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training
data. It has emerged that ...
Pseudo-Reduplication in Lukisa Dialect
(East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya, 2022)
: Reduplication is a grammatical aspect found in a wide range of African
languages and it is sometimes interchangeably used with repetition. Reduplication is
both a morphological and a phonological process of forming a ...
Form of Idioms which are Susceptible to Misinterpretation by the Fans of Witimbule Programme in Radio Mambo FM
(Indiana, 2023-03-03)
Idioms are notoriously applicable in Witimbule Programme of Radio Mambo FM broadcast among the fans from the Luhya speaking communities to make their language native-like, for face-saving and regulation of human behavior. ...