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Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya! The Quagmire of Sexually Explicit and Scary Pictorial Metaphors in AIDS Posters
(2013)
AIDS as an incurable ailment is no stranger to humankind. Most healthconscious watchdogs, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, have lobbied for aggressive AIDS campaigns to sensitize populations within ...
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya!
(Semantic Scholar, 2013)
AIDS prevention interventions (Doka 1997; Sontag 1988).This paper examines the cognitive effects of metaphors and metonymies emerging from sexually explicit images and scary pictorial representations in AIDS posters among ...
Non-tarriff barriers and the economic integration the East African community
(ZENITH International Research & Academic Foundation (ZIRAF) India, 2013)
The key objective for the adoption of the East African Community (EAC) Customs Union in 2006 was to enhance the economic integration of the region through the elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs). This ...
Suppressed circulating bicyclo-PGE2 levels and leukocyte COX-2 transcripts in children co-infected with P. falciparum malaria and HIV-1 or bacteremia.
(Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2013)
In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission regions, malarial anemia is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Identifying biomarkers of malaria disease severity is important for identifying at-risk ...
Isolation and characterization of a toxic metal-tolerant Phenanthrene-degrader Sphingobium sp. in a two-liquid-phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB)
(2013-10-01)
A phenanthrene-degrading strain PHE3, identified as the genus of Sphingobium,
was isolated using a two-liquid-phase partitioning bioreactor. More than 96% of the initial
amount (up to 100 mg l− 1 silicone oil) of ...
Effects of pH and metal ions on oxytetracycline sorption to maize-straw-derived biochar
(Elsevier, 2013-05-30)
Biochars produced from biomass residues have been recognized as effective sorbents to
hydrophobic compounds, but knowledge on sorption of antibiotics to biochar and its
mechanisms are still inadequate. Sorption of ...
Enhanced degradation of 14 C-HCB in two tropical clay soils using multiple anaerobic–aerobic cycles
(2013-02-28)
The aim of the study was to induce and enhance the degradation of hexachlorobenzene
(HCB), a highly-chlorinated persistent organic pollutant, in two ecologically different tropical
soils: a paddy soil (PS) and a non-paddy ...
Immobilization of chlorobenzenes in soil using wheat straw biochar
(American Chemical Society, 2013-04-25)
Biochar has shown great potential for immobilizing organic contaminants in soil. In this
study, pentachlorobenzene (PeCB), 1, 2, 4, 5-tetrachlorobenzene (1, 2, 4, 5-TeCB), and 1, 2,
4-trichlorobenzene (1, 2, 4-TCB) ...
EBNA-1 specific effector T cell deletion associated with holoendemic malaria exposure in the etiology of endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (P3063)
(American Association of Immunologists, 2013-05-01)
Etiological mechanism of eBL remain largely unknown despite long-standing
epidemiological link between malaria and EBV co-infection. Age-dependent deficiency in
EBV-specific CD8+ T cell-mediated IFN-γ immunosurveillance ...