Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Attitudes of teachers and students towards art and design curriculum: Implications for vocational education in Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2009-10-30)Art and Design Curriculum taught in secondary schools in Kenya is intended not only to prepare learners for a vocation in Art and Design industry but also to complement literacy, scientific and factual subjects by awakening ... -
School based factors influencing implementation of early childhood development and education curriculum
(Educational Research, 2010)Conditions of learning are crucial in determining quality of education. There are real concerns raised by stakeholders regarding the quality of education in Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) centers in Emuhaya ... -
Characterists of injuries presenting to a rural health centre in western Kenya
(East African medical journal, 2007)To describe characteristics of injuries among patients presenting to a rural health centre in western Kenya, and identify the associated risk factors. -
Distribution of orofacial clefts and frequent occurrence of an unusual cleft variant in the Rift Valley of Kenya
(SAGE Publications, 2007-07)To investigate the pattern and distribution of nonsyndromic orofacial clefts among patients in the Rift Valley region of northwestern Kenya. -
Some Properties of the Essential Numerical Range on Banach Spaces
(HIKARI Ltd,, 2017)We study the properties of the essential algebraic numerical range as well as the essential spatial numerical range for Banach space operators. Mathematics Subject Classi cation: 47A10; 47A05; 47A53 -
Innovative approaches to application of information technology in disease surveillance and prevention in Western Kenya
(Academic Press, 2007-08-01)We describe an electronic injury surveillance system that provides data for improving patient care and monitoring injury incidenceand distribution patterns. Patients with injuries visiting a rural Kenyan primary care center ... -
Spectral analysis of certain groups of isometries on Hardy and Bergman spaces
(Academic Press, 2017-12-15)Using the similarity theory of semigroups as well as spectral theory, we obtain the resolvents of the generators of strongly continuous groups of isometries on the Hardy and Bergman spaces. These groups are obtained as ... -
Weighted Composition Groups on the Little Bloch Space
(Hindawi, 2020-04-29)We determine both the semigroup and spectral properties of a group of weighted composition operators on the little Bloch space. It turns out that these are strongly continuous groups of invertible isometries on the Bloch ... -
Role of Commercial Bicyclists in Road Traffic Injuries in Kisumu City, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, 2015)Background: Commercial bicycling has become a popular mode of transportation in Kenya, in both rural and urban areas since early 1990’s. In Kisumu city, however, its related injuries cause significant morbidity and ... -
Yield and Yield Stability of Four Population Types of Grain Sorghum in a Semi‐Arid Area of Kenya
(Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology, 2000-03-01)Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is widely grown in semi‐arid tropics where local farmers depend on the adaptability of their rainfed crops to unpredictable drought and other stress factors. To investigate the effects ... -
Supporting formal education to improve quality of health care provided by mothers of children with malaria in rural western Kenya
(The journal of infection in developing countries, 2009-08-30)Home management of malaria (HMM) has been shown to be an effective strategy for reducing childhood mortality from malaria. The direct and especially indirect costs of seeking health care from formal facilities may be ... -
TOLERANCE LEVEL OF ALTERNARIA SESAMI AND THE EFFECT OF SEED INFECTION ON YIELD OF SESAME IN KENYA
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-07)Field plots of sesame (Sesamum indicum) with six different levels of seed infection with Alternaria sesami were monitored for Alternaria leaf spot severity at Kibwezi, eastern Kenya. The aim of the study was to determine ... -
Yield improvement of Kenyan sesame varieties
(University of Nairobi, 2001)In an effort to improve the yield of Kenyan sesame cultivars the seeds of three cultivars, SPS SIK6, SIK 096 and SPS SIK 50/1 were subjected to 300Gy, 400Gy and 600Gy of gamma rays. A first batch of seeds were subjected ... -
Low reliability of home-based diagnosis of malaria in a rural community in western Kenya
(2011)Home-based management of malaria is promoted as a major strategy for improving prompt delivery of effective malaria treatment in Africa. This study aimed to determine the proportion of children who tested positive for ... -
Resistance of Coffea arabica cv. Ruiru 11 tested with different isolates of Colletotrichum kahawae, the causal agent of coffee berry disease
(Springer Netherlands, 2001-08-01)Seven single conidia isolates of Colletotrichum kahawae varying in pathogenicity were used to inoculate hybrid progenies from 66 crosses ofCoffea arabica cv. Ruiru 11. The objective of this study was to investigate the ... -
The MOMENTUM study: Putting the ‘Three Delays’ to work to evaluate access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care in a remote island community in Western Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-03-18)Despite worldwide improvements in maternal and infant mortality, mothers and babies in remote, low-resource communities remain disproportionately vulnerable to adverse health outcomes. In these settings, delays in accessing ... -
A Comparative Study on Effect of Caregivers Training on Health Outcomes of HIV Infected Children on Antiretroviral Therapy in Kenya
(Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2020-06-30)The purpose of this cohort study was to assess the effect of caregiver training on health outcomes of HIV-infected children aged 1-14 years on antiretroviral therapy in South Rift Valley, Kenya. Three hundred and twenty ... -
The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets in low-and middle-income countries: a multicentre study
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2013-06-01)The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets has the potential to undermine multinational efforts aimed at reducing the burden of road traffic injuries associated with motorcycle crashes. However, little is known about the ... -
Pattern of pedestrian injuries in the city of Nairobi: implications for urban safety planning
(Springer US, 2013-10-01)Pedestrians are overrepresented in road traffic injuries and deaths in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, yet little research has been done to provide better understanding of the characteristics of pedestrian injuries. ... -
The MOSORIOT medical record system (MMRS) phase I to phase II implementation: an outpatient computer-based medical record system in rural Kenya
(medlib, 2014-05-28)The authors of this paper describe the second phase of the implementation of the Mosoriot Medical Record System (MMRS) in a remote health care facility on the outskirts of Eldoret, Kenya, located in sub-Saharan Africa. We ...
