Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in Kenya: a multicentre cohort study
(British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2022)To assess outcomes of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 and to determine the predictors of mortality. -
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa
(BMJ Specialist Journals, 2022)Women researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women’s careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, particularly for women in low-income and middle-income ... -
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics
(AJOL, 2022)Sisonke is a multicentre, open-label, single-arm phase 3B vaccine implementation study of healthcare workers (HCWs) in South Africa, with prospective surveillance for 2 years. The primary endpoint is the rate of severe ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Arxiv.org, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged ... -
Mainstreaming Gender and Inclusion in Distance Learning Resources: A Case Study
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Studies have shown that gender imbalances and biased gender representations are common in materials used in educational systems throughout the world. Learning resources for Open and Distance Learning programmes are, ... -
Building individual and community resilience through Open Education Resources for health literacy education in sub-Saharan Africa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Health literacy is the ability of individuals to understand health information and to make informed health decisions. As part of a larger project, we completed a scoping review to consider the question “To what extent ... -
Cybersecurity in Online Learning: Innovations for Teacher Training and Empowerment
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Recent technological advances in teaching and learning provide dynamic tools required to meet the educational needs of the digital era. However, teachers and other educators are increasingly experiencing cyber threats ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(arxiv.org, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged ... -
Immunization of Rabbits with a Quadrivalent Shigella Bioconjugate Vaccine Induces Functional Antibodies Reactive with Shigella Isolates from Kenya
(American Society for Microbiology, 2022)Diarrheal diseases are a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, disproportionately affecting children in resource-limited settings. Although improvements in hygiene and access to clean water are helpful, vaccines ... -
Traditional Water Purification Methods Among the Luo and Luhya Communities of Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2022)Since time immemorial, mankind has taken measures to produce clean drinking water with the quality of water determined organoleptically. The earliest documented literature on water treatment involved different methods like ... -
Optimization of Bioethanol Production from Sweet Sorghum Stalk (Sorghum bicolor (l.) Moench) Juice Using Response Surface Method
(Science publishing group, 2022)The use of fossil fuel as a source of energy has been unsustainable and has adverse effects to the environment. Bioethanol is a suitable alternative due to its exceptional properties. Bioethanol production can be done ... -
A Study of Mushroom Diversity at Siriba Campus, Maseno University Maseno, Kenya
(BP International, 2022)About 3500 species of mushroom exist in the whole world. Examples being the ring mushroom, honey fungi, the poisonous amanita, the button mushrooms and the oyster white mushrooms among others. Before this study, no study ... -
Research Methods for Public Policy
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2022)As implied by the topic, this chapter focuses on research methods applied or applicable in public policy research. Though the overriding focus is on specifc research methods, we deemed it necessary to preface these ... -
Constituent order in Flemish Sign Language (VGT) and South African Sign Language (SASL): a cross-linguistic study
(John Benjamins, 2007)his paper reports on a comparison of word order issues, and more specifically on the order of the verb and its arguments, in two unrelated sign languages: South African Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language. The study ... -
Do Budgeting Practices Affect Saving Behaviour among Small Scale Entrepreneurs in Kenya? Evidence from Kisumu Central Constituency
(ESI Preprints, 2022)World Bank Development Indicators' most recent data reveals that the nation's Gross Domestic Savings as a proportion of gross domestic product(GDP) was 11.09 percent in 2017, 11.64 percent in 2018, ... -
In Vitro Permeation of Mesembrine Alkaloids from Sceletium tortuosum across Porcine Buccal, Sublingual, and Intestinal Mucosa
(Planta Medica, 2012)Sceletium tortuosum is an indigenous South African plant that has traditionally been used for its mood-enhancing properties. Recently, products containing S. tortuosum have become increasingly popular and are commonly ... -
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 ... -
The chemotypic variation of Sceletium tortuosum alkaloids and commercial product formulations
(Elservier, 2012)Commercial production and trade in Sceletium tortuosum and its products is on the rise due to an increase in consumer demand. Mesembrine-type alkaloids are the main active compounds responsible for the therapeutic properties ... -
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, ... -
An HPTLC-densitometry method for the quantification of pharmacologically active alkaloids in Sceletium tortuosum raw material and products
(Akadémiai Kiadó, 2012)Mesembrine-type alkaloids are reported to be responsible for the psychoactive properties of Sceletium tortuosum. The aim of the study was to develop a simple, rapid, and precise high-performance thin-layer chromatography ...