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    • Factors influencing sexual practices of widows living with HIV and AIDS in Kondele location, Kisumu municipality 

      -Agache, J Okuto; Kioli, Felix N; Nyambedha, EO (Maseno University, 2015)
      The factors influencing widows' sexual practices have been attributed culture, poverty, and biology without examining the dynamic nature of these factors. This study described these factors. The study was guided by ...

    • Widowhood and HIV/AIDS 

      Nyambedha, Erick; Okuto, Agache; Kioli, Felix (Lambert Academic Publishers, 2015)
      Widowhood is a state unavoidable to all married individuals. Women experience widowhood differently. In Africa, widows face challenges posed by culture, stigma and poverty. Widows living with HIV and AIDS face more ...

    • Cultural epidemiology and community determinants of vaccine acceptance 

      Sundaram, N; Weiss, MG; Schaett, C; Nyambedha, E; Kudale, A (2015-09-01)
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    • 2 Political Patronage and the Expansion of Cash Transfer Programmes in Kenya 

      Wanyama, Fredrick O; Nyambedha, Erick O (Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-08)
      The Government of Kenya has run pilot cash transfer programmes since 2004 and formalised them as part of social protection policy in 2011. Subsequently, cash transfer programmes have steadily been expanded. Three of ...

    • Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries 

      Lansford, Jennifer E; Godwin, Jennifer; Alampay, Liane Peña; Tirado, Liliana; Zelli, Arnaldo; Al‐Hassan, Suha M; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Bornstein, Marc; Lei, Lei; Deckard, Kirby Deater‐; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A; Malone, Patrick S; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016-10-01)
      Children's family obligations involve assistance and respect that children are expected to provide to immediate and extended family members and reflect beliefs related to family life that may differ across cultural ...

    • Puberty predicts approach but not avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a multinational sample 

      Icenogle, Grace; Steinberg, Laurence; Olino, Thomas; Shulman, Elizabeth P; Chein, Jason; Alampay, Liane P; Al‐Hassan, Suha M; Takash, Hanan; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei; Chaudhary, Nandita; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, A Dodge; A Fanti, Fanti; Lansford, Jennifer E; Malone, Patrick S; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann; Sorbring, Emma; Sombat, Tapanya; Tirado, Liliana M Uribe (2016-09-01)
      According to the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking, sensation seeking and impulse control follow different developmental trajectories across adolescence and are governed by two different brain systems. The ...

    • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self‐regulation 

      Steinberg, Laurence; Icenogle, Grace; Shulman, Elizabeth P; Breiner, Kaitlyn; Chein, Jason; Bacchini, Dario; Bacchini, Dario; Chaudhary, Nandita; Giunta, Laura; Kenneth, Kenneth A; Fant, Kostas A; Lansford, Jennifer E; Malone, Patrick S; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Pastorelli, Concetta; Sorbring, Emma; Sorbring, Emma; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al‐Hassan, Suha M; Takash, Hanan (2017-01-01)
      The dual systems model of adolescent risk-taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still-maturing self- regulation, but most tests of this model have been ...

    • Within-and between-person and group variance in behavior and beliefs in cross-cultural longitudinal data 

      Deckard, Kirby Deater; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Bornstein, Marc H; Chang, Lei; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A; Malone, Patrick S; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Al-Hassan, Suha M (Academic Press, 2018-01-01)
      This study grapples with what it means to be part of a cultural group, from a statistical modeling perspective. The method we present compares within-and between- cultural group variability, in behaviors in families. ...