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Anemia among Children Exposed to Polyparasitism in Coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)
Anemia represents a substantial problem for children living in areas with limited resources and significant parasite burden. We performed a cross-sectional study of 254 Kenyan preschool- and early school-age children in a ...
The impact of capacitor coupled sub-station in rural electrification of sub-Saharan Africa
(International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, 2015)
The overall electricity access rate is still very low in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The rate is even
lower in rural areas where most of the population in these countries lives. One of the main obstacles to ...
Preliminary Phytochemical Screening and Biological Activities of Bulbine abyssinica Used in the Folk Medicine in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)
Bulbine abyssinica A. Rich. is used in traditional medicine to treat rheumatism, dysentery, bilharzia, cracked lips, back pain,
infertility, diabetes mellitus, and gastrointestinal, vaginal, and bladder infections. ...
Effects of Pay and Work Environment on Employee Retention: A Study of Hotel Industry in Mombasa County
(2015-10-02)
Travel and Tourism Industry is one of the fastest growing industry in the world contributing a colossal US $6 trillion dollars in 2011 and creating 5 million new jobs (Travel and Tourism Economic Impact Report, 2012). ...
Lack of Fetuin-A ( 2-HS-Glycoprotein) Reduces Mammary Tumor Incidence and Prolongs Tumor Latency via the Transforming Growth Factor-Signaling Pathway in a Mouse Model of Breast Cancer
(2015-10-21)
The present analyses were done to define the role of
fetuin-A (Fet) in mammary tumorigenesis using the
polyoma middle T antigen (PyMT) transgenic mouse
model. We crossed Fet-null mice in the C57BL/6 background
with ...
Financial Effects of Depletion of Mangrove Forest on the Performance of Micro Finance Community Based Organizations -The Case Study of Wajomvu Community in Kenyan Coast
(2015)
This paper discusses the Financial Effects of Depletion of Mangrove Forest on the Performance of Micro Finance Community Based Organizations. Microfinance programmes are seen as a means for such communities to gain access ...
Effects Associated with Processing Ballast and Waste Oil at Port Reitz, Mombasa-Kenya
(Civil and Environmental Research journal, 2015)
This study was carried out in response to a complaint regarding environmental pollution, arising from the
processing of ballast water and waste oil on the premises of the landlord on Plot No. LR 1192/VI/MN, Port ...
Determination of Cyanogenic Compounds Content in Transgenic Acyanogenic Kenyan Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Genotypes: Linking Molecular Analysis to Biochemical Analysis
(Analytical & Bioanalytical Techniques, 2015-09-23)
Being the fourth most important crop in the developing countries surpassed only by maize, rice and sugarcane as a source of calories, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is doubtlessly a famine reserve crop due to its drought ...
454 Pyrosequencing-based assessment of bacterial diversity and community structure in termite guts, mounds and surrounding soils
(SpringerOpen, 2015)
Termites constitute part of diverse and economically important termite fauna in Africa, but information on gut microbiota and their associated soil microbiome is still inadequate. In this study, we assessed and compared ...
Potentially beneficial rhizobacteria associated with banana plants in Juja, Kenya
(Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Science (JBES), 2015-08-26)
Climate and its changes have a direct impact on the development of the different hydrobiont species. These effects on climatic organisms could be either positive or negative. Every species adapts specifically to natural ...