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Parameter-free Separable Lowest-order Non-relativistic Hamiltonian for Helium Atom
(arXiv preprint arXiv, 2018-04-25)Electron-electron correlation forms the basis of difficulties encountered in many-body physics. Accurate treatment of the correlation problem is likely to unravel some nice physical properties of matter embedded in the ... -
Parasitic Infections in Pregnancy Decrease Placental Transfer of Anti-Pneumococcal Antibodies
(Clinical Vaccine Immunology, 2017-04-14)Many factors can influence maternal placental antibody transfer to the fetus, which confers important immune protection to the newborn infant. However, little is known about the effect of maternal parasitic infection on ... -
A participatory epidemiological study of major cattle diseases amongst Maasai pastoralists living in wildlife-livestock interfaces in Maasai Mara, Kenya
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)Livestock-wildlife interactions promote the transmission of a wide range of infectious diseases that constraint livestock production. We used a participatory appraisal approach to find out and rank infectious diseases of ... -
Particle Swarm Algorithm for Improved Handling of the Mirrored Traveling Tournament Problem
(2021-08)In this study, we used a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to address a variation of the non-deterministic polynomial-time NP-hard traveling tournament problem, which determines the optimal schedule for a double ... -
Partitioning of the Electron Correlation Energy
(arXiv preprint arXiv, 2017-08-14)Electron-electron correlation forms the basis of difficulties encountered in many-body problems. Accurate treatment of the correlation problem is likely to unravel some nice physical properties of matter embedded in this ... -
Partitioning of the Electron-Electron Interaction
(New Horizons in Mathematical Physics, 2020-06)Electron-electron correlation forms the basis of difficulties encountered in many-body problems. Accurate treatment of the correlation problem is likely to unravel some nice physical properties of matter embedded in this ... -
Pathogenic Escherichia coli and food handlers in luxury hotels in Nairobi, Kenya
(Elsevier, 2009)Background: The epidemiology and virulence properties of pathogenic Escherichia coli among food handlers in tourist destination hotels in Kenya are largely uncharacterized. Method: This cross-sectional study among ... -
Pattern and determinants of contraceptive use among the muslim women in Wajir and Lamu counties in Kenya: a cross-sectional study
(Springer Nature, 2024)Background Improving access to family planning (FP) is associated with positive health benefits that includes averting nearly a third of all maternal deaths and 10% of childhood deaths. Kenya has made great strides in ... -
Performance Management and Employee Retention in Universities in Kenya
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015-06-18)Performance management is the process of setting goals, evaluating performance of employees, training and developing employees in a bid to retain them on job. The totality of practice of performance management is an issue ... -
Performance of self-compacting concrete made with hydraulic lime as filler
(Journal of Civil Engineering and Construction Technology, 2016-02)Concrete is a very popular artificial material on earth and it is one of the most used construction material in building technology. Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is a highly workable concrete designed such that it is ... -
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF PART-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN NAIROBI AND MOMBASA CITIES IN KENYA
(2014)Past studies provide evidence to show that organizational commitment has been a topic of increasing public and professional concern, both inside and outside Human Resource Management domains. The expansion of university ... -
Perspectives on HIV Pre- and Post- Exposure Prophylaxes (PrEP and PEP) among Female and Male Sex Workers in Mombasa, Kenya: Implications for Integrating Biomedical Prevention into Sexual Health Services
(Guilford, 2017)Pre- and post-exposure prophylaxes (PrEP and PEP) can reduce the risk of HIV acquisition, yet often are inaccessible to and underutilized by most-vulnerable populations, including sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Based ... -
PfEMP1 DBLα Sequence Tags in Genomic DNA of P. falc iparum Field Isolates from Two Malaria Endemic Sites in Ke nya
(Journal of Natural Sciences Research, 2015)Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum remains a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. PfEMP1 protein, coded for by a family of about sixty variant var genes, is a parasite protein found ... -
Physical condition and maintenance of mosquito bed nets in Kwale County, coastal Kenya
(Malaria Journal, 2012)Background: Despite the extensive ownership and use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) over the last decade, theeffective lifespan of these nets, especially their physical integrity, under true operational conditions is ... -
Pneumococcal Vaccine Response After Exposure to Parasites in Utero, in Infancy, or Mid-Childhood
(Pediatrics, 2017-04-04)ACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of mortality before age 5, but few studies examine details of childhood response to pneumococcal vaccine in less-developed settings. Although malnutrition, ... -
Poly-drug use among female and male commercial sex workers visiting a drop in centre in Mombasa County, Kenya
(PLOS, 2022)The relationship between commercial sex work and drug use is complex and the two exacerbate each other. In Kenya, Mombasa County has one of the highest populations of drug users and commercial sex workers. Despite documentation ... -
Polydrug Use among Students in a Public University in a Lower Middle-Income Country
(Hindawi, 2023-07)Recreational drug use among students in tertiary institutions remains a public health concern. Despite documentation of drug use in Kenyan universities, most of the studies are based on self-reported history which is prone ... -
Positron impact excitation of lowest autoionizing state of potassium atom using distorted wave method with absorption and polarization potentials
(IOP Publishing, 2021-02-25)Differential and integral cross-sections, aswell as the alignment and lambda parametersfor positron impact excitation of the lowest autoionizing state of potassium atom, have been calculated using a non-relativistic distorted ... -
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 ... -
Power swing prediction for out-of-step mitigation
(International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, 2014)This paper explored the possibility of accurately predicting the classification of developing power swings. The notion of machine learning was employed, and tested the application of Decision Tree (DT) algorithms to wide ...