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Open access and open source
(Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2006)This paper discusses how the open access (OA) and open source technology can be utilized by the African agricultural academic libraries to improve the collaboration and sharing of information and knowledge among agricultural ... -
Operator Equations, Operator Inequalities and Power Bounded Operators in Hilbert Spaces
(International Journal of Applied Science and Mathematics, 2017-11)This is a study on some operator equations, operator inequalities and power bounded operators in Hilbert spaces. Looking at the operator equation TW = WS various properties on T, W and S such as; quasinormal, posinormal, ... -
Opportunities to improve postpartum care for mothers and infants: design of context-specific packages of postpartum interventions in rural districts in four sub-Saharan African countries
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Postpartum maternal and infant mortality is high in sub-Saharan Africa and improving postpartum care as a strategy to enhance maternal and infant health has been neglected. We describe the design and selection ... -
Oral Health Status in Human I mmunodeficiency V irus Pos itive Patients Attending Port reitz H ospital
(Global Journal of Health Sciences, 2016)The objective of this study was to determine the oral health status in HIV positive patients attending Port Reitz Hospital in Mombasa County. Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive cross sectional ... -
ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING AS A TURNAROUND STRATEGY ON PERFORMANCE OF FOUR-STAR RATED HOTELS IN COAST REGION, KENYA
(International Journal of Business Management and Processes, 2024-02)Globally, the hospitality industry is confronted by a multitude of challenges arising from the complexities of globalization, technological shifts, and the evolving preferences of consumers, leading to poor sales, productivity, ... -
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 ... -
PERCEPTIONS AS AN ANTECEDENT OF WOMEN LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE IN PARASTATALS IN KENYA
(International Academic Journal of Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, 2019)Women leadership has been of great interest to researchers in Africa and the entire world today. This is why there have been certain requisites that influence women leadership performance. This has contributed to the ... -
PERCEPTIONS AS AN ANTECEDENT OF WOMEN LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE IN PARASTATALS IN KENYA
(International Academic Journal of Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, 2019)Women leadership has been of great interest to researchers in Africa and the entire world today. This is why there have been certain requisites that influence women leadership performance. This has contributed to the intense ... -
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 ... -
Phytochemical analysis and safety evaluation of ethanol roots extract of Erythrina sacleuxii hua in Wistar albino rats
(Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, 2022-04)Erythrina sacleuxii, one of five Erythrina species found in Kenya, is a stiffly multi-branched deciduous tree reported to have antiplasmodial, antifungal, anti-bacterial and anti-cancer activities. This study aimed at ...