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Tackling an emerging epidemic: the burden of non-communicable diseases among people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is at a crossroad. Over the last decade, successes in the scale up of HIV care and treatment programs has led to a burgeoning number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in care. At the same time, an ... -
Teacher Competency on Learner Promotion in Embu County Integrated Public Primary Schools, Kenya
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Investing in ECDE is one of the challenging cost-effective commitments that a government can undertake. Investing in quality ECDE can improve a child's well-being and minimize educational and poverty gap. Teacher competence ... -
Teacher qualification, experience, capability beliefs and professional development: Do they predict teacher adoption of 21st century pedagogies?
(UON, 2020)The primary objective of the study is to unravel the role played by selected teacher variables in adoption of 21st century pedagogies in Kisii County, Kenya. We hypothesized that there is no statistically significant ... -
Technical, Vocational Education and Training Institutions’ Capacities Impact on Manpower Development for The Realization of Economic Pillar of the Kenya Vision 2030.
(university of Nairobi, 2018)Developing countries are now looking at Technical, Vocational education and Training as a vehicle to propel them into being among industrialized nations in the world. Efforts are now being concerted in those countries to ... -
Towards an African and Kenyan philosophy of fiscal legitimacy
(Journal on FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, 2019-08)The water pot presses upon the small circular pad. - African proverb -
Utilization of Diagnostic Imaging in Dental and Maxillofacial Trauma in Selected Kenyan Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background: Globally, much has changed in the imaging modalities available to investigate maxillofacial trauma. Nevertheless, the regional practice patterns are highly influenced by availability, affordability and ... -
Water and the UN sustainable development goals
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Water is essential for life, but we need to balance human needs with those of the environment on which we depend for our wellbeing, our health and much of our wealth. Not all of us are lucky enough to have access to ... -
Water quality issues in East Africa
(Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, 2009)The paper shows that in the analysis of a queuing system with fixed-size batch arrivals, there emerges a set of polynomials which are a generalization of Chebyshev polynomialsof the second kind. The paper uses these ... -
We Asked the Experts: The Tropical Surgeon: Everywhere in Chains But Not Imprisoned
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Surgical practice in the tropics very much reminds one of the famous quote attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘‘Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains’’. The numerous and onerous challenges of tropical ... -
Whole genome sequence analysis of porcine astroviruses reveals novel genetically diverse strains circulating in East African smallholder pig farms.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Astroviruses (AstVs) are widely distributed and are associated with gastroenteritis in human and animals. The knowledge of the genetic diversity and epidemiology of AstVs in Africa is limited. This study aimed to characterize ... -
Willingness to Pay for Hexanal Technology among Banana Farmers in Meru County, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2021)From the perspective of food categories, fresh produce are the leading sources of food loss and waste globally. Their highly perishable nature shortens their shelf-lives leading to high postharvest losses if not properly ... -
“Yes Man Syndrome”: a Preferred Ploy of Ingratiation
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Finding out which of the dimensions of ingratiation has more effect on the target person is the objective of the study. The basic aspect to effective ingratiation is the exact approach used to increase liking. Literature ...