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Adaptation to droughts: Developing community based sand dams in Kitui, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2006)The ADAPTS program aims at finding local level adaptation strategies in water policies that, apart from alleviating impacts from climate change, also assure food production, sustain people’s livelihoods and ultimately ... -
Adaptation to Impacts of Climate Change in Africa: Towards Innovative Institutional Frameworks
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Adaptations of a tropical swamp worm, alma emini, for subsistence in a H2S-rich habitat: evolution of endosymbiotic bacteria, sulfide metabolizing bodies, and novel processes of elimination of neutralized sulfide complexes
(Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, 1998)The epithelial cell lining of the respiratory groove of Alma emini, an oligochaete glossoscolecid worm that lives in a hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-rich tropical swamp, was investigated by transmission electron microscopy to ... -
Adaptations of Carabid Beetles to Dry Habitats in East Africa
(Department of Anatomy, University Of Nairobi, 1986)The rates of water loss and humidity preference of carabids from dry tropical habitats have been studied and compared with corresponding data from temperate carabids and tropical tenebrionids. Within each group of beetles ... -
Adapting a stigma scale for assessment of Tuberculosis-related stigma among English/Swahili-speaking patients in an African setting.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)OBJECTIVE: To adapt a validated instrument that quantitatively measures stigma among English/Swahili speaking TB (tuberculosis) patients in Kenya, a high burden TB country. METHODS: Following ethical approval, we ... -
Adapting agriculture to climate change: suitability of banana crop production to future climate change over Uganda
(University of Nairobi, 2018)The aim of this study was to determine suitability zones of future banana growth under a changing climate to guide the design of future adaptation options in the banana sub-sector of Uganda. The study used high resolution ... -
Adapting clinical practice guidelines for diabetic retinopathy in Kenya: process and outputs
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background The use of clinical practice guidelines envisages augmenting quality and best practice in clinical outcomes. Generic guidelines that are not adapted for local use often fail to produce these outcomes. Adaptation ... -
Adapting group interpersonal psychotherapy for a developing country: experience in rural Uganda
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Adapting or Coping ? An Analysis of Pastoralists’ Responses to Extreme Climatic Events in North-western Kenya
(Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, 2012-09)Pastoral systems in Africa have always operated under high climate– related risk. However, recent repeated extreme weather events in short succession have exposed their vulnerability. Any supportive action requires ... -
Adapting to Climate Change through a Paradigm Shift in Rural Development: The Case of Westgate Conservancy in Samburu County, Kenya
(Department of Sociology and Social Work, 2012-08)Climate change poses a plethora of challenges to agro-pastoral production in Africa resulting in different adaptation practices; some household-based, others community-based; many studies focus on the former. This paper ... -
Adapting to Climate Change: Challenges and Options for Africa.
(Department of Chemistry, 2000-11) -
Adapting to climate variability and change: the Climate Outlook Forum process.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Meteorology, 2008)Weather and climate extremes are associated with loss of life, destruction of property and many other socio - economic miseries worldwide. They threaten livelihoods and the very survival of humankind. The vulnerability of ... -
Adaptive and Optimisation Predictive Text Entry for Short Message Service (SMS)
(University of NairobiCollege of biological and physical science, 2006) -
An Adaptive ICT-Enabled Model for Knowledge Identification and Management for Enterprise Development
(University of Nairobi, 2014-01)Knowledge is vital in achieving enterprise growth and development. This paper argues that treating knowledge management as a Complex Adaptive System CAS presents an alternative lens within which processes within knowledge ... -
Adaptive Radiation Of The Endemic Alcolapia Cichlids Of The East African Soda Lakes: Genetic And Morphological Perspectives
(University of Nairobi, 1998) -
ADB Africa Management Review
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Addiction psychiatry
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Science, 2011-07) -
Adding blood to st thomas solution does not improve mortality in pediatric cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of a homogenous population
(Ann Afr Surg, 2020-05-21)Background: Cardioplegia is the gold standard for providing ideal operating conditions while effecting myocardial protection. Some studies suggest that adding blood to St Thomas cardioplegia solution improves efficacy; ...
