Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Abattoirs and echinococcosis in Nairobi dogs
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Procedures for decentralized programming, budgeting and work planning: Lessons from Kenyan mistakes
(Department of Government, University of NairobiDepartment of Political Science, University of California, 1985)In 1980 Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture instituted a new Management Manual, designed to improve the quality of district participation in programme identification, budgeting and implementation. Despite the fact that the ... -
Adaptation to Climate Change for Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of German Studies, 2010)This study is part of a project on ―Adaptation to Climate Change of Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya‖ was launched by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute ... -
Afrobarometer 3: The quality of democracy and governance in Kenya, 2005
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Virtual globes: Serving science and society
(2012)Virtual Globes reached the mass market in 2005. They created multi-million dollar businesses in a very short time by providing novel ways to explore data geographically. We use the term “Virtual Globes” as the common ... -
New Tendencies in the Development of Anglophone Novel in East Africa
(Department of Literature, 1997)According to the statements made by a number of scholars, in the 80's East African Anglophone novel, which once received a nickname of "social documentary", began to lose gradually its social commitment. Many of the writers ... -
Childhood Diarrhoea: Failing Conventional Measures, What Next?
(University of NairobiDepartment of Medical PhysioIology, 2011-08)BACKGROUND: Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of infant mortality. This article analyzes its contribution towards the realization of millennium development goal number 4 (MDG-4). METHODS: A PubMed search using ... -
The Kenyan Novel in the End of the Century: New Outfits or Unveiled Masks - in: Africa at the Threshold of the New Millenium
(Department of Literature, 1999)There appears a peculiar turn in the Kenyan novel writing at the end of the 80s - beginning of the 90s: the authors who previously acquired their fame in developing a particular form of novel writing (social novel, popular ... -
Civil Society And The Politics Of Constitutional Reforms In Kenya: A Case Study Of The National Convention Executive Council (NCEC)
(Department of Political Science, University of Nairobi, 2004)This paper examines and analyses the role of the National Convention Executive Council (NCEC) in engaging the Kenyan state for constitutional reforms. It argues that although NCEC (through mass action) was able to force ... -
Political Novel in Kenyan Prose of 1980-1990s - in: Africa in the Context of North-South Relations
(Department of Literature, 2002)At the end of the 80’s – beginning of the 90’s of the 20th century one of the main trends in Kenyan novel is the concern of the writers to assess the development that has taken place on East African scene over extended ... -
Overview Of Influenza Virus Infections In Kenya: Past, Present And Future
(Department of MedicalphysioIology, 2013-04)The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that acute lower respiratory infections account for 4 million deaths per year. The rates are even higher in developing countries. Influenza, a virus causing respiratory infections, ... -
Studies of surface antigens on adult Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium.
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Pitfalls in technology transfer: Kenya's construction industry
(University of NairobiSchool of Biological and Physical Sciences, 1994-10)Tremendous growth in technology adoption by developing countries is evidenced by the large number of hardware and software imports in engineering, medicine and telecommunications. Although each import carries with it both ... -
Impacts of ozone depletion, The Weatherman, No.18, pp1
(University of NairobiCollege of biological and physical science, 1996) -
Tolerance of Kenyan Schistosoma mansoni to oxamniquine.
(University of Nairobi,Department of Zoology, 1987)Although 30 mg/kg oxamniquine produced high levels (85.5 to 99.5%) of egg reduction in Kenyan children infected with Schistosoma mansoni after a single oral treatment, cure rates from children at Mwea in Kirinyaga district ... -
Neighbourhood Units in Nairobi: A Survey of Bahati and Ofafa
(University of Nairobi,Architecture and Building Science, 1989) -
Bacteriuria in a cohort of predominantly HIV-1 seropositive female commercial sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, KenyaKenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, KenyaPublic Health Laboratory Services, Oxford, U.K.Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, U.K, 1996-07)Although significant bacteriuria and urinary tract infection are more common in immunocompetent women than men, studies linking HIV immunosuppression with an increased risk of developing urinary infection have so far only ... -
Precipitation as a cleanser of gaseous pollutants: Its efficiency in removing total column NO2 above a station in the centre of Rome.
(University of NairobiCollege of biological and physical science, 1994) -
The significance of variation in the susceptibility of Schistosoma mansoni to the antischistosomal drug oxamniquine.
(University of Nairobi,Department of Zoology, 1987)Clinical and laboratory evidence is reviewed which shows that there is a great deal of variation in the susceptibility of Schistosoma mansoni to oxamniquine. This variation occurs both among endemic regions and within ... -
Land Utilisation in Inner City Areas: The case of Nairobi Kenya in Forum
(University of Nairobi,Architecture and Building Science, 1992)
