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Secondary Level Teachers: Supply and Demand in Kenya.
(1971)This study is one of a series of 15 which comprises a comprehensive report on the supply of secondary level teachers in English-speaking Africa. Each is focused on the problem of determining the likely demand for overseas ... -
Effect of plant quinones on insect flight muscle mitochondria
(1995)The effect of four biologically active and naturally occurring plant quinones, namely maesanin, maesaquinone, embelin and juglone on the respiration of mitochondria isolated from Glossina morsitans morsitans, Schistoscerca ... -
Metabolism of urea nitrogen and adaptation response trends in the growing wether and steer.
(1970)Four wethers of average weight 33 kg were fed for 60 days on hay, straw, beet pulp, maize starch, glucose, molasses, soya bean oil, urea, salt mixture and vitamins. The diet was then readjusted, with crystalline urea to ... -
Nutritional Characteristics of Important Dwarf Shrubs and Value of Leucaena leueocephala seeds as Protein Supplement for Goats in Marsabit District, Kenya
(1998)A study on the nutritional characteristics of Indigofera spinosa and Duosperma eremophilum dwarf shrubs was carried out in Southwest Marsabit district of Kenya to establish the digestibility intake by goats and their ... -
The value of Acacia brevispica and Leucaena leucocephala seedpods as a dry season supplement for calves in arid areas of Kenya
(1996)Two feeding experiments were conducted to evaluate the nutritive value of Acacia brevispica and Leucaena leucocephala seedpods in terms of chemical composition and liveweight performance. In feeding experiment one (FE-1), ... -
Schistosoma mansoni: common antigens on adult worm teguments and cercariae detected by immunodiffusion
(University of Nairobi, 1981)Of 15 serum samples (from patients infected with Schistosoma mansoni) examined by immunodiffusion, 7 gave a positive antigen-antibody reaction with a cholate extract of adult worm teguments. The 7 sera also reacted with a ... -
The effect of inhibitors on the respiration of Leishmania donovani promastigotes from culture.
(University of Nairobi, 1982)Concentrations of cyanide greater than 0.25 mM completely inhibited the oxygen uptake of L. donovani promastigotes in culture (108 cells/ml). The Ki value for cyanide inhibition indicated the presence of a single terminal ... -
Quality health care strategies in the improvement of service delivery at the national referral hospitals in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)This study investigated the effectiveness of quality health care strategies in improving service delivery at the national referral hospitals in Kenya. National referral refers to any process in which health care providers ... -
Restoring community livelihoohods and food security through livestock asset during drought disasters: case study of Mwingi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Some of the world’s poor and most disaster-vulnerable communities are also those most reliant on livestock. Whenever disasters strike, in addition to the immediate devastation, food insecurity and loss of life, the loss ... -
Haemolytic activity of trypanosomes.
(University of Nairobi, 1981)A homogenate of Trypanosoma evansi obtained by freezing and thawing was haemolytic for rat or mouse erythrocytes in vitro and also in vivo. The active principle was associated with the particulate fraction and was absent ...