Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM): Recent submissions
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State-conditional Fertilizer Yield Response on Western Kenyan Farms
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2009)Fertilizer interventions have attained prominence in rural poverty reduction programs in Africa. Using data from maize plots operated by small farmers in western Kenya, we find a von Liebig-type relationship between soil ... -
Household-level determinants of adoption of improved natural resources management practices among smallholder farmers in western Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2007-08)Integrated natural resources management (INRM), of which integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) is a component, offers considerable promise for increasing food production in Kenya. It nonetheless remains unclear whether ... -
Ownership and co-management: towards the integrated management of Lake Victoria
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Biology, 2000)The management of Lake Victoria is a high priority to the riparian countries that benefit directly from its resources. Management regulations have been formulated and implemented with the aim of maintaining the lake's ... -
Loss of Imprinting of Insulin-like Growth Factor-II in Wilms’ Tumor Commonly Involves Altered Methylation but not Mutations of CTCF or Its Binding Site
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Biology, 2001-07) -
Public Procurement Reforms: Lessons from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, (With W. Odhiambo) OECD Technical Paper Number 208, March 2003
(University of Nairobi, 2003)No abstract. -
A serological survey of the prevalence of brucellosis in pigs in Kenya
(University of Nairobi.Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 1976-09)Not available -
Loss of imprinting in colorectal cancer linked to hypomethylation of H19 and IGF2
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Biology, 2002)Epigenetic alterations in human cancers include global DNA hypomethylation,gene hypomethylation and promoter hypermethylation, and loss of imprinting (LOI) of the insulin-like growth factor-II gene (IGF2). A mechanism for ... -
WTO and the Kenyan Garment Industry: A value chain approach in Understanding Market Access, UNU-IAS, Working Paper No. 138, 2005
(University of Nairobi, 2005)No abstract. -
Insect rearing management as a prerequisite in the development of IPM for sustainable food production
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Biology, 1991)Insect rearing and its management is a prerequisite in developing IPM packages for various food crops. Insects reared for the development of these packages should be regularly monitored for quality in order to ensure ... -
HIV co-infection with tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in western Kenya: challenges in the diagnosis and management.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2012-09)BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co-infections have a global prevalence with devastating morbidity and massive mortality, Sub-Saharan Africa being the worst hit. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence of TB-HIV ... -
Persistence of maternal effects in baboons: Mother's dominance rank at son's conception predicts stress hormone levels in subadult males
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Animal Physiology,, 2008)Dominance status and reproductive experience are maternal characteristics that affect offspring traits in diverse taxa, including some cercopithecine primates. Maternal effects of this sort are widespread and are sources ... -
Risk factors of severe pneumonia among children aged 2-59 months in western Kenya: a case control study.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2012)INTRODUCTION: Globally, pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 years. In Kenya, it is the second leading cause of mortality, accounting for greater than 30,000 deaths in this age group ... -
Post-Multifibre Arrangement Analysis of the Textile and Garment Sectors in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2006)The textile and clothing industry represents a vital source of income for developing countries. World trade in textiles and clothing constitutes almost US$400bn – nearly 10 per cent of all trade in manufactured goods. ... -
Molecular characterization of virulence factors in diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolates from children in Nairobi, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2012-08)INTRODUCTION: Among the bacterial causes, diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) is the most important etiologic agent of childhood diarrhoea and represents a major public health problem in developing countries. New ... -
Life at the top: rank and stress in wild male baboons
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, 2011)In social hierarchies, dominant individuals experience reproductive and health benefits, but the costs of social dominance remain a topic of debate. Prevailing hypotheses predict that higher-ranking males experience higher ... -
The pulmonary blood-gas barrier in the avian embryo: inauguration, development and refinement
(University of Nairobi,Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology,, 2011)In vertebrates, efficient gas exchange depends primarily on establishment of a thin blood-gas barrier (BGB). The primordial air conduits of the developing avian lung are lined with a cuboidal epithelium that is ultimately ... -
Novel Streptococcus infantarius subsp. infantarius variants harboring lactose metabolism genes homologous to Streptococcus thermophilus
(Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology, University of Nairobi, 2012-08)Streptococcus infantarius subsp. infantarius belongs to the Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) commonly associated with human and animal infections. We elucidated the lactose metabolism of S. infantarius ... -
Difficulties of fishing at Lake Naivasha, Kenya: is community participation in management the solution?
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences,, 2010)Unlike other lakes in tropical regions, Lake Naivasha exhibits low fish species diversity. The fishery is based on introduced fish species that are not native to the lake. The lake ecosystem is very fragile, as reflected ...
