University of Nairobi Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Unbowed: one woman's story
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Challenge for Africa
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A Case for Reform: Is the Kenyan Regulatory Framework for Private Equity Adequate?
(University Of Nairobi, 2012-08)The private equity industry in Kenya, though young, continues to show a lot of promise in terms of high returns and is likely to experience tremendous growth. This growth can be attributed to increased lending and investment ... -
Newborn Screening For Hearing Loss Using Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions In Kenyatta National Hospital.
(University of Nairobi, 2004)INTRODUCTION Hearing loss is amongst the commonest congenital abnormality occurring in one to three newborns per thousand and has a profound effect on the development of language and cognition in the affected child. The ... -
The Efficacy of the Electronic Security Charging Systems of Library Materials; the Case of of Jkml Univeristy of Nairobi
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Young professionals for health development: the Kenyan experience in combating non-communicable diseases.
(University of Nairobi, 2013-11)Young individuals (below 35 years) comprise an estimated 60% of the global population. Not only are these individuals currently experiencing chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), either living with or at risk for these ... -
Factors Contributing To The Uptake And Compliance With HIV post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) At Kenyatta National Hospital
(Universityl of Nairobi, 2010)A study was done to determine the factors contributing to the uptake and compliance to HIV post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) at Kenyatta National Hospital, and, to find out the practices, attitudes, and knowledge of the ... -
Involvement of a community in schistosomiasis control: a Kenyan experience.
(University of Nairobi, 1993)This paper illustrates how community participation was achieved in a study that was carried out between 1983-1988 whose general objective was to reduce the transmission of schistosomiasis in a rice irrigation scheme in ... -
Enforcing and Implementing the Law on Defilement in Kenya: a Critique
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Free Movement of Labour Within the East African Community: Kenya’s Compliance With East African Common Market Protocol
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Memory deficits associated with sublethal cyanide poisoning relative to cyanate toxicity in rodents.
(University of Nairobi, 2013-12-03)Food (cassava) linamarin is metabolized into neurotoxicants cyanide and cyanate, metabolites of which we sought to elucidate the differential toxicity effects on memory. Young 6-8 weeks old male rats were treated ... -
Erythrina abyssinica prevents meningoencephalitis in chronic Trypanosoma brucei brucei mouse model.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-01)Human African trypanosomiasis is prevalent in Sub-sahara African countries that lie between 14° North and 29° south of the equator. Sixty million people are at risk of infection. Trypanosoma brucei gambesience occurs in ... -
Employees’ Perception of the Effectiveness of Performance Management Practices at Harambee Sacco Ltd
(University of Nairobi, 2012)The quality of Human resources of an organization is essential to its success. Thus every organization must seek to improve the quality of its work force. The most important area which can be ignored in human resources ... -
Challenges of Implementing Agency Banking as an Expansion Strategy at Kenya Commercial Bank Group Ltd
(University of Nairobi, 2012)This study set out to explore the challenges of implementing Agency Banking as an expansion strategy at Kenya Commercial Bank Group Ltd. Kenya Commercial Bank is one among 42 other commercial banks in Kenya that form a ... -
Dose-response inhibitory effects of purified cathinone from khat (Catha edulis) on cortisol and prolactin release in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops).
(University of Nairobi, 2013-11)This study reports acute and sub-chronic effects of cathinone on hormonal alterations in single-caged vervet monkeys. Fourteen adult vervet monkeys were used, 12 of which were treated and 2 controls. Pre-treatment phase ... -
Acute and sub-chronic effects of purified cathinone from khat (Catha edulis) on behavioural profiles in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops).
(University of Nairobi, 2013-10)We investigated the cumulative effects of cathinone on behavioural alterations in single-caged vervet monkeys. Fourteen adult vervets were divided into tests (12 animals) and controls (2 animals), and exposed to escalating ... -
The Impact of Fiscal Probity on Public Financial Management in Liberia
(University of Nairobi, 2012)This study was conducted to establish the impact of fiscal probity on public financial management in Liberia. A self-administered questionnaire was used as a sole means of collecting data from a targeted sample of forty ... -
Appointment of Board of Directors to State Owned Enterprises in Kenya: Towards a Stricter Regulatory Framework
(University Of Nairobi, 2013)State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a very important role in Kenya’s economy, as they provide affordable services and employment to the citizens. As business entities, they need to be run efficiently and effectively by ... -
Location Decisions Among Commercial Banks in Kenya
(2012)Much of the previous research into the factors that influences the choice of location among commercial banks mechanism has concentrated generally on developed countries. Not much known local study has focused on the ... -
Adolescent Fertility in Chogoria Location
(University of Nairobi, 1989)
