University of Nairobi Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Technical Efficiency and Productivity
(School of business, 1998) -
A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change
(Department of Public Health, 2004) -
Operations Strategies Applied for the Competitiveness of Kenyan Large Manufacturing Firms
(University of Nairobi,school of Business, University of Nairobi, 2001)Because of the challenges brought forth by the advent of globalization and liberalization Manufacturing firms, the world over, have been forced to have a critical look at their manufacturing practices. It is through such ... -
The socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing contraceptive behavior in Kenya.
(Department of Public Health, 1984) -
Major declines in the abundance of vultures and other scavenging raptors in and around the Masai Mara ecosystem, Kenya
(2011-02)Vulture population declines have been noted in West and Southern Africa, but have not been assessed in East Africa. Roadside transects conducted in 1976 and 1988 were compared with surveys done from 2003–2005 in and around ... -
CYP2B6 genetic polymorphism and its impact on efavirenz plasma levels in HIV/AIDS out-patients of African origin
(Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy, 2008)The non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, efavirenz is metabolized primarily by the polymorphic cytochrome P450 2B6 (CYP2B6), and high plasma concentrations of the drug are associated with a single nucleotide ... -
Platelet function in nephrotic syndrome patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital. East African Medical Journal 67(2): 109-112, 1990.
(University of Nairobi, 1990)Platelet function was assessed in 40 patients with nephrotic syndrome but without renal failure in order to establish whether or not there is any haemostatic disorder lending to hypercoagulable state. The findings were ... -
Chairpersons, School of Nursing (1997-To Date)
(2013)The School of Nursing Sciences is one of the Schools of the College of Health Sciences. It was initially a department in the faculty of Medicine for close to 38 years under the Chairmanship of Mrs. Margaret Muiva and the ... -
The thickness of avian blood-gas barrier: qualitative and quantitative observations.
(Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Liverpool,Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Nairobi, 1982)Gas exchange in the avian lung takes place across a blood-gas barrier formed, as in other air-breathing vertebrates, by three essential components, an epithelial cell, a basal lamina, and an endothelial cell. The thickness ... -
Soil Management And Technical Efficiency Of Small-scale Maize Farmers In Northwestern Kenya
(22-07-13)This paper examined the technical efficiencies of two groups of smallholder maize farmers in Lugari and Trans Nzioa districts, one within the contact areas of soil management project and the other comprising the counterfactuals. ... -
Syllabus of the Nursing Component ( BScN), Nursing Council of Kenya, Nairobi, 2002
(University of Nairobi,School of Nursing, 2002) -
AIDS/HIV infection and management among young people:Youth opinion
(University of Nairobi,School of Nursing, 1998-08) -
Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on HIV Reservoirs in Elite Controllers.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Medical Microbiology, 2013)Elite controllers suppress HIV viremia to below the limit of detection in the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, precise frequencies of CD4+ T cells carrying replication-competent HIV and/or the dynamics of ... -
Chairpersons, Department of Management Science (1986-To Date)
(2013)The Department of Management Science is as old as the School of Business formally Faculty of Commerce. Prior to 1988 it existed as a service department. Management Science specialization option was introduced in 1988 with ... -
Food plant design and management
(University of Nairobi.Department of Food Science, Nutrition & technology, 1997) -
Chairpersons, Meteorology Department (1980 - To Date)
(2013)Weather and Climate are widely recognized in developmental circles as crucial in the development of any Nation since weather and climate impact on all sectors of economy. Moreover, many of the natural disasters in the world ... -
A pilot study on interpersonal patterns of communication by registered Nurses to in-patients at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi,School of Nursing, 1995)
