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    • Financing higher education in Africa: A case of Ethiopia public universities cost containment measures 

      WAWERU, KN; Abate, Sewale; HUKA, GH; Dawe, Shano M (Educational Research, 2011)
      With the tremendous increase in university students enrolments experienced in Ethiopian public universities since years 2005, financing of university education has become topical issue among education stakeholders. This ...

    • Findings of a community screening programme for human cystic echinococcosis in a non-endemic area 

      Mutwiri, Titus; Magambo, Japhet; Zeyhle, Eberhard; Muigai, Anne WT; Alumasa, Lorren; Amanya, Fredrick; Fèvre, Eric M; Falzon, Laura C (Public Library of Science, 2022-08-15)
      Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonosis caused by infection with the larval stages of the taeniid cestodes of the species complex Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato. It is prevalent among transhumant communities in East ...

    • A fine-tuned vector-parasite dialogue in tsetse's cardia determines peritrophic matrix integrity and trypanosome transmission success 

      Vigneron, Aurélien; Aksoy, Emre; Weiss, Brian L.; Bing, Xiaoli; Zhao, Xin; Awuoche, Erick O.; O'Neill, Michelle; Wu, Yineng; Attardo, Geoffrey M.; Aksoy, Serap (PLoS Pathog, 2018)
      Arthropod vectors have multiple physical and immunological barriers that impede the development and transmission of parasites to new vertebrate hosts. These barriers include the peritrophic matrix (PM), a chitinous barrier ...

    • Flexible working arrangements on employee Performance in Public Universities in Mount Kenya 

      Mwiti, Mercy Kanyua (Meru University of Science and Technology, 2023)
      The study sought to identify the effect of flexible working arrangements on employee performance in public universities in the Mount Kenya region. The Objectives of the study were: to determine the extent to which job ...

    • Floral Genetics of African Nightshade (Solanum section Solanum) 

      Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng; Murakami, Kenji; Masinde, Peter Wafula; Agong, Stephen Gaya (International Journal of Plant Developmental Biology, 2007-04-09)
      Solanum section Solanum, centering on the species commonly known as African nightshade, and botanically known as the “Solanum nigrum complex” is composed of a large number of morphogenetically distinct taxa, with certain ...

    • Food Availability and Household Dietary Diversity in Ruiri-rwarera Area of Meru County in Kenya 

      Ebere, R. A; Thambura, J. M; Mworia, E. G (Science and Education Publishing, 2019)
      Food security broadly encompasses availability, accessibility and utilization of food. Household dietary diversity that relies on the number of food groups consumed over a given period has previously been used to measure ...

    • Fraud vulnerability of Kenya’s National Identity Card System 

      Cherus, Joel; Njagi, Kageni; Githeko, Jason; Siror, Joseph (2014)
      Modern crimes such as terrorism, money laundering and illegal immigration are majorly committed by individuals who falsify their identities by forging identification documents. One such document that is a target ...

    • Fraud vulnerability of Kenya’s National Identity Card System 

      Cherus, Joel; Githeko, Jason; Siror, Joseph; Njagi, Kageni (Kabarak j. res. innov., 2014)
      Modern crimes such as terrorism, money laundering and illegal immigration are majorly committed by individuals who falsify their identities by forging identification documents. One such document that is a target of forgery ...

    • The Fscal value of Human lives lost from Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China 

      Kirigia, Joses M.; Muthuri, Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi (BMC Health Science Research, 2020)
      Objective: According to the WHO coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation report 35, as of 24th February 2020, there was a total of 77,262 confirmed COVID-19 cases in China. That included 2595 deaths. The specific objective ...

    • Functional promoter haplotypes of interleukin-18 condition susceptibility to severe malarial anemia and childhood mortality 

      Anyona, Samuel B; Kempaiah, Prakasha {et..al} (American Society for Microbiology, 2011)
      Severe malarial anemia (SMA) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children residing in regions where Plasmodium falciparum transmission is holoendemic. Although largely unexplored in children with SMA, ...

    • GENERALISED MODEL BASED CONFIDENCE INTERVALS IN TWO STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING 

      Onyango, Christopher Ouma; Otieno, Romanus Odhiambo; Orwa, George Otieno (Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 2010)
      Chambers and Dorfman (2002) constructed bootstrap confidence intervals in model based estimation for finite population totals assuming that auxiliary values are available throughout a target population and that the auxiliary ...

    • Generalized relativistic dynamics in a non-inertial reference frame 

      Wamalwa, Dismas Simiyu; Omolo, Joseph Akeyo (Springer-Verlag, 2010)
      Generalized relativistic field equations have been derived for dynamics in a non-inertial reference frame interpreted as a Finsler space where events are specified by both spacetime coordinates and corresponding velocities ...

    • The genus Relicinopsis is nested within Relicina (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota). 

      Kirika, Paul M.; Divakar, Pradeep K; Leavitt, Steven D.; Buaruang, Kawinnat; Crespo, Ana; Mugambi, George; Gatheri, Grace W.; Lumbsch, Thorsten (British Lichen Society, 2017)
      Macro-morphological features traditionally used to segregate genera in Parmeliaceae have been shown to be highly plastic, placing limits on their taxonomic value. Here we aim to elucidate the evolutionary relationships of ...

    • Gigahertz acoustic vibrations of Ga-doped ZnO nanoparticle array 

      Kinyua, Dickson Mwenda; Long, Hua; Xing, Xiangyuan; Njoroge, Stephen; Wang, Kai; Wang, Bing; Lu, Peixiang (IOP Science, 2019)
      In this work, we present an experimental study on the acoustic vibrations of ZnO nanoparticles array with different concentration of Ga dopings by using femtosecond pump-probe technique. The Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) nano-triangle ...

    • Global distribution of alveolar and cystic echinococcosis 

      Deplazes, P; Rinaldi, L; Rojas, CA Alvarez; Torgerson, PR; Harand, MF; Romig, T; Antolova, D; Schurer, JM; Lahmar, S; Cringoli, G; Magambo, J; Thompson, RCA; Jenkins, EJ (Academic Press, 2017)
      Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE) are severe helminthic zoonoses. Echinococcus multilocularis (causative agent of AE) is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere where it is typically maintained ...

    • Global Forum 2015 dialogue on “From evidence to policy–thinking outside the box”: perspectives to improve evidence uptake and good practices in the African Region 

      Kirigia, Joses Muthuri; Pannenborg, Charles Ok; Amore, Luis Gabriel Cuervo; Ghannem, Hassen; Jsselmuiden, Carel I; Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet (BioMed Central, 2016)
      The Global Forum 2015 panel session dialogue entitled“ From evidence to policy thinking outside the box” was held on 26 August 2015 in the Philippines to debate why evidence was not fully translated into policy and practice ...

    • Glutathionylation and Reduction of Methacrolein in Tomato Plants Account for Its Absorption from the Vapor Phase 

      Muramoto, Shoko; Matsubara, Yayoi; Mwenda, Cynthia Mugo; Koeduka, Takao; Sakami, Takuya; Tani, Akira; Matsui, Kenji (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2015)
      A large portion of the volatile organic compounds emitted by plants are oxygenated to yield reactive carbonyl species, which have a big impact on atmospheric chemistry. Deposition to vegetation driven by the absorption of ...

    • Glycemic Indices of Cassava and Sweet Potatoes Consumed in Western Kenya 

      Ebere, Rebecca Aya; Imungi, Jasper Kathenya; Kimani, Violet Nyambura (Food Science and Quality Management, 2017)
      Glycemic index (GI) is used to classify carbohydrate-rich foods especially those containing at least 15% carbohydrates on the basis of their ability to raise blood sugar. Interest on the GI of carbohydrate-rich foods ...

    • Glycemic Responses to Stiff Porridge( ugali) Meals Consumed in Western Kenya 

      Ebere, Rebecca Aya; Imungi, Jasper Kathenya; Kimani, Violet Nyambura (International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2017)
      Glycemic responses which have been measured in terms of glycemic indices (GIs) differ among various carbohydrate-rich foods. Despite the existence of a GI Table of most common foods, the records of the GIs of most Kenyan ...

    • Green gold: refining crude Miraa (Catha edulis) into a real green gold 

      Arimi, Joshua M. (Meru University of Science Technology, 2022-06)
      Miraa (Catha edulis) is a very lucrative psychoactive crop for the farmers in lower parts of Meru county and Embu county. However, its handling is unhygienic and it’s a perishable crop. Withering and drying leads to ...