MUGANDA, ANDREW(Technical University of Kenya, 2022-05-01)
First, I wish to thank the Almighty God for the strength, good health, and focus for making this journey possible. Special thanks to my supervisors Dr. Edward Okonjo, Dr. James Nyabuga and Prof. Dorcas Yole, for the excellent ...
WEKESA, KENNEDY CHEPUKOSI(Technical University of Kenya, 2022-06)
ABSTRACT
Khat, a plant containing phytochemicals that act as psychostimulants is widely grown and used in Kenya and East Africa. It contains amphetamine-like chemicals, cathine and cathinone, largely responsible for ...
OTIENO, PHANICE KHESELI(Technical University of Kenya, 2023-11)
ABSTRACT
In Kenya, wheat is the second most consumed cereal grain after maize and provides nutrition for about 50% of the world's population. However, production of the grain often faces setbacks occasioned by fungal ...
MARETE, GABRIEL MUTHEE(Technical University of Kenya, 2021-03)
ABSTRACT
This study assessed the usage of pesticides and its impacts on ecosystems and human health through occupational exposure in selected farming communities in Imenti North, Imenti South and Buuri Sub-counties in ...
NDUTI, NICHOLAS NDARU(Technical University of Kenya, 2022-01)
In Kenya, maize is an important staple food. Unfortunately, household maize is generally spoilt by fungi whose mycotoxin metabolites have been found to cause adverse effect to animal and human health. The study had four ...
Charged domain walls (DWs) in ferroelectric materials have gained a lot of interest for a decade now. Large conductivity has been reported at the DWs of insulating ferroelectric materials, and it has lots of applications ...
MASIME, JEREMIAH ODHEK(Technical University of Kenya, 2023-10)
The global energy demand is expected to rise by 53% by 2030, depleting crude oil reserves by 2052. This increase in energy demand growth has led to increased CO2 emissions, environmental degradation, and the need for ...
KINYANYI, DICKSON BENNET(Technical University of Kenya, 2022-07)
African swine fever (ASF) is a fatal hemorrhagic disease of domesticated pigs that is caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV). This disease poses a threat to food security thus leading to economic losses. Presently, ...
MARTIN MULE MUTIE, MARTIN MULE(Technical University of Kenya, 2023-11)
ABSTRACT
Massive stars are born in regions that are opaque to optical observations. This is
a challenge in understanding the processes that involve their formation. In order
to investigate their formations, a multi-wavelength ...
Ethyl acetate extracts of 75 Okinawa marine organisms were screened by the fertilized sea urchin egg assay. Among them 51 specimens showed potent cytotoxity and 20 specimens exhibited moderate activity.
The constituents ...
The high incidence of HIV infections among slum-dwelling adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) has been attributed to the numerous and often layered vulnerabilities that they encounter, including unfavourable power ...
Cerebral Malaria (CM) is a form of malaria that causes a complex neurological syndrome, whose ~ology is mediated by severe inflammatory processes triggered by the immune system of the : 5t following infection with Plasmodium ...
Complexing capacities of calcium and magnesium with natural organic matter (NOM)/selected organic chelating agents, in the presence and absence of other major and trace cations in water, were studied by anodic and cathodic ...
There are several very useful formulas, which give the cycle
indices of
the binary operation of the sum, product, composition and po
wer group of
M
and
H
in terms of cycle indices of
M
and
H
. One very useful ...
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which was in operation until 2007 uniquely identified
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This note investigates sedenion multiplication from the st
andpoint of loop the-
ory. New two-sided loops are obtained within the version of t
he sedenions introduced by
the second author. Conditions are given for the ...
Choi, Ji Young; Dealba, Luz Maria; Hogben, Leslie; Kivunge, Benard M; Nordstrom, Sandra K; Shedenhelm, Mike(2003)
In this paperthe nonnegative
P
0
-matrix completion problem is considered. It is
shown that a pattern for 4
×
4 matrices that includes all diagonal positions has nonnegative
P
0
-
completion if and only if its ...
Sigey, K. Johana; Okelo, A. Jeconia; Gatheri, K. Francis; Ngesa, O. Joel(2013)
This work addresses the problem of Magnetohydrodynamic laminar unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate. It investigates how joule heating affects the velocity ...