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    • Rainfed Rice Production and there Germplasm Development in Kenya 

      JC Onyango, MOA Onyango (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 1999-07-01)
      ice (Oryza Sativa L.) has been grown in Kenya for several centuries and during this time has been locally selected by farmers for adaptation in the dry climate of Kenya highlands and coastal region. this history of selection ...

    • A randomized controlled trial of folate supplementation when treating malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine 

      Peter Ouma, Monica E Parise, Mary J Hamel, Feiko O Ter Kuile, Kephas Otieno, John G Ayisi, Piet A Kager, Richard W Steketee, Laurence Slutsker, Anna M Van Eijk (Public Library of Science, 2006)
      Objectives: Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is an antimalarial drug that acts on the folate metabolism of the malaria parasite. We investigated whether folate (FA) supplementation in a high or a low dose affects the ...

    • Rapid Assessment of Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) in Nairobi and Mombasa counties, Kenya: A Respondent Driven Sampling Survey 

      33. Gabriel O Dida, Francis Oguya , Francisca Ongecha, Patrick Mureithi , Helgar Musyoka, Nicholas Muraguri , Ben Mundia , Caleb Angira, Mohammed Shose, Taib A. Basheeb , Abdalla Ahmed Mohamed, , John P. Oyore , Otieno G. Ochieng , Saade Abdalla, Reychard Abdool (research square, 2020)
      Background: A Cross-sectional Rapid Situational Assessment of Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) applying Respondent Driven sampling techniques (RDS) was used to recruit subjects/participants in a study aimed at assessing HIV ...

    • Rapid detection of carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae using a bioluminescence-based phenotypic... 

      Almsick, Vincent V; Ghebremedhin, Beniam; Pfennigwerth, Niels (Elsevier, 2014-04-01)
      Accurate detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter spp. (CP-CRA) constitutes a major challenge in laboratory diagnostics. We developed a ...

    • Rapid Epidemiological Appraisal of Spatial Distribution of Animal Bite Injury Cases and Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis in Kisumu County, Kenya 

      Omemo Peter, Job Wasonga, Morvan Omollo, Joy Adhiambo, Redemptah Yeda (Research Square, 2020)
      Animal bites in humans provide an important source of epidemiological information which is crucial in enhancing rabies surveillance in humans and animals. Rabies post exposure prophylaxis consumes substantial resources ...

    • Rapid Situational Assessment of People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Nairobi and Coastal regions of Kenya: A Respondent Driven Sampling Survey 

      33. Gabriel O Dida, Francis Oguya , Francisca Ongecha, Patrick Mureithi , Helgar Musyoka, Nicholas Muraguri , Ben Mundia , Caleb Angira, Mohammed Shose, Taib A. Basheeb , Abdalla Ahmed Mohamed, , John P. Oyore , Otieno G. Ochieng , Saade Abdalla, Reychard Abdool (Research Gate, 2020)
      Background: A Cross-sectional Rapid Situational Assessment of People Who Inject Drug (PWIDs) applying Respondent Driven sampling techniques (RDS) was used to recruit subjects/participants in a study aimed at assessing ...

    • Rate of financial return to university schooling among lecturers in two public universities in Kenya 

      TO Rugar, TMO Ayodo, JO Agak (Academic Journals, 2010-05-01)
      Influence of education on earnings among workers is well documented. However, the level of relationship that exists between earnings and schooling among lecturers in public universities in Kenya remain undetermined. The ...

    • Rate of financial returns to education of public primary school teachers in Mumias Sub-County, Kenya. 

      CHENANE, Valentine Nafula (Maseno University, 2018)
      Education is an important determinant of earnings in Kenyan economy. Returns to education for primary teachers have great influence on the stability of the teaching force. Due to this a large number of primary school ...

    • The rate of outcrossing in grain amaranths 

      S. G. Agong P. O. Ayiecho (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1991-09-01)
      Studies of intra specific and inter specific out crossing rates were carried out for grain amaranths using two populations of A. hypochondriacus (populations 1008 and 1024) and two populations of A. cruentus (populations ...

    • Rationale, Design, and the Baseline Characteristics of the RHDGen (The Genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease) Network Study 

      Tafadzwa Machipisa, Chishala Chishala, Gasnat Shaboodien, Liesl J Zühlke, Babu Muhamed, Shahiemah Pandie, Jantina de Vries, Nakita Laing, Alexia Joachim, Rezeen Daniels, Mpiko Ntsekhe, Christopher T Hugo-Hamman, Bernard Gitura, Stephen Ogendo, Peter Lwabi, Emmy Okello, Albertino Damasceno, Celia Novela, Ana O Mocumbi, Geoffrey Madeira, John Musuku, Agnes Mtaja, Ahmed ElSayed, Huda HM Alhassan, Fidelia Bode-Thomas, Christopher Yilgwan, Ganiyu Amusa, Esin Nkereuwem, Nicola Mulder, Raj Ramesar, Maia Lesosky, Heather J Cordell, Michael Chong, Bernard Keavney, Guillaume Paré, Mark E Engel, RHDGen Network Consortium† (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2023)
      The genetics of rheumatic heart disease (RHDGen) Network was developed to assist the discovery and validation of genetic variations and biomarkers of risk for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in continental Africans, as a ...

    • Rationale, Design, and the Baseline Characteristics of the RHDGen (The Genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease) Network Study† 

      Tafadzwa Machipisa, , Chishala Chishala, , Gasnat Shaboodien, Liesl J. Zühlke, Babu Muhamed, Shahiemah Pandie, Jantina de Vries, , Nakita Laing, Alexia Joachim, RN Rezeen Daniels, Mpiko Ntsekhe, Christopher T. Hugo-Hamman, Bernard Gitura,Stephen Ogendo, Peter Lwabi, , Emmy Okello, Albertino Damasceno, Celia Novela, RN, Ana O. Mocumbi, Geoffrey Madeira, John Musuku, Agnes Mtaja, , Ahmed ElSayed, Huda H.M. Alhassan, Fidelia Bode-Thomas, Christopher Yilgwan, Ganiyu Amusa, Esin Nkereuwem, Nicola Mulder, Raj Ramesar, Maia Lesosky, Heather J. Cordell, Michael Chong, Bernard Keavney, BM,, Guillaume Paré, Mark E. Enge (AHA, 2023)
      BACKGROUND: The genetics of rheumatic heart disease (RHDGen) Network was developed to assist the discovery and validation of genetic variations and biomarkers of risk for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in continental ...

    • (Re)Designing Land Tenure to Meet Housing Needs of The Urban Poor: Implementing Community Land Trusts In Kenya 

      Midheme, Emmanuel Paul Ooko (Planum Association, 2013)
      The sheer pace of urbanisation in Kenya today far outstrips the ability of the state to provide housing for the ever-expanding urban population. Implicated in this housing crisis are existing forms of land and housing ...

    • Re-imagining teacher education for a post-pandemic future 

      Asha Kanwar, Betty Ogange (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021)
      To help Commonwealth governments and institutions use technologies to improve and expand learning for sustainable development

    • Reachability in complete t-ary trees 

      Abayo, Sylvester Arthur; Okoth, Isaac Owino; Kasyoki, Donnie Munyao (Annals of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2023-10-01)
      Mathematical trees such as Cayley trees, plane trees, binary trees, noncrossing trees, t-ary trees among others have been studied extensively. Reachability of vertices as a statistic has been studied in Cayley trees, plane ...

    • Reachability results in labelled t-ary trees 

      Isaac Owino Okoth, Albert Oloo Nyariaro (Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2021)
      In this paper, we prove some new formulas in the enumeration of labelled t-ary trees by path lengths. We treat trees having their edges oriented from a vertex of lower label towards a vertex of higher label. Among other ...

    • Reaching youth with the peace message 

      Michael Owiso (Dr. Gerald J. Wanjohi, 1995)
      The youth in the world and particularly in Africa, are seen to be the most active in the different wars of our times. In Rwanda, images of young people were anstantly featured on our T. V screens, canying guns and executing ...

    • Reaction of Some Coffea arabica Genotypes to Strains of Colletotrichum kahawae, the Cause of Coffee Berry Disease 

      C. O. Omondi P. O. Ayiecho A. W. Mwang'ombe H. Hindorf (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2000-01-01)
      Pathogenicity tests were performed on 11 genotypes of Coffea arabica using single‐isolate suspensions of Colletotrichum Kahawae obtained from 90 monoconidial isolates. The objective of this study was to estimate the ...

    • Reactions of Methyl Iodide and Halopropanes with Na0 Treated and Untreated NaX and NaY Zeolites 

      Charles W Kanyi, Ka King Yan, Chrispin O Kowenje, Charles Wairagu Kanyi (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
      Products formed from reactions of methyl iodide, 1-chloropropane, 1-iodopropane and 1-bromopropane with Na0 treated and untreated NaX and NaY zeolites were studied using solid state 13C NMR and IR spectroscopy. At room ...

    • Reactive case detection of Plasmodium falciparum in western Kenya highlands: effective in identifying additional cases, yet limited effect on transmission 

      Aidoo, Ebenezer K; Afrane, Yaw A; Machani, Maxwell G; Chebore, Winnie; Lawson, Bernard W; Atieli, Harrysone; Kariuki, Simon; Lee, Ming-Chieh; Koepfli, Cristian; Zhou, Guofa; Githeko, Andrew K; Yan, Guiyun (BioMed Central, 2018-03-13)
      Background: Identifying asymptomatic reservoirs of malaria parasites using index cases as entry points into the community is potentially a cost-efective way towards achieving malaria elimination. Methods: Within 1 year, ...

    • Reading Literacy in relation to patterns of academic achievement in Kenya 

      AGAK, John Oduor (UMEA, 1995)
      How is reading literacy related to academic achievement among 14 year old students in Kenya? This was the main issue in focus for the present study. The lEA Reading Literacy Test was used for measuring reading literacy ...