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    • Surgery of the oesophagus: a Nairobi experience. 

      SW Ogendo (East African medical journal, 1993-05-01)
      On average, for every 100 patients with malignant dysphagia admitted into the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi, 28 will have their tumour resected. Seven in the tumour resected group will die during the postoperative ...

    • Africa in the Debt Yoke: The Mission of the Church 

      Adalo Moga (University Press of Florida, 1993-10-01)
      This book, the very first of its kind to be published in Kenya, is the church's response to the debt crisis in Africa. It is partly a result of the inspiration of three conferences organized by the church in Africa. These ...

    • Reference intervals for some biochemical parameters in the aged Kenyan population. 

      Mbiti MJ, Orinda DA Search articles by 'Orinda DA' Orinda DA, Ojwang PJ (East African Medical Journal,, 1994)
      Serum levels for sodium, potassium, calcium, inorganic phosphate, urea nitrogen and creatinine were determined in 1101 male and 181 female patients aged 50 years and above. The determinations were carried out on the SMA ...

    • On the Theory of Random Search 

      FREDRICK BERNARD ODHIAMBO ORYARGO (University of Nairobi,, 1994)
      The problem of identifying one or more unknown elements belonging to a finite set So' containing n distinguishable elements is well known in literature. Designs used in this kind of investigation are known as search designs. ...

    • Long-term effects of fertility and hand-weeding on Striga in maize. 

      JK Ransom, GD Odhiambo (1994)
      Tanzania has recently embarked into a period of liberalisation which is undoubtedly having an impact on the agricultural sector. The effects of liberalisation are feeding through to the animal feeds sector, which is ...

    • Planned Pathways from School to Employment: An Alberta Perspective 

      NINA, Merle Powlette (University of Alberta, 1994)
      This exploratory study was designed to investigate a number of factors thought to be influential in helping high school students through the transition process from school to employment and also from school to further ...

    • The Experience of Midlife Crisis: A Developmental Contextual Perspective 

      SHIRLEY, Dumbeck (University of Alberta, 1994)
      This research explores midlife crisis as it is experienced by both men and women. Midlife crisis is a time of painful inner turmoil and conflict with the external world. The experience has a dramatic impact on individual ...

    • The Role of the University Planner in Kenya 

      KAPERE, A. Auma (University of Manchester, 1994)
      Despite the clear importance of investment in higher education for economic growth and social development, the sector is in crisis throughout the world. In all countries, higher education is heavily dependent on ...

    • Changes in theaflavin composition and astringency during black tea fermentation 

      McDowell, Ian; Owuor, Phillip O (Elsevier, 1994-01-01)
      Both theaflavins and sensory evaluations vary in a quadratic manner with fermentation duration in the process of black tea manufacture. The rate of formation of total (Flavognost) theaflavins varies with clones, and within ...

    • Response of some black tea quality parameters to nitrogen fertiliser rates and plucking frequencies 

      Owuor, Okinda P; Odhiambo, Herman O (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1994-12-01)
      The effects of the rate of application of nitrogenous fertiliser and frequency of plucking (harvesting) on various black tea quality parameters and yields were compared on done 6/8. High rates of nitrogen application and ...

    • Reading Literacy in Relation to Patterns of Academic Achievement. 

      John Odwar Agak (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 International Evaluation and Educational Assessment Association ...

    • Road traffic accidents in Kenya: An epidemiological appraisal 

      Wilson W Odero (Nairobi Medical Association of East Africa, 1995)
      A descriptive analysis of road traffic accident (RTA) and injury data in Kenya was done using routine accident reports, official statistical abstracts, published and unpublished surveys. The characteristics of injury-producing ...

    • Evaluation of Sesame Cultivars for Resistance to Cercospora Leaf Spot 

      JO Nyanapah, PO Ayiecho, JO Nyabundi (Taylor & Francis, 1995)
      Sixteen sesame accessions (Table I) were obtained from the germplasm collection of the Sesame Improvement Project of the University of Nairobi. 1nocula of C. sesamicola were prepared using the technique described by Robert ...

    • 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 ...

    • Gal operon of Streptomyces 

      Craig W Adams, Mary E Brawner, James A Fornwald, Francis J Schmidt (1995)
      his invention relates to a recombinant DNA mole cule comprising the Streptomyces gal operon. Hodgson, J. Gen. Micro, 128, 2417-2430 (1982), re port that Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) has a glucose repression system which ...

    • 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 ...

    • Household allocation of labor time in two types of Smallholder farming Systems in rural Kenya 

      MONICA, Awuor Ayieko (University of ILLINOIS, 1995)
      The study analyzed the effects of gender and farming systems on time allocated to work by agricultural households in rural Kenya. A total of 289 participants were selected from Njoro and Kikuyu divisions. spot observations, ...

    • Discriminant Validity of the Stanford-Benet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition 

      CHRISTOPHER, Wilson (University of Alberta, 1995)
      Performance on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SB:FE) was examined in a Canadian clinic sample (N=1220), age 2 through 23 years, with a range of demographic characteristics and ability levels. ...

    • Student Participation in Governance at the University Of Alberta 

      BING, Zuo (University of Alberta, 1995)
      This study investigated the scope, process, and effect of student participation in governance at the University of Alberta, including student government, and identified and analyzed related issues, various influential ...

    • The Study of Drug Metabolism G In Children with Protein Energy, Malnutrition and Tuberculosis Using 'The caffeine Breath Test 

      NYATIGI, Paul Remington (University of Liverpool, 1995)
      The purpose of this study was to determine the applicability of the ,saffeine breath test in assessing liver drug metabolism. , in children/with Kwashiorkor and those on anti-TB drugs. Seventeen children aged between 3-10 ...