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Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries
(Wiley, 2025-04-23)Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, ... -
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study
(Routledge, 2025-05-02)The present study explored the bidirectional longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and school performance during adolescence in six countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the ... -
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture
(Routledge, 2025-05-07)Primals are beliefs about the world’s character (e.g. good, safe, enticing, or alive) that are associated with well-being and behavioral patterns. But primals’ developmental origins remain mysterious, hampering theoretical ... -
Positive risk taking across the world
(Wiley, 2025-06)Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk tak ing, which can benefit adolescent ... -
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
(Wiley, 2025-06)The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well- being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior ... -
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent‐to‐Young Adult Executive Function Development in Seven Countries
(Wiley, 2025-07)Executive functioning (EF) is an important developing self-regulatory process that has implications for academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Most work in EF has focused on childhood, and less has examined the development ... -
Factors associated with tuberculosis drug resistance among presumptive multidrug resistance tuberculosis patients identified in a DRTB surveillance study in western Kenya
(Elsevier, 2024-12-01)Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is caused by M. tuberculosis (Mtb) with resistance to the first-line anti-TB medicines isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RIF). In Western Kenya, there is reported low prevalence of ... -
The Inclusion of Students with Visual Impairment in Regular Institutions in Kenya: An Analysis of Policy and Legal Framework
(IJRISS, 2024-04-24)This study is concerned with the inclusion of students with visual impairments in the regular institutions in Kenya. The purpose is to study the policy documents that have been guiding the inclusion of students with ... -
The Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Tertiary Institution: A Review of Related Literature on Strategies of Making Curriculum Accessible to Students Visual Impairments
(IJRISS, 2024-11-11)The inclusion of students with disabilities including those with visual impairment (VI) has become a popular trend in most countries of the world. However, students with VI still face challenges in accessing curriculum ... -
Uro-pathogens: Prevalence of bacterial agents, and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of urinary tract infections among pregnant women living with HIV in Kisumu County, Kenya
(J Clin Images Med Case Rep, 2025)During pregnancy, urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections, particularly in women living with HIV worldwide, and can lead to poor perinatal and maternal outcomes. This study determined the ... -
Measuring the effect of antenatal family planning counseling on the intention for early postpartum family planning among postpartum mothers in Western Kenya
(Ethiopian Journal of Reproductive Health, 2025-01-30)Maternal and Child Health (MCH) care continuum provides a great opportunity for PPFP interventions integration especially antenatal FP counseling. This study measured the effect of antenatal FP counseling on the intention ... -
Assessing the application of adapted theory of planned behaviour in predicting postpartum family planning intentions in a pragmatic randomized control trial in Western Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2025-02-05)In developing countries like Kenya, addressing the high population growth rate necessitates a focus on early Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP) use. Despite the critical need for PPFP, few researchers explore the application ... -
Hybrid versus vaccine immunity of mRNA-1273 among people living with HIV in East and Southern Africa: a prospective cohort analysis from the multicentre CoVPN 3008 (Ubuntu) study
(Elsevier, 2025-02-01)With limited access to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in lower income countries, and people living with HIV (PLWH) largely excluded from clinical trials, Part A of the multicentre CoVPN 3008 (Ubuntu) study aimed to assess the ... -
Proximal and distal minority stressors and mental health among young gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in Kisumu, Kenya
(American Journal of Community Psychology, 2024-12-04)Young gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) inKenya experience pervasive intersectional stigma and discrimination, contribut-ing to elevated levels of negative mental health symptoms. Grounded ... -
Parenting Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Conduct Problems in Seven Countries
(Springer US, 24-11-07)This study advances the understanding of risk and protective factors in trajectories of conduct problems in adolescence in seven countries that differ widely on a number of sociodemographic factors as well as norms related ... -
Exploring Rabi Oscillations, Maximally Entangled States and Perfect Teleportation in the Anti-Jaynes-Cummings Interaction: Insights into Quantum Dynamics and Entanglement Applications
(BP International, 2024-11-11)This study presents a method for producing maximally entangled qubit states, also known as entangled anti-polariton qubit states, in the anti-Jaynes-Cummings interaction mechanism. We show that, in an initial vacuum-field, ... -
Radiological study of the ossification process of medial clavicular epiphysis: The influence of sex and laterality
(Folia Morphologica, 2024-10-30)Radiological examination of bones such viz, clavicle have been developed to estimate the age of an individual without valid identification, or when suspected of providing inaccurate age. However, there is a paucity of ... -
The Syntax of Head-Marked Phrases and Head-Marking Morphemes in Lunyore
(Indiana Journal of Arts & Literature, 2024-10-22)A language is head-marking if the grammatical marks showing agreement tend to be placed on the heads of phrases. Lunyore like many bantu languages is agglutinating and therefore has a rich and complex morphology. The ... -
Semantic Role-Marking in Lunyore Morphology and Syntax
(East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024)Semantic roles denote different semantic relations that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a predicate of a sentence. Semantic is another universal feature of language, if there is an event ... -
Accelerometry-derived Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity Predicts Overall Survival In Patients With Cancer In The Pleural Space: 2896
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2024-10-01)To investigate the association of accelerometry-derived moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) with 3-year overall survival (OS) in patients with MPE.
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