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Assessment of Impact of Repeated Annual Mass Drug Admistration of Praziquantel on Schistosomiasis Morbidity in School Children In Asembo Bay, Western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)Schistosomiasis remains a major public health problem in Kenya. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel (PZQ) through mass drug administration (MDA) to school age children ... -
Assessment of Impact of Repeated Annual Mass Drug Admistration of Praziquantel On Schistosomiasis Morbidity in School Children in Asembo Bay, Western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)Schistosomiasis remains a major public health problem in Kenya. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel (PZQ) through mass drug administration (MDA) to school age children ... -
Assessment of Management Practices of Induction for Newly Appointed Teachers in Secondary Schools in Kisumu East and West Districts, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014)In Kenya, induction for NATs in public secondary schools is based on the Teachers Service Commission Induction Guide. However the TSC Guide does not explain how NATs in public secondary schools should be inducted, the ... -
Assessment of nutrition, infection and immune factors in Hiv Sero-positive patients enrolled in the Ampath clinic at Chulaimbo sub-district hospital, Kisumu west district, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2012)ABSTRACT HIy worsens the nutritional status by increasing the body's requirement for food and also leads to opportunistic infections, which in turn, increase body nutrition requirements. This study was conducted to ... -
Assessment of Planning Factors Influencing Commercialization of Smallholder Dairy Value Chain Development in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2017)In developing countries, 70% of the population lives in rural areas and of these 75% are smallholder producers who derive their livelihoods primarily from agriculture. Kenyan smallholder dairy producers constitute 80% of ... -
An assessment of planning institutional frameworks influencing urban agriculture in three towns of western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Globally, urbanization and population increases have resulted into a reduction in arable land and increased food demand simultaneously. It is estimated that Africa will be 60% urbanized, while Kenya will be 46% urbanized ... -
Assessment of Principals’ Leadership in Information communication Technology Integration in Public Secondary Schools Management in Bungoma County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2019)In this 21st century, there is global recognition of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a tool for best management practices in various sectors. The Kenya government encourages ICT integration in school management ... -
An Assessment of the Heterogeneity, Age Modulation and Protective Effect of Insecticide Resistance and Evaluation of Insecticide Treated Net Condition among Children under Five Years Of Age Infected With Malaria In Western Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2014)Vector control remains central to the fight against malaria with insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) being a central component of the World Health Organization (WHO) global strategy. The ... -
Assessment of vulnerabilities to drought, impact and adaptation options in pastoral production systems in Laisamis, Marsabit county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Dry lands are home to about 25–30% of the global population, or around two billion people, 90% of those who live in developing countries. The same report indicates that 40% of the human population of both Africa and Asia ... -
Autobiographical Portrait of Subversion of the Normative Gender Identity In Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed
(Maseno University, 2021)Subversive literature is a powerful tool in a rebel‘s arsenal throughout literary history of mankind. Many scholars concur that autobiographies by women indicate their struggle for equality playing field in all spheres of ... -
Automorphisms of the unit groups of square radical zero, cube radical zero and power four radical zero finite commutative completely primary rings
(Maseno University, 2016)The study of automorphisms of algebraic structures has contributed immensely to many important findings in mathematics. For example, Galois characterized the general degree five single variable polynomials over , by ... -
Bacterial pollution indicators and their Physico-chemical environment in the inshore Waters of Lake Victoria, Kisumu city in Relation to enteric diseases
(Maseno University, 2008)Studies on Lake Victoria especially on the Nyanza Gulf has focused on fish kills, fish pathogens, algal blooms, limnological studies and eutrophication. This may be due to the fact that surveying water for faecal indicators ... -
Biological and economic performance of peanut-based meals As alternatives to dietary fishmeal in pond cultured Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.) In Uganda
(Maseno University, 2023)Increasing price of dietary fishmeal is offsetting the excellent growth and yield induced in farmed Nile tilapia subsequently reducing the corresponding cost-effectiveness. Replacement of the dietary ingredient with ... -
Certain properties of essential Numerical ranges of bounded Operators on banach spaces
(Maseno University, 2018)Abstract The numerical range of an operator on a Hilbert space has been extensively researched on. The concept of numerical range of an operator goes back as early as 1918 when Toeplitz defined it as the field of values ... -
Characteristics of Road Traffic Injuries to Pedestrians in Nairobi, Kenya: Implications for Urban Safety Planning
(Maseno University, 2014)Every day around the world, almost 16 000 people die from all types of injuries. The category of injuries worldwide is dominated by those incurred in road crashes which account for around 25% of all deaths from injury. ... -
Characterization Of Scalar Type Operators
(Maseno University, 2017)A closed densely defined operator H, on a Banach space X, whose spectrum is contained in JR and satisfies the growth condition II (Z-H)-l II:::; CII~~:l Vz E iJR for some a ~ 0 and C > 0 is of (00,00+1) type R In studying ... -
Chemical and Pharmacological Analysis of Caesalpinia Volkensii (H.), Senna Didymobotrya (F.) and Vitex Doniana (S.) from Kenya
(Maseno University, 2012)Despiteefforts to eradicate malaria, it remains a deadly disease with severe pathophysiological impacts, due to parasitic resistance to available drugs. The success of plant-based drugs motivated a study aimed at evaluating ... -
The Child's Right to an Education for Open-Mindedness: A Moral and Legal Theory of Materials Access and Selection In Educational Curricula
(University of Alberta, 1999)This research arises out of the belief that curricular materials selection does not adequately align with children's educational rights. I defend the position that the child's interest in an education for open-mindedness, ... -
The Child's Right to an Education for Open-Mindedness: A Moral and Legal Theory of Materials Access and Selection in Educational Curricula
(University of Alberta, 1999)This research arises out of the belief that curricular materials selection does not adequately align with children's educational rights. I defend the position that the child's interest in an education for open-mindedness, ... -
Christian diversity and community development in VIHIGA District, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2008)Despite the efforts by development thinkers and practitioners to eradicate poverty, it has remained a feature of the society in most Third World countries. This has stirred further global search for better solutions to ...