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Socio-cultural factors influencing the utilization of first-line Antibiotics in Manyatta 'a' sub-location, Kisumu city, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)
The prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics in Kenya in 2009 was 58.2%, in
Nyanza 68.5% and Kisumu 64.8%. Although antibiotics resistance is primarily a medical
problem, factors influencing its spread are ...
Integrating urban agriculture into urban Landuse planning of Eldoret municipality
(Maseno University, 2017)
Urban agriculture is practiced globally as a livelihood strategy; in Kenya it is in response to the current food insecurity situation. However, spatial development plans do not provide for urban agriculture in the urban ...
An evaluation of the determinants of effectiveness of Bilharzia awareness campaigns in Kisumu West sub-county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)
Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia), is a one of the major tropical diseases affecting many people in developing countries, and is considered the second most important human parasitic disease after malaria in terms of morbidity ...
Perception of influence of the soap opera the legal wife on marriages in Kisumu city
(Maseno University, 2017)
Television soap operas could have dominated and become the most popular genre in the local television networks despite the presence of other genres in the Kenyan media. It’s possible that the growing rate of broken marriage ...
The effects of livestock rearing on livelihood of the Borana community, Funaan Qumbi village, Marsabit county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)
Globally it is estimated that pastoralism is practiced by between 200 and 500 million people. In Africa they reside in over 21 countries across the continent. They usually inhabit areas which are hard to carry out other ...
A Syntactic Analysis of Argument Licensing in Lutsotso Sentence
(Maseno University, 2017)
This is a study of the syntax and morphology of argument licensing in Lutsotso, a dialect of Luluhyia language. Luluhyia is an agglutinating language and therefore its morphology is relevant to syntactic derivation. ...
The Place of Indigenous Theatre in Early Childhood Development in Ugenya Sub-County of Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)
Children’s right to participate in cultural and artistic life is enshrined in policy documents yet in practice, it is only considered when other basic rights have been fulfilled. Theatrical genres in ECD are privileged ...
The Nature of Dholuo Consonant Harmony
(Maseno University, 2017)
Consonant harmony is complex phonological process which requires a theory-informed descriptive analysis to determine its occurrence patterns. Consonant harmony has previously been studied as an assimilatory process that ...
Evaluation of anticonvulsant activity of extracts and isolates from Maytenus Heterophylla
(Maseno University, 2017)
Convulsion is a chronic neurological disorder that develops in up to 5% of the world’s
population with prevalence of nearly 88% occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, prompting serious
medical, social, health related stigma ...
Quantum entanglement properties of polarization states of a semi-classical optical parametric oscillator
(Maseno University, 2017)
Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics which originated from the 1935 paper of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) and has been demonstrated in many quantum systems for development of quantum technology. ...