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Food in a future of 10 billion
(BioMed Central, 2015)Over the past two centuries, the human population has grown sevenfold and the experts anticipate the addition of 2–3 billion more during the twenty-first century. In the present overview, I take a historical glance at how ... -
Food web structure of Nematode communities associated with rice in Mwea, Kenya
(UoEm, 2023-07)In Kenya, rice is an important staple crop after wheat and maize and the rate of consumption surpasses its production. Apart from consumption, rice is a cash crop for smallholder farmers including those in Kirinyaga ... -
Food web structure of Nematode communities associated with rice in Mwea, Kenya
(2023-07)In Kenya, rice is an important staple crop after wheat and maize and the rate of consumption surpasses its production. Apart from consumption, rice is a cash crop for smallholder farmers including those in Kirinyaga ... -
Food web structure of Nematode communities associated with rice in Mwea, Kenya
(2023-07)In Kenya, rice is an important staple crop after wheat and maize and the rate of consumption surpasses its production. Apart from consumption, rice is a cash crop for smallholder farmers including those in Kirinyaga ... -
Food web structure of Nematode communities associated with rice in mwea,Kenya.
(UoEm, 2023-07)In Kenya, rice is an important staple crop after wheat and maize and the rate of consumption surpasses its production. Apart from consumption, rice is a cash crop for smallholder farmers including those in Kirinyaga ... -
Food web structure of Nematode communities associated with rice in mwea,Kenya.
(UoEm, 2023-07)In Kenya, rice is an important staple crop after wheat and maize and the rate of consumption surpasses its production. Apart from consumption, rice is a cash crop for smallholder farmers including those in Kirinyaga ... -
Food web structure of nematode communities in irrigated rice fields
(Heliyon, 2023-02)Nematodes are a key component of the soil food web and they play an important role in the provision of ecosystem services. Rice cultivation in Mwea, Kenya involves the intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides which ... -
Foreign capital inflows and economic growth in Kenya
(2016-11)Foreign Aid, Foreign Direct Investment and Remittances remain important and stable source of foreign capital inflows to developing countries, as they bring in large amounts of foreign currency that help sustain the balance ... -
Foreign direct investment, institutional quality and economic growth in Kenya
(2016-07)The study was done to investigate the effect of FDI on economic growth in Kenya, to determine the influence of institutional quality on the effect of FDI on economic growth, and to determine the effects of structural ... -
Foreign equity flows and stock market liquidity in Kenya
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-06)In this paper, we explore the dynamic relationship between aggregate foreign equity inflows and aggregate liquidity of the Kenyan stock market using transactional foreign trading data and several liquidity ... -
Forensic accounting as a way of preventing fraud in organizations, a case study of embu county
(UoEm, 2024-01-30)Fraud has become a major issue that many organizations are struggling to control. Fraud mostly involves the stakeholders of the organization; employees, suppliers, clients. Kenya has reported several cases of fraudulent ... -
Formation and Interaction of Bright Solitons with Shape Changing in a DNA Model
(2014-09)I explore the collision of localized structures that arise from a general initial solutions in the Peyrard- Bishop model. By means of the semi-discrete approximation, it is shown that the amplitudes of waves are described ... -
Formulation and Characterization of Prototype Particleboards using selected Crop Residue and Starch from Cassava Peels as a Binder
(University of Embu, 2020-11)Particleboards are formulated from lignocellulose material bound with adhesives. Conventional lignocellulose material used is wood particles and adhesive is formaldehyde-based resin. Due to reduction of tree cover, wood ... -
Formulation of Ceramic Water Filter Composition for the Treatment of Heavy Metals and Correction of Physiochemical Parameters in Household Water
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-11)The process of using ceramic water filter to remove contaminants and microbes in water processing is becoming more effective and popular among ceramists and homes in developing countries. However, ceramic filters are not ... -
A Foundation for Lorentz Force Based on Vibrating Strings as a Compact Fluid
(Scientific research, 2014-08)Several aspects related with Lorentz force are discussed in the light of the presence of vibrating strings. Strings are considered as a compact, tension and viscosity-free incompressible liquid. The motion of a charge ... -
Frames of Rights, Entitlement, Need, and Deservingness in the Affordable Care Act
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-09-30)I analyze four frames deployed by members of United States Congress on the floor of the House of Representatives before the initial passage of the Affordable Care Act on November 7, 2009. Of the four frames—need, rights, ... -
A Framework for Determining the Impact of Value Chain Participation on Smallholder Farm Efficiency
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)We analyze the efficiency of wheat farmers toward the ever-increasing demand for wheat in Tanzania. Translog production and cost functions were utilized in the stochastic frontier analysis to examine technical, allocative, ... -
Free Living Nematode Diversity in Polluted Soils: A Meta-Analysis
(University of Embu, 2021-09)Soil disturbances affects the community structures of soil organisms and the deterioration of the soil environment can be evaluated by studying these changes. Many experimental results have been published on the effects ... -
Free Will, Subjectivity and the Physics of the Nervous System
(Scientific Research, 2018-05)We want to stress the irreducibility of subjectivity to a pure physical process and, related to this the existence of an actual free will. A discussion on the existence of free will goes back at least to the Middle Ages. ...