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Using Podcasts to Help Students Apply Informatics Concepts: Benefits and Unintended Consequences. CIN: Computers, Informatics Nursing
(2012-03)Despite requirements for robust health informatics education, a multitude of educators and policy analysts report that programs are not adequately preparing nurses to handle the bevy of technologies that will be a part of ... -
Using Scholarly Big Data in Assessing Contribution of National Expertise to Climate Change Knowledge; Case Study: Egypt
(Journal of Data Analysis and Information Processing,, 2018-07)Scholarly documents are generated on daily basis in varied formats. Google Scholar is one of the most popular open access web search engines that involves metadata of massive volume of varied scholarly literature that ... -
Using science to empower farmers: Hunting down the invisible worms threatening Kenyan crops
(2020-10)What comes to mind when you think of climate change? Perhaps it’s melting ice shelves and droughts or raging wildfires and floods. To see the large-scale manifestations of a warming planet, we need not look far. On a ... -
The Utility of Aerial Pan-Trapping for Assessing Insect Pollinators Across Vertical Strata
(2011)Insect pollinators provide a critical ecosystem service by pollinating many wild flowers and crops. It is therefore essential to be able to effectively survey and monitor pollinator communities across a range of habitats, ... -
Utilization of ANC and PNC Services in Nepal: A Multivariate Analysis Based on Nepal Demographic Health Survey 2001 and 2006.
(Science Publishing Group, 2015-10-12)Background: Maternal Mortality is a public health problem in Nepal, which was highest in 1990 among the South Asian countries. Associated factors of maternal mortality are various; among them maternal health services such ... -
Utilization of Mobile Phone and the Ethical Implications on University and Government Services: a Case of Post Graduate Students at Kenyatta University, Kenya
(Association for Computing Machinery., 2021)This study investigated access and usage of mobile phones by postgraduate students. Mobile phone technology has greatly contributed to the quick access and sharing of information in the contemporary world. However, the ... -
Utilization of proteins and nucleic acids in the study of gene function: a comparative review
(2010)Proteomics is one of the fastest growing areas in areas of research, largely because the global-scale analysis of proteins is expected to yield more direct understanding of function and regulation than analysis of genes. ... -
Utilization of Rice Husks in Mwea Irragation Scheme
(University of Embu, 2017)Rice production in many regions of the world has resulted in a high influx of organic wastes (husks) to the environments due to dumping and burning. This is because most of the farmers cannot properly make use of these ... -
Uyahe na Raghba ya Jinsia kama Mikakati ya Propaganda Uchunguzi Kifani wa Mdahalo wa Urais wa Kenya, 2013
(2022)Lengo la kazi hii ni kutathmini matumizi ya uyakhe na raghba ya jinsia kama mikakati ya propaganda katika mdahalo wa urais wa 2013. Wanasiasa hutumia mbinu anuwai kuelekeza uelewa wa suala la kisiasa. Mara nyingi, mbinu ... -
Value chain and sustainability of mangrove wood harvesting in Lamu, Kenya
(Elsevier, 2022-08)Mangrove forests provide harvestable wood and non-wood resources to human society globally. The current study evaluated value chain of mangrove wood products from Lamu, Kenya, and how these impacts on resources’ sustainability. ... -
Value chain and unstainability of Mangrove Wood Harvesting In Lamu County, Kenya
(UoEm, 2023-06)Mangrove forests provide harvestable wood and non-wood resources to human society around the world. The current study evaluated value chain of mangrove wood products from Lamu County, Kenya, and how these impacts on ... -
Value of Orthostatic Hypotension as a Prognostic Bed-Side Test in Heart Failure
(Scientific Research, 2012-12)Background: Neurohumoral compensatory mechanisms play an important role in stabilizing the functional activity of patients with heart failure using the arms of autonomic nervous system. Orthostatic Hypotension (OH) is one ... -
Value of Waiting and Excess Entry Theorem
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)By reformulating the Cournot model by making use of the optimal stopping theory, we reconsider the excess entry theorem for a stochastic market. It is revealed that: 1) free entry in a stochastic oligopolistic market is ... -
Values of Caring and Knowing: A case of Malaria
(2016)Health care is a universal right for all human beings; individuals or families or communities. Care is a universal need for all humans. The relationship between caring and knowing is complex and involves ... -
Variability of soil moisture with time of the day in the University of Embu
(University of Embu, 2019)Soil moisture is a key variable in controlling the exchange of water and heat energy between the land surface and atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration. It is a critical hydrological component in various water ... -
Variation and Association of Cup Quality Attributes and Resistance to Coffee Berry Disease in Coffea Arabica L. Composite Cultivar, Ruiru 11
(2013-12)Majority of reported work on coffee breeding primarily concerns agronomic improvement that directly impinges on coffee quality. However, it is crucial that coffee breeding programmes for disease resistance also include ... -
Variation in Seagrass Carbon Stocks Between Tropical Estuarine and Marine Mangrove-Fringed Creeks
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020-08)Seagrass and associated blue carbon ecosystems are important carbon sinks, and hence understanding their spatial and temporal variability is vital in appreciating their potential roles in climate change mitigation and ... -
Variation of Isotope Coefficient with Number of CuO2 Layers in High TC Superconductors
(2017-02)In this paper, an effort has been made to study the isotope coefficient in high TC Superconductors by using the variation of isotopic coefficient with the number of CuO2 layers and the variation of isotope coefficients on ... -
Variations of biomass and carbon contents in different traits and components of herbaceous species from tropical grassland
(African Journal of Biological Sciences, 2019-04-12)Grasslands play a critical role in the global storage of atmospheric carbon (C). Precise estimation of C contents in different plant components is essential to formulate a strategy for mitigating the atmospheric C. Biomass ...