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Effects of Land Fragmentation on Food Security in Three Agro-ecological Zones of Embu County in Kenya
(2017-08)
Land fragmentation is a common agricultural phenomenon in many countries where a single large
farm is subdivided into a large number of separate small land plots. This paper is based on a study
that was carried out to ...
Temporal genetic structuring of a specialist parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking a specialist aphid on tansy
(2010-11)
In insect species characterized by inbreeding, limited dispersal, and a metapopulation structure, high genetic
differentiation and reduced genetic diversity within local populations are expected. Using the model ...
An Analysis of The Impact of Agro-Ecological Zones on The Influence of The Key Factors That Affect Food Security: The Case of The Embu County in Kenya
(2017-08)
This paper is based on the results of a study that was carried out to determine the impact of agro-ecological zones (AEZs) on the influence of the key factors that affect household food security through a case study in the ...
Impact of Financial Literacy on Access to Financial Services in Kenya
(2012-10)
The main thrust of this study is to establish the impact of financial literacy on access to financial services in
Kenya using the 2009 National Financial Access (FinAccess) survey data. Using a multinomial logit approach ...
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 ...
Pollination Ecology of Desmodium Setigerum (Fabaceae) in Uganda; Do Big Bees Do It Better?
(2016-08)
Explosive pollen release is documented in many plant families, including the Fabaceae. Desmodium
setigerum E. Mey (Fabaceae) is a perennial herb with single trip explosive pollen release found in eastern Africa, and
the ...
Localization of Overlaid Text Based on Noise Inconsistencies
(2015-04)
In this paper, we present a novel technique for localization of caption text in video frames based on noise inconsistencies. Text is artificially added to the video after it has been captured and as such does not form part ...
Coevolutionary fine-tuning: evidence for genetic tracking between a specialist wasp parasitoid and its aphid host in a dual metapopulation interaction
(2012-09)
In the interaction between two ecologically-associated species, the population
structure of one species may affect the population structure of the other. Here, we
examine the population structures of the aphid Metopeurum ...
Extraction of Scene Text Information from Video
(2016-01)
In this paper, we present an approach for scene text extraction from natural scene video frames. We assumed that the planar surface contains text information in the natural scene, based on this assumption, we detect planar ...
The 'Cake on the plate' syndrome ... and how specialist tansy aphids avoid extinction by hungry predators and parasitoids: insights from the use of polymorphic microsatellite markers
(2016-07)
It was initially shown from 12.2 m high suction trap aerial density data and later confirmed using polymorphic molecular markers (initially allozymes, later high resolution DNA markers, especially microsatellites), that ...