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Efficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae (Mechnikov) Sorokin ICIPE 69 against the melon fly Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) infesting courgette (Cucurbita pepo L.) in field cages
(UoEm, 2023-07-21)Effective integrated pest management (IPM) of the melon fly Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett), a devastating pest threatening horticultural production in Africa, is urgently needed. In this study, a c ... -
Do afroalpine plants differ from other alpine plants by their leaf functional traits?
(UoEm, 2023-06-16)Afroalpine plants develop under specific climate with great daily fluctuations and weak seasonal dynamics of temperature. Do leaf functional traits of the plants in Mt. Kenya differ from those of temperate plants in ... -
Determinants of adoption and adoption intensity of integrated soil fertility management technologies among sorghum farmers in Upper Eastern Kenya
(UoEm, 2023-08-03)Climate change manifestations and population pressure are some of the most critical challenges that affect agricultural productivity. Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) technologies are among the agricultural ... -
Integrated Soil Fertility and Water Management Practices for Enhanced Agricultural Productivity
(UoeM, 2023-06-23)Declining agricultural productivity has been a challenge worldwide and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Low agricultural productivity has been attributed to factors such as poor farm management practices, soil ... -
Nutritional and Phytochemical Composition of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea [L.] Verdc) Landraces in Kenya
(UoEM, 2023-06-02)Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) is a highly nutritious legume with good drought tolerance attributes and is therefore a suitable candidate for food and nutritional security especially in drought prone areas. This ... -
Tied-ridging and soil inputs enhance small-scale maize productivity and profitability under erratic rainfall conditions in central Kenya
(UoEM, 2023)Deficits in soil moisture and low soil fertility are the major constraints to smallholder farming systems in the SSA (sub-Saharan Africa) region. This study evaluated the effects of tied ridging and selected soil fertility ... -
HIV Virologic Failure among Patients with Persistent Low-Level Viremia in Nairobi, Kenya: It Is Time to Review the >1000 Virologic Failure Threshold
(Hindawi, 2023-04-27)Persistent low-level viremia (PLLV) of 200-999 copies/ml has been reported as a risk factor for HIV virologic failure (VF). This retrospective study was aimed at characterizing patients with PLLV, determining factors ... -
Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics / Cybermetrics, Informetrics and Altmetrics - An Emerging Field in Library and Information Science Research
(Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2018)This Article discusses the features and the use of Metrics such as Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics, Informetrics and Altmetrics in the field of Library and Information Science Research at present -
Legislative Handbook on Principles of Equality and Non-Discrimination
(2018-11)August 2010 ushered in an unprecedented era of civil liberties backed by a robust Bill of Rights containing progressive provisions on economic, social and cultural rights. The transformative Constitution provided the ... -
Towards an effective Kenyan labour dispute resolution system: A comparison with the South African labour dispute resolution system and International Jurisprudence
(2018)There have been notable concerns in the current dual dispute resolution system in Kenya. The problems include protracted referral timeframes for dismissal disputes, non-regulation of maximum timeframes for the agreed ... -
Internship: A Bridge to Employment or a Trap to a Disguised Employment Relationship?
(2021)Internship can be and should be a vital part of the switch from edification to the workplace. This article however questions the extent to which internships are used to serve as a transition between education and employment. ... -
Setting the record straight in socio- economic rights adjudication: The Mitu-Bell Welfare Society Supreme Court of Kenya judgment
(Kabarak University, 2022)A leading criticism of the Mitu-Bell Welfare Society decision in the Supreme Court of Kenya is that it fell short of achieving the transformative effects expected similar to South Africa’s Irene Grootboom. One ... -
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 ... -
Resistance to Pythium root rot and anthracnose among Kenyan common bean genotypes and marker-assisted introgression of resistance genes
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-12)ABSTRACT Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important food legume crop and major protein source in Kenya and many parts of the world. However, the yields are low due to the diseases like anthracnose caused by ... -
Amplicon-based assessment of bacterial diversity and community structure in three tropical forest soils in Kenya
(Heliyon, 2022-11)Forest soils provide a multitude of habitats for diverse communities of bacteria. In this study, we selected three tropical forests in Kenya to determine the diversity and community structure of soil bacteria inhabiting ... -
Poly-drug use among female and male commercial sex workers visiting a drop in centre in Mombasa County, Kenya
(PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH, 2022-11-11)The relationship between commercial sex work and drug use is complex and the two exacerbate each other. In Kenya, Mombasa County has one of the highest populations of drug users and commercial sex workers. Despite ... -
Ranks and Subdegrees of External Direct Product of Cn Dr Acting on X Y
(UoEm, 2020)In this paper, transitivity, ranks and subdegrees of the action of ex- ternal direct product of Cyclic and Dihedral group on Cartesian Product of two sets are determined. The action is proved to be transitive. Also, it's ... -
Rank and Subdegrees of PGL(2; q) Acting Cosets of PGL(2; e) for q an Even Power of e
(UoEm, 2019)The action of projective general group on the cosets of its maximal subgroups has been studied. For instance, [9] studied the action of G on the cosets of PGL(2; e) when q is an odd prime power of e. In this paper, we ... -
Ranks, Subdegrees and Suborbital graphs of the product action of Affine Groups
(UoEm, 2020)The action of affine groups on Galois field has been studied. For instance, [3] studied the action of 𝐴𝑓𝑓 (𝑞 ) on Galois field 𝐺𝐹 (𝑞) for 𝑞 a power of prime 𝑝. In this paper, the rank and subdegree of the direct ... -
Application of Marks to Computation of Ranks and Subdegrees of the Symmetric Group Acting on Ordered 4-Element and 5- Element Subsets
(UoEm, 2015)Ranks and subdegrees can be computed using combinatorial arguments, the Cauchy-Frobenius lemma and use of the concept of marks. However the concept of Marks has been given very little attention. In this paper we will apply ...