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PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS FOUND IN KAPTUMO DIVISION IN NANDI COUNTY, KENYA
(WORLD JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, 2016-03-02)Medicinal plants are widely used by the traditional healers to prevent or treat various human diseases since time immemorial due to the chemical substances found in them. The phytochemical constituents of most of these ... -
Phytochemical Screening and Antimicrobial Activity of Kenyan Mushroom Ganoderma lucidum
(Asian Journal of Chemical Sciences, 2019-07-20)Aim: To screen the Kenyan Ganoderma lucidum for phytochemicals and to investigate it's potential in the management of some disease-causing microbes. Study Design: Hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol extraction; phytochemical ... -
Phytochemical screening, total phenolic content, total flavonoid content and GC-MS evaluation of crude acetonic extracts of Prosopis juliflora
(CRC Press, 2022-04-06)Water pollution due to organic contaminants has been a serious issue in developing countries because of the acute toxicities and carcinogenic nature of these pollutants. Among various water treatment methods, adsorption ... -
Phytochemical screening, total phenolic content, total flavonoid content and GC-MS evaluation of crude acetonic extracts of Prosopis juliflora
(Advances in Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy Research for Industrial Growth, 2022)Commonly referred to as the Mathenge plant in Kenya, the plant Prosopis juliflora has been considered as a noxious weed within the boundaries of Kenya occupying ASAL lands, colonizing water bodies and affecting livestock ... -
Phytochemical, Cytotoxicity, and Antimycobacterial Activity Evaluation of Extracts and Compounds from the Stem Bark of Albizia coriaria Welw ex. Oliver
(Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2022-01-22)ackground. Albizia coriaria Welw ex. Oliver (Fabaceae) is one of the plants used by herbalists in the East Africa community to prepare herbal remedies for the management of symptoms of TB. Despite its widespread use, the ... -
PITFALLS BEDEVILING ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS IN KENYAN UNIVERSITIES
(International Journal of Social Sciences and Information Technology, 2023-01-01): In higher education institutions such as universities, educational records are important assets and must be managed appropriately. The purpose of this study was to understand the pitfalls bedeviling the administration ... -
Plant Stress Detection Accuracy Using Deep Convolution Neural Networks
(International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer, 2019-08)Plant Stress detection is a vital farming activity for enhanced productivity of crops and food security. Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) focuses on the complex relationships on input and output layers of neural networks ... -
Poetic meaning implied in suprasegmental features in selected segments of the song “Gongo la Mboto” by Diamond Platnumz and Mrisho Mpoto.
(African Musicology Online, 2020-02)This paper employs Deconstruction and Relevance theories to read literary meanings in the song “Gongo la Mboto” by Diamond Platnumz and Mrisho Mpoto. The paper focuses on suprasegmental features that mark the artistes ’ ... -
Policy and financing interventions supporting community managed drought resilience strategies: A case of Marsabit County, Kenya
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-10-25)Drought risk management is the function of the national government complemented by the developed systems of governance in Kenya. However, this function is clearly delineated only for institutions and misses the mark in ... -
Politeness strategies used in Lwisukha in local public administrative meetings
(InternationalJournal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 2020-09-17)The use of politeness strategies among Abiisukha is propelled by the cultural need to maintain close ties and relationship. When the relationship is not maintained, there will definitely be a ... -
POLITICAL COMPETITION INFLUENCING ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA
(2017-11)Ethnic conflict is one of the major threats to international peace and security. Conflicts in the Balkans, Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Darfur, Israel and Gaza are among the best-known and deadliest ... -
POLITICAL MOBILISATION MUSIC INFLUENCING NATIONAL COHESION DISCOURSE IN KENYA, WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO NAIROBI COUNTY
(MMUST, 2019-11)Music and society have always been intimately related. Music reflects and creates social conditions including the factors that either facilitate or embed social change. Political mobilization music influences the levels ... -
Polymorphisms in the Fc Gamma Receptor IIIA and Toll-Like Receptor 9 Are Associated with Protection against Severe Malarial Anemia and Changes in Circulating Gamma Interferon Levels
(ASM Journals, 2012-11-12)An understanding of the immunogenetic basis of naturally acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum infection would aid in the designing of a rationally based malaria vaccine. Variants within the Fc gamma receptors (FcγRs) ... -
Popular culture and false consciousness
(Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literatures, 2021-04-15)This paper examines the concern by the early African critics that popular Culture was an example of false consciousness. In essence, it explores the popular cultural productivity which until recently is still assigned a ... -
Positionality, Access to the Social Space and Place of Research: Narratives from Research in Low Middle Income Settings
(People, Place and Policy, 2020-12)Research on positionality and accessing field work for researchers studying their own communities in Lower Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is scant. The majority of the literature on this topic emanates from High-Income ... -
Post COVID-19 Analysis of the Status of online Infrastructure use by Public Universities in Kenya: The Case of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-07-29)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about a lot of interference in learning institutions. Universities were not spared by this pandemic, and this brought about a need to reconsider modes of learning which had all along been ... -
Post COVID-19 Analysis of the Status of online Infrastructure use by Public Universities in Kenya: The Case of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-07-29)The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a lot of interference in learning institutions. Universities were not spared by this pandemic, and this brought about a need to reconsider modes of learning which had all ... -
Post COVID-19 Analysis of the Status of online Infrastructure use by Public Universities in Kenya: The Case of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-07-29)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about a lot of interference in learning institutions. Universities were not spared by this pandemic, and this brought about a need to reconsider modes of learning which had all along been ... -
POTENTIAL OF BIOAUGMENTATION FOR REMEDIATION OF POLLUTED ENVIRONMENTS
(2015-10-30)After repeated applications and long use of persistent pesticides in soils, a phenomenon known as enhanced (accelerated) degradation of some pesticides has been observed in soils. This has led to isolation of key microbes ... -
The Potential of DNA Barcode-Based Delineation Using Seven Putative Candidate Loci of the Plastid Region in Inferring Molecular Diversity of Cowpea at Sub-Species Level.
(American Journal of Molecular Biology, 2016-10)The novelty and suitability of the mitochondrial gene CO1 in DNA barcoding as a reliable identification tool in animal species are undisputed. This is attributed to its standardized sequencing segment of the mitochondrial ...