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Prehospital Airway Management for Trauma Patients by First Responders in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries and Five Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(World Journal of Surgery, 2022-02-25)The global injury burden disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is exacerbated by a lack of robust emergency medical services. Though airway management (AM) is an essential component of ... -
Pragmatic restaurant tipping in star-rated hotels in Kenya
(Tailor and Francis online, 2021-12-10)Tipping can be traced to Tudor England in the sixteenth century. This act transformed into a custom, spreading to many countries. However, tipping is observed differently from one country to the other and thus is not ... -
Resistance of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato to Pirimiphos-methyl Insecticide in Kakamega County, Highlands of Western Kenya
(African Health Sciences, 2022-04-29)Background: Insecticide treated bed nets and Indoor residual spraying remains the principal interventional malaria control strategies. To achieve malaria disease eradication, vector control programmes that monitor insecticide ... -
Red cell distribution width as a surrogate marker of haemoglobinopathies in western Kenya
(African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022-04-29)distribution width (RDW) measures anisopoikiloytosis and is readily reported by haematology analysers as a complete blood count parameter. The utility of RDW as a diagnostic marker of haemoglobinopathies in Kenya remains ... -
The Beauty of Mathematics: Learning Mathematics by Questioning
(Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies, 2021-12-19)Mathematics problems may seem to have no real use in life, but this could be further from the truth. The use of mathematics is everywhere in our daily lives and, without discovering it; we apply mathematics ideas, as well ... -
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Corruption of Morals amongst Adolescents with Control Measures in Kenya
(Hindawi, 2021-04-21)In the present paper, we formulate a new mathematical model for the dynamics of moral corruption with comprehensive age-appropriate sexual information and provision of guidance and counselling. The population is subdivided ... -
Stability Analysis in a Mathematical Model of Corruption in Kenya
(Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, 2019-12-28)The term corruption refers to the process that involves the abuse of a public trust or office for some private benet. Corruption becomes a threat to national development and growth especially when there is no political ... -
Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Mathematics Anxiety Behavior on Mathematics Performance in Kenya
(Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2020-06-20)We propose a deterministic model that describes the dynamics of students who have the capabilityWe propose a deterministic model that describes the dynamics of students who have the capabilityto perform well in mathematics ... -
An Analysis of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Communities in Lake Victoria, Kenya on Microcystin Toxicity
(Open Journal of Ecology, 2022-03-03)Exposure to microcystin poses a potential health hazard to humans and other living organisms. This results from eutrophication and warrants an investigation into the problem of microcystin toxicity in Lake Victoria. This ... -
A new gnidiflavanone-flavonol dimer and other constituents from Gnidia apiculata
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-04-08)A new 3,8′′-flavanone-flavonol dimer gnidiflavanone-flavonol (1) and 10 known compounds (2–11), including four rare primula-type flavones 2–5, were isolated from the roots of Gnidia apiculata. Compounds 2–5 and 7 were ... -
A new gnidiflavanone-flavonol dimer and other constituents from Gnidia apiculata
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-04-08)A new 3,8′′-flavanone-flavonol dimer gnidiflavanone-flavonol (1) and 10 known compounds (2–11), including four rare primula-type flavones 2–5, were isolated from the roots of Gnidia apiculata. Compounds 2–5 and 7 were ... -
SARS-CoV-2 origin, myths and diagnostic technology developments
(Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 2022-03-04)Background After the first case of COVID-19 being announced in China in December 2019, various diagnostic technologies have been developed at unprecedented pace with the aim of providing a basis for accurate clinical ... -
Impact of Malaria Diagnostic Technologies on the Disease Burden in the Sub-Saharan Africa
(Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2022-03-22)Worldwide, transmission of emerging and reemerging malaria infections poses a significant threat to human health in the Sub-Saharan Africa, one that can quickly overwhelm public health resources. While the disease burden ... -
Nurturing Ubuntu, the African Form of Human Flourishing Through Inclusive Home Based Early Childhood Education
(Frontier in Education, 2022-02-17)Human flourishing has recently gained more attention in the world as a prerequisite safety net for better human resilience in uncertain times. While most Western authors believe that human flourishing is an individual ... -
On the predictors of pro-environmental behaviors: integrating personal values and the 2-MEV among secondary school students in Tanzania
(Heliyon, 2022-05-03)The role of personal values in understanding pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors has received considerable attention from psychological researchers. However, little is known about the mutual interaction of personal ... -
SARS-CoV-2 origin, myths and diagnostic technology developments
(Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 2022-03-04)Background After the first case of COVID-19 being announced in China in December 2019, various diagnostic technologies have been developed at unprecedented pace with the aim of providing a basis for accurate clinical ... -
Effects of organic carbon content on in situ remediation time using steam–air injection
(Journal of Water Supply, 2021-12-30)Groundwater contamination by chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHC) is a common phenomenon that poses health risks to both humans and animals. These halogenated hydrocarbons infiltrate into the soil matrices and form pools at the ... -
Soil Sterilization Eliminates Beneficial Microbes That Provide Natural Pest Suppression Ecosystem Services Against Radopholus similis and Fusarium Oxysporum V5w2 in the Endosphere and Rhizosphere of Tissue Culture Banana Plants
(Sustainable Food Systems, 2022-03-01)Endosphere and rhizosphere microbes offer plant growth promotion and pest suppression ecosystem services in banana-based agroecosystems. Interest has been growing towards the use of such beneficial microbes in protecting ... -
Soil Microbes Determine Outcomes of Pathogenic Interactions Between Radopholus similis and Fusarium oxysporum V5w2 in Tissue Culture Banana Rhizospheres Starved of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium
(Sustainable Food Systems, 2022-03-01)The contributions of soil biota toward outcomes of pathogenic interactions between Radopholus similis and Fusarium oxysporum V5w2 in tissue culture banana plants starved of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) ... -
Bed net use and malaria treatment-seeking behavior in artisanal gold mining and sugarcane growing areas of Western Kenya highlands
(Scientific African, 2022-03-03)Provision of the bed net in Sub-Saharan Africa has substantially resulted in the decrease in malaria incidences in the region. However, malaria still ravages these regions causing significant deaths. This situation has ...
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