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Ebola Virus Disease, Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Where is the Consensus in Over Three Decades of Clinical Research?
(Scientific African, 2021-09-13)
Ebola virus is a neglected tropical disease widely accepted as one of the most fatal diseases of human and nonhuman primates ever encountered in recent years. For a long time, development of vaccines and anti-Ebola drugs ...
Challenges in implementing peace clubs in public Secondary Schools within Kisumu County, Kenya
(Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020-11)
Background: The execution of Peace Clubs in schools has come up with new components of optimistic
connections amongst students through the stages for the act of another culture of non-violence, peacefulness and
discourse. ...
Ethanol Conversion to Butanol over Small Coinage Metal Clusters: An Experimental and Computational Study
(Journal of Cluster Science, 2022-08-26)
We illustrate the mechanism for the C–O, C–H and O–H bond activation in the coupling of ethanol to butanol over small coinage clusters (copper, silver and gold). It is found that charge transfer interactions between the ...
Social and Economic Influence of Abanyala Clan Politics on Resource Distribution
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-11-15)
Like many other communities, the Abanyala clan struggles with the intricacies of resource distribution, which is greatly influenced by the political environment and sociocultural dynamics. Essentially, who has access to ...
Long-term spatial-temporal trends and variability of rainfall over Eastern and Southern Africa.
(Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2018-11-20)
This study investigates the spatial-temporal trends and variability of rainfall within East and South Africa (ESA) region. The newly available Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS-v2) gridded ...
Complement component 3 mutations alter the longitudinal risk of pediatric malaria and severe malarial anemia
(Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2021-11-19)
Severe malarial anemia (SMA) is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission regions. To gain enhanced understanding of predisposing factors for SMA, we explored ...
Prevalence and diversity of Plasmodium species in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in selected health centers of Kakamega County, Western Kenya
(Scientific African, 2022-10-11)
Malaria remains a major public health concern around the world with tropical and sub-tropical regions bearing the greatest brunt despite up-scaling of control strategies. Despite the provisioning of insecticidal nets to ...
Rhizobia Contribute to Salinity Tolerance in Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
(Cell, 2022-11-16)
Rhizobia are soil bacteria that induce nodule formation on leguminous plants. In the nodules, they reduce dinitrogen to ammonium that can be utilized by plants. Besides nitrogen fixation, rhizobia have other symbiotic ...