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Knowledge and Practices on the Treatment of Asthma among Health Workers Working in Level 2 Health Facilities, Bomet County in Kenya
(JOOUST, 2022-02)Asthma is a non-communicable disease that affects millions of people globally. However, it is underdiagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in outcomes such as deaths. There is an effort by the Kenyan government to provide ... -
Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Covid-19 Preventive Measures among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Kisumu and Siaya Counties
(JOOUST, 2022)Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection can lead to an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among pregnant women. To curb the spread of COVID-19, World health organization (WHO) recommended a series of preventive measures. ... -
Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Covid-19 Preventive Measures among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Kisumu and Siaya Counties
(JOOUST, 2023-01)Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection can lead to an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among pregnant women. To curb the spread of COVID-19, World health organization (WHO) recommended a series of preventive measures. ... -
Knowledge Practice and Perception of Health Care Workers on Diagnosis of childhood Tuberculosis at Bureti Sub County.Kericho Kenya
(JOOUST, 2018)Childhood tuberculosis causes high mortality among children below fourteen years mainly in sub-Saharan Africa including Kenya. Challenges in diagnosis, and management are thought to largely contribute to this high morbidity ... -
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Children and Teachers Towards Prevention and Control of Tinea Capitis Infections in Seme Sub-County, Western Kenya
(JOOUST, 2022)Superficial fungal infections (Tinea capitis) are common among school going children and studies have shown that practices children are involved in promote the spread at school or home. However, the practices, knowledge ... -
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Nurses on Management of Nosocomial Infections at Vihiga County Referral Hospital Western Kenya
(JOOUST, 2019)Nosocomial infections (Nls) are reported to affect about 15% of hospitalized patients in regular wards and as many as 4%-56% of all death in neonates results from this infections. While episodes of Nls are recognized in ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Caregivers on Pneumonia Among Children Aged Below 5 Years in Migori County Referral Hospital, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2022)Globally, pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children under the age 5 years, with the burden highest in developing countries. Majority of caregivers perceive that exposure to cold weather or foods as the cause of ... -
Land Use Activities and their Effects on Soil erosion on the Slopes of Kajulu Hills, Kisumu County, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2020-02)Human activities have globally accelerated soil erosion between ten to forty times the natural occurrences. The hill slopes of Kajulu are not exceptional to such accelerated soil erosion. Since soils form at a very slow ... -
Laptop tracking and recovery system (LAPTRAC)
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Level of HIV/AIDS Awareness among Learners with Physical Disabilities in a Special Secondary School in Kisumu County, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2017-05)The value of information concerning reproductive health for learners with physical disabilities cannot be overemphasized. Globally there are 34 million people living with moderate to severe disabilities, 80% of whom live ... -
Lie Symmetry Analysis of Fourth Order Nonlinear Harmonic Differential Equation.
(2019)Lie group theory is a very practical and handy mathematical approach and it can be used to obtain solutions to diverse problems in applied mathematics. It's rich, very interesting and in broad sense a topic of ... -
Lie Symmetry Analysis of Third Order NonLinear Ordinary Differential Equation
(JOOUST, 2018)A few third order nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations can be solved explicitly and one must typically rely on numerical scheme to approximate the solution. However to overcome this problem Lie symmetry reduction of ... -
Lithospheric Extractions and Land Degradation in Nyakach Sub-County, Kisumu County, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2022)Invariably degrading land attributed to lithospheric exploitations is a major environmental problem causing significant loss of the potency of land in Nyakach Sub County. Lithospheric extractions continuously ... -
Management of Change Occassioned by Gender Balancing at the Ministry of Education Headquarters in Kenya.
(JOOUST, 2014)This study sought to establish how top educational management, based at the Ministry of Education Headquarters, was managing gender balancing process, and to use this as a lens to consider the gendered nature of the ... -
Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Exposure to Artemisinin Combination Therapy (Artemether Lumefantrine) at Early Pregnancy in Siaya County
(JOOUST, 2020)Pregnant women are vulnerable to malaria infection and the World Health Organization (WHO), therefore, recommends prompt and timely treatment of all malaria cases during pregnancy with an effective and safe anti-malarial ... -
Mathematical Model for Drug Therapy in Asthmatics
(JOOUST, 2016)Asthma is a chronic disease that involves inflammation of the airways. Pa¬tients with Asthma have a constriction of the airways in the lungs and con¬sequent difficulty in breathing out. This ailment can be alleviated by ... -
Mathematical model for nutriennts and wastes exchange across the placenta
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Mathematical Model for Nutrients and Wastes Exchange Across The Placenta.
(JOOUST, 2016)The use of differential equations is worldwide and arises quite often in biological and physical applications. Differential equations have been used to create mathematical models of real world systems in which rates of ...