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“We don’t want our clothes to smell smoke”: changing malaria control practices and opportunities for integrated community-based management in Baringo, Kenya
(Springer Nature, 2018-05-09)
Background: The decline in global malaria cases is attributed to intensified utilization of primary vector control interventions and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). These strategies are inadequate in many ...
Does age matter? Job satisfaction of public secondary school teachers.
(International Journal of Scientific Research, 2018-09)
Job satisfaction is a globally important factor in determining organizational climate and subsequent worker productivity. In Kenya, job dissatisfaction is a major concern as evidenced by teacher burnout and the strikes in ...
Strategies for enhancing teachers’ self-efficacy in secondary schools
(Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2018)
Aim: To determine strategies for enhancing self-efficacy among secondary school teachers. Sample: The study population was 1790 teachers in 143 public secondary schools from which a sample of 12 teachers was drawn using ...
Experience and perceptions on preterm births among women attending ANC Clinic at Kisumu County Hospital, Kenya
(Researchjournali’s Journal of Public Health, 2018-03)
Preterm birth is one of the main causes of neonatal death, and it is now the second leading cause of death after
pneumonia in children under the age of five. Kenya is estimated to have 12.3% preterm births and 22 ...
Distance Effects on Diversity and Abundance of the Flower Visitors of Ocimum kilimandscharicum in the Kakamega Forest Ecosystem
(Hindawi International Journal of Biodiversity, 2018-08-28)
Pollination is an important ecosystem service in the maintenance of biodiversity and most importantly in food production. Pollination is on the decline due to habitat loss, exotic species invasions, pollution, overharvesting, ...
Knowledge, practices and perception of health care workers on diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis: a case study of Bureti Sub County, Kericho, Kenya
(INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH, 2018)
Background: Despite the advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, effective diagnosis remains a challenge among children. Several countries have rolled out effective diagnostic methods but capacity of health care workers ...
Analgesics from Lonchocarpus eriocalyx Harms
(Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch Press,, 2018-12-13)
Four lupane-type terpenoids, namely lupeol (1), friedelin (2), stigmasterol (3), and stigmasterol-3-O-glucoside (4) were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of leaves of Lonchocarpus eriocalyx Harms. These ...
Characterization of inner derivations induced by norm-attainable operators
(International Journal of Modern Science and Technology, 2018)
In the present paper, results on characterization of inner derivations in Banach algebras are discussed.Some techniques are employed for derivations due to Mecheri, Hacene, Bounkhel and Anderson. Let H be an infinite ...