School of Biological, Physical, Mathematics & Actuarial Sciences: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of Textile Substrates for Dispensing Synthetic Attractants for Malaria Mosquitoes
(BMC- Parasites & Vectors, 2014-08-16)The full-scale impact of odour-baited technology on the surveillance, sampling and control of vectors of infectious diseases is partly limited by the lack of methods for the efficient and sustainable dispensing of attractants. ... -
Field Evaluation of a Push-Pull System to Reduce Malaria Transmission
(Plos One, 2015-04-29)Malaria continues to place a disease burden on millions of people throughout the tropics, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Although efforts to control mosquito populations and reduce human-vector contact, such as long-lasting ... -
Understanding the Long-Lasting Attraction of Malaria Mosquitoes to Odor Baits
(Plos One, 2015-02-23)The use of odor baits for surveillance and control of malaria mosquitoes requires robust dispensing tools. In this study, the residual activity of a synthetic mosquito attractant blend dispensed from nylon or low density ... -
Innovative Tools and OpenHDS for Health and Demographic Surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
(BMC, 2015-09-01)Health in low and middle income countries is on one hand characterized by a high burden associated with preventable communicable diseases and on the other hand considered to be under-documented due to improper basic health ... -
Development and Optimization of the Suna Trap as A Tool for Mosquito Monitoring and Control.
(BMC- Malaria Journal, 2014-07-08)Monitoring of malaria vector populations provides information about disease transmission risk, as well as measures of the effectiveness of vector control. The Suna trap is introduced and evaluated with regard to its potential ... -
Spatially Variable Risk Factors for Malaria in a Geographically Heterogeneous Landscape, Western Kenya: An Explorative Study
(Malaria Journal, 2016-06-01)Large reductions in malaria transmission and mortality have been achieved over the last decade, and this has mainly been attributed to the scale-up of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets and indoor residual spraying with ... -
Enhancing Attraction of African Malaria Vectors to a Synthetic Odor Blend
(SpringerLink, 2016-06-27)The deployment of odor-baited tools for sampling and controlling malaria vectors is limited by a lack of potent synthetic mosquito attractants. A synthetic mixture of chemical compounds referred to as “the Mbita blend” ... -
The Effect of Mass Mosquito Trapping on Malaria Transmission and Disease Burden (Solarmal): A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomised Trial
(The Lancet, 2016-09)Odour baits can attract host-seeking Anopheles mosquitoes indoors and outdoors. We assessed the effects of mass deployment of odour-baited traps on malaria transmission and disease burden. We installed solar-powered ... -
2-Butanone as a Carbon Dioxide Mimic in Attractant Blends for the Afrotropical Malaria Mosquitoes Anopheles Gambiae and Anopheles Funestus
(Malaria Journal, 2017-08-25)Most odour baits designed to attract host-seeking mosquitoes contain carbon dioxide (CO2), which enhances trap catches, given its role as a mosquito flight activator. However, the use of CO2 is expensive and logistically ... -
Independent and Interactive Effect of Plant and Mammalian Based Odors on The Response of the Malaria Vector, Anopheles Gambiae.
(Science Direct, 2018-05-02)Several studies have shown that odors of plant and animal origin can be developed into lures for use in surveillance of mosquito vectors of infectious diseases. However, the effect of combining plant- and mammalian-derived ... -
Artisanal Fishing Supports Breeding of Malaria Mosquitoes in Western Kenya
(BMC, 2019)Background: Everyday hundreds of people, mainly men, set out to take part in a vibrant artisanal capture fshing (ACF) industry on Lake Victoria. It is not known whether actions of artisanal fshers, in their unrelenting ... -
Use of Semiochemicals for Surveillance and Control of Hematophagous Insects
(Chemoecology, 2020-06-23)Reliance on broad-spectrum insecticides and chemotherapeutic agents to control hematophagous insect vectors, and their related diseases is threatened by increasing insecticide and drug resistance, respectively. Thus, ... -
Using organic wastes as feed substrates for black soldier fly larvae
(Wegeningen Academic Publishers, 2021-08-25)Feeding black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) on locally available organic wastes has the potential of providing an alternative source of protein to fishmeal and soybean used in animal feed formulation. This can also mitigate ... -
Fixed Points Approximation for Non Expansive Operators in Hilbert Spaces
(Int. J. Open Problems Compt. Math, 2/2/2021)Approximations of fixed points have been done in different space and classes. However, characterizations in norm attainable classes remain interesting. This paper discusses approximation of nonexpansive operators in Hilbert ... -
Knockdown of Cytochrome P450 Genes Gh_D07G1197 and Gh_A13G2057 on Chromosomes D07 and A13 Reveals Their Putative Role in Enhancing Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Gossypium Hirsutum
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-03)We identified 672, 374, and 379 CYPs proteins encoded by the CYPs genes in Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium raimondii, and Gossypium arboreum, respectively. The genes were found to be distributed in all 26 chromosomes of the ... -
Reconstructing Global Earth Observation Based Vegetation Index Records with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Approach
(Academia, 2018)Long-term Earth observation based vegetation index records have been used extensively by researchers to assess vegetation response to global climate variability and change. However, the records exhibit multiple temporal ... -
Performance Evaluation Criteria of Credit Scoring Models for Commercial Lenders
(International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology, 2019-07)Credit scoring has been regarded as a main tool of different companies or banks during the last few decades and has been widely investigated in different areas, such as finance and accounting. Different scoring techniques ... -
Sum Construction of Automorphic Symmetric Balanced Incomplete Block Designs
(International Journal of Scientific Research in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, 2020-08)In this study Sum construction method of automorphic symmetric balanced incomplete block designs has been presented in details. Efficiency of a test design used in the Sum construction of automorphic symmetric balanced ... -
Relative Efficiency of Sum Constructed Automorphic Symmetric Balanced Incomplete Block Designs
(ResearchGate, 2020)Several construction methods have been introduced to build the elements of BIBDs’ for specific parameters, with different techniques suggested for testing their existence, still no general technique to determine the ... -
On the Effects of Motocycle Accidents and its Trends (A Case of Kenya)
(JKUAT press, 2016)This study analyzes recent data of accidents’ prevalence in Kenya and investigates whether there might be new trends in areas formerly not prone to accidents. Polynomials of order 6 are found best suited for accidents’ ...