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Compliance with Physical Planning Standards by Residential Developments in Kisii Town, Kenya
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2018)
The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which residential developments in Kisii Town complied with Building Coverage Ratio (BCR) and Floor Area Ratio (FAR) physical planning standards. To attain this, ...
Spatio-Temporal Implications of Land Use Change in Kisii Town, Kenya
(American Journal of Geographic Information System, 2018)
Policy design for spatial planning interventions should be informed by a clear understanding of the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban land use change. As such, effective monitoring of urban land use change is imperative ...
The Mitochondrial Genome of an Endangered Native Singidia Tilapia, Oreochromis Esculentus: Genome Organization and Control Region Polymorphism
(Informa Health Care., 2015-10-13)
Singidia tilapia (Oreochromis esculentus) is a native Cichlid fish of important commercial value, distributed in Lake Victoria, East Africa. Due to its declining population levels in its natural habitat, this species has ...
Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequences of Saccostrea Mordax and Saccostrea Cucullata: Genome Organization and Phylogeny Analysis
(Informa Health Care, 2015-07-30)
Classified in the phylum mollusks, oysters are bivalves which are found in estuaries and coastalzones. Because of their plastic shell, mitochondrial DNA analysis of this species becomes an interesting field, necessary to ...
Spatial Equity In Devolved Healthcare: Is It Quality Or Quantity Causing Spatial Clustering In Maternal Health Utilization When Affordability Has Been Addressed?
(American Journal of Geographic Information System, 2018)
Devolved healthcare in Kenya, from onset, apparently concentrated on increasing, expanding, upgrading and refurbishment of health facilities as well as improving staff base among other interventions in a bid to decentralize ...
Impacts of Military Training on The Distribution and Abundance of Small Versus Large Wildlife Herbivores on Mpala Ranch, Laikipia, Kenya
(African Journal of Ecology, 2015)
Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began, Kenya’s training grounds have become increasingly relevant to the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK). This has seen ranches hosting the army in Laikipia increase to ...
Effects of artisanal small-scale gold mining on fisheries management of Lake Victoria, Kenya
(2016-01)
Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) has direct and indirect impacts on fisheries management. These impacts are mainly about the quality of the water where fish lives, ownership of the surrounding waters, land and human ...
A comparative study of Labeo victorianus (Bouelenger, 1901) and Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) grown in polyculture systems
(2018)
A polyculture experiment with African carp (Labeo victorianus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was conducted for 24 weeks in 12 earthen ponds measuring 150 m² to assess their compatibility. Monoculture treatments ...