Students in secondary schools need guidance to make infonned career choices which will contribute to skilled manpower needs of the country. They need career guidance services trom teachers, and more importantly from ...
Poor nutrition is one of the biggest problems in raising camel calves in Kenya. A study was conducted in Marsabit County among rendille camel keeping community with a view to improve camel calf performance through improved ...
Globally, universities are under pressure to produce competent professionals. Experiential Learning (EL) approach has demonstrated the potential to contribute to development of such capabilities. However, EL does not ...
Wheat cultivars in Kenya have been classified using traditional methods, which are based on their dough and morphological characteristics. The methods have numerous drawbacks and among others they lack repeatability and ...
The aim of this work was to study the audio spectrum of a female mosquito in flight and determine its transmission parameters such as, the amplitude, carrier frequency ( L ), modulating frequency ( fm ), modulating index ...
The rapid growth in the use of herbal medicine, coupled with environmental degradation and anthropogenic activities in natural plant habitats pose a threat to the biodiversity to the extent that it is no longer possible ...
Declining soil fertility is the fundamental biophysical cause of food insecurity and poverty in western Kenya. Integrated soil nutrient management (ISNM) has been promoted as an appropriate strategy for improving soil ...
Although the Anopheles gambiae sensu lato mosquito is discriminative in its larval iabitat selection, much of the factors mediating its oviposition behaviour remain unknown. However, there is good reason to believe that ...
Kenya, like many developing countries, has witnessed budgetary constraints forcing the government to institute various cost recovery measures. These have included provision of student loans to university students rather ...
Kibiego, Michael Bett(Egerton University, 2016-11)
In Uasin Gishu County the rapidly declining household land sizes are a pre- requisite to increased intensification in dairy production from free grazing, to semi-zero grazing and zero grazing. Although the three dairy ...
Nitrates and nitrites are chemical compounds commonly used in making cured meat products like bacon and hot dogs. Nitrates and nitrites are used to control the growth of C Iostridium botulinum spores; provide cured meat ...
Recent research has seen the emergence of some algebraic structures through blending of ;;'<~_"p theory. combinatorics and graph theory. The structure (G, X) is a transitive group G zctxrg on a set X. The concepts of ...
Education and training are important for economic growth as they increase labour productivity through skills, knowledge, values and attitudes they impart. Vision 2030 aims at making Kenya a newly industrialized middle ...
High acid milk contains coagulated milk proteins, which can be used to stabilize and improve the texture of other milk products. The purpose of the research was to develop and promote fermented milk production technology ...
Ayabagabo, Jean Dedien(Egerton University, 2022-04)
In Rwanda, dairy farmers are still using low quantity forage and mainly Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum), resulting in reduced milk production and increased enteric methane emission per unit of product. Improving ...
The Red pod terminalia (Terminalia brownii Fresen (1837)) is an important multipurpose tree species growing in Arid and Semi-arid lands (ASALs) of Eastern Africa. Despite its wide utility in construction, wood carving, and ...
Despite the fact that the overall benefits of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first half of infancy have well been established, especially for mother-infant pairs in low social economic status, the rates are low in ...
Wainaina, Patrick Mbuthia(Egerton University, 2022-06)
The solar energy needed to drive solar-driven milk refrigeration systems is only abundant in the mid hours. It is completely unavailable in the early and late hours of the day. The mismatch between solar energy availability ...
Quality of institutional management is arguably a major determinant of organizational performance. The role of managers and the activities and tasks they perform as aided by the organizational structure could lead to the ...
Consumer interest in convenience foods is expected to continue growing world-wide due to the ever-busy lifestyle and urbanization. The challenge has been the nutritional shortcomings linked with convenience foods such ...