Birthing positions in the second stage of labour have been researched widely in the last three decades. Upright positions in this paper refer to positions attained while the spine is vertical (Sutton 2000) and other ...
Despite evidence that supports the utilisation of upright positions in the second stage of labour, women who choose to give birth in a hospital are more likely to give birth supine on a bed. Little evidence about this ...
As total life expectancy increases, the prevalence of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s is also increasing. Many hypotheses about Alzheimer’s disease have been developed, including cholinergic neuron damage. ...
Several natural products especially secondary metabolites have formed the basis of medicines, although it’s been often difficult to justify the presence of these compounds in the biochemistry of plant; this as posited by ...
Like many Sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya often encounters incidents of food insecurity particularly in the arid and semi-arid lands like Kitui and Machakos counties. In response to this scenario, the government of ...
The concept of essential numerical range of an operator was dened and studied by Stamp i and Williams in 1972. Researchers generalised this idea of essential numerical range to a group of operators to the joint essential ...
Neutron pairing energies of some of the finite nuclei have been calculated to understand how the neutron pairing changes as the neutron and proton numbers change from odd to even values in isotopes. How its value changes ...
Electrical transport properties of superconducting materials are a widely studied area in superconductivity. In this study, the role of holes in determination of resistivity, Hall coefficient and Hall angle has been explored ...
Makueni County is located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region characterized
by unreliable rainfall and limited surface water resources. This necessitates a high reliance on
groundwater for domestic and agricultural ...
There are debates whether Khat is a contributor to divorce and family break ups and social disorder like crimes and theft. This is corroborated by constant media highlights. For example, Mungai (1983) Khat consumption ...
Mueni, Kaindi R.; Kimiti, Richard P.; Kasivu, Gideon M.(2019-11-30)
The success of the curriculum implementation process is influenced by three major factors; teachers’ competence, students’ characteristics and quality of the curriculum support materials. The study examined the influence ...
Mueke, Stephen M.; Cheloti, Selpher K.; Maithya, Redempta(2020-01)
Curriculum flexibility is one of the important ingredients of curriculum development. This aspect
allows students to make choices as to the subjects that they have to undertake after being
exposed to the content of most ...
Ukulo, David K.; Mwania, Jonathan M.; Mwanza, Rose(2019)
This study was designed to investigate whether child-headed families have influence on pre-school learners’ class participation. The study was carried out in Mwingi zone of Kitui County Kenya. The zone had a total of 67 ...
The study was assessing the effect of financial literacy on personal investment decisions among secondary teachers in Machakos Sub County. It explored on the reasons as to why teachers in Machakos Sub County fail to invest ...
With the current advancement in technology, the use of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has become popular in the healthcare management. They provide a mechanism to collect and transmit physiological data to healthcare ...
Studies have confirmed that heritable phenotypic variation in plants does not necessarily need to be based on the DNA
sequence. Epigenetic studies have shown that the genomic DNA sequence might remain the same while gene ...
Cowpea (Vignaunguiculata L. Walp.) is a drought resistant, multipurpose legume commonly used for food, fodder and soil fertility improvement. Cowpea and commonly cultivated multipurpose shrubs (Calliandracalothyrsus and ...
Nyongesa, Aston M.; Zeng, Gang; Ongoma, Victor(Springer Vienna, 2019-12)
Non-homogeneous hidden Markov model (NHMM) is applied in modeling of daily rainfall occurrences across 16 synoptic stations in Kenya. The time series of the data sets was during the October–December (OND “short rains”) ...
Introduction:
Changes in climate have impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Most countries, including the UAE, are expected to experience a huge impact of climate change, due to the ...
Vulnerability to climate change impact is the most pressing issues for less developed countries whose economy mainly depends on the agricultural sector. The demand for food is growing swiftly whereas impacts of climate ...