The scoria evaporative cooler designed for this project applies the principle of evaporative cooling to reduce the temperature while at the same time increasing relative humidity inside the storage chamber. The modern ...

Memory, a key component of the human brain, entails the cognitive ability to encode, store, and retrieve information, that is fundamental for survival. Memory is stored in different circuitry structurers in the brain. ...

The world is faced by myriad challenges like climate change and ever-increasing population making the achievement of global food security a challenge. Although highly perishable, tomatoes are popular food commodity. ...

Dairy cattle production contributes approximately 6-8% of Kenya’s gross domestic product, creates jobs along the value chain, and plays a key role in food security. However, most of the data used in this industry are ...

In view of the dearth of definitive therapeutic measures for sickle cell disease (SCD) and its associated crises, the resulting financial burden on parents and caregivers, coupled with psychological distress, social ...

People with family history of diabetes are expected to have regular diabetes testing owing to their higher risk of the disease. Regular testing is associated with early diagnosis of diabetes and has a potential of ...

Meat is an excellent source of protein and due to its nutritive nature, it provides a good medium for the growth and reproduction of microorganisms, but it is often implicated in foodborne diseases. Meat can be contaminated ...

Worldwide, the increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a public health concern. Food-borne associated antibiotic-resistant pathogens can contami nate raw meat during slaughter, transportation, and at sale points. ...

Purpose: The study sought to establish the influence of divestment strategy on the performance of manufacturing firms in Kenya. This comes at a time when manufacturing firms in Kenya have been experiencing declining ...

Background Multiplicity of infection (MOI) is an important measure of Plasmodium falciparum diversity, usually derived from the highly polymorphic genes, such as msp1, msp2 and glurp as well as microsatellites. Conventional ...