Academic Articles & Research Papers

Systematic literature review and narrative synthesis of the effectiveness of health insurance in improving access to healthcare and providing financial protection in Nigeria.

Personality Traits as Markers of Psychosis Risk in Kenya: Assessment of Temperament and Character.

Strengthening post-market COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance and research: An interpretive description study from Kenya, South Africa, and Canada.

Quantifying and mapping land use changes and regulating ecosystem service potentials in a data-scarce peri-urban region in Kenya

Recent scientific developments are advancing to link land use and land cover (LULC) change with ecosystem service (ES) potentials. Such links within peri-urban ecosystems are scanty due to methodological and expertise challenge, and data li...

The Kenyan indigenous languages and the mass media: challenges and opportunities

While it is officially recognized that Kenya is a multilingual state, necessary mechanisms for the effective management of this diversity have not been effected. With English and Kiswahili occupying the "official language" positions, the ot...

Policy advisory committees in Kenya: interest group participation and effectiveness

Governments create advisory committees and arm’s-length agencies and then delegate responsibilities and powers, sometimes merely to provide policy advice but sometimes to implement regulation. Interest groups, and especially groups represen...

Moderating Influence of Stakeholder Knowledge on the Relationship between Social Reporting and Sustainability Accounting in the Tea Sector in Mount Kenya Region

In accounting, financial reporting dominantly focus on profits. There is growing pressure on social sensitivity of accounting. Sustainable Development Goals advocate for concern to the environment. Some researchers have endeavored to demons...

Knowledge Sharing Strategies between Coffee Farmers and Coffee Research Institute

Knowledge sharing involves the exchange of knowledge in the form of expertise or skills among groups, friends, families, communities or organisations. This paper assesses the knowledge sharing strategies used by members of Gitwe Farmers’ Co...

Complex Ways in Which Landscape Conditions and Risks Affect Human Attitudes Towards Wildlife

Negative interactions between humans and wildlife (i.e. those presenting risks to human security or private property) can trigger retaliation and potential human-wildlife conflict (HWC). The nature and strength of these human responses may ...

Robustness analysis of a Continuous-Time Markov Jump Process model for herd behaviour under stochastic shocks

Herd behaviour in socio-economic systems is characterised by asynchronous, stochastic decision-making that traditional models capture imperfectly. Discrete-time DTMCs impose fixed-tick synchrony and require binning, which distorts event tim...

Ozonation, electrochemical, and biological methods for the remediation of malachite green dye wastewaters: A mini review

The extensive usage of malachite green (MG) dyes in the fish and dye industries cause serious water pollution, leading to catastrophic effects on living organisms and the environment. In addressing the challenges of health risks related to ...

Ecological, Biological and Control Studies on the Leaf Coating and Webbing Mite Cisaberoptus kenyae Keifer (Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) in Egypt

The leaf coating and webbing mite Cisaberoptus kenyae Keifer was observed for two years in an abandoned mangoorchard in Egypt. The eriophyid mite was fed upon by the two predatory phytoseiid mites Typhlodromips swirskii(Athias-Henriot) and ...

Influence of convectively coupled equatorial Kelvin waves on March-May precipitation over East Africa

Convectively coupled equatorial Kelvin waves (CCEKWs) are those types of equatorially trapped disturbances that propagate eastward and are among the most common intra-seasonal oscillations in the tropics. There exists two-way feedback betwe...

Reference vegetation for restoration? Three vegetation maps compared across 76 nature reserves in Uganda and Kenya

Abstract Forest and landscape restoration are increasingly popular nature‐based solutions to mitigate climate change and safeguard biodiversity. Restoration planning and monitoring implies that a reference ecosystem has been defined to whic...

Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Moringa oleifera on HIV Viral Load in Adults Receiving Standard Care

Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectively suppresses HIV viral load. However, people living with HIV (PLWH) fail to achieve optimal viral suppression and especially in resource limited settings. Nutritional supplements such as Mo...

Unveiling Insights into the Whole Genome Sequencing of <i>Mycobacterium</i> spp. Isolated from Siamese Fighting Fish (<i>Betta splendens</i>)

This study aims to genomically elucidate six isolates of rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (RGM) derived from Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). These isolates had previously undergone phenotypic and biochemical characteriz...

A Comparative Performance Analysis of Non-Life Insurance in Tanzania and Kenya

This study compares the performance of non-life insurance in Tanzania and Kenya. Specifically, the study compares the Technical and Scale Efficiency (TSE) of non-life insurance in the two countries. It further explores the sources of techni...

Edible insect biodiversity and anthropo-entomophagy practices in Kalehe and Idjwi territories, D.R. Congo

Abstract Background Located in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (South-Kivu), Kalehe and Idjwi are two relatively unexplored territories with little to no research on edible insects even though anthropo-entomophagy practice is wides...

Divergent biological consequences of APOE isoforms across industrialized and non-industrial environments.

The apolipoprotein ε4 (APOE ε4) isoform directly alters cholesterol and immune biology and is associated with an increased risk of neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease in industrialized settings; nevertheless, APOE ε4-which is ance...

Medical Informatics in Medical Research

OBJECTIVES: Computers are widely used for data management in clinical trials in the developed countries, unlike in developing countries. Dependable systems are vital for data management, and medical decision making in clinical research. Mon...