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Regionalization of the Upper Tana Basin of Kenya Using Stream Flow Records
(Department of Civil Engineering, JKUAT, 2007)In this study, the upper Tana basin of Kenya was delineated into homogenous hydrological zones based on monthly stream flow records from several river gauge stations in the basin using the empirical orthogonal function ... -
De bijdrage van visvijvers aan de nutriënthuishouding op gemengde kleinschalige landbouwbedrijven
(2007)Vijvers kunnen een aanzienlijke bijdrage leveren aan de nutriëntenkringloop op gemenge landbouwbedrijven. Het integreren van water- en landgebonden productie in gemengde bedrijven kan leiden tot een verhoogde efficiëntie ... -
Watershed Improvement Review Board Calendar Year 2006 Annual Report, January 31, 2007
(2007)The Iowa Watershed Improvement Review Board (WIRB) was created by the Iowa Legislature and signed into law by the Governor in 2005 as Senate File 200. This statute is now codified in Iowa Code Chapter 466A. The fifteen-member ... -
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health and the Need for Health Education in Kenya
(Joypet Sevices & Printers Ltd, 2007)Human health is dependent on a good and clean environment and many of the factors that lead to a deteriorated environment also lead to poor health. Pollution of the atmosphere, lack of sufficient and! or polluted water ... -
An investigation into the practices, procedures, and challenges of knowledge management in government-owned organizations in Kenya
(University of Cape Town, 2007)Knowledge management has been burgeoning in importance during the last one and half decades. Both profi;t making and non-profit making organizations have had to and continue to embrace and practice knowledge management. ... -
Facing the challenges of e-learning initiatives in African universities
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)This paper explores the possibility of bringing e-learning to African universities through collaborative networks of public–private partnerships. It is envisaged that this approach will solve the dual problem of ... -
Glossina pallidipes and host interactions: implications of host preference on transmission risk of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Kenya
(2007)Host preference by tsetse flies, tsetse-host interaction and host diversity and abundance were evaluated in relation to transmission risk of rhodesian sleeping sickness in two tsetse subpopulations in Kenya. Bovidae provided ... -
Indigenous Construction Technologies in Flood-Prone Areas of Western Kenya
(2007)Shelter and sanitation are essential for the well-being and development of most societies. The approach and technology for the provision of shelter and sanitation varies with the social, economic and environmental ... -
Acquired Brain Injury
(Springer, 2007)Crimmins (2000) marveled at the greatness of the “three pound-blob” that is our brain and control system.As seasoned clinicians in the field of neuro-rehabilitation, we still marvel each day at the resilience of the brain ... -
Handbook of Disaster Research
(Springer, 2007)Disasters create difficulties, even for those who study disasters. Much of that difficulty stems from the necessity to deal with concepts, which have popular meanings, and some of those meanings evoke moral and emotional ... -
The Joy of Science
(Springer, 2007)Scientists have great passion. What could be more exhilarating than to go to work every day feeling as if you were once again a nine-year-old called up to he stage to help the magician with his trick? To be a researcher ... -
Advanced Organic Chemistry
(Springer, 2007)This Fifth Edition marks the beginning of the fourth decade that Advanced Organic Chemistry has been available. As with the previous editions, the goal of this text is to allow students to build on the foundation of ... -
Ceramic Materials Science and Engineering
(Springer, 2007)In today’s materials science curriculum, there is often only time for one course on ceramic materials. Students will usually take courses on mechanical properties, thermodynamics and kinetics, and the structure of ... -
Child Neuropsychology
(Springer, 2007)The human brain represents the product of an ongoing, six-billion-year construction project. In its physical form and function, the human brain represents millions upon millions of trial-and-error adaptive adjustments. ... -
Advanced Organic Chemistry
(Springer, 2007)The methods of organic synthesis have continued to advance rapidly and we have made an effort to reflect those advances in this Fifth Edition. Among the broad areas that have seen major developments are enantioselective ... -
The Effects of HIV/AIDS on Human Resource Operations in the Hospitality Industry. "A Case Study of the Coastal Region of Kenya
(2007-07)There are about 39.5 million people globally living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence with just over 24 million people who are HIV positive. Kenya has approximately ... -
Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases
(Springer, 2008)Students, residents, and fellows interested in learning about the rheumatic diseases are faced with the daunting challenge of trying to integrate learning about a multitude of fascinating and diverse clinical disorders ...