Agriculture is one of the three most hazardous occupations in terms of safety and health due to the physical strain and repetitive movements associated with its tasks among others. It is however the mainstay of the Kenyan ...
Working in sawmills has been identified as one of the most dangerous occupations even in countries with high levels of compliance with occupational health and safety regulations. The main objective of the study was to ...
With the current climatic conditions, purple tea is considered favorable in terms of productivity, health, market and resistance to changing weather patterns (Pradip Baruah, 2013). Although, there are widespread adaptation ...
Banks play a significant role in a country’s economy by way of spurring growth. A sound financial system is full of largely banks with sufficient capital to withstand the most apparent adverse shocks. The purpose of the ...
As result of compounding factors related to environmental, social, economic and political pressures, it is feared that the impacts of climate change and variability may overwhelm resilience of urban systems in developing ...
Kenya is endowed with ample solar energy resources, with annual averages over 5 kWh/m2/day available throughout the country. Solar domestic water heating technology has become a common application in many countries and is ...
In Kilango-Matuu area, ground water potential zones cover a small area because the region receives low amounts of rainfall of about 800 millimeters (Approximately) annually. Hard rocks dominate the area that result to small ...
Research shows that information communication technology plays a critical role in growing the economy of a country. Studies have demonstrated that the rapid development of economies in countries like China, Brazil, India, ...
Gaze estimation and tracking systems largely depend on head-mounted cameras
which make them cumbersome to use, thus, they are restricted to laboratory set up. In
recent studies, researchers have attempted to estimate ...
Low Back Pain (LBP) is a problem of public health importance in developed countries as well as developing ones including Kenya. It is sub-categorized into neurogenic and somatic pain. Low back pain causes suffering, ...
Vegetable production is increasing in order to feed the growing urban populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Net houses are one possible solution to increase the quality and yield of cowpea, an important leafy vegetable, and ...
Probabilistic topic modelling provides computational methods for text analytics. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular Bayesian model that aids in discovering hidden thematic structure in large text datasets. ...
Food preservation has been practised for centuries by different communities around the world, manifesting in different ways and in different localities. Meat is a highly valued food among the Borana pastoralist community ...
Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) continues to spread and its effect on productivity remains high and yield losses of 50- 100 % have been reported in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is little knowledge about the level ...
The agricultural sector is the backbone of the Rwandan economy, contributing 33% of the GDP. It has recorded steady increases in the last decade. While Rwanda is classified as food secure at macro level, about half of the ...
The Crop Intensification Program (CIP) was initiated in September 2007 by the government of Rwanda to increase the agricultural productivity of high potential food crops, and to provide Rwanda with greater food security ...
Fathers play a very important role in infant feeding, however, most interventions on behavior change around infant feeding target mothers with little attention to the fathers. Many of the studies about engaging men in ...
There is a steady increase in the world population and therefore more pressure on available natural resources such as land and water. Animal rearing contributes to pollution through greenhouse gas emission causing climate ...
Antestia bug Antestiopsis thunbergii (Gmelin) is a key insect pest of Arabica coffee associated with high losses in terms of quality, yield and export market of produce from the African region. Although the pest prefer ...
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the important vegetables grown in Kenya. It is the second leading vegetable in terms of production and nutritional value after the potato. Tomatoes are mainly grown by small scale ...