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Analysis of Volatility of Real Exchange Rate and Exports in Kenya using the Garch Model: 2005:2012
(2015)
Abstract The real exchange rate has proven to be an important factor in international trade because it is expected that exports respond to real exchange rate movements with respect to the characteristics of the ...
Optimizing experimental procedures for quantitative evaluation of crop plant performance in high throughput phenotyping systems
(2015-01)
Abstract
Detailed and standardized protocols for plant cultivation in environmentally controlled conditions are an essential prerequisite to conduct reproducible experiments with precisely defined treatments. Setting up ...
Targeted sequencing reveals largscale sequence polymorphism in maize candidate genes for biomass production and composition PLoS ONE 10(7)
(2015-07-07)
Abstract
A major goal of maize genomic research is to identify sequence polymorphisms responsible for phenotypic variation in traits of economic importance. Large-scale detection of sequence variation is critical for ...
Towards a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Hybrid Performance Prediction from Large-Scale Phenotypic Data.
(2015-09)
High-throughput biological data analysis has received a large amount of interest in the last decade due to pioneering technologies that are able to automatically generate large-scale datasets by performing millions of ...
An Inventory and Assessment of Exotic and Native Plant Species Diversity in the Kenyan Rangelands:-Case Study of Narok North Sub-County.
(2015)
A botanical inventory and diversity of exotic and native species was assessed in the rangeland of Narok North sub-County, Kenya. A total of 72 species were recorded, composed of 64 species of trees and shrubs and eight ...
Performance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Fed Diets Containing Blood Meal as a Replacement of Fish Meal
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2016)
Abstract
A 100 days experiment was conducted to determine the effect of feeding blood meal (BM) as a replacement of
fish meal (FM), as the main source of animal protein, on growth rate and economic performance of Nile ...
Phenomic prediction of maize hybrids.
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2016-08)
Phenomic experiments are carried out in large-scale plant phenotyping facilities that acquire a large number of pictures of hundreds of plants simultaneously. With the aid of automated image processing, the data are converted ...
Modifying Surber sampling technique increases capture of freshwater crabs in African upland streams. Inland Waters. 2:11-15
(2017-04-03)
We compared 2 methods for sampling the freshwater crab Potamonautes odhneri (Colosi) in Kenyan streams:
standard Surber sampling, in which a sample is taken over a period of several minutes; and rapid Surber sampling, ...
Parasites of Commercially Important Fish from Lake Naivasha, Rift Valley, Kenya.
(springer, 2014-01)
In Lake Naivasha, the common carp Cyprinus carpio L. 1758 was accidentally introduced from fish farms adjacent to River Malewa in 1999 and now forms the bulk of the total fish caught. Since its introduction, no study has ...
Reconstructionist Analysis On the Relevance of Secondary School Curriculum Content in Promoting National Cohesion Among Students in Machakos Town Sub-county, Kenya
(2015)
Education is the primary means of promoting national cohesion, international cooperation as well as
socio-economic development. Through school curriculum, education enables a country to achieve
its needs and aspirations. ...