Geogenic fluoride contaminates the water of tens of millions of people. However, many are unaware of the fluoride content due in part to shortcomings of detection methods. Biosensor tests are a relatively new approach to ...

Medicinal plants play an important role in the treatment of various illnesses in Kenya and the whole world. Senna didymobotya is one of such plants used traditionally in Kenya to treat illnesses such as ...

Background: The efficacy of Cymbopogon citratus and Tagetes minuta essential oils in killing and fecundity of the adult females of the sand fly Phlebotomus duboscqi was tested in the laboratory. ...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential element and its efficient use is of globalimportance. This study evaluated the effect of growing potato under leg-ume intercrops on P uptake and use efficiency indices: P harvest index(PHI), ...

Second order models are useful in situations where there are curvilinear effects present in the true response function. Such models have real life applications in a wide variety of fields such as agriculture, ...

Fusarium solani (Mart) f.sp. phaseoli (Burk) Synd. and Hans., is a plant pathogenic fungus that causes root rot in garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). To evaluate methods used in classifying strains of this pathogen, 52 ...

The concentration of the polymer in the electrospinning solution greatly influences the mechanical behaviour of electrospun vascular grafts due to the influence on scaffold morphology. The scaffold morphology (fiber diameter, ...

The properties of a finite heavy nucleus in which the number of neutrons N is not equal to the number of protons Z, N > Z, have been studied. It is assumed that the core of the nucleus is composed of proton-neutron pairs ...

Snakebite envenomation, cognizedas a neglected tropical disease,is a dreadpublic health concernwith the most susceptible groups being herdsmen, the elderly, active farmers, hunters, fishers, firewoodcollectors,10 to ...