Maseno University Repository: Recent submissions
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Effect of Methanolic Extracts of Senna didymobotrya and Moringa oleifera on Growth of Ralstonia solanacearum
(Asian Journal of Research in Crop Science, 2022)Tomato is one of the most important vegetables in the world. Ralstonia solanacearum causes a devastating bacterial wilt that is wide-spread throughout tropical environments that has been difficult to control with chemicals ... -
1890 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANT (2021-22): Building Capacity across 1890 Land-Grant Universities to Enhance Student Learning and Community Engagement in Global food security and Environmental Health
(Maseno University, 2022-06-24)The objective is to enhance faculty and students’ teaching, research, and extension capacity to address global food security challenges in Kenya and DRC; and train a globally competitive workforce at the 1890 institutions -
Addressing Current and Emerging Threats to Crops in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya: A Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Approach
(Maseno University, 2022-05-24)Maseno University was granted a sub-award by University of Maryland Eastern Shore to investigate the research titled “Addressing Current and Emerging Threats to Crops in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya: A ... -
Quality of Medical Care at the Emergency Departments of Public Hospitals in Kenya
(EAST AFRICANNATURE & SCIENCEORGANIZATION, 2022)Globally, states are obliged to prioritize quality medical care at emergency departments (EDs). Kenya is not an exception since medical care services are mainly offered in the outpatient departments. However, the quality ... -
Is development aid to strengthen health systems during protracted conflict a useful investment? The case of South Sudan, 2011–2015
(BMJ Specialist Journals, 2020)Is achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (building peaceful societies) a precondition for achieving SDG 3 (health and well-being in all societies, including conflict-affected countries)? Do health system ... -
Vaccine effectiveness against hospital admission in South African health care workers who received a homologous booster of Ad26. COV2 during an Omicron COVID19 wave: Preliminary Results of the Sisonke 2 Study.
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2021)Following the results of the ENSEMBLE 2 study, which demonstrated improved vaccine efficacy of a two-dose regimen of Ad26.COV.2 vaccine given 2 months apart, we expanded the Sisonke study which had provided single dose ... -
Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating Clinical Breast Examinations With Cervical Cancer Screening Programs in Outpatient Clinics in Western Kenya
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2021)Nearly half of Kenyan women with breast cancer present with advanced disease—owing partially to limited patient education and screening limitations in low- and middle-income countries. With increasing access to nurse-led ... -
Effectiveness of the Ad26. COV2. S vaccine in health-care workers in South Africa (the Sisonke study): results from a single-arm, open-label, phase 3B, implementation study
(Elsevier, 2022)We aimed to assess the effectiveness of a single dose of the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) in health-care workers in South Africa during two waves of the South African COVID-19 epidemic. -
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in Kenya: a multicentre cohort study
(British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2022)To assess outcomes of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 and to determine the predictors of mortality. -
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa
(BMJ Specialist Journals, 2022)Women researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women’s careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, particularly for women in low-income and middle-income ... -
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics
(AJOL, 2022)Sisonke is a multicentre, open-label, single-arm phase 3B vaccine implementation study of healthcare workers (HCWs) in South Africa, with prospective surveillance for 2 years. The primary endpoint is the rate of severe ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Arxiv.org, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged ... -
Mainstreaming Gender and Inclusion in Distance Learning Resources: A Case Study
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Studies have shown that gender imbalances and biased gender representations are common in materials used in educational systems throughout the world. Learning resources for Open and Distance Learning programmes are, ... -
Building individual and community resilience through Open Education Resources for health literacy education in sub-Saharan Africa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Health literacy is the ability of individuals to understand health information and to make informed health decisions. As part of a larger project, we completed a scoping review to consider the question “To what extent ... -
Cybersecurity in Online Learning: Innovations for Teacher Training and Empowerment
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Recent technological advances in teaching and learning provide dynamic tools required to meet the educational needs of the digital era. However, teachers and other educators are increasingly experiencing cyber threats ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(arxiv.org, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged ... -
Immunization of Rabbits with a Quadrivalent Shigella Bioconjugate Vaccine Induces Functional Antibodies Reactive with Shigella Isolates from Kenya
(American Society for Microbiology, 2022)Diarrheal diseases are a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, disproportionately affecting children in resource-limited settings. Although improvements in hygiene and access to clean water are helpful, vaccines ... -
Traditional Water Purification Methods Among the Luo and Luhya Communities of Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2022)Since time immemorial, mankind has taken measures to produce clean drinking water with the quality of water determined organoleptically. The earliest documented literature on water treatment involved different methods like ... -
Optimization of Bioethanol Production from Sweet Sorghum Stalk (Sorghum bicolor (l.) Moench) Juice Using Response Surface Method
(Science publishing group, 2022)The use of fossil fuel as a source of energy has been unsustainable and has adverse effects to the environment. Bioethanol is a suitable alternative due to its exceptional properties. Bioethanol production can be done ... -
A Study of Mushroom Diversity at Siriba Campus, Maseno University Maseno, Kenya
(BP International, 2022)About 3500 species of mushroom exist in the whole world. Examples being the ring mushroom, honey fungi, the poisonous amanita, the button mushrooms and the oyster white mushrooms among others. Before this study, no study ...