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Effects of Employee Behavioral Factors on HACCP System Practices in Four and Five Star Rated Hotels in Nairobi County, Kenya
(Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports, 2020-04-20)
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is a globally recognized food safety program advanced as a suitable program to minimize or eliminate the risk of food contamination. Successful implementation of HACCP ...
Agricultural Imports, Agriculture Productivity and Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa: A Bootstrap Granger Noncausality Analysis in Heterogeneous Panels
(Journal of African Trade, 2020-09-08)
This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in 40 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990–2015. Granger noncausality tests are ...
Challenges Facing Corruption Prevention Activities in Public Secondary Schools in Nakuru and Nyandarua Counties Kenya
(International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019-09)
This study sought to examine the challenges facing corruption prevention activities in public secondary schools in Nakuru and Nyandarua counties Kenya.The study was informed by the Lucifer Effect ...
Sensory Profile and Consumer Preference of Novel Probiotic Yoghurt Enriched with Orange Sweet Potato(Ipomoea batatas)
(African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2020-09)
Due to increased consumer demandforappealing healthyfoods,there is a rising global trend of developing nutritious commercial yoghurts with attractivesensory attributes.The success of formulating a food product is dependent ...
A Semantic Analysis of Absent Subjects of Idioms in Gĩkũyũ
(Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020-06-30)
Idioms have been studied for a considerable time by linguists with a view of explaining their meaning. In Gĩkũyũ, for example, the meaning of most idioms can be derived from constituents that form them. ...
Antimalarialpyronaridine resistance may be associated with elevated MDR-1 gene expression profiles but not point mutation in Plasmodium bergheiANKA isolates
(African Journal of Biochemistry Research, 2020-08)
Theselectionofresistance is inevitable whenever chemotherapy isnecessaryforpathogencontrol. Notably, Plasmodiumfalciparum has developed multifacetedmeans to overcomethetoxicityof nearly allantimalarial medicines. To ...
Effects of Land Use Change on Banana Production:A Case Study of Imenti South Sub-County of Meru County in Kenya
(Britain International of Exact Sciences Journal, 2020-09)
Most high agricultural potential regions in Kenya such as Imenti South (Meru County) have exceeded their population density and have been associated with sharp decline in farm productivity. There has been a ...
Species Composition, Distribution, and Seasonal Abundance of Liriomyza Leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Under Different Vegetable Production Systems and Agroecological Zones in Kenya
(Environmental Entomology, 2015-02-03)
A longitudinal study to identify the species of Liriomyza leafminer, their distribution, relative abundance, and seasonal variation, including their host range, was conducted in vegetable fields at three altitudes in Kenya ...
Interaction between Phaedrotoma scabriventris Nixon and Opius dissitus Muesebeck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): endoparasitoids of Liriomyza leafminer
(African Entomology, 2015)
The exotic parasitoid, Phaedrotoma scabriventris Nixon, was imported from Peru for the
biological control of invasive Liriomyza species in vegetable and ornamental crops in Kenya where Opius dissitus Muesebeck is the most ...
Selection of promising fungal biological control agent of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)
(Letters of Applied Microbiology, 2012-02)
Aims: Larval stages of Frankliniella occidentalis are known to be refractory to fungal infection compared with the adult stage. The objective of this study was to identify promising fungal isolate(s) for the control of ...