<h4>Background</h4>Good glycemic control reduces the risk of diabetic complications. Despite this, achieving good glycemic control remains a challenge in diabetic patients. The objective of this study is to identify determinants of glycemic control among insulin treated...

In a series of research articles El-khorazaty, Horne and Suchindran have showed how one can derive for any given population indirectly various childbearing and Bongaart fertility-inhibiting indices using only given information on the ASFRs, and the mathematical and regr...

Mothers and their newborns are vulnerable to illnesses and deaths during the postnatal period. More than half a million women each year die of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. The majority of deaths occur in less developed countries. Utilization of postnatal ...

Human yaws has historically been endemic to Kenya, but current epidemiologic data are lacking. We report seroprevalence for Treponema pallidum antibodies in olive baboons (Papio anubis) and vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in Laikipia County, Kenya. Our results ...

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The main aim of this study was to provide empirical evidence on the effect of Brand equity on purchase intention of Ambassador Garment and Trading PLC in Addis Ababa. A quantitative research approach was applied to collect data from the consumers of Ambassador Garment; ...

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Bulk-messaging, one of the technologies carried by the telecom industry, is a process of sending a large number of messages to many people at once. It is likely a more economical and effective way of marketing media as compared to others. Therefore, many companies are u...

Summary objective To estimate the effectiveness of live potted plants and thermal expulsion of plant materials in repelling African malaria vectors in traditional houses in western Kenya. methods Ocimum americanum, Lantana camara and Lippia ukambensis were tested in liv...

Abstract Various methods have been put forward to perform automatic social-based event detection and description. Yet, most of them do not capture the semantic meaning embedded in online social media data, which are usually highly heterogeneous and unstructured, and do ...