Post-harvest grain loss remains a major challenge facing farmers especially in developing countries. Pyrethrin is natural plant oil that forms the active ingredients of conventional insecticides combined with piperonyl ...

Adequate fluoride intake is necessary in developing health bones and teeth and for the prevention of dental caries. Too much fluoride intake, however, leads to dental, skeletal and soft tissue damage, an irreversible ...

Recently field-grown vegetables including curly kales and endive have been reported to accumulate high fluoride levels in their leaves. As vegetables normally form an integral portion of the human diet, the occurrence of ...

Bioethanol is an attractive energy source in comparison to fossil fuels because it is renewable and environmentally friendly. The first generation bioethanol is unsustainable due to high cost of food crops and causes food ...

Conventional medicine used against dermatophytosis has resulted in treatment failure, relapses of the fungal infection and side effects due to its use. Herbalist in the Tugen community in Kenya claim that Salvia nilotica ...

Radioactive matter in the earth’s crust and celestial bodies are the main sources of natural radioactive exposure to man and animals. The main contribution to external exposure comes from gamma-emitting radionuclides present ...

Over the years, Fluoride has been identified as a contaminant of great global concern on drinking water safety. The need to prevent the population from consuming higher fluoride content in water lies in fluoride sensing. ...

The demand for carbonated water in Kenya, just like the rest of the world, is on the rise, owing to increasing lifestyle diseases like obesity, which requires that for a healthy lifestyle a lot of carbonated water, should ...

In this work, typical homobimetallic complexes derived from N,O-salicylaldimine ligands were investigated for their catalytic potential in oligomerisation of 1-hexene. Catalysts of monometallic nature, that is, those ...

Pollution is one of the major challenges facing water resources management in Kenya. This study was carried out to assess and monitor water quality status of the Athi River and its tributaries based on selected basic ...