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Misiones religiosas y políticas identitarias: las misiones de los consolatinos en Kenia y Roraima

Memoria Americana, 2008
La intención de este artículo es discutir la elaboración de nuevas formas de alteridad a partir de la interconexión entre la organización de grupos que se representan y/o son representados como étnicos, la formulación de conceptos de etnia y las ...
Melvina Araújo
doaj  

Tailoring Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to Improve Child Feeding and Use of Indigenous Preserved Foods in Drought‐Affected Kenya: Considerations for Climate Shocks

Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2025.
This assessment examined the use of traditional preserved foods to improve infant and young child feeding in northern Kenya's drought‐affected communities that were part of a humanitarian assistance program. The findings presented explore cultural, gender, and social norms in relation to IYCF practices and use the Trials of Improved Practices ...
Everlyn Matiri, Lacey Ramirez, Abdinasir Elmi, Joseph Gaithuma, Rachel Kavithe, Martin Waweru, Margaret Kahiga, Justine. A. Kavle   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of climate change and variation in New Zealand: An assessment using the CLIMPACTS system [PDF]

, 2001
Along with a need to better understand the climate and biophysical systems of New Zealand, the need to develop an improved capacity for evaluating possible changes in climate and their effects on the New Zealand environment has been recognised. Since the
Harman, J.J., Kenny, Gavin J., Warrick, Richard A.   +2 more
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The effect of stage of regrowth on the physical composition and nutritive value of the various vertical strata of kikuyu (Cenchrus clandestinus) pastures

Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2020
A plot study was conducted at the Gatton Research Dairy, Queensland, Australia, to quantify the effects of 5 regrowth periods (9, 11, 14, 16 and 18 days) and 4 vertical strata on the composition and nutritive value of kikuyu (Cenchrus clandestinus ...
Marcelo A. Benvenutti, Craig Findsen, Jean V. Savian, David G. Mayer, David G. Barber   +4 more
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Simple models and concepts as tools for the study of sustained soil productivity in long-term experiments. I. New soil organic matter and residual effect of P from fertilizers and farmyard manure in Kabete, Kenya [PDF]

, 2011
The rough outcomes of a long-term experiment in Kenya were (re-)interpreted using simple models to find causes of success or failure with regard to sustained soil productivity.
Janssen, B.H.
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Crude Glycerol Increases Neutral Detergent Fiber Degradability and Modulates Rumen Fermentative Dynamics of Kikuyu Grass in Non-Lactating Holstein Cows Raised in Tropical Conditions

Dairy
This study evaluated the effects of increasing levels of crude glycerol (CG) on the effective degradability of neutral detergent fiber (EDNDF) in Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst.
Diana Marcela Valencia-Echavarria, Yury Tatiana Granja-Salcedo, Jorge Guillermo Noriega-Marquez, Luis Alfonso Giraldo Valderrama, Julián Andrés Castillo Vargas, Telma Teresinha Berchielli   +5 more
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Whose incentives? The evolution of inheritance practices, intergenerational conflict, and women’s control over land in rural Kenya [PDF]

Land related investment decisions are shaped by both the formal and informal institutions governing land tenure and acquisition. In the case of agricultural Kikuyu households in Kenya, we show that the inheritance practice of uncertain allocation in ...
Linkow, Benjamin
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When Does Ethnic Diversity Lead to Violence? Evidence from the 2007 Elections in Kenya [PDF]

Some people have a concern for a fair distribution of incomes while others do not. Does such a concern matter for majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are pivotal ...
Kitavi Mbuvi, Thomas Markussen
core  

Swati and Kikuyu reduplication evidence against exhaustive copy

Studies in African Linguistics, 1991
This paper addresses the central question of deriving shape-invariance of partial reduplication in two competing models of reduplication: Selective Copy [McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1988, and 1990] and Exhaustive Copy [Steriade 1988].
Long Peng
doaj   +3 more sources

Frações de fósforo em gramíneas forrageiras tropicais sob fontes e doses de fósforo Fractions of phosphorus in tropical forage grasses under sources and doses of phosphorus

Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 2006
O experimento foi conduzido a campo com o objetivo de determinar as frações de fósforo (P) em gramíneas forrageiras tropicais, aos 35 dias de idade, sob fontes e doses de P.
Ívina Paula Almeida dos Santos, José Cardoso Pinto, Antônio Eduardo Furtini Neto, Augusto Ramalho de Morais, Eduardo Eustáquio Mesquita, Dawson José Guimarães Faria, Gudesteu Porto Rocha   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source