KERUBO, JOYCE OMBONGI

Plastics enter the ocean inform of either large debris or microplastics that are a product of breakdown from the large debris or are primarily microplastics suchs as beads used in beauty products. Plastic pollution impacts in oceans are considerable world over. Microplastics (MPs) are tiny plastic particles measuring between 0.1μm and 5000 μm, make an important part of plastic pollution and form a pathway to the aquatic food web including humans. And although this is a global problem, there are limited studies along the Kenyan Coast in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO).

OMUKAMI, HOWARD

Much attention is given to the study of generalized distributions because, adding more parameters gives flexibility in the shape, location, scale and tail(s) of a distribution. Existing literature shows that the generator approach is one of the desired methods of
constructing generalized distributions. Also, the mixture method is used because it gives flexibility to distributions.

MWANGI, HARRISON NDUNG'U

Abstract Kinetoplastids are human pathogens with devastating economic and health effects, which include Leishmania and Trypanosoma species from flagellated protozoans. With the developed technology platform that allows the generation of high atomic level resolution of pathogen ribosome’s crystal structures, we demonstrate that rRNA is a target of choice for the development of next-generation drugs.