In Kenya, tea is a “political crop” (Ochieng 2007). Tea one of Kenya’s largest exports and an important foreign exchange earner source revenue. At the same time, key to livelihoods many smallholder farmers in central Kenya west Rift Valley, so that price recurrent focus political campaigns. Keenly aware tea’s economic value, county governments grapple with national government over policy, while...

In computer science, conferences and journals conduct peer review in order to decide what to publish. Many have pointed out the inherent weaknesses in peer review, including those of bias, quality, and accountability. Many have suggested and adopted refinements of peer review, for instance, double blind peer review with author rebuttals. In this essay, I argue that peer review as currently prac...

True hermaphrodites possess both ovarian and testicular tissues which may be present in separate gonads or combined in an ovotestis. External and internal genitalia are ambiguous and variable, though a prominent penial structure is usual. Chromosome examination of true hermaphroditism has revealed an XX sex chromosome complement in the majority of cases, but the XY complement and different mosa...