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Lactic Acid Bacteria from African Fermented Cereal-Based Products: Potential Biological Control Agents for Mycotoxins in Kenya
(Journal of Toxicology, 2022)Cereals play an important role in global food security. Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization projects increased consumption of cereals from 2.6 billion tonnes in 2017 to approximately 2.9 billion tonnes by ... -
Landslide scar/soil erodibility mapping using Landsat TM/ETMþ bands 7 and 3 Normalised Difference Index: A case study of central region of Kenya
(Pergamon, 2015)Landsat series multispectral remote sensing imagery has gained increasing attention in providing solutions to environmental problems such as land degradation which exacerbate soil erosion and landslide disasters in the ... -
Language Games and Language Teaching in Kenya: The case of Kiswahili in Lower Primary
(Journal of Education and Practice, 2014)Many experienced textbook and methodology manuals writers have argued that games are not just time-filling activities but have a great educational value. W. R. Lee holds that most language games make learners use the ... -
Language Games and Language Teaching in Kenya: The Case of Kiswahili in Lower School
(2014)Many experienced textbook and methodology manuals writers have argued that games are not just time-filling activities but have a great educational value. W. R. Lee holds that most language games make learners use the ... -
Leadership Motivation and Mentoring Can Improve Efficiency of a Classroom Teacher and Workers in Institutions
(IISTE, 2015)Motivational strategies guarantee quality assurance in the educational system. Motivational strategies like staff training and development, promotion, salary, remuneration, working conditions, status and participatory ... -
Lean Inventory Management Systems and Performance of Supermarkets in Nairobi County, Kenya
(International Academy of Business and Economics, 2020-04)Lean inventory management systems (LIMS) is postulated to have the capability of enhancing performance of firms through minimization of overheads associated with inventory management in firms where inventory forms ... -
Learning about author positioning in written academic discourse
(Argentinian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013-11)Graduate students are usually not sure of the appropriate stance to take in relation to their writing. Even style guides provide little information regarding authorial positioning in academic texts. This paper describes ... -
Levels of reducing sugars in eight Kenyan potato cultivars as influenced by stage of maturity and storage conditions
(Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences, 2012-02-17)The cultivar, harvest time and storage method affect reducing sugars content of potato, which in turn influences the processing quality of French fries. Eight Kenyan potato cultivars (Tigoni, Desiree, Dutch Robyjn, Kenya ... -
Leveraging donor funds: the switch to commercial funding
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2003)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight important factors that influence funding decisions from the perspective of commercial lenders, and suggest commercialization of microfinance as a source of alternative ... -
Leveraging Science, Technology and Innovation for National Development in the Light of the Emerging Universities of Science and Technology in Kenya
(2013-05)It is recognized that effective leveraging of science, technology and innovation is essential for wealth creation in all nations. Science, Technology and Innovation is also a key component of social integration, sustainable ... -
A Levy Regime-Switching Temperature Dynamics Model for Weather Derivatives
(2018)Weather is a key production factor in agricultural crop production but at the same time, the most significant and least controllable source of peril in agriculture. These effects of weather on agricultural crop production ... -
Lexical Change: Naming of the Months of the Year in Ekegusii
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2016)This paper documents the native terms used to name the months of the year in EkeGusii. EkeGusii is a language spoken by a Bantu speaking community (AbaGusii) in the South Western part of Kenya. It is a language with a rich ... -
LÉVY PROCESS BASED ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK TEMPERATURE MODEL WITH TIME VARYING SPEED OF MEAN REVERSION
(Pushpa Publishing House, 2018)In this study we develop a Lévy process driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck daily temperature model. The model takes into account a time dependent speed of mean reversion. It is statistically demonstrated that historical data and ... -
Limit Theory of Model Order Change-Point Estimator for GARCH Mode
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018)The limit theory of a change-point process which is based on the Manhattan distance of the sample autocorrelation function with applications to GARCH processes is examined. The general theory of the sample autocovariance ... -
Local communities, biodiversity conservation and ecotourism: acase study of the Kimana Community Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya
(2016)Protected areas in Kenya constitute 7% of the total land area with over 75% of wildlife in the country being found on private or communal land. Rural communities in Kenya, where protected areas generally exist, ... -
Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Dependence on Misaligned Truncated Ag Nanoprism Dimer
(Springer, 2012)Misaligned edge-to-edge dimers are the common products during the preparation of Ag nanoprism dimers using self-assembly method. However, in the self-assembly method, Ag nanoprisms are easily truncated because they are easy ... -
Machakos University Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 3, April 2022
(Machakos University Press, 2022-04)On behalf of the editorial board to present the Volume three (3) of Machakos University Journal of Science and Technology to our readership. This issue presents pieces of research work drawn from diverse disciplines including ... -
Macroinvertebrate Drift as an Indicator of Disturbance in a Kenyan Highland Stream: The Njoro River
(AER, 2021-08)Many Kenyan streams are influenced by humans through disturbances such as water abstraction, farming and grazing in the riparian areas. However, there is limited information on the effect of natural and anthropogenic ... -
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Free Convective Flow past an Infinite Vertical Porous Plate with Joule Heating
(2013)This work addresses the problem of Magnetohydrodynamic laminar unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate. It investigates how joule ... -
THE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE RAPID DISAPPEARANCE OF PESTICIDES FROM TROPICAL SOILS IN KENYA
(Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, 2001)Results of field and laboratory studies on adsorption/desorption, leaching, dissipation, bound residue formation and metabolism of DDT, DDE, lindane, parathion, malathion, dimethoate and carbofuran in tropical soils in ...