Research and Publications: Recent submissions
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Determinants of non-compliance of public procurement regulations in Kenyan secondary schools
(Academic Journals, 2013-11)Kenya’s public procurement and disposal Act of 2005 sets out clear rules and procedures for public procurement entities to follow; however this does not seem to be the case. This study sought to examine determinants of ... -
EFFECT OF BOARD GENDER DIVERSITY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KENYA
(European Scientific Journal, 2012)The purpose of this paper was to analyze the effect of board gender diversityon performance of commercial banks in Kenya for the period 1998-2009. Stepwise regression was used to analyze the effect of board diversity on ... -
Income Diversification in the Banking Sector and Earnings Volatility: Evidence from Kenyan Commercial Banks
(Kenya Bankers Association, 2012-12)This paper investigates whether diversification of income sources for Kenyan banks leads to better earnings and reduced individual bank and systemic risks. The study seeks to analyze the extent to which observed shift ... -
The Influence of Capital Market Deepening on Mortgage Market Growth in Kenya
(Research Journal of Finance and Accounting, 2015)This study examined the influence of capital markets deepening on mortgage growth in Kenya. The indicators used for capital market deepening were Ratio of Equity Market Capitalization to GDP; the Bond Market Turnover ... -
TEACHERS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE CURRICULUM IN KENYA’S ARID AND SEMI ARID SECONDARY SCHOOLS
(2018-08)One of the major challenges of the 21 st century is the increasing level of academic qualifications at the expense of relevance in education. School agriculture is one of the subjects which require teachers who as ... -
INFLUENCE OF WORK ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE PRACTICES ON THE RETENTION OF WORKERS IN ORGANIZATIONS: THEORETICAL REVIEW
(JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY, 2015-08)Human resources are the heart and mind of any organization. Although most of the organizations are nowadays, found to be technology driven, it is the human resources who invent and run the technology. The human resources ... -
Social Network Effects on Consumer Willingness to Pay for Biofortified Crops
(2018-02)Micronutrient deficiency, also known as hidden hunger, affects about two billion people globally. Adoption and consumption of micronutrient-enriched—that is, biofortified—staple crops, is a potential solution to alleviating ... -
ROLE OF REMUNERATION AND CAREER ADVANCEMENT PRACTICES ON THE RETENTION OF EMPLOYEES IN ORGANIZATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM RESEARCH
(2015-07)In a globalized environment, attraction and retention of high prospective employees is a huge challenge to organizations especially in times of high turnover rates. In many instances even engaged employees are sometimes ... -
An integrated OADM based on Bragg trans-reflectance in 1550 nm VCSEL optical fibre access networks
(Elsevier, 2018)We experimentally demonstrate an all passive OADM using a single BGF, a pair of optical circulators and the low cost and energy efficient VCSELs. In this study, double reflection due to Bragg effect on a single fibre ... -
Kinetics of Degradation of Metribuzin in aqueous solution using Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles
(2018-06)In this work, zero-valent iron nanoparticles (nZVI NPs) were synthesized in (EW-Fe0) ethanol -water mixed system and have been evaluated for degradation in aqueous solution of metribuzin. The batch experiments at varying ... -
Growth performance and intestinal morphology of African catfish ( Clarias gariepinus , Burchell, 1822) larvae fed on live and dry feeds
(2018)Effects of live and dry feeds on intestinal morphology and growth of African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, larvae (Burchell, 1822) were investigated from 2 days post hatching (dph) to 6 dph and 11 dph, respectively. Feeding ... -
Factors Influencing Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Variability in Kitui County, Kenya
(Juniper Publishers, 2018-02)The study was carried out to examine the factors and constraints that influence small farmers’ adaptation to climate variability in Kitui County. Descriptive survey design was used. Two villages, Kaveta and Mikuyuni, were ... -
Organochlorine pesticide residues in sediment and water from Nairobi River, Kenya: levels, distribution, and ecological risk assessment
(Springer, 2018)Production and use of most organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) was banned through the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants. However, appreciable amounts are still detected in the environment due to their ... -
Modelling Multi-Mutation and Drug Resistance: A case of Immune-Suppression
(Research India Publications, 2018)A model that takes into account multi-mutation and drug resistance in a case of simple immune system and immune-suppression caused by drug resistant tumor cells is proposed. Since methods for revising therapeutic approaches ... -
Smoothed Conditional Scale Function Estimation in AR(1)-ARCH(1) Processes
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2018-03-12)The estimation of the Smoothed Conditional Scale Function for time series was taken out under the conditional heteroscedastic innovations by imitating the kernel smoothing in nonparametric QAR-QARCH scheme. The estimation ... -
A VCSEL-based backbone extended-reach optical fibre network: Supporting up to 10 Gbps flexible access networks for Africa
(2018)In this paper, using vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and Raman amplification, a low power consuming, energy-efficient and cheap technique to transmit high speed data signals over optical fibre is ... -
Analytical and numerical investigation of unsteady wind for enhanced energy capture in a fluctuating free-stream
(Elsevier, 2017)Unsteady wind is characterized by low energy content and large fluctuations. A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-based method for capturing wind energy in a fluctuating free-stream, supported by analytical formulations, ... -
Application of Conditional Autoregressive Value at Risk Model to Kenyan Stocks: A Comparative Study
(Science Publishing Group, 2017-05-22)Value at Risk (VaR) became the industry accepted measure for risk by financial institutions and their regulators after the Basel I Accords agreement of 1996. As a result, many methodologies of estimating VaR models used ... -
Numerical and experimental study of pressure-wave formation around an underwater ventilated vehicle
(Elsevier, 2017)The objective of this study was to understand better the ventilated cavitation flow structure around an underwater ventilated vehicle. A high-speed camera system was used to observe the cavity evolution of unsteady ... -
Green Remediation of Carbamazepine from Water Using Novel Magnetic Iron Modified Carbonized Baggasse: Kinetics, Equilibrium and Mechanistic Studies
(SCIENCE DOMAIN, 2017-03-15)Baggasse derived biochar magnetically modified with iron (α-Fe2O3-CBG) was fabricated, characterized and applied as a low-cost adsorbent for the removal of carbamazepine (CBZ), a pharmaceutically active compound which ...
