Research and Publications: Recent submissions
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Statistical techniques for modeling extreme price dynamics in the energy market
(IOP Publishing, 2013)Extreme events have large impact throughout the span of engineering, science and economics. This is because extreme events often lead to failure and losses due to the nature unobservable of extra ordinary occurrences. ... -
A Prototype for Authentication of Secondary School Certificates: A Case of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Knowledge, 2017)The demand for educated labor force has increased in developing countries like Kenya. Owing to this fact, more often Universities and training colleges in Kenya enroll students who want to further ... -
The Dependency of Bus Voltage and Frequency in Load Shedding
(Proceedings of Sustainable Research and Innovation Conference, 2014)—Load shedding schemes proposed in literature so far use voltage and frequency parameters separately. The individual consideration of these indices may not be reliable or effective, and may even lead to the over load ... -
Harnessing ICT Use in Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Rural Women in Keiyo South Constituency
(African Journal of Education, Science and Technology, 2018)Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools that boost economic growth and improve social development. However, despite an increase in ICT use, the socio-economic status of rural women in Kenya ... -
Kinds ofExtensiveReading Materials and their Influence on Learners’ Language Skills in Language Classrooms in Kenya
(Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research, 2017)his study investigatedkinds of extensive reading materials and their influence on learners’ language skills in language classrooms in Kenya. It scrutinizedthe kinds of reading materials that learnersare exposed to in ... -
Influence of Customer Service on the Performanceof Hospitality Enterprises: Lessons from Sunbird Tourism Limited in Malawi
(African Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Studies, 2017)This paper examines the influence of customer service on the success of hospitality enterprises. The paper argues that in order to deliver excellent services that will result into profitable ... -
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 ... -
What Do City Planners Need to Know? When Do They Need to Know It?
(2014)Do university planning programs provide their graduates with the knowledge, skills and values they will require in their professional careers? A national on-line survey of planning practitioners finds that there is a close ... -
INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A CASE STUDY OF MAU-NAROK DIVISION IN NJORO SUB-COUNTY
(2015)In Kenya women are confined at some definite work, position and role which generally differ to men in society.Their status is seen as below that of men in patriarchal social structure. The situation is more or less remaining ... -
Influence of Selected Socio-Cultural Practices on Internal Efficiency in Selected Public Technical Training Institutesin Baringo County, Kenya
(International Journal of Science and Research, 2016)Education forms the basis upon which economic, social and political development of any nation is founded. It is one of the basic human rights that are universally proclaimed internationally as many countries in the world ... -
Spatio-temporal vegetation dynamics and relationshipwithclimate over East Africa
(Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016)Vegetation plays a key role in the global climate system via modification of the water and energy balance. Its coupling to climate is therefore important particularly in the tropics, where severe climate change impacts ... -
Episodes of the epidemiological factors correlated with prevailing viral infections with dengue virus and molecular characterization of serotypespecific dengue virus circulation in eastern India
(2018)Background: Dengue is one of the most important and widespread viral infection comprises 4 related serotypes (DEN-1, 2, 3, and 4). Infection with one serotype does not protect against the others, and sequential infections ... -
Noise Figure and Pump Reflection Power in SMF-Reach Optical Fibre for Raman Amplification
(2015)We investigate both experimentally and by simulation the Noise Figure (NF) and pump reflection power of a Distributed Fibre Raman Amplifier (DFRA) as a function of pump power and fibre length, at ... -
Signal monitoring and performance stability evaluation tool in a high speed optical communication network
(2016-10)The diverse communication systems in South Africa have changed drastically over the last few years and are envisioned to continue to improve as evidenced by the deployment of high speed optical fibre networks, in both ... -
Agrobiodiversity endangered by sugarcane farming in Mumias and Nzoia sugarbelts of Western Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2014)Commercial sugarcane farming has been practised in western Kenya for nearly forty years. This monocultural land use is associated with loss of natural vegetation and cropland, thus undermining food security status of a ... -
Community Integration for Psychosocial Well-Being: Building Sustainable Peace and Strengthening Identity through Story-Telling in the South Sudan
(Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research (JEPER), 2015)In a war-ravaged country, a great need exists for community integration in order to heal the psychosocial wounds and to enable the process of development and reconstruction for peace. Even after settling in their ... -
Reward and Compensation as a Determinant of Employee Commitment: A Survey of Ktda Tea Factories in Kenya
(2014)The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of employee commitment in tea organizations in Kenya. Strong commitment is correlated with high productivity, while low commitment lowers productivity. ... -
The Church-State Relationship in Kenya after the Second Liberation Struggle
(Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research, 2016)The paper examinedthe dynamics of Church-State relationship in Kenya after the second liberation struggle. It is argued that the public theologiesin Kenyahave been experiencing a process of decay albeit with ... -
Determination of serum isometamidium levels in sheep and goats under field conditions using isometamidium-ELISA
(2000)Twenty eight sheep and 28 goats were treated with isometamidium chloride (Samorin®, hone Merieux, Lyon, France) at a dose of 1 mg/kg body weight (bw) by intramuscular injection. All the animals were grazed in a tsetse-infested ... -
The Politics of Education in Kenyan Universities: A Call for a Paradigm Shift
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)The winds of political change have been sweeping across Kenya for the last two decades. However, as many sections of society?the media, the church, civil society, and even ordinary people?take advantage of the unprecedented ...
