Research and Publications: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
An Assessment of the Contribution of Credit Reference Bureau Regulation towards Mitigating Credit Risks in the Kenya`s Banking Industry
(European Journal of Business and Management, 2014)In Kenya, the use ofCredit Reference Bureaus to mitigate credit risks is a new concept. The purpose of this study was to carry out an analysis on the contribution of credit reference bureaus ... -
The politics of widowhood and re-marriage among the Luo of Kenya
(Philosophical Association of Kenya, 2009)This study utilises philosophical deliberation to analyse the psycho-social and emotional conflicts that arise out of widowhood practices in the Luo community of Kenya. Towards this end, it explores the attendant effects ... -
Facing the challenges of e-learning initiatives in African universities
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)This paper explores the possibility of bringing e-learning to African universities through collaborative networks of public–private partnerships. It is envisaged that this approach will solve the dual problem of ... -
Testing Theories of Change for Dryland Cereals: The HOPE project in central Tanzania 2009-2012
(ICRISAT, 2015)The Harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement (HOPE) project was based on a market-led Theory of Change in which farmers adopted new technology for sorghum and millets in response to market demand. This Theory ... -
Social Networks and Household Dietary Diversity, Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Kenya.
(2018)An important driver of household dietary diversity is nutrition knowledge which can be improved through access to nutrition information. However, in many rural areas, formal flow of nutrition information is limited, and ... -
Agro-Dealers and the Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology Policy in Kenya
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011)Public and private actors and their networks are committing substantial resources to support agro-dealers to deliver novel technologies and information in line with the New Green Revolution for Africa. The main point ... -
Social Networks and Farmer Exposure to Improved Cereal Varieties in Central Tanzania
(2014)This study uses probit and Poisson models to analyse the determinants of social network links for the exchange of information among 345 cereal farmers and the effects of social networks on farmer exposure to improved ...
