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Husking Characteristics of Short and Long grain Rice byRubber roll Husker (Part 1): Dynamic Analysis of a Single Grain Motion
(The Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Food Engineers, 2001)Dynamic analysis of grain motion in an experimental rubber roll husker was carried out using short and long grain rice. The short grain rice variety used was Akitakomachi and the long grain rice varieties were Delta and ... -
Hybrid Beaming Forming at 60GHz Radio Millimeter Wave for WPAN
(Ijsr, 2018)This paper represent the concept of hybrid beam forming at 60GHz radio millimeter wave for short range communication WPAN. The result of the proposed model under investigation was varied through various cases. That is the ... -
Iganfis Data Mining Approach for Forecasting Cancer Threats
(International Journal for Scientific Research & Development, 2014)Healthcare facilities have at their disposal vast amounts of cancer patients’ data. Medical practitioners require more efficient techniques to extract relevant knowledge from this data for accurate decision-making. However ... -
The Impact of Broadband Diffusion in Assessing Innovation at the Institutions of Higher Learning in Kenya
(Researchgate, 2017-12)Objective: The aim of the research was to study the impact of broadband diffusion in assessing innovation in institutions of higher learning in Kenya. Background: The Government of Kenya realized the importance of broadband ... -
Influence of Brining on the Drying Parameters of Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus)in a Glass-Covered Solar Tunnel Dryer
(2009)The objective of this study was to determine the effect of brining on the drying rate of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in a glass-covered solar tunnel dryer. Tilapia fish, eviscerated, and split into pieces ... -
Invasive species in east Africa: current status for informed policy decisions and management
(E. Africa: Status and policy in biological invasions, 2013)Invasive alien species are the second leading cause of biodiversity loss in the world today. A number of hypotheses have been advanced to explain the proliferation of invasive species. These hypotheses include deficiency ... -
An investigation of the effects of extraction and brushing variables on the properties of hedge sisal fibers using a raspador
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01)Natural fibers have emerged as an important component in the development of composite materials because of their mechanical properties. The properties are highly influenced by environmental conditions and processing ... -
Kinematics of Thermal Inactivation of Peroxidase and color Degradation of African Cowpea (vigna unguiculata) Leaves
(Institute of Food Technologists, 2015)Cow pea leaves form an important part of the diet for many Kenyans, and they are normally consumed after a lengthycookingprocessleadingtotheinactivationofperoxidase(POD)thatcouldbeusedasanindicatorforthepotential shelf ... -
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 ... -
Mechanical behavior and failure mode of high interstitially Alloyed Austenite under combined compression and cyclic torsion
(MDPI, 2022-01)multiaxial stress states frequently occur in technical components and, due to the multitude of possible load situations and variations in behaviour of different materials, are to date not fully predictable. This is ... -
A Model for Clustering Social Media Data for Electronic Learning
(American Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 2017)Through Social media, people are able to write short messages on their walls to express their sentiments using various social media like Twitter and Facebook. Through these messages also called status updates, they share ... -
A Model for Measuring the Impact of Broadband Internet on Innovations at Institutions of Higher Learning in Kenya
(TexilaJournal, 2016-12)Objective: The aim of this study is to develop a model for measuring the impact of broadband on innovations at the institutions of higher learning in Kenya. Background: Universities in Kenya are investing huge amounts ... -
A Model to Assess Technological Innovations at Institutions of Higher Learning in Kenya
(TexilaJournal, 2017-12)Objective: The aim was to develop an innovation assessment model to analyse the impact of broadband in spurring innovations in Kenya by studying the role of broadband diffusion, the impact of broadband collaborations, ... -
Modeling of Power Efficiency Sensor Network
(IJSER, 2019)Wireless Sensor Nodes forms an ad-hoc network that is widely used in remote deployment applications and has a unique characteristic of low battery-operated devices, and hence energy saving ... -
Modeling of ring resonators as optical Filters using MEEP
(2016)Ring Resonators are key component in modern optical networks. Their size allows high density integration in optical photonic circuits due to the use of high index contrast. Ring Resonators based filters in wavelength ... -
Modeling Thin Layer Drying of Amaranth Seeds under Open Sun and Natural Convection Solar Tent Dryer
(2009)Thin layer drying studies of amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus) seeds were carried out under open sun and natural convection solar tent dryer. The ambient temperature and relative humidity ranged from 22.6–30.4 ... -
Modelling of an Optical Fibre Raman Amplifier
(2012)The transmission of signals in long-haul optical fibre systems requires signal amplification. Raman amplification is based on SRS and it requires a frequency shift of 13.2 THz provided by signal and pump wavelengths of ... -
Modelling Simulation and Optimal Sizing of a Hybrid Wind, Solar PV Power System in Northern Kenya
(ational Journal of Renewable Energy Research, 2016)Solar and wind, the most abundant renewable energy resources are still expensive to deploy and are unreliable as they are intermittent. It has long been postulated in open published literature that solar and wind have ... -
Multi Objective Dynamic Economic Dispatch with Cubic Cost Functions
(Science Publishing Group, 2015)The formulation and solution of the Dynamic Economic Dispatch (DED) problem is one of the key disciplines in modern power system operation, planning, operation and control. Past researches have considered DED on Quadratic ... -
Multi-Objective Environmental/Economic Dispatch Solution Using ABC_PSO Hybrid Algorithm
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2012)The problem of power system optimization has become a deciding factor in current power system engineering practice with emphasis on cost and emission reduction. The economic and emission dispatch problem has been addressed ...