Browsing School of Pure and Applied Sciences by Title
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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 ... -
Male Circumcision: A Means to Reduce HIV Transmission between Truckers and Female Sex Workers in Kenya
(2022-06)Kenya records over 1.5 million cases of HIV-infected people with a prevalence of 4.8% among adults in 2019, ranking Kenya as the seventh-largest HIV population in the world. A recent study showed that 55.9% of Kenyan ... -
Mathematical Analysis of Influenza A Dynamics in the Emergence of Drug Resistance
(Hindawi, 2018)Every year, influenza causes high morbidity and mortality especially among the immunocompromised persons worldwide. The emergenceofdrugresistancehasbeenamajorchallengeincurbingthespreadofinfluenza.Inthispaper,amathematicalmodelis ... -
Mathematical Model for Detecting Diabetes in the Blood
(2011)This study presents a new mathematical model for Blood Glucose Regulatory System(BGRS) which includes epinephrine as a third variable in the form, Y˙ = AY, and whose solution has been analyzed for equilibrium and stability ... -
Mathematical Model for DetectingDiabetes in the Blood
(2011)This study presents a new mathematical model for Blood Glucose Regulatory System(BGRS) which includes epinephrine as a third variable in the form, ˙ Y = AY, and whose solution has been analyzed for equilibrium and stability ... -
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF HIV INFECTION
(International Journal of Mathematical Archive, 2013)We formulate a deterministic mathematical model for the HIV/AIDS. -
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF HIV INFECTION
(2013)We formulate a deterministic mathematical model for the HIV/AIDS -
Mathematical Modelling of the Effects Funding on HIV Dynamics Among Truckers and Female Sex Workers Along the Kenyan Northern Corridor Highway
(2022)The Southern and Eastern parts of Africa are the most hit by HIV/AIDS in the world and a huge financial commitment is required to control the spread of the disease. Of these countries, Kenya and South Africa have been able ... -
Mathematical Modelling of Water Flow of Irrigation in a Permeable Pipe of Elliptical Cross-section
(British Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2015)Anunsteadyincompressiblefullydevelopedflowinahorizontalflexibleandpermeableannularpipe of elliptic cross-section under the action of gravity is studied. The solution is obtained through a homogenization method by employing ... -
Measuring Financial Risk in Stock Returns: A Case of Nairobi Stock Exchange
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2014-04)Value-at-Risk is an important concept in financial management, financial reporting and risk management. In this study, we have used this tool to assess risk in stocks listed in the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is commonly ... -
METRIBUZIN MOBILITY IN SOIL COLUMN AS AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL AND PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PARAMETERS IN MUMIAS SUGARCANE ZONE, KENYA
(ARPN Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science, 2011)The physico-chemical parameters of soil, influences the soil solution characteristics and that may affect the sorption of soil applied herbicides. The present investigation reports the influence of physico-chemical parameters ... -
Metribuzin mobility in soil column as affected by environmental and physico-chemical parameters in Mumias sugarcane zone, Kenya
(Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN)., 2011-03)The physico-chemical parameters of soil, influences the soil solution characteristics and that may affect the sorption of soil applied herbicides. The present investigation reports the influence of physico-chemical parameters ... -
Modeling export price of tea in Kenya: Comparison of artificial neural network and seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average
(Science Publishing Group, 2014-12-19)Agriculture sector is a key driver of economic growth in Kenya. It remains the main source of livelihood for the majority of the Kenyan people. Tea, coffee, and horticulture are the main agricultural exports in Kenya. ... -
Modeling the Effect of Binding Kinetics in Spatial Drug Distribution in the Brain
(Hindawi, 2021-07-05)A 3-dimensional mathematical model is developed to determine the effect of drug binding kinetics on the spatial distribution of a drug within the brain. The key components, namely, transport across the blood-brain barrier ... -
Modeling the within-host co-infection of influenza A virus and pneumococcus
(Elsevier, 2018)In this paper a nonlinear mathematical model for a within-host co-infection of influenza A virus and pneumococcus is investigated. Conditions that explain the relations amid RIP and its relationship to the global asymptotic ... -
Modeling Traffic Flow on Multi-Lane Road: Effects ofLane-Change Manoeuvres Due to an On-ramp
(Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2018)Traffic breakdown is the main cause of vehicle traffic congestion in our multi-lane roads due to highway bottlenecks such as lane-drops, on and off-ramps. In this study the three phase traffic flow theory is outlined and ... -
Modeling USD/KES Exchange Rate Volatility using GARCH Models
(IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF), 2017-02)this paper the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic models are applied in modeling exchange rate volatility of the USD/KES exchange rate using daily observations over the period starting 3rd January 2003 ... -
Modelling Credit Risk for Personal Loans Using Product-Limit Estimator
(International Journal of Financial Research, 2012-01-05)A product- limit approach was adopted to estimate time to default for male and female loan applicants. For each group, a sample of 250 applicants was observed for a 30 months. The life of the account is measured from the ...