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One Step Forward, Two Backward—Every Five Years: Electoral Violence and Peacebuilding in Kenya
(Springer International Publishing, 2022-10-27)Over the past twenty years or so, the peacebuilding enterprise has witnessed the development of many frameworks, models, strategies, fundamental assumptions and principles designed to achieve sustainable peace. Peacebuilding ... -
Online Assessment and Examinations practices at the eCampus of Maseno University in Response to COVID 19 lockdown
(EasyChair, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increasing demand for online learning and led to the demand for the offer of online assessment at Maseno university. Prior to the COVID19 pandemic the institution had put in place measures ... -
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR STATISTICS TEACHING
(ISI/IASE, 2017)A series of papers at this conference have built on the African Data Initiative (ADI) which was started to improve statistical literacy and understanding. One immediate deliverables of this initiative has been new ... -
Open educational resources, technology-enabled teacher learning and social justice
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter addresses two questions: What is the role of teacher education in increasing access to, and participation in, education, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa? and How can digital technologies (DTs), such as the ... -
Open Source ERP Adoption-Use and Organisational Performance of Deposit-Taking Saccos in Kenya
(International Journal of Information Technology, 2019)The cost and benefits of an ERP system are arguably the reason why Deposit-Taking SACCOs are opting for adoption-use of open source ERP in an effort to achieve organisation performance. Technology adoption is only important ... -
Open Source ERP Adoption-Use and Organisational Performance of Deposit-Taking Saccos in Kenya
(International Journal of Information Technology, 2019)The cost and benefits of an ERP system are arguably the reason why Deposit-Taking SACCOs are opting for adoption-use of open source ERP in an effort to achieve organisation performance. Technology adoption is only important ... -
Operation of mutation on Polar quivers
(Maseno university, 2009)In recent times, there has been a lot of interest in the study of quivers, both by mathematicians and theoretical physicists. We introduce a new concept of polar quivers and their mutation. The idea of polar quivers arises ... -
Operators with slowly growing resolvents towards the spectrum
(International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2009-03)A closed densely defined operator H, on a Banach space X, whose spectrum is contained in R and satisfies -
Opportunities and challenges for mixed day secondary school headteachers in promoting girl-child education in Kenya: A case study of Kisumu municipality
(Academic Journals, 2010-12-01)Despite Kenya Government's commitment to enhancement of girl-child education, their participation rate at secondary school level is still notably low. Many studies on the girl- child education have concentrated in the ... -
Opportunities and Peer Support for Aggression and Delinquency During Adolescence in Nine Countries
(New directions for child and adolescent development, 2020)This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural ... -
Opportunities from Satellite Observation Systems in Climate Risk Mitigation: The Case of Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
(ijsr, 2012)One of the key findings in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is that millions of people globally will be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. With over three quarters of Africa falling under arid and ... -
Opportunities from Satellite Observation Systems in Climate Risk Mitigation: The Case of Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
(ijsr, 2012)One of the key findings in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is that millions of people globally will be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. With over three quarters of Africa falling under arid and ... -
Opportunities from Satellite Observation Systems in Climate Risk Mitigation: The Case of Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
(International Journal of Science and Research, 2012)One of the key findings in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is that millions of people globally will be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. With over three quarters of Africa falling under arid and ... -
Optical properties and Raman studies of amorphous Se-Bi thin films
(The African Review of Physics, 2014)Flash evaporated amorphous Se Bi (x = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 at. %) thin films of 350 ± 10 thickness have been investigated in the wavelength range of 200nm − 3000nm. It is found that the effect of increasing bismuth ... -
Optical properties and Raman studies of amorphous se-bi thin films
(The African Review of Physics, 2014)Flash evaporated amorphous Se Bi (x = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 at. %) thin films of 350 ± 10 thickness have been investigated in the wavelength range of 200nm − 3000nm. It is found that the effect of increasing bismuth content ... -
Optical Properties of Seloo-Xbix Thin Films Deposited On Glass Substrates by Flash Evaporation Method
(Maseno University, 2014)The global need for sustainable energy production is pushing scientific research towards the development of inexpensive thin film solar cells which can compete with established commercial silicon-based technologies. These ... -
Optimal investment strategies of a defined Contribution pension fund
(Maseno University, 2019)The issue that a pension fund manager faces is how to optimize his/her investment strategies. The question we solve is the optimal design of the minimum guarantee in a defined contribution pension Fund Scheme. We study ... -
Optimised germination protocol for jackfruit seeds and evaluation of methods for extraction of DNA suitable for genetic analysis
(African Crop Science Society, 2022-08-18)Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is an underutilised plant that is promising in curbing food and nutritional security in sub-Saharan Africa. However, high level of secondary metabolites in its tissues significantly ... -
Optimising fermentation time in black tea manufacture
(Elsevier, 1986)A comparative study using in-line theaflavins analysis (ILTF), theaflavins of made-tea analysis (TFMT) and tasters' evaluations, to optimise fermentation during tea manufacture, was carried out. All methods obeyed a quadratic ...
