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The mix of good nutritional attitude and poor nutritional knowledge is associated with adequate intake of vitamin A and iron from wild fruits and vegetables among rural …
(Food Science & Nutrition, 2018-11)Nutritional knowledge and attitude of a population greatly affect intake of essential micronutrients. Much of the understanding on the impact of nutritional knowledge and attitude on nutrient intake has been derived from ... -
‘Mixed blessings’: parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017-08)Most studies of the effects of parental religiousness on parenting and child development focus on a particular religion or cultural group, which limits generalizations that can be made about the effects of parental religiousness ... -
‘Mixed Blessings’: Parental Religiousness, Parenting, and Child Adjustment in Global Perspective
(Routledge, 2022)Background: Most studies of the effects of parental religiousness on parenting and child development focus on a particular religion or cultural group, which limits generalizations that can be made about the effects of ... -
Modalities of Space Production within Kenya's Rapidly Transforming Cities. Cases from Voi and Kisumu
(KU LEUVEN, 2019)This PhD research focuses on the social production of urban space within two rapidly transforming secondary cities of Kenya—Voi and Kisumu. The aim is to examine the conditions under which urban space is produced and used ... -
Model for Blended Supervision of Post-Graduate Students
(InTech, 2015)Supervision of eLearning students at Maseno University poses a great challenge to the normal institutional order because most senior lecturers qualified for postgraduate supervision are technologically illiterate, ... -
A Model for Code Restructuring, A Tool for Improving Systems Quality in Compliance with Object Oriented Coding Practice
(International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI), 2019)A major goal of software restructuring is to preserve or increase the value of a piece of software. Restructuring a system may make it possible to add more features to the existing system or make the software more ... -
A Model of the Relationships Between Availability Mechanisms and Outage Sources in Cloud Computing
(A Model of the Relationships Between Availability Mechanisms and Outage Sources in Cloud Computing, 2020)ABSTRACT The use of cloud computing has been growing exponentially since its inception. Availability of the cloud, however, has been a problem for users and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) alike; outages have been on the ... -
A Model on the Impact of Treating Typhoid with Anti-malarial: Dynamics of Malaria Concurrent and Co-infection with Typhoid
(2015)International Journal of Mathematical Analysis Vol. 9, 2015, no. 11, 541 - 551 HIKARI Ltd, www.m-hikari.com http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ijma.2015.412403 … A Model on the Impact of Treating Typhoid with … Department ... -
Model selection in generalized estimating Equations based on kullback’s i-divergence
(Maseno University, 2020)The method of Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) is often used in analyzing correlated longitudinal data and does provide consistent estimates which are robust to misspecification of the working correlation structure. ... -
Modeling Household Solid Waste Generation in Urban Estates Using SocioEconomic and Demographic Data, Kisumu City, Kenya
(2017)Knowledge on household solid waste quantity is essential for planning solid waste management strategy for a given city. Lack of reliable studies on household solid waste (HSW) generation is a key challenge in proper HSW ... -
Modeling Mechanistic-Empirical Road Design: The Case for Kenyan Roads
(Maseno University, 2011)Regular revision of road design manuals is a recommended practice in pavement management, and Kenya has recently completed a review of hers. The outcome of the process is an enhanced but empirical manual with rigid ... -
Modeling of jumps and mean reversion in the Kenyan interest rates
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Modeling the Dynamics of Bacteremic Pneumonia: The role of Control Strategies, Case Detection and Treatment
(Maseno University, 2016)Pneumonia is a respiratory disease mainly caused by bacteria, Streptococcus Pneumoniae. The bacteria exist in up to 90 different strains out of which 25 are invasive. Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of mortality ... -
Modeling the effects of interference in fertility rate: a case study of Rwanda, Indonesia and Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)Many studies have been done on fertility for many years. However, very little has been documented in the existing literature concerning modeling of fertility in the presence of interference, yet interference to fertility ... -
Modeling trailer-traffic flow on a Kenyan highway
(2014)Traffic flow modelling is studied in order to ease congestion on roads. However, congestion is also caused by irregular occurrences, such as traffic accidents, poor roads, vehicle disablement, spilled loads and hazardous ... -
Modeling Vegetation Lifeforms Abundance based on Epigeal Termitaria Physiography and Altitude in Tropical Savannah of Katolo Sub-Location, Kisumu County
(2017)Termite mounds are major sites of functional heterogeneity in the tropical ecosystems globally; through their prodigious influence on vegetation and soil perturbation. They aid soil aeration, water infiltration and catabolism ... -
Modelling delay in migration for constant predator And predator-density-dependent prey migration
(Maseno University, 2020)ABSTRACT Predator-prey models describe the dynamics of ecological systems in which two species, the predator and the prey, interact. The classical Lotka-Volterra model is the simplest predator-prey model. Migration of ... -
Modelling of distribution of the “Matatu” traffic flow using Poisson distribution in a highway in Kenya
(HIKARI Ltd, 2018)Traffic congestion in urban road and freeway networks leads to strong degradation of the network infrastructure and accordingly reduced output. Expansion of the available transportation continues to be one of the solution ... -
Modelling of lactation curves of dairy cows based on monthly test day milk yield records under inconsistent milk recording scenarios
(Cambridge University Press, 2011-11-01)The objective of this study was to describe the lactation curve of dairy cattle in Kenya using a suitable lactation function in order to facilitate inclusion of partial lactations in national dairy cattle evaluation and ... -
Modelling Stratified Flow in an Inclined Flow Channel with a Bend
(International Scientific Press, 2013-07-01)Multi-phase flows modelling in wellbore has always been a problem to the petroleum and many other industries. In the petroleum industry, correlations are presently in use, most of which are obsolete as their application ...