Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Influence of strategy implementation factors on performance of Kenya rural roads authority
(Maseno University, 2022)Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) is a road agency vested with the responsibility of management, development, rehabilitation, and maintenance of rural roads. However, the Authority has not adequately accomplished its ... -
Assessment of public participation in the budget process in Kisumu county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Globally, governments, researchers, and policy practitioners have advanced public participation as an important tool for democratic governance. In Africa, countries such as Kenya have recently embraced public participation ... -
Effects of psychosocial and work condition on job satisfaction of public secondary school female principals in Siaya county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)The 2010 Constitution enhanced affirmative action to boost women’s participation in educational leadership in Kenya. However, in Siaya county female principals face problems in their leadership roles and work conditions ... -
A reinforcement learning multi-agent systems architecture for guaranteeing advancing conversations in task-oriented dialog systems
(Maseno University, 2022)The conversational capabilities of a dialog system have a direct impact on the tasks it can accomplish. Solving all conversational issues in dialog systems have the potential to make them serve in complex domains. While ... -
Dental caries experience and associated risk factors among pre-school going children in Bureti sub county Kericho County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2019)Globally, dental caries is one of the most prevalent dental health problem that affects children. It is number four main cause of morbidity among under five year old children in Bureti Sub County and accounts for up to ... -
Nurses’ knowledge related to pain assessment for critically ill patients at a public sector Hospital in Johannesburg
(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2014)Discrepancies exist between how pain is assessed in ICU patients able and unable to self report. There are pain assessment scales and guidelines that have been developed over the years for pain assessment. However, ... -
Le Kenya National Drama Festival : Identité culturelle dans un corpus dramatique anglophone et francophone.
(UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL (CLERMONT II) École Doctorale Lettres, Sciences Humaines et Sociales, ED 370, 2019)This study analyszes the representation of cultural identity in sixteen drama texts written by Kenyans in English and in French for the Kenya National Drama Festival (KNDF). Considering the colonial history and the ... -
Script Acquisition: A Crowdsourcing and Text mining approach
(Saarland University, 2019)According to Grice’s (1975) theory of pragmatics, people tend to omit basic information when participating in a conversation (or writing a narrative) under the assumption that left out details are already known or can ... -
Characterization of the Genetic Diversity of Cercospora Zeina in Kenya and Mapping the QTL for resistance to Gray Leaf Spot and Turcicum Leaf Blight in Maize
(Maseno university, 2022)Gray leaf spot (GLS) caused by Cercospora zeina in Africa and Turcicum leaf blight (TLB) caused by Exserohilum turcicum are a major threat to maize production due to the associated grain yield losses. Resistance in the ... -
Mathematical modeling of flood wave: a case study of Budalang’i flood plain basin in Busia county, Kenya
(Maseno university, 2022)Flooding is a worldwide problem with more adverse effects in developing countries. In Kenya, severe flooding is experienced on the lower tributaries of Lake Victoria, mainly Budalang’i area. This is indicated in the ... -
Factors influencing implementation of orientation and mobility programme for learners who are blind in selected special primary schools for visual impairment in Kenya
(Maseno university, 2021)Independent movement offers learners who are blind connection to the world, hence the need for training in Orientation and Mobility (O & M) skills before achieving purposeful mobility. In Kenya, training in O & M skills ... -
Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of salmonella Isolated from Nile tilapia (Oreochromis ni/otics, L.) Along lake Victoria beaches in western Kenya
(Maseno university, 2009)Enteritis induced by nontyphoidal Salmonella represents major economic and social problems. Chemotherapeutic selection may have additional consequences for virulence evolution through acquisition of linked virulence ... -
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 ... -
Norms of tensor products and elementary Operators
(Maseno university, 2009)In this thesis, we determine the norm of a two-sided symmetric operator in an algebra. More precisely, .we investigate the lower bound of the operator using the injective tensor norm. Further, we determine the norm of ... -
Binding of opsonized immune complexes to Erythrocyte crlicd35 inhibits TNF-a production by restricting immune complex uptake by macro phages
(Maseno university, 2008)Previous studies have shown that children suffering from severe malaria have elevated concentrations of TNF-a, increased levels of circulating immune complexes (ICs) and decreased levels of complement regulatory proteins ... -
Use of conventional and molecular techniques to Determine the prey alence of shigella and Enteroinv asive escherichia coli strains from Diarrhoea patients in selected health facilities in Rural western Kenya
(Maseno university, 2009)Diarrhoea is a major cause of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide. It accounts for 1.6- 2.5 million deaths annually and each child in the developing world experiences an average of three episodes of diarrhoea per ... -
On norms of elementary operators
(2009)The study of elementary operators has been of great interest to many mathematicians for the past two decades. Of special interest has been to determine the norms of these operators. The norm problem for elementary operators ... -
The functional associations between il-4 -589t/c and Il-6 -636g/c promoter polymorphisms and paediatric Severe malarial anaemia in a holoendemic area of Western Kenya
(Maseno university, 2009)Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent and lethal human malaria parasite, IS responsible for most malaria-related morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. It manifests mainly as severe malarial anaemia (SMA) in ... -
Apoptotic machinery in plasmodium falciparum Growing in a continuous culture
(Maseno university, 2009)Apoptosis and indeed metacaspase have not been sufficiently evaluated to show their role in Plasmodium Jalciparum. To study apoptosis, synchronized P. Jalciparum cultures were initiated at a parasitemia of 0.5 % at 5 % ... -
Performance of Maize Hybrids and Inbred lines under Gray Leafspot (Cercospora zea-maydis L.) infestation in western Kenya
(Maseno university, 2009)Gray leaf spot (GLS) caused by Cercospora zea-maydis is recognized as one of the most yield limiting diseases of maize world-wide. In susceptible genotypes, yieldlosses of up to 60 percent are not uncommon. The objectives ...