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Patient Characteristics from an Emergency Care Center in Rural Western Kenya
(Elsevier, 2019)Emergency care is a neglected area of focus in many low- and middle-income countries. There is a paucity of research on types and frequencies of acute illnesses and injuries in low-resource settings. -
Perceived Impact of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund on the Youth Towards the Establishment of Small Scale Rural Enterprises in Turbo Division, Uasin-gishu County, Kenya
(Universitas Sulawesi Barat, 2017)The inception of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund has seen the rise of youth groups in rural areas. This paper is thus aimed at understanding the impact of the fund towards the youth establishment of small scale ... -
Photospins in the quantum Rabi model
(Research gate, 2019)This article provides a systematic interpretation of the quantum Rabi model as a model of photospins formed in the atom-field Jaynes-Cummings and anti-Jaynes-Cummings interaction mechanisms. A photospin is a quantized ... -
The plight of the house-helps (domestic workers) in selected estates in Eastland’s area, Nairobi County, Kenya
(International Journal of Social Sciences, 2019)In Kenya, households in the middle class suburbs have increasing involvement of house-helps who in most cases take care of household chores. Moreover house helps have borne the brunt of being among the least paid in the ... -
Polariton and anti-polariton qubits in the Rabi model
(Research gate, 2017)This paper presents a precise algebraic and physical framework for studying the dynamics and practical applications of the quantum Rabi model. We redefine the quantum Rabi interaction in terms of polariton and anti-polariton ... -
Probing the stoichiometry dependent catalytic activity of nickel selenide counter electrodes in the redox reaction of iodide/triiodide electrolyte in dye sensitized solar cells
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020)Nickel selenide (NixSey) systems have received much attention in recent years as potential low cost counter electrodes (CEs) in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Their electrocatalytic activities are comparable to ... -
Progressively accurate WKB approximations through factorization and successive boost transformations
(Research gate, 2015)This paper develops a procedure for obtaining progressively improving approximate solutions of the WKB (semiclassical ) model of the stationary Schroedinger equation through factorization and successive boost transformations ... -
Quadrature fluctuation energy, effective Hamiltonians, quasi-particle modes and quantum phase transitions in the Rabi and Dicke models
(Research gate, 2017)The main purpose of this article is to provide a simple physically motivated exact analytical procedure for determining effective Rabi and Dicke Hamiltonians, which have so far posed serious challenges in studies of ... -
Quantum thermodynamics of a strongly interacting bose-fermi mixture in a three-dimensional anharmonic potential
(Research gate, 2016)ABSTRACT Thermodynamic properties of Bose-Fermi mixture at ultra-low temperatures were studied using perturbation theory in three Cartesian coordinates. The Hamiltonian for the mixture was developed in terms of boson-boson, ... -
Quasiparticle spinors in light-matter interactions: generalized Jaynes-Cummings and antiJaynes-Cummings models
(Research gate, 2020)Seeking a clear understanding of the physical nature of quasiparticle excitations formed in the JaynesCummings and antiJaynes-Cummings interaction mechanisms in the quantum Rabi model, we have introduced appropriate composite ... -
The Question of Elitism, Medium and Audience in African Literature: Examples from Kiswahili Short Story
(Academia.edu, 2014)Since the Makerere Conference of 1962, the question of what is ‘African Literature’ has remained unresolved. To a large extent a great number of scholars led by Ngugi reduced the whole question to that of language. This ... -
Quiet Time Correlation Between Geomagnetic Field Variations and the Dynamics of the East African Equatorial Ionosphere
(Science Publishing Group, 2017)The equatorial ionosphere is highly dynamic and consequently poses serious threats to communication and navigation systems. As a result, proper understanding of ionospheric dynamics is important. The present paper presents ... -
Quiet Time Geomagnetic Field Variations in the Equatorial East African Region During the Inclining Phase of Solar Cycle 24
(Science Publishing Group, 2014)In the present paper, geomagnetic field data obtained from magnetometer measurements at two ground based stations have been used to study solar activity dependence of the solar quiet variations. The study has focused on ... -
Rabi oscillations, entanglement and teleportation in the anti-Jaynes-Cummings model
(Cornell University, 2021)This paper provides a scheme for generating maximally entangled qubit states in the anti-JaynesCummings interaction mechanism, so called entangled anti-polariton qubit states. We demonstrate that in an initial vacuum-field, ... -
Rabi oscillations, entanglement and teleportation in the anti-Jaynes-Cummings model
(Cornell University, 2021)This paper provides a scheme for generating maximally entangled qubit states in the anti-JaynesCummings interaction mechanism, so called entangled anti-polariton qubit states. We demonstrate that in an initial vacuum-field, ... -
Revisiting non-degenerate parametric down-conversion
(Springer-Verlag, 2008)he quantum dynamics of a two-mode non-resonant parametric down-conversion process is studied by recasting the time evolution equations for the basic operators in an equivalent spin equation form with simpler exact solutions ... -
Rheological Properties of Blends of Isotactic Polystyrene–Isotactic Poly(para-methylstyrene) Films Derived from a Comparative Dewetting Study
(American Chemical Society, 2020)We examined changes in rheological properties of nonequilibrated spin-coated thin films of isotactic polystyrene (iPS) and isotactic poly(para-methylstyrene) and blends thereof by dewetting experiments. For 200 nm thick ... -
Robust Arduino controlled spin coater using a novel and simple gravity chuck design
(Elsevier, 2023-06)Spin coaters offer an invaluable method of thin film fabrication. Various implementations, both proprietary and open-source exist, offering vacuum and gravity samples chucks. These implementations vary in their reliability, ... -
Role of bismuth and substrate temperature on the optical properties of some flash evaporated se100-x bix glassy system
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2015)Chalcogenide glasses are very important in the modern technology especially selenium-based. These glasses are sensitive to electromagnetic radiation useful in the infrared optics. The study investigated the effect of ... -
Role of oxygen concentrations on structural and optical properties of RF magnetron sputtered ZnO thin films
(Springer US, 2019)We report an investigation on the efect of oxygen fow rate on the structural and optical properties of zinc oxide thin flms prepared by RF magnetron sputtering. The structural measurements were carried using grazing ...