Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Attitude of Indigenous chicken farmers towards agricultural insurance in Nyanza, Kenya
(JDAE, 2018-06)Indigenous chicken (IC) contribute significantly to income and food security of rural communities. However, the IC are kept in systems that are characterised by high risk conditions such as diseases, predation, inadequate ... -
Farmers' attitude towards risk on indigenous chicken in Nyanza Region
(Premier Publishers, 2018-06)Kenya has an estimate of 25.9 million indigenous chicken that support livelihood of over 21 million people in rural areas. Indigenous chicken production in Kenya is mainly under extensive and semi intensive systems which ... -
Effect Of Internal Budget Deficit Financing On Economic Growth In Kenya
(Noble Academic Publsiher, 2019)Economic growth is an increase of a country’s output of goods and services commonly financed by internal and external sources some of which comprise public borrowings. Internal borrowing by Kenyan government has been ... -
Validating Measures in Business Research: Practical Implications
(2015-08-31)Instrument validity, though at the heart of quantitative business research, has not been adequately treated by novice researchers and advisors alike, potentially invalidating otherwise good research. This paper ... -
Board composition and value-added performance in an emerging securities market: Panel evidence from Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2017)This study investigates the role of board composition in influencing valueadded performance for firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) using the fixed effects panel data methodology. Using a sample of 456 firm-year ... -
Trends in forest conditions and implications for resilience to climate change under differing forest governance regimes: the case of Mount Elgon, East Africa
(CIFOR, 2017-03-16)Mount Elgon is a transboundary East African montane ecosystem that harbors unique biological diversity and provides critical goods and services to the surrounding densely populated communities. As a key water tower, the ... -
Exclusion of Community forest Associations in Decision Making and its Impact on Forest Condition; Case Study of MT. Elgon and Cherangany Ecosystems
(Indian Forester, 2017-09-01)Governance of forestry structure through Participatory Forest Management is backed by Forest Act 2005, which is undergoing a review process. It has been shown that adoption of PFM in some forest stations has resulted in ... -
IMPACT OF MOTORCYCLE TAXI ON THE EMERGENCE OF OTHER RELATED BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IN SIAYA DISTRICT
(Engineer's Publication House (EPH), 2016-01)In Kenya there has been a significant increase of motorcycle taxi business since 2005 to date. This has resulted into diversification in transport industry and the competitive framework amongst the key operators in the ... -
Eyeless in Academe: An American View of Disciplinary Myopia
(2013-03)The division of universities into academic departments has deleterious effects on the educational enterprise. Our external publics perceive universities to be in disarray, irrelevant to current problems and preoccupied ... -
Extent of Credit Financing By Commercial Banks to Agribusinesses in Kenya
(2014-03-31)Financing in the Agribusiness sector has been difficult due to perceived and unmanaged sectoral risk factors although it contributes to employment by up to 53% in a majority of poor and developing countries, 60% in South ... -
Validating Measures in Business Research: Practical Implications
(2015)Instrument validity, though at the heart of quantitative business research, has not been adequately treated by novice researchers and advisors alike, potentially invalidating otherwise good research. This paper ... -
The effect of increased investment in Boda Boda business on Economic Empowerment of people in Kisumu West District
(ejbm, 2014-12)In the last fifteen years the numbers of motorcycles per capita in many developing nations has doubled, they provide an affordable mobility option that is not otherwise available. Whereas information points to the ... -
A review of Kenya’s national policies relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation: Insights from Mount Elgon
(CIFOR, 2014-12-16)Climate change will impact many sectors of the economy: rural agriculture, biodiversity, hydrology, etc. Farmers are particularly affected since agriculture, livestock, fisheries, horticulture and agroforestry depend on ... -
Assessment of the Effect of Antropogenic Activities on Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation in Matayos Division of Busia County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya, 2019): Anthropogenic activities are fundamentally and to a significant extent irreversibly changing the diversity of life on Earth. Virtually all of the Earth‟s ecosystems have now been dramatically altered through human ... -
Kisumu County Secondary School Students’ Preferences to Content Published In the Pulse Magazine in Retrospect to Negative Behaviour
(Scholars Middle East Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2020-10-05)Globally the print media has made strides in publishing content that is appealing to readers. The Kenyan mainstream newspapers have established colourful and sensational pullouts to attract youthful readers. Among the most ... -
Kisumu County Secondary School Students’ Preferences to Content Published In the Pulse Magazine in Retrospect to Negative Behaviour
(Scholars Middle East Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2020-10-05)Globally the print media has made strides in publishing content that is appealing to readers. The Kenyan mainstream newspapers have established colourful and sensational pullouts to attract youthful readers. Among the most ... -
The frequency of content with elements of negative behaviour published in the pulse magazine
(Quantum Academic Publisher, 2020-10-18)Globally the print media has made strides in publishing content that is appealing to readers. The Kenyan mainstream newspapers have established colourful and sensational pullouts to attract youthful audience. Among the ... -
Ab initio study of the structural, vibrational and thermal properties of Ge2Sb2Te5
(Imperial College Press, 2015-06-12)The structural, vibrational and thermal properties of hexagonal as well as cubic Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) have been calculated from first principles. The relative stability of the possible stacking sequences of hexagonal GST has ... -
Nitrogen Doping of Hexagonal and Cubic Ge2Sb2Te5Nanocrystals: An Ab Initio Study
(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2018-12-17)The effect of nitrogen doping on the structural, electronic and optical properties of hexagonal and cubic Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) has been investigated from first principles. The nitrogen content was set to 10 at.% and 25 at.%, ... -
Le Kenya National Drama Festival: identité culturelle dans un corpus dramatique anglophone et francophone
(2016-02-10)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 ...