Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Evaluating the sustainability of mHealth systems in developing countries: the knowledge gap
(ijret, 2017)The use of mobile technology in healthcare, known as mHealth is being explored across the developing countries as part of the effort to tackle growing disease burden through, prevention and appropriate and prompt intervention ... -
An Evaluation of Hybrid Machine Learning Classifier Models for Identification of Terrorist Groups in the aftermath of an Attack
(IRJET, 2019)The urgency of responding to a terrorist attack and the subsequent nature of analysis required to identify the terrorist group involved in an attack demands that the performance of the machine learning classifiers yield ... -
Sex in the Green Lodging: The Voices of Medically Circum-cised Fishermen on the Shores of Lake Victoria, Western Ken-ya
(HSOA Journal of AIDS Clinical Research and STDs, 2018-03-22)Fishing communities have been reported as one of the highest-risk groups for HIV infection in Kenya and other countries with high HIV and AIDS prevalence. Studies along Lake Victoria region, where HIV and AIDS had a ... -
HOW TO INTERGRATE THE AFFECTIVE DIMENSION IN THE TEACHING OF FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN KENYA
(2020-08-08)Learning a language can be a complicated affair, particularly when the language is foreign and learning takes place in an exolingual context. The teacher of a foreign language in a multilingual context such as Kenya has ... -
Phonétique et didactique du Fle: cas de confusion des sons chez les apprenants de FLE kenyans
(IFRA-Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique, 2014-09-01)Cet article a pour objet le rôle joué par la phonétique en classe de français langue étrangère (FLE). Il est unanimement connu et reconnu que les apprenants qui s’adonnent à l’apprentissage d’une langue vivante étrangère ... -
Morphological Characterisation of Global Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana, L. Gaertn) Germplasm Reaction to Striga in Kenya
(AJBGMB, 2018-11-12)Finger millet (Eleusine coracana, L. Gaertn) is an important food crop in Africa and Asia. Its grain is richer in protein, fat and minerals than other major cereals. The parasitic weed Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth ... -
Combinatorics of oriented trees and tree-like structures
(Stellenbosch University, 2015)In this thesis, a number of combinatorial objects are enumerated. Du and Yin as well as Shin and Zeng (by a different approach) proved an elegant formula for the number of labelled trees with respect to a given ... -
Village Elites and Community Development in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014-06-30)This paper looks at the role of village elites in a rapidly changing rural landscape. The process of development in Kenya has seen the rise of a dichotomous community in which salaried employees spend their working life ... -
Social capital and climate change perception in the Mara River Basin, Kenya
(IISTE, 2015)Climate change is a phenomenon that affects different facets of human livelihood. However, the general public does not easily comprehend it. This study was inspired by the realization that climate change is not just an ... -
Scenario study for Flood Hazard Assessment in the lower Bicol Floodplain Philippine using A 2D Flood model
(ITC, 2004-03)In the frameworks of the ITC Projects (SLARIM) Strengthening Local Authorities in Risk Management, a case study was carried out on hazard assessment on Lower Bicol floodplain. The floodplain is located in four provinces ... -
Determinants of Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas L) Profitability in Rachuonyo South District, Kenya
(ACR, 2014-04-04)Sweet potato is a high yielding crop with a higher food value than many staple food crops. Its production in Kenya is concentrated in Rachuonyo South district. To promote growth of the sweet potato subsector and to reduce ... -
Influence of Water Availability on Food Crop Production in Semi-Arid Areas in Kibwezi District, Makueni County, Kenya
(Arts Humanit, 2015)Ecosystems provide essential services like water regulation and other processes which sustain and fulfill human life by directly or indirectly supporting humans‟ survival and quality of life. However, there is insufficient ... -
Relationship Between Water Quality Indicators And Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In The Kuywa River, Kenya
(2017)The Kuywa River watershed has undergone riparian vegetation planting since 2006 in order to improve the river health. The planted riparian buffer zone vegetation was to improve channel stability, promote biodiversity, and ... -
Relationship between riparian vegetation cover and macroinvertebrate assemblages in Kuywa River, Kenya
(2017-02-01)The Kuywa River watershed has undergone riparian vegetation planting since 2006 in order to improve the river health. The planted riparian buffer zone vegetation was to improve channel stability, promote biodiversity, and ... -
Shortcomings of Ultrasonic Obstacle Detection for Vehicle Driver Assistance and Profiling
(Int. J. Inf. Technol. Comput. Sci, 2019)Obstacle detection is a challenging problem that has attracted much attention recently, especially in the context of research in self-driving car technologies. A number of obstacle detection technologies exist. Ultrasound ... -
Estimation of hydraulic properties from pumping tests data of Nairobi Area, Kenya
(IJRET, 2016)The aim of this study was to determine the hydraulic properties of Nairobi area in order to highlight the groundwater potential and to identify the distribution of hydraulic characteristics of aquifers in the area as well ... -
A Domains Approach to Remote Access Logical Vulnerabilities Classification
(MECS: http://www.mecspress.org/ijcnis/ijcnis-v11-n11/IJCNIS-V11-N11-5.pdf., 2019)Remote access facilitates collaboration and the creation of a seamless work environment. This technology enables employees to access the latest versions of data and resources from different locations other than the ... -
Smart-bot Technology: Conversational Agents Role in Maternal Healthcare Support
(2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa), 2019)There is a need for a system that respond to various queries in real-time, to advice and inform expectant mothers during their pregnancy. Several smart services have been deployed, bundled with health information systems, ... -
Checkpointing as a Counter to Security Issues in Cloud Computing Infrastructure
(2019 IEEE AFRICON, 2019)The world is experiencing a paradigm shift towards intelligent agents in form of machine learning for modeling any given task or process. Human vehicle drivers are agents that operate under stochastic environments, full ... -
Is Democrasy Possible? A Theoritical Perspective
(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017)Democracy can be defined as a government in which sovereignty lies with the people either directly or via representatives. The transition from monarchy to representative democracy was long, gradual process. Nevertheless, ...