Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Factors underlying stigmatization of epilepsy: A comparative case study of Suba and Meru Central Districts, Kenya
(American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (ASRJETS), 2014)Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder known to mankind. It is shrouded in mystery and associated with supernatural forces resulting in social stigma, systematic discrimination and psychological morbidity to the ... -
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Depression among Patients with Epilepsy at Aga Khan University Teaching Hospital Nairobi
(2015-10-01)Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with depression in patients with epilepsy at Aga Khan University Hospital; Nairobi. Design: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Setting: Neurology clinic, Aga Khan ... -
Effects Of Catha edulis’ Leaf Extract on Blood Chemistry and Kidney Tissues in Small East African Male Goats from Rift Valley Province of Kenya
(East African Medical Journal, 2014)Objectives: To determine the serum electrolytes levels in animals treated with Catha edulis leaf extract. Design: Experimental study Setting: Department of Biological Sciences at the Chepkoilel University College, ... -
Student Politics in Africa
(African Minds, 2016)The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most ... -
Fundamental Investigation of Vesicle Bilayer Membrane Dynamics
(Western Michigan University, 2007)We studied the bilayer of vesicles from dimyristolyphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), using nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD) probes, attached to the head (NBD-PE) and the tail (NBD-PC) of phospholipid derivatives. We characterized the ... -
Internationalization of Higher Education, Africa
(Internationalization of Higher Education, Africa, 2018)Internationalization finds expression through travel abroad by students, faculty engaged in collaborative research and publishing, signing of memoranda of understanding between foreign institutions, when satellite campuses ... -
Cardiovascular risk factors among people living with HIV in rural Kenya: a clinic-based study
(Clinics Cardive Publishing, 2019-07-01)Objectives: To determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and their association with antiretroviral therapy (ART) among HIV-infected adults in a rural sub-county hospital in Kenya. Methods: This was a ... -
South African Sign Language-one language or many? A sociolinguistic question
(1998)In this article we discuss the signed language used by the Deaf community in South Africa, and examine the historical conditions for its emergence. We describe the legal and actual situation of South Afiican Sign Language ... -
Effect of strategic orientation on performance of banking institutions in Kisumu city-Kenya
(International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy, 2012)This study sought to determine the effect of strategic orientation on performance of banking institutions in Kisumu City. Performance of these banks varies greatly in terms of return on total assets (ROTA) yet they operate ... -
The grammar of sign language
(University of South Africa, 1997-01-01)Sign languages are natural visual-gestural languages comparable to other natural spoken languages. Although sign languages share many common universal features, considerable variation may be found amongst them. In this ... -
South African Sign Language-one language or many? A sociolinguistic question
(Stellenbosch Papers, 1998)In this article we discuss the signed language used by the Deaf community in South Africa, and examine the historical conditions for its emergence. We describe the legal and actual situation of South Afiican Sign Language ... -
Effect of Different Strategies on Procurement Efficiency in Public Secondary Schools: A Survey of Public Secondary Schools in Ndhiwa District, Kenya
(American Journal of Business, 2015-04-01)Public procurement system in Kenya has undergone significant developments. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of different strategies adopted by public schools on their procurement processes. The research ... -
Effect of implementing quality management system on the performance of public universities in Kenya: A case of Maseno University, Kenya
(American Journal of Business, 2015-05-23)The degree on which a set of inherent characteristics of employees fulfill an organizations’ performance, is seen to be based on a number of management systems and styles adopted by the organization. One of such systems’ ... -
Relationship between Volume of Mortgage Lending and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks Quoted in Nairobi Securities Exchange
(International Journal of Business and Management Invention, 2017)Mortgage loans have become an important aspect of loan portfolio among commercial banks in Kenya. It is observed that commercial banks’ lending criteria are pro-cyclical. As a result, they are likely to underestimate the ... -
South African Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language: Similar or different? Corpus-based research focusing on reference tracking
(2007)There are a number of indications for a high degree of similarity between grammars of different sign languages studied so far. These observations are almost exclusively based on the analysis of American, Western European ... -
Analysis of Rice Supply Chain in Kenya
(International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research, 2017)In the last decade, supply chain management has played an important role in leading organizations today to; succeed in their business goals, gain competitive advantages, and improve business performance. As the result of ... -
Constituent order in Flemish Sign Language (VGT) and South African Sign Language (SASL): A cross-linguistic study
(John Benjamins, 2007-01-01)This paper reports on a comparison of word order issues, and more specifically on the order of the verb and its arguments, in two unrelated sign languages: South African Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language. The study ... -
What is South African sign language? What is the South African deaf community
(2009-05-11)SUMMARY What is South African Sign Language? What is the South African Deaf Community? These two questions may look simple but answering them is quite complicated. It is a well-known fact that across the world, the majority ... -
Effect of Organization Culture on organization performance on Public Universities in Kenya
(European Scientific Journal, 2018)Organizational culture is the adhesive holding companies together in a country and is characterized by stability processes, collectivity and predictability, and is a source of recreation, of new opportunities as well as ... -
Application of South African sign Language (SASL) in a bilingual-Bicultural approach in education of the deaf
(2010)After contextualising the challenges of deaf education in the twenty-first century in the global context, this study focused on sign language in the environment of bilingual-bicultural education for the deaf in South Africa. ...
