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Coordinate Ellipsis in EkeGusii: An Overview
(Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2019)
This paper gives the distributional characteristics of coordinate elliptical
constructions in EkeGusii. The syntax of the constructions is given
using a Phase theoretic approach, one of the current theoretical
constructs ...
Review of policies and frameworks on climate change, agriculture, food and nutrition security in Kenya
(2019-11)
In particular, a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Strategy (2017–2026) and CSA Implementation Framework (2018-2027) have been developed to promote climate-resilient and low-carbon sustainable agriculture and effectively ...
Challenges in supporting survivors of child sexual abuse in Kenya: a qualitative study of government and non-governmental organizations
(SAGE Publications, 2019-05-03)
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global, social, and health challenge. Existing literature on post-sexual assault care has focused largely on health providers’ skills and capacity to offer quality clinical, medicolegal, and ...
Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019-07-16)
Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by ...
Examining effects of mother and father warmth and control on child externalizing and internalizing problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countries
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-12-13)
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States; N = 1,315) to investigate bidirectional associations between parental ...
Education and Parenting in Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2019)
This chapter discusses parenting practices and students’ academic achievement in light of Kenya’s current education system. An attempt is made to trace the evolution of the Kenyan education system through the years from ...
Forging Associations Across Multiple Spaces: How Somali Kinship Practices Sustain the Existence of the Dadaab Camps in Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2019)
Scholars increasingly have challenged the idea that camps as social worlds can only be visualized in terms of helplessness, immobility, and isolation. Similarly, this contribution demonstrates that Somali kinship practices ...
Household income predicts trajectories of child internalizing and externalizing behavior in high-, middle-, and low-income countries
(Sage Publications, 2019-01)
This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents’ education and children’s trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. ...
The factors militating against the education of girls: A case study in Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2019-11-30)
This research attempted to find out the factors militating against the education of girls in Lower Eastern Province, Kenya. The main purpose of the research was to establish the magnitude of the effects of the factors that ...
Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low‐ and middle‐income countries
(Wiley, 2019)
.The current longitudinal study is the first comparative investigation across low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) to test the hypothesis that harsher and less affec‐ tionate maternal parenting (child age 14 years, on ...