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Gal operon of Streptomyces
(1995)his invention relates to a recombinant DNA mole cule comprising the Streptomyces gal operon. Hodgson, J. Gen. Micro, 128, 2417-2430 (1982), re port that Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) has a glucose repression system which ... -
IEEE EMBS Fellows List Correction
(IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 1999)The list of 1999 IEEE Fellows who are EMBS members was incorrect in the January/February issue (vol. 18, no. 1, p. 14). The confirmed list of newly elected Fellows follows. The IEEE Fellow Committee and its staff extend ... -
Measuring thickness of thin metallic films with the use of laser probing technique
(Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Российский университет дружбы народов», 2005)Proposed and practically carried out поп-contact method of measuring thickness of thin metallic films. The recommended range of the thickness measured is from 100A to 1500A. The method is based on probing by a laser beam ... -
The Performance of South African and Kenyan Universities on the World Wide Web: a Web Link Analysis
(Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, 2007)The study used Link Analysis to compare Kenyan and South African universities according to several Web-based indicators, some of which include the number of pages, and the number of in and out-links. The authors examined ... -
Technique and results of measuring surface-acoustic-wave reflection coefficients with the use of laser sounding
(Nauka/Interperiodica, 2007-08-01)A technique of measuring the surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) reflection with the use of a laser sounding facility containing a reference diffraction grating is described. The characteristics of the SAW reflections from the ... -
Technique and Results of Measuring Surface-Acoustic-Wave Reflection Coefficients with the use of Laser Sounding
(Nauka/Interperiodica, 2007-08-01)A technique of measuring the surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) reflection with the use of a laser sounding facility containing a reference diffraction grating is described. The characteristics of the SAW reflections from the ... -
Role of livestock projects in empowering women smallholder farmers for sustainable food security in rural Kenya
(African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2009)Women are a major human resource and assure adequate nutrition, health and cognitive development of their households and children in their formative years. However, women are over-represented among the poor, suffer heavy ... -
E-Government Security: Information Security Management Model for Public Administration in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2010)nformation security in e-government in public administration in Kenya has not been adequately addressed. In order to develop an Information Security Management Model for Public Administration in Kenya, a questionnaire was ... -
Assessment of school information system utilization and factors that affect use in Kenyan secondary schools
(University of Nairobi, 2011)This paper describes a study on the utilization of School Information Systems (SIS) in secondary schools in Kenya. It begins by describing the structure of the Education system in Kenya, ICT in educational management and ... -
Acquiring Relational Patterns from Wikipedia: A Case Study
(Proc. of the 5th Language and Technology Conference, 2011)This paper proposes the automatic acquisition of binary relational patterns (i.e. portions of text expressing a relation between two entities) from Wikipedia. There are a few advantages behind the use of Wikipedia: (i) ... -
USE OF ENTERPRISE REPORTING SYSTEMS AT KISII BOTTLERS (K) LTD
(2011)Reports have widely indicated the need for organizations to step up utilization of electronic data through use of Enterprise Reporting (ER). In this regard, this study sought to investigate the use of enterprise reporting ... -
Effect of recruitment and selection of employees on the performance of small and medium enterprises in Kisumu municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Human Resource Studie, 2012)The study investigated the effect recruitment and election on the performance of SMEs in Kisumu Municipality, Kenya. Kenya has 1.6 million SMEs, constituting 96% of business enterprises, employing 75% of the labour force ... -
Implications of service quality on customer loyalty in the banking sector. A survey of Banks in Homabay county, Kenya
(Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2012)Marketing management research has advocated for the establishment of the determinants of customer loyalty to improve customer retention and performance. However, studies on the direct relationship between these determinants ... -
Ownership concentration and financial performance of listed firms in Kenya: An econometric analysis using panel data
(European Scientific Journal, 2013)In this study, we use panel methodology comprising 53 firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange to establish the effect of ownership concentration on financial performance of these firms for the period 2007 to 2011. ... -
The Effect of Integrating Mobile Technology in Micro Finance Institutions. Case of Small and Micro-Enterprise Program (SMEP) In Kisumu County
(IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 2014)Recognizing the potential that M-banking holds in strengthening the socioeconomic position of those currently lacking access to banking, especially the rural poor, Safaricom in Kenya and the two leading mobile operators ... -
A Review of Availability Mechanisms in Dynamic Cloud Computing Environments
(IJERT, 2015)Cloud computing is arguably a ubiquitous technology in today’s digital age. The cloud has changed the way users utilize computing services such as applications and storage and thin clients is the buzzword in the fast ... -
Towards Clean Information and Communication Technology Campaign in Public Universities in Kenya
(2015-01-04)Information and Communication Technology (ICT) accounts for about 2% of total Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This figure is likely to grow if the use of ICT keeps on growing unmanaged. Rapid technological advances have ... -
A crowdsourced database of event sequence descriptions for the acquisition of high-quality script knowledge
(Universität des Saarlandes, 2016)Scripts are standardized event sequences describing typical everyday activities, which play an important role in the computational modeling of cognitive abilities (in particular for natural language processing). We present ... -
The Challenges in the Use of Mobile Instant Messaging Systems in Universities
(2016-09)Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) encompasses a range of internet-based facilities that enable exchange of real-time messages using mobile phones. The value of MIM has widely been recognized in recent times, instigating an ... -
Inducing script structure from crowdsourced event descriptions via semi-supervised clustering
(Universitat des Saarlandes, 2017)We present a semi-supervised clustering approach to induce script structure from crowdsourced descriptions of event sequences by grouping event descriptions into paraphrase sets (representing event types) and inducing ...
