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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. ...
An analysis of the effect of performance contracting on supply chain performance of public universities in Kenya
(The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 2019)
Kenya Government has been implementing performance contracting in the public sector agencies with an overall goal of improve service delivery to the public. This is a performance improvement tool that assists in setting ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Computer network quality of experience enriched analysis using fuzzy logic model
(International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications, 2020)
Two important Quality of Experience (QoE) parameters in computer networks service-related performance metrics are throughput and end-to-end delay. A slow delay indicates high network efficiency thus high throughput. ...