Waithaka, S. M.; Gakure, R.; Wanjau, K.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
With the growing competition of globalization, strategic decision makers have been faced with the
competing interests of external and internal stakeholders such as greater diversity in corporate
governance, undertaking ...
Mokaya, S. O.; Kanyagia, P.; M’Nchebere, G. M.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
Market positioning has long been recognized as a vital tool to confront competitive pressures and improve
organizational performance. Firms which position themselves within a particular market place relative to
competitors, ...
This paper presents an emotion recognition model that assesses the affective content from textual messages. The
focus is on emotion recognition from online non verbal textual symbols of vocalics (e.g., the use of capitals ...
Njogah, M.; Machandi, M.; Oyugi, G.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
Low energy costs have not induced industry and households to adopt energy efficiency measures and the growing
GHG emissions are a source of growing concern and promoting energy efficiency standards. Demand-side
management ...
Kaluli, J. W.; Wageci, C.; Home, P. G.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
Safe, clean drinking water and sanitation facilities are key to economic development and public health in Kenya.
Rapid urbanization and population growth mean worsening conditions for millions of Kenyans, especially ...
In an attempt to come up with early detection mechanisms of the HIV-1 virus, several investigations have been carried out. The current detection mechanisms are either expensive, require skilled personnel or are not sensitive ...
Kinyua, J. M.; Mureithi, C. M.; Murage, D. K.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
This paper focusses on the aggregation of multiple induction motors connected in parallel on the same bus bars
into a single equivalent model using two methods of aggregations.This has been necessitated by the strong ...
Ndinyo, C. S.; Gariy, A.; Mulei, S. M.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
Increase in the number of high volume roads constructed to bitumen standards in the past five years in Kenya has
led to a strain in the supply of scarce natural resource aggregates. Some of the existing roads have ...
Hydropower is a renewable source of energy. It has little fluctuation which is different from solar and wind
power. The cost of large scale hydroelectricity is generally very low. Adding to large scale, development of
small ...
Computer simulations were conducted to determine the elastic stress concentration factors in the vicinity of
an elliptical cross-bore in a closed ended thick walled cylinder. The orientation of the elliptical cross-bore
with ...
Approximately 11,268 km2 of Uganda’s wetlands were lost between 1994 and 2008, representing a 4.7% decline in only 14 years. In response, the government working with civil society actors put in place and tested a unique ...
Locham, A. G; Kaunda-Arara, B; Wakibia, JG; Muya, S(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
Growth and mortality variations of Leptoscarus vaigiensis was studied among six reef sites exposed to different fishing pressure in coastal Kenya in order to test the hypothesis of phenotypic plasticity. Monthly fish samples ...
Climate change is expected to affect the agricultural systems, such as crop yield and plant disease occurrence and spread. To be able to mitigate against the negative impacts of climate change, there is a need to use early ...
Makworo, M; Moirongo, BC; Mireri, C(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
This paper focuses on undesignated parking in public spaces of residential neighbourhoods in Nairobi. In residential neighbourhoods, cars cannot be divorced from pedestrian life as a great deal of pedestrian activity takes ...
This study sought to; determine levels of income generated from Solid Waste Management (SWM) practices,
assess contribution of the income to participating households’ (HHs) socio-economics and make policy
recommendations ...
The research was carried out with the objective of developing a simulation model for controlling moisture content
and temperature in the grain drying chamber. Mathematical modeling of deep bed grain drying, consisting of ...
Obiri, L. K.; Kinyua, J. M.; Muriithi, C. M.(JKUAT, 2017-06-22)
Environmental constraints have limited expansion of transmission line networks. And with power systems
being operated close to their security limits, the likelihood of voltage collapses occurring has increased. In
most ...
Chemotherapy remains central in the control of malaria. However, the rapid emergence and spread of antimalarial
drugs remains a public health problem. To date, resistance to almost all available antimalarials has been ...
The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) is one of the most vibrant financial securities markets in
Africa. The equity securities of the companies listed at the market have for a long time been
subdivided into Agricultural; ...
This paper postulates that since mobile cash transfer and banking applications security architectures were
developed in obscurity, they could easily be cracked when they lose their obscurity. The paper investigates ...