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ESTIMATION OF A JUMP DIFFUSION PROCESS USING A CLOSED-FORM APPROXIMATION LIKELIHOOD UNDER A STRONG DISCRETIZATION SCHEME OF ORDER ONE

FADONOUGBO, RENAUD (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-05)

The jump diffusion process plays a major role in financial modeling. The process was introduced for the first time by Merton in option pricing, to overcome the shortcoming of the Black Scholes formula. This study provides ...
ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL VARIATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EFFICIENT TISSUE CULTURE PROPAGATION PROTOCOL FOR Vitex doniana Sweet (LAMIACEAE) FROM BENIN (WESTERN AFRICA)

DADJO, COLOMBE (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-05)

Black plum (Vitex doniana) tree is an indigenous wild species important for the livelihoods of rural populations in Benin. It is highly nutritious and rich in phytochemical compounds of health benefit. In Benin, the greatest ...
OPNET Based Performance study and comparison of MANET Routing Protocols with variable FTP Traffic Load Patterns

ABRAHA, GEBREHIWOT KALAYU (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-05)

In a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) there is no wired infrastructure by which the routing functionalities are performed. The mobile nodes work as routers in that the routing and message delivery is performed by the nodes. ...
EXTENDING IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) RANGE: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION AND FUNDAMENTAL PERFORMANCE LIMITS DETERMINATION

MUREITHI, ISAAC WARUTUMO (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-05)

This thesis demonstrates the use of UNII-3 (Wi-Fi) frequencies, 5.725 - 5.825GHz, in setting up long distance point-to-point links, capable of providing broadband Internet in rural areas. Although this frequency band was ...
OPNET Based Performance study and comparison of MANET Routing Protocols with variable FTP Traffic Load Patterns

ABRAHA, GEBREHIWOT KALAYU (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-05)

In a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) there isnofixed infrastructure by which routing is performed. The mobile nodes work both as routers and hosts. The absence of fixed centralized infrastructure and unpredictably varying ...
Modeling Inflation Rates in Liberia; SARIMA Approach

Fannoh, Roland (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

This thesis models Liberia’s Inflation rates using the Box-Jenkins Methodology. It was modeled using seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average which extends the ARIMA model to capture seasonality. The monthly ...
Performance of Selected Waste Materials as Aggregates in Concrete

Abubaker, Merghani Almaleeh (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Waste materials have many unfavourable effects on the environment which are deleterious to the human. The high cost of construction materials demands another suitable substitute. Due to the poor recycling of waste materials, ...
Performance Evaluation of Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Uniform and Non-Uniform Linear Arrays for Signal Source Localization

Kwizera, Eva (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Due to the flexibility and convenience of wireless communication, many applications began to adapt to it. Hence, to comply with the requirements, a high speed data rate is necessary. With the advancement of technologies ...
Anti-Cancer Potential of Ethanolic and Water Leaves Extracts of Annona Muricata (Graviola)

Yahaya, Gavamukulya (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Cancer is a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally and overall survival rate is still low despite advances in surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Plants have played a significant role in the treatment of cancer ...
On the Location of a Free Boundary for American Options

Katende, Ronald J. (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

We study the free boundary problem of the American type of options. We consider a continuous dividend paying put option and provide much simpler way of approximating the option payo and value. The essence of this study ...
Optimal Placement and Sizing of Solar Photovoltaic System in Radial Distribution Network for Active Power Loss Reduction

Madjissembaye, Nanghoguina (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

The integration of Distributed Generation into electric power systems has considerably increased to meet the increasing load requirements and provide environmental benefits. More attention has been given to Solar Photovoltaic ...
Modeling Volatility in the Gambian Exchange Rate Returns Using Variants of ARMA–GARCH Models

Marreh, Sambujang (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

This thesis aimed at modeling exchange rate volatility in the Gambian foreign exchange rate returns. Financial time series models that combined autoregressive moving average and generalized conditional heteroscedasticity ...
Proximate Composition Analysis and Establishment of an efficient in vitro Micropropagation Protocol for Anchote [Coccinia abyssinca (Lam.) Cogn]. from Eastern Wollega, Ethiopia

Tola, Bayisa Guma (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Anchote (Cocinia abysinica (Lam.) Cogn) is an annual trailing vine belonging to family cucurbitaceae and is a potential major root and tuber cultivated plant produced in west Oromia (East Wollega) ,Ethiopia as food, cultural ...
SEIR Childhood Disease Model With Constant Vaccination Strategy

Yano, Kiprono Timothy (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Childhood diseases are increasingly becoming the most common form of infectious diseases. These diseases include measles, mumps, Influenza, smallpox, chicken pox, Rubella, Polio etc., which take special interest to ...
Channel Estimation and Precoding for Massive Mimo Downlink Time –Division Duplex System

Abdu, Tedros Salih (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

The massive MIMO technology uses a large number of antennas at the base station to transmit and receive signals using a Time Division Duplex (TDD) to/from users at the same time and the same frequency but with different ...
Detection of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax Mixed Infection Level and Identification of Pfcrt and Pfmdr1 Resistance Mutations in North-West Ethiopia

Nigatie, Addimas Tajebe (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

This study was conducted to assess the level of mixed infections and prevalence of chloroquine transporter gene point mutations that are important determinants of drug resistance level in P. falciparum. A total of 7,343 ...
Use of polymerase chain reaction (nested) and loop mediated isothermal amplification (wet and lyophilized) for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii in clinical samples

Thiong’o, Samuel Kiboro (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Toxoplasmosis is a disease in humans caused by a protozoan parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii. The widely used methods of diagnosis of T. gondii are mainly serological but have low sensitivity and are labor intensive. ...
Estimating Three-Way Latent Interaction E ects in Structural Equations Modeling

Urge, Birhanu Worku (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

A Monte Carlo simulation was performed for estimating and testing hypotheses of three-way interaction e ect in latent variable regression models. A considerable amount of research has been done on estimation of simple ...
Comparative Structural Response of Self Consolidating and Traditional Vibrated Concrete Beams

Nathalie, Suliy Mawo (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Concrete is a very popular artificial material on earth and it is one of the most used construction material in building technology. It is a mixture of three basic elements: water, aggregate and a binder such as cement ...
Transient Stability Analysis of a Power System Having Large Scale Wind Generation

Orenge, Roy Samwel (JKUAT-PAUSTI, 2018-02-12)

Energy is one of the most important factors that continue to in uence the shape of civ- ilization in the 21st Century. The cost and availability of energy signi cantly impacts our quality of life, the health of national ...

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