The inefficient water use, varying and low productivity in Kenya public irrigation schemes is a major concern. It is therefore necessary to periodically monitor and evaluate the performance of public irrigation schemes. ...

This study focused on investigating the engineering properties of cement stabilized laterite soil blocks reinforced with treated pineapple leaves fibres (T-PALF) and untreated ones (N-PALF). The fibre content in the blocks ...

With the increasing penetration of renewable energies in the power systems, a mix of energy resources from small scale to large scale improves the system reliability. However, radial distribution network encounters many ...

Borassus aethiopum mart is a woody monocotyledon plant and a renewable resource that comes from sub-Saharan Africa. In Benin, the transformation of its trunk in strips produces some fibrous waste unused due to the lack ...

The alcoholic beverage called Urwagwa in Rwanda is one of the most popular drinks traditionally processed from banana. Besides being a popular beverage during various social gatherings, it is also a primary source of income ...

The increase of multimedia services in Telecommunication industry has made bandwidth a scarce valuable resource. A popular way to achieve higher capacity is the use of small cells that increases number of handovers as user ...

In this thesis, the importance of structural viscoelasticity in the mechanical response of deformable porous media with incompressible constituents under sudden changes in the external applied quasi-static loads using ...

The increased demand for construction over the past two decades has led to drastic increase in the cost of concrete production. The increasing cost and scarcity of Portland cement has impacted negatively on the delivery ...

Worldwide, infections with influenza A viruses are associated with substantial illness and death among mammals and birds ,in humans it accounts for 250,000 -500,000 deaths per year its continuous mutation in different ...

Modelling and Forecasting volatility is one of the fundamental areas of research in Financial Mathematics, and thus has been the focus of many researchers; also, financial markets are known to be far from deterministic but ...