Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Dahl's law in Kitharaka
(University of Nairobi, 2003)This paper discusses the nature of Dahl's law in Kitharaka.It is shown that the rule has diachronically operated on Kitharaka roots and that it operates on the prefixes synchronically.Morever,it is argued that,whereas the ... -
The manipulation of the Constitution of Kenya,1963-1996:A reflective essay
(University of Nairobi, 2003)From 1963 to 1996,the Kenya Constitution went through changes that were politically motivated,narrow in scope,and detrimental to the emerging state whose official goal was to create a nation.It is possible,therefore,to ... -
Water, sanitation conditions and implications for child survival in Kenya: A review of statistical evidence from the 1999 census of population
(2016)Water supply and sanitation are important requisites for basic human needs and primary health care. Their inadequate provision has far reaching economic and humanitarian consequences. In Kenya this is well expressed in ... -
Advanced manufacturing technology adoption in manufacturing companies in Kenya
(2015)Over the past few decades, manufacturing has evolved from a more labor-intensive set of mechanical processes to a sophisticated set of information based technology processes. With the existence of various advanced ... -
Local Participation in Community Forest Associations: A Case Study of Sururu and Eburu Forests, Kenya
(2015)Participation of local communities in the management and utilization of state-owned forest resources has become widely recognized in contrast to centralised forms of forest governance. This paper examined the extent of ... -
Conflict Prediction Model in a Dynamic State
(2015)Environmental c onflicts arise as a consequence of actions prevent ing or compel ling some outcome at the resistance to the actions. More specifically, they are caused by anthropogenic activities tha t strain ... -
Subdegrees and suborbital graphs of symmetric group s n (n = 3, 4, 5) acting on unordered pai rs
(2015)In this research paper, we compute the ranks and subdegrees of the symmetric group S n (n = 3, 4, 5) acting on unordered pairs from the set X = When S n (n ≥ 4) acts on unordered pairs from X, the rank ... -
Orbito-Maxillofacial Cutaneous Anthrax
(2015)Background: Cutaneous anthrax is a zoonotic disease that spreads to humans primarily through exposure to infected animals, animal products or spore infested soil. Microbiological identification of cutaneous anthrax may be ... -
Famers' Requirements in an Artificial Intelligent System for Diagnosis of Maize Diseases in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)A study was conducted to determine the following: commonly used sources of agricultural diagnostic information by maize farmers, content of information which farmers would like to receive for full satisfaction on diagnostics, ... -
Assessment of the Safety and Immunogenicity of 2 Novel Vaccine Platforms for HIV-1 Prevention: A Randomized Trial
(2016)Background: A prophylactic HIV-1 vaccine is a global health priority. Objective: To assess a novel vaccine platform as a prophylactic HIV-1 regimen. Design: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Both ... -
Clinical Features Associated with Group A Rotavirus in Children Presenting with Acute Diarrhoea at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(2016)Background: Worldwide rotavirus (RV) infection is a major cause of diarrhea in children <5 years of age. Continual monitoring of RV prevalence and its associated clinical characteristics is necessary to estimate the burden ... -
Khat use and khat induced oral white lesions among khat and tobacco users at two sites in Kenya
(2015)Abstract Background: Long term chewing of khat is associated with white lesions on the oral mucosa some of which depict histopathological changes. However, due to the limited number of studies in this area, the clinical ... -
Outcomes of Severely Malnourished Children Aged 6 - 59 Months on Outpatient Management Program in Kitui County Hospital, Kenya
(2015)Severe acute malnutrition is a widely prevalent problem in developing countries and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Traditionally, children with severe acute malnutrition were rehabilitated within inpatient ... -
Adherence of healthcare practitioners to the adolescent reproductive health and development policy at The Garissa Provincial General Hospital, Kenya
(2015)Background: Kenya’s policies relating to population, family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) receive weak/fluctuating levels of adherence. The Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development (ARH&D) policy gives ... -
An Optimal Eigenvalue Based Spectrum Sensing Algorithm for Cognitive Radio
(2015)Spectrum is a scarce resource, and licensed spectrum is intended to be used only by the spectrum owners. Various measurements of spectrum utilization have shown unused resources in frequency, time and space. Cognitive ... -
Extension Officers' Requirements in an artificial Intelligent System for Diagnosis of Maize Disease, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)A study was conducted to determine the most frequently used agricultural diagnostic information source by extension officers, the content of information which both the extension officer would like to receive for full ... -
Comparative analysis of ear-hole closure identifies epimorphic regeneration as a discrete trait in mammals
(2016)Why mammals have poor regenerative ability has remained a long-standing question in biology. In regenerating vertebrates, injury can induce a process known as epimorphic regeneration to replace damaged structures. ... -
A review of techniques in optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy systems
(2015)This paper presents a review of techniques usedin recent published works on optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy sources. Hybridization of renewable energy sources is an emergent promising trend born out of the need ... -
Combined Real and Reactive Power Economic Dispatch using Multi-Objective Reinforced Learning with Optimized Losses
(2015)Most of the economic dispatch (ED) works so far deal with real power dispatch only. With the integration of renewable energy into the grid, reactive power dispatch cannot be ignored any longer due to its importance in ...
