Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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An Assessment of In-Person and Remotely Operated Laboratories
(2003)Increasingly mechanical engineering departments are beginning to incorporate remotely operated laboratories into their laboratory curriculums. Yet very few studies exist detailing the extent to which this new medium for ... -
An Investigation on the Effectiveness of Design Ideation Using TRIZ
(2006)Design ideation continues to be one of the mysterious and yet a very important part of the design process. In the past, there have been studies related to how people generate ideas, why some are more productive in idea ... -
The Five-Factor Model personality assessment for improved student design team performance
(2006)Researchers have long noted the correlation of various personality traits and team performance. Studies relating aggregate team personality traits to team performance are scattered in the literature and may not always be ... -
Towards the Definition of a Framework and Grammar for Game Analysis and Design
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The present paper defines an original approach to game analysis and design able to characterize a given game in a simple, yet efficient, way. Inspired by models widely used across the gaming industry, the proposed ... -
The population structure of wild sorghum species in agro-ecological zones of Western Kenya
(2015)There is need to understand the genetic structure of wild sorghums that grow alongside cultivated traditional sorghum varieties in order to assess the potential effect of crop genes in wild populations. In this study, 175 ... -
Exposure of rat offsprings to aflatoxin risks through suckling mothers dosed with aflatoxin B1
(1989)One source of human exposure to aflatoxins is by ingestion of aflatoxins carried over from feeds into milk and milk products such as cheese and powdered milk, where they appear mainly as aflatoxin M. We carried out a study ... -
Limitations of hydrodynamical models with limited data available case study: Sondu river basin (Kenya)
(2000)The Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) model has been incorporated in the Sediment Transport and Watershed Management Component of the FRIEND/NILE project as a research tool for presenting practical solutions for sediment ... -
Democratic transition and conflicts in Kenya: the case of the 2007 general elections
(2012)Since the end of the Cold War, the dominant international strategy for promoting peace has been through the use of democracy. Proponents of democracy posit that democratic accountability lowers incentives for rebellion and ...
