Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Choosing Peace over Democracy
(2013)On 4 March 2013, roughly 12.3 million voters went to the polls in Kenya. After a protracted counting process with clear irregularities, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared sitting deputy ... -
Food Security Score for Kenya
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An exploration of the guiding principles, importance and challenges of monitoring and evaluation of community development projects and programmes
(University of Nairobi, 2014)In sociology, there is interdependence between social problems and research. Monitoring and Evaluation is an extension of social research. This paper analyses the purposes and steps in monitoring of community developmen ... -
Special issue: Securing the land and resource rights of pastoral peoples in East Africa
(2013)The land question in many African countries has geographical, political, economic, social and demographic nuances. These factors color land and resource rights for pastoral and forest dwelling communities. Land as property ... -
Adolescent knowledge, values, and coping strategies: Implications for health in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Nairobi, 1997-07)Purpose: The purposes of this study were to investigate the experiences and knowledge of adolescents living in an urban center in Kenya and to understand how the decisions they make affect their physical and psychological ... -
Prevalence of active and potentially blinding trachoma in Laikipia district, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2007)Objectives: To estimate with reasonable precision the prevalence of active trachoma (TF) in children aged 1-9 years and potentially blinding trachoma (TT) in adults 15 years and older in Laikipia District. Design: ... -
Spectral excitation of dielectric matrix trace atomic and molecular species by atmospheric pressure sliding spark plasma
(University of Nairobi, 2012)The goal of this work was to investigate the potential of sliding spark plasma to excite from dielectrics emission spectra that have utility in direct trace quantitative analysis of non-conducting materials in air at ... -
Challenges in rapid soil quality assessment and opportunities presented by multivariate chemometric energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence and scattering spectroscopy
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)There is, especially in precision agriculture, an increasing demand world over for affordable sensors for in situ (field deployable) soil quality assessment (SQA) applicable at an ecological scale due to the interplay ... -
Magnitudes and determinants of transaction costs in a group-based livestock breeding approach: the case of dairy goats in Eastern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013-08)Exotic dairy goats have increasingly become important in alleviating poverty and combating hunger an d mal - nutrition in Kenya. Such goats were introduced in the eastern Kenyan highlands through a group - based ... -
An Analysis of the Role of Internal Audit in Implementing Risk Management - a S tudy of State Corporations in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-05)The study analyzed the role of internal audit in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) by providing empir ical Evidence on the Kenyan public sector firms. The study examined the impact of Involvement in ERM by auditors and ... -
In Search of Structural Change and Perpetual Growth in Ethiopia: Examining Alternative Sectoral Growth Drivers for Reaching Middle Income Country Status
(2014)This study examines the impacts of alternative sectoral drivers on economy wide growth, structural change and household welfare in Ethiopia. We use sectoral growth accounting approach and vector autoregressive model that ... -
ISO 9001 Certification Status and Organizational Quality Maturity.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-09)ISO 9001 quality management system standard, a member of ISO 9000 family of standards that comprise two complementary pair of standards, ISO 9001 requirements and ISO 9004 guidelines standards, has been used globally ... -
Determination of basic mean hourly wind speeds for structural design in Nairobi county
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Structural Engineers should be able to accurately predict all loads affecting structures. Consideration of wind loads is very important in the s tructural design especially in the design of high rise structures. This, ... -
Conflicts and dilemma of human right to water*
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Active fault mapping in Karonga-Malawi after the December 19, 2009 Ms 6.2 seismic event
(University of Nairobi, 2015-02)The East African Rift System (EARS) has natural hazards – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides along the faulted margins, and in response to ground shaking. Strong damaging earthquakes have been occurring in the ... -
Effect of Vaginal Washing on Lactobacillus Colonisation in HIV-Negative Kenyan Women
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Background Vaginal washing has been associated with an increased risk of bacterial vaginosis (BV) and a decreased likelihood of vaginal Lactobacillus colonisation. We sought to determine whether a lower prevalence of ... -
Income distribution and livelihood analysis among horticulture farming households in Nyeri District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2012-10)The objective of this study was to analyze the dist ribution of income and livelihood strategies among the horticulture farming households in Nyeri District, Kenya through the estimation of the Gini Coefficien t. The ...
