Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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The Potential of Sms Based Automated Reminders Towards Enhancing Adherence to Clinical Instructions for Dementia Patients: a Case of Healthcare Givers
(university of nairobi, 2018)Dementia condition presents a challenge with regard to the ability of a person with this condition to adhere to treatment regimes. Provision of healthcare service to persons with dementia remains a challenge because the ... -
An Analysis of Biometrics Authentication Adoption Among M-banking Customers at Gt Bank Using the Utaut Model
(university of nairobi, 2018)Biometrics authentication has been identified as a solution to the challenge of accurate identification and secure authentication in networked environments (Debnath et al, 2009). In line with this, Guaranty Trust Bank Kenya ... -
Health Information System for Real-time Tracking and Surveillance of Tb Disease Control Efforts
(university of nairobi, 2018)Kenya has struggled to build a health information system that can efficiently improve the delivery of quality health services to its population. The Demographic and Health Surveys have shown persistently high morbidity and ... -
Public Sentiments Analysis on Judicial Outcomes Against Expected Outcomes in Kenya
(university of nairobi, 2018)The Kenyan judiciary has for a long time struggled to gain the confidence of the public. Judicial decisions in some cases do conflict with the expectations of the public and this serves to erode the public‟s confidence in ... -
An Experiment to Determine the Effect of Ethical Hacking on It Administrator's Patch and Vulnerability Management Attitudes, a Case of a Leading Telecommunications Company
(university of nairobi, 2018)As the adoption of information processing and the integration of various information systems via the internet increases, so does the risk to information systems. Electronic attacks are likely via the exploitation of ... -
Molecular Analysis of Antimalarial Resistance Markers in Parasite Samples Obtained From Children Recruited Into a Drug Efficacy Trial in Kwale, Kenya, 2013.
(university of nairobi, 2018)Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have resulted to a significant drop in malaria incidences by 18% from 2010 to 2016. Unfortunately, ACT resistance reported in Western Cambodia in 2008 poses a consequential ... -
Cyber Security Preparedness Assessment Toolkit Presented
(university of nairobi, 2018)The internet is becoming an important thing in people’s daily life and has grown at an explosive rate. According to GlobalWebIndex (2018), internet users (population) around the world are over 4 billion, which corresponds ... -
Synthesis & characterization of polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites and their evaluation as sorbents for lead and cadmium in water pollution remediation
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Zeolites employ the principle of surface adsorption of toxic heavy metals in remediation of polluted water. However, at nanoscale, they tend to aggregate which reduces their effectiveness in adsorption. Incorporating ... -
Application of Random Survival Forests andAccelerated Failure Time Shared Frailty Models in Understanding Under-Five Child Mortality in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Under-five mortality rates is one of the health indicators of great importance for any country. Kenya is among those nations in the sub-saharan part of Africa which has high under-five deaths, and thus it ... -
Application of Ordinal Logistic Regression in Analyzing Students’ Performance at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Level in Kiambu County.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: In the Kenyan education system (8-4-4 system), education progresses from pre-school to primary school to secondary school to tertiary education. Transition from one stage/ level to another is normally done ... -
IT-business partnership as enabler for IT-Business Alignment in organizations, a case of Compassion International
(University of Nairobi, 2018)This study sought to assess IT-Business partnership as enabler for the IT-Business Alignment (ITBA) in the organization, a case of Compassion organization and understand the drivers and factors influencing forging of ... -
Mortality risk modelling using the feller process.
(University of Nairobi, 2018-08)In the present century, modelling of mortality risk has become a prerequisite consideration in the insurance industry, especially in product pricing and claims reserving. Actuaries and statisticians have developed various ... -
Past and future climate trends, impacts of charcoal production and adaptation options for lower Jubba of Somalia
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Climate is changing at an alarming rate threatening the critical pillars for environmental, social and economic development. Somalia is one of the countries of the GHA that has faced unique climate variability and climate ... -
Perceptions, challenges and adaptation strategies to climate change and variability: the case of smallholder dairy farming systems in Siaya sub-county, Siaya county.
(University of Nairobi, 2016-10)An in-depth understanding of perceptions, challenges and adaptation strategies of Smallholder Dairy Farming Systems (SDFS) is crucial if appropriate interventions to increase adaptive capacities to climate change and ... -
Molecular characterisation of microsporidia mb species and correlation with plasmodium presence in anopheles mosquitoes in Mwea and Mbita, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Much of sub-Saharan Africa suffers from high malaria infection rates in spite of several vector-control strategies set up to control Plasmodium transmission. Currently, these approaches are only partially effective, ... -
Factors influencing performance of county government projects: a case of Gatundu modern market, Kiambu County, Kenya
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018)Performance of projects is a concern for most project managers since this will guide in accounting for the resources provided and leads to customer’s satisfaction. The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors ... -
Modeling tail risks and systemic risks using copulas
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018-08)Understanding the relationship between financial variables is an essential part of managing financial risk. Such relationships in the context of risk management are of sensation interest in the modern world in which modeling ... -
Laplace distribution and its generalizations
(University of Nairobi, 2018)In this project construction of Laplace distribution has been reviewed using the difference method,method of mixture,product of Rayleigh and normal distributions.The properties of Laplace distribution including mgf,skewness ... -
Homotopy Perturbation Method and the Korteweg-de Vries Equation
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018-08)In this research project paper, our main aim is to solve linear and non-linear di_erential equations by perturbation methods. This study include the following aspects: (1) Give some basic concepts of the regular, singular ... -
Multiple Imputation and Random Survival Forests: Application to the Demographic and Health Survey Child Survival Data
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) provide data on a wide scope of risk-factors of under-five child survival. Missing covariate data is inevitable in the DHS under-five survival data since data is collected ...
