Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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Determinants of Students Performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Using Ordinal Logistic Regression in Kiambu County
(University of Nairobi, 2014)In this project, I have modeled the determinants of students’ performance in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination within Kiambu County. The selection and allocation process to secondary school for ... -
Impacts of weather parameters on maize production in Siaya County
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Climate variability is no longer a distant worry Kenya and this has a great influence on agriculture in general, and on maize production in particular. Current understanding on the status of the impacts of climate ... -
Analysis of economic benefits of seasonal rainfall forecasts over Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Simply documenting the effects of climate variability and providing better climate forecasts to potential users are not sufficient. This study determined the economic benefits of seasonal rainfall forecasts over Kenya ... -
Time series analysis of extreme rainfall and temperature over Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The objective of this study was to determine the characteristics of extreme climatic events of rainfall maximum and minimum temperatures over Kenya.Tobe able to achieve this, the trend series and frequency analysis of ... -
Investigating the homogeneity of monthly rainfall records in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The homogenization of climate data is of major importance because non-climatic factors make data unrepresentative of the actual climate variation, and thus the conclusions of climatic and hydrological studies are potentially ... -
An intelligent subtopics suggester for an e-learning system
(University of Nairobi, 2014)ELearning, is a planned teaching or learning experience that uses a wide spectrum of computerbased technologies to reach learners. The focus of this project was the case where students are logging into and using the ... -
Designing a bonus malus system using the poisson-lindley distribution to model claim frequency
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Cloud Computing in Kenya
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Determinants of contraceptive use in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-10)The study seeks to examine the determinants of contraceptives use among women aged 15-49 in Kenya. Data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008/2009 were used and probit regression model was used in analysis. ... -
Negative Binomial Distributions For Fixed And Random Parameters
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The first objective of this project is to construct Negative Binomial Distributions when the two parameters p and r are fixed using various methods based on: Binomial expansion; Poisson – Gamma mixture; Convolution of ... -
Beer's and lambert's laws in methyldopa analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2008-09)A new, simple, precise, rapid, accurate and low-cost spectrophotometric method for methyldopa determination in pharmaceutical preparations is described. This method is based on the complexation reaction of methyldopa ... -
Virtual tour tool for enhancing destination marketing
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Virtual tours are a great way of implementing destination marketing. Correctly used, they can increase revenue to a wide number of sectors including tourism, hospitality industry, learning, manufacturing, and security, ... -
Multi-agents based wireless sensor telemedicine network for e-health monitoring of HIV Aids patients
(2014)This paper presents a design of a multi agent wireless sensor based network for health monitoring of HIV AIDS Patients, to address Poor monitoring program that is in the Care and monitoring of HIV infected people coupled ... -
Systems associated with wet spells over Kenya during the usually dry December-February season
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Most socio-economic activities in Kenya are rain-dependent with the occurrences of floods and droughts inflicting miseries at many locations year after year. Most of the rains in Kenya are experienced within two major ... -
Structural changes in the rabbit penile architecture in induced hypogonadism
(University of Nairobi, 2014-11)Background: The penile body consists of erectile masses that contain vascular sinusoids lined by endothelial cells and trabeculae which consist of smooth muscles and connective tissue fibers. The integrity of the trabeculae ... -
A framework for adoption of human resource management information system in small and medium enterprises in manufacturing sector in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The main purpose of this study is to identify major factors that influence effective adoption of HRMIS in manufacturing SMEs in Kenya. To achieve this, a survey was undertaken, from registered firms operating within ... -
Ontology-based multiagent system for public service e-procurement shared service
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The research shows public service procurement is guided by public procurement and disposal act 2005 which stipulate the stages that government department must follow when procuring good or services. The stages are : ... -
Determinants of success in information and communication technology (ICT) business startup’s incubation in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Countries and regions around the world are striving to be successful in today‘s dynamic global environment. Amid economic and political turbulence, each nation is looking for ways to improve and sustain its economy and ... -
Phytochemical investigation of harrisonia abyssinica and thespesia garckeana for antiplasmodial and antimicrobial compounds.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Harrisonia abyssinica (Simaroubacea) and Thespesia garckeana (Malvaceae) have been used in folk medicine but there is no scientific data on them. This study therefore sought to investigate the phytochemical and microbial ... -
Histomorphometric changes in the rabbit neural retina following monocular deprivation
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background: Monocular deprivation in experimental animals results in both anatomical and electrophysiological changes in the visual cortex in favor of the non-deprived eye, a phenomenon known as ocular dominance plasticity. ...
