University of Nairobi Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Factors Influencing Quality of Life of Patients Living With Mental Illness: a Case Study of Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Quality of life is important to all human beings (Fallowfield, 1990) and is an essential element of health. Treatment should improve lives of people with mental illnesses, and a good way of evaluating the treatment being ... -
The effectiveness of IGAD in promoting regional diplomacy: a case study of the Somalia peace process
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Influence of Innovation Services on Customer Satisfaction, a Case of Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited, Elgeyo Marakwet County.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The vital nature of customer satisfaction to organizational performance, development and general success cannot be undervalued. However, the extent to which innovation services at KPLC like the bill query innovation service, ... -
Factors Influencing Participation in Domestic Tourism Among Public Sector Employees: a Case of Civil Servants in Manyatta Subcounty, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The study assesses the Factors Influencing Participation in Domestic Tourism among Public Sector Employees: A Case of Civil Servants in Manyatta Sub County, Kenya. The objectives of the study were to establish the influence ... -
Tutors’ Characteristics Influencing Curriculum Implementation in Pre-school Colleges’ in Murang’a East Sub County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The purpose of this study was to investigate tutor characteristics influencing curriculum implementation in pre-schools colleges in Murang’a East Sub County. The study objectives were to determine the influence of tutors’ ... -
Urgent versus post-stabilisation antiretroviral treatment in hospitalised HIV-infected children in Kenya (PUSH): a randomised controlled trial.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)BACKGROUND: Urgent antiretroviral therapy (ART) among hospitalised HIV-infected children might accelerate recovery or worsen outcomes associated with immune reconstitution. We aimed to compare urgent versus post-stabilisation ... -
Determinants of Effective and Efficient Enterprise Resource Management in Organizations: a Case of the National Treasury, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Kenyan Government through department of Treasury adopted Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) as the main accounting system for all the government ministries and departments since 2003.The system was ... -
Factors Affecting Sand Harvesting in Machakos County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Sand harvesting is practiced in Kenya as an economic activity and is occasioned by a variety of factors. The practice has both positive and negative impacts to livelihoods. It is the negative impacts that occur due to ... -
Influence of Charitable Childrens’ Institutions Services on the Social Development of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Trans-nzoia County Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The plight of orphaned and vulnerable children is a matter of great concern worldwide, with the increase in pandemic diseases and decrease in life span, many children are left with no place to call home hence end up in ... -
Identification of spiroplasmainsolitum symbionts in anopheles gambiae.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Background: Insect symbionts have the potential to block the transmission of vector-borne diseases by their hosts. The advancement of a symbiont-based transmission blocking strategy for malaria requires the identification ... -
Validation of a Myelomeningocele Severity Scale
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Background: Myelomeningocele as a neural tube defect occurs in varying levels of severity. The ambulatory function outcome is well correlated with the MMC spectrum by existing spina bifida scores. None of the existing ... -
Factors Influencing Access to Government Services Through E-government Programme: a Case of Starehe Subcounty, in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Governments around the world are under pressure to hasten their execution of egovernment, so as to improve the accessibility, good organization and promptness of their services. Nevertheless, there are no suitable policies ... -
Urban livestock keeping in the city of Nairobi: diversity of production systems, supply chains, and their disease management and risks.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Urban livestock keeping in developing cities have an important role in food security and livelihoods but can also pose a significant threat to the environment and health of urban dwellers. The aim of this study was to ... -
Factors Influencing the Reliability of Power Supply Substations in Kenya: a Case of the Energy Sector Recovery Project in Kabete Sub-county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)One of the major problems facing most counties is frequent power outages due to the poor state of electricity infrastructure, policies and lack of finances. Any power outage even for the shortest period can have adverse ... -
Analysis of Economic Value, Utilization and Conservation of Selected Non-timber Forest Products in the Falgore Game Reserve in Kano, Nigeria
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The increasing degradation of non-timber forest resources due to anthropogenic activities and the growing impacts of climate variability and change call for a shift in the approaches of managing natural resources. Experts ... -
Developing a bacteriophage cocktail for biocontrol of potato bacterial wilt
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Bacterial wilt is a devastating disease of potato and can cause an 80% production loss. To control wilt using bacteriophage therapy, we isolated and characterized twelve lytic bacteriophages from different water sources ... -
Influence of Socio-economic Factors on Girls' Completion Rates in Secondary School Education in Chepalungu Sub-county, Bomet County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The purpose of the study was to investigate factors influencing girls’ completion rates in secondary education in Chepalungu Sub County in Bomet County. It was guided by the research objectives to determine how early ... -
Where does it come from?" experiences among survivors and parents of children with retinoblastoma in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Genetic testing and counseling have become integral to the timely control of heritable cancers, like the childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma. This study aimed to determine attitudes, knowledge and experiences related to ... -
Association between non-barrier modern contraceptive use and condomless sex among HIV-positive female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya: A prospective cohort analysis.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)BACKGROUND: As access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa continues to expand, more women with HIV can expect to survive through their reproductive years. Modern contraceptives can help women choose the timing ...
