University of Nairobi Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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The social transformation of the people living in Kibera slum in Nairobi county following the Kenya slum upgrading programme
(2014)Housing the growing population in Kenya remains one of the greatest challenges of achieving the Millennium Development Goal 1. The recent proliferation of slums represents the insufficiency of resources and physical ... -
Health Professional Sub-cultures Influence On Adoption Of Health Information System Case Of University Of Nairobi Health Services
(University of Nairobi, 2014-07)Health information systems are developed and implemented to improve health care quality and increase patient and physician satisfaction. This paper describes the influence of health professional sub-cultures on adoption ... -
Factors influencing exclusive breastfeeding of children for the first six months after birth. A case of Thika level five hospital, Kiambu county, Kenya
(2014)The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life for optimal growth, development and health. Breastfeeding should continue up to two years or more and nutritionally ... -
Integrating Risk Management in the ICT Service Management Frameworks: The Case of ITIL Service Management Framework in a Local Airline Industry
(University of Nairobi, 2014-07)The complexity of managing IT Service delivery has led to growth of IT Service management (ITSM) as an important area of focus in the IT industry. Organizations are therefore investing in IT service management best practices ... -
Legality versus Legitimization: Questions in Implementing the International Humanitarian Law – A Review of the ICC
However much it may appear that every civilized State today has properly understood the meaning of armed conflict within the context of the law of Geneva, still remains a big paradigm. It is a challenge to presume that ... -
A Hybrid Model Driven Scheme For Quality of Service Evaluation in Wireless Machine Type Communication Networks
(University of Nairobi, 2014-05)In the very recent past, it has become increasingly clear that the next revolution in technology will be anchored on the phenomenon of the Internet of Everything (IoT), where every inanimate object has the potential to be ... -
Determinants of Application of Best Practices in Hiv/aids Projects in Kilifi County
(University Of Nairobi, 2014)This study looked at the determinants of application of best practices among HIV/AIDS projects in Kilifi County. Kenya declared AIDS a disaster in 1999.Just like other counties in Kenya in Kilifi County there are many new ... -
Influence of community participation stages on sustainability of community based water projects in Kenya: the case of Kiabaibate in Meru County
(2014)The difficulty of water accessibility is particularly acute in rural areas and small communities, where water collection may require hours of physical effort, water sources may be contaminated, or must be purchased at rates ... -
Modeling Inflation in Kenya Using ARIMA and VAR Models
(University of Nairobi, 2014-07)Inflation is an important indicator of economic activity and is used by decision makers to plan economic policies. This paper is based on modeling inflation over the period 2005-2013 using two auto regressive models; ... -
Balancing of Rights in Land Law: A Key Challenge in Kenya
The attempt to revive African customary law has been persistent throughout the history of legal education in Kenya. Today more than ever before the country shall have to reconsider the role and importance of studying ... -
On equivalence of some operators in hilbert spaces
(2014)Unitarily equivalence is the natural concept of equivalence between Hilbert space operators. Thus, this concept is the building block of other equivalence relations such as similarity, quasisimilarity, or even metric ... -
Abelian Sandpile Model Of A Directed Multi-graph
(University of Nairobi, 2014-06)In this project, we study the combinatorics, algebraic and algebraic geometry of an Abelian Sandpile Model (ASM). We aim to explore the Algebraic properties of the Abelian Sandpile Model (ASM). We also aim to study the ... -
Police Security Enhancement Via The Usage Of An SMS Gateway In Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2014-05)An SMS gateway is a telecommunications network facility for sending or receiving Short Message Service (SMS) transmissions to or from a telecommunications network that supports SMS. The main purpose of this study was to ... -
A Secure Collaborative Manuscript Management System For National Examinations, A Case Study Of The Kenya National Examinations Council
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) did declare the use of ICT in all its operations as one of its main objectives for its development. In this line, KNEC has in the recent past embraced ICT even while interacting ... -
Importance of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi in the restoration of a disturbed site in Kakamega forest
(2014)Kakamega forest, a major reservoir of biodiversity in Kenya has experienced degradation over a long period of time due to human disturbance. This disturbance has resulted in a heterogeneous mixture of vegetation including ... -
Influence Of Teachers’ Characteristics On Perfomance Of English Language In Primary Schools In Embu West Sub- County Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of teachers of English language on performance of English Language in primary schools in Embu West District. The objectives of this study were to find out how ... -
Modeling Factors Affecting Academic Transition In Kenya
(University Of Nairobi, 2014-06)Academic transition has been known to be affected by many factors. This project sought to investigate the most effective factors to academic transition. First, the factors were extracted from literature. They were then ... -
Factors affecting the adoption of E-governance in a public institution in Kenya: case of Nema-Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)The aim of the study is to determine factors affecting the adoption of e-governance in a public institution in Kenya, a case of NEMA-Kenya. E-government has been identified and adopted as one of the most efficient vehicles ... -
Modeling of Malaria Prevalence in Kisumu County Kenya Using Logistic Regression
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Enforceability Of Equality Rights In Kenya After 2010
The enforceability of equality rights in Kenya is a serious and honest attempt from lawyer’s perspective to critically discuss the development of human rights law in Kenya and the serious challenges facing the enforceability ...
