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Gender, Leadership Style and Employee Engagement
(IOSR Journals, 2021-01)This study sought to establish the relationship between gender, leadership styles and teacher engagement in public secondary schools of Murang’a County, Kenya. A survey research design was used. A sample of 368 respondents ... -
A General Overview of Information Technology and the Effectiveness of Supply Chain Management in the Kenya Public Sector.
(Book publisher International, 2020-07)Main objective of the study was to establish factors affecting effectiveness of supply chain management in Kenyan public sector with, specific reference to the Ministry of Finance. The study’s specific objective is to ... -
Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in Africa: methods used for Phase 1 of the AWI-Gen population crosssectional study
(2018-09-27)There is an alarming tide of cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CMD) sweeping across Africa. This may be a result of an increasingly urbanized lifestyle characterized by the growing consumption of processed and calorie-dense ... -
The global spread of misinformation on spiders
(ScienceDirect, 2022-08-22)In the internet era, the digital architecture that keeps us connected and informed may also amplify the spread of misinformation. This problem is gaining global attention, as evidence accumulates that misinformation may ... -
Governance and Challenges of Wildlife Conservation and Management in Kenya
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021)Wildlife in Kenya is both a national resource and a key source of revenue for the government. Wildlife and tourism are interdependent and essential sectors in Kenya’s socio-economic development agenda. This chapter reviews ... -
Grass reseeding technology as a means of rehabilitating degraded lands and improving livelihoods of agro-pastoral communities in semi-arid Kenya
(2011)Land degradation is a major problem in the semi-arid environments of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fighting land degradation is essential to ensure the sustainable and long-term productivity of the inhabited semi-arid lands. Cenchrus ... -
Grassroots Solutions for Global Challenges: The Role of Self-Help Groups in Building Sustainable Livelihoods and Resilience to Climate Change in Nyakach, Kenya
(American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation (AJMRI), 2024-03-22)The impact of climate change in developing countries such as prolonged droughts, flooding and erratic rainfall, among, other effects are increasingly driving agricultural-dependent households into deeper poverty each year. ... -
Greek parameters of nonlinear Black-Scholes equation
(2016)Derivatives are used in hedging European options against risks. The partial derivatives of the solution to either a variable or a parameter in the Black-Scholes model are called risk (Greek) parameters or simply the ... -
Grievance Resolution Mechanism on Employee Productivity: Commercial Banks in Bungoma County, Kenya
(2015-09)Motivation of employees has always been quantified in financial attributes. For productivity to occur then there is need for using non-financial motivational initiatives. This study purposed to analyze the role of motivational ... -
The Guidance and Counseling Interventions Given to Students Who Abuse Alcohol: Case of Kenyan Public Day Secondary Schools
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2018-04)Alcohol is one of the most abused drugs among the youth in the world today and this is one of the reasons leading to poor performance by Kenyan secondary school students in national examinations. The purpose of this study ... -
Guidelines for emergency livestock off-take handbook
(2005)Kenya’s agricultural sector accounts for 20–30% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Of this, the livestock sector alone makes a contribution of about 50%. Thus, livestock contributes heavily to the GDP and food security ... -
Harnessing our ICT Skill Set and Research Efforts for Sustainable Development
(2022-06)For some time now, ICTs have become ubiquitous, making them a common place phenomenon in modern society. Almost all electronics are ICT enabled to date, with most people who can read and write having interacted with ICTs ... -
Health Insurance Deepening and Its Impact on Maternal Healthcare Demand in Private Hospitals in Kenya
(2020-09)Promotion of maternal healthcare services through the expansion of health insurance coverage has been a core strategy that has been adopted in the reduction of maternal and child mortalities in Kenya. In this study, we ... -
Hepatitis E Virus Prevalence Amongst Blood Donors in Kenya
(2022-10-01)Introduction: Hepatitis E (HEV) is an emerging cause of viral hepatitis mainly transmitted through the fecal-oral and parenteral routes. It has greatly affected populations in many parts of Kenya due to declined sanitation ... -
The Heterogeneity and Prevalence of ABO and RH D Antigens in the Voluntary Blood Donors of Kenya
(2017-09)Blood groups (antigens) are proteins, glycoproteins or glycolipids inherited surface markers on the red blood cell membranes, which determine the blood phenotypes of human beings. There are 36 blood group systems with over ... -
High luminescent L-cysteine capped CdTe quantum dots prepared at different reaction times
(2017-07)This paper reports a facile synthesis route of high luminescent L-cysteine capped CdTe quantum dots (QDs). The effect of reaction time on the growth mechanism, optical and physical properties of the CdTe QDs was investigated ... -
Hindrances to Women Advancing to Principals’ Decision Making Positions in Secondary Schools in Kenya: Evidence of Convergence and Divergence Views among Current Male and Female Principals
(American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)The study set out to investigate the views of current female and male secondary school principals regarding barriers or hindrances to women teachers becoming secondary school principals in a County in Kenya. The study ... -
Historical Development of Land Disputes and Their Implications on Social Cohesion in Nakuru County, Kenya
(2020-10)Globally, land related conflicts have deep social implications; they lead to deaths, hate, intimidations, tensions, dislocations and displacements of many people from their homes, thereby adversely affecting social cohesion ... -
Hospitality Employment; Policies and Practices in Hotels in Kenya
(Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2015-11-18)A study on Kenya’s hospitality industry indicates that, about 64 percent of jobs are either semi skilled or unskilled. This comprises of about 6 percent in managerial, 8 percent in supervisory, 22 percent with craft while ...