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Status of Learning Amid Covid -19 For Learners with Disabilities and the Accompanying School Closures: A Case of Selected Counties in Kenya
(2023-01)The Covid-19 pandemic brought changes to the scenario of teaching and learning in institutions of education. The shift from face-to-face traditional mode to online platforms brought many challenges along with it. This ‘new ... -
Staycation motivation
(2022-07)Staycation is largely associated with “vacationing at home”. It is coined from the words: ‘stay’ and ‘vacation’. The blending combines initial segment of the first word “stay” with final segment of the other “cation”. The ... -
Stored Grains Protection Activity of Ocimum Suave Extracts and Compounds on Larger Grain Borer
(IOSR Journal of Biotechnology and Biochemistry (IOSR-JBB) Volume 8, Issue 4 (Jul. – Aug. 2022), PP 05-10, 2022)Post-harvest pests cause serious losses to agricultural products in Africa. The pests consist mostly of beetles or moths and infest the grains at the crop stage or during the storage. Larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus ... -
Strain variation in vitamin A (retinol) status of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.
(International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research, 1996)Decreased plasma concentrations of vitamin A (retinol) and retinol-binding protein have been previously identified in human subjects with type I diabetes mellitus. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects ... -
Strategies to overcome the damages caused by covid-19 in the hotel industry
(2022-01)The year 2019 saw the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic that has led to low customer demand, reduced revenue, job losses and business closures in the hotel industry. Studies indicate that the hospitality industry is not ... -
Strengthening The Transient Stability Of A Power Grid Coupled With Wind Turbine Using Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor
(2019-10)The increase diffusion and circulation of wind energy to the conventional power system due to rapid growth of energy demand has led to consideration of different wind turbine generator technologies. It has been discovered ... -
Streptozotocin-induced diabetes in rats is associated with impaired metabolic availability of vitamin A (retinol).
(The British Journal of Nutrition, 1996-04)Using streptozotocin-induced diabetic Wistar rats, studies were carried out to examine the metabolic availability of vitamin A in the plasma, liver and the retina of the eye. Control and diabetic rats were fed ad lib. on ... -
Streptozotocin-induced diabetes lowers retinol-binding protein and transthyretin concentrations in rats.
(The British Journal of Nutrition, 1996-12)Retinol-binding protein (RBP) and transthyretin (TTR) in the plasma, liver and kidney, retinol in plasma, and total vitamin A in the liver were measured in rats 6 weeks after diabetes mellitus had been induced by streptozotocin ... -
Structural and optical properties of novel CdSe nanoparticles produced via a facile synthetic route: Studies on the effects of cadmium sources
(2019-04)We report on the successful synthesis of CdSe nanoparticles (NPs) via a facile aqueous approach. Investigation on the effects of various cadmium sources in the precursor solution on the CdSe NPs is discussed. The structural ... -
Structural Complexity Attribute Classification Framework (SCACF) for Sassy Cascading Style Sheets
(2020-01)Several researchers have proposed the various classes of software attributes to guide in the derivation of metrics for software products. These existing classifications have targeted traditional software paradigms such as ... -
Structural, optical and luminescence properties of CdTe quantum dots: Investigation on the effect of capping ligand ratio
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2019-03)Well-crystallized cadmium telluride quantum dots (CdTe QDs) were fabricated by a simple wet chemical process under open air condition at a growth temperature of 100 °C. Various amounts of the capping ligands were used in ... -
Studies and Global Perspectives of Second Language Teaching and Learning
(2013)Book Description This book explores theories and pedagogies in the L2 classroom that have led to an understanding of how non-native languages are taught and learned. Featuring a diverse set of perspectives from researchers ... -
A Study on Compliance with the Two-Thirds Gender Rule in Appointments and Promotions of Staff in Public Universities Elevated In 2012 And 2013
(2017)The study sought to analyze compliance with two-thirds gender rule in appointments and promotions of staff in new public universities chartered in 2012 and 2013. Specifically, the study determined the gender composition ... -
The Successes and Challenges of Kenya‟s Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway Transport Operations: A Special Reference to the Users
(2021-03)This article examined the successes and challenges of Kenya’s standard gauge railway for users in transport operations. The constrained operations in Kenya’s existing colonial railway system have contributed to connectivity ... -
Suitability of aggregation methods of induction motor models for transient stability load modeling of Kenya power transmission and distribution system
(2010)Current trend indicate that there has been increase on power outage frequency. This has partly been as a result of unstable power system with very small security margin of operation. Therefore, this paper focusses on the ... -
Suitability of aggregation methods of induction motor models for voltage stability analysis
(2012)This paper focusses on the aggregation of multiple induction motors (IM) connected in parallel on the same bus into a single equivalent model using aggregation based on transformer equivalent circuit (method 1) and on ... -
A Suite of Metrics for UML Behavioral Diagrams Based on Complexity Perspectives
(International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications, 2024-03)Nowadays, software designers have adopted modelling languages that help to communicate the dynamic behavior of UML behavioral diagrams. As it is with other software artefacts, these diagrams tend to get more complex ... -
Supplier’s Past Performance Criteria and its Effect on Procurement Performance in County Governments in Kenya
(2023-07-04)The major focus of the study is to investigate the supplier selection criteria and its effect on procurement performance in county governments. The specific objective was to examine the effect of supplier’s past performance ... -
A Support Vector Machine and Artificial Neural Network Model for Enhanced Image Classification of Maize Leaf Diseases
(2022-10)Image classification accuracy is the total number of images predicted correctly out of the total images in the test dataset in the field of computer vision. Classifying the images accurately is still a challenge due to ...