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Protein utilization in humans as affected by level of dietary fat
(Elsivier, 1996-01)The objective of the project was to determine the effects of level of fat with or without manganese supplementation of diets on protein status of humans. Fourteen healthy adult humans participated in a 61 day study in which ... -
Provision of digital reference services in academic libraries in Kenya: a review
(Regional Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 2016)Rationale of the study - The popularity of internet as an avenue of communication and source of information has led to decreasing numbers of in-person reference transaction in academic libraries. Consequently, academic ... -
Proximate analysis of raw and roasted groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.): Red Valencia and manikanta varieties
(International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition .Volume 4; Issue 4; July 2019; Page No. 191-194, 2019)Proximate analysis of raw and roasted groundnuts of red Valencia and manipinta varieties were determined. The moisture content of raw and roasted peanut ranged from 4.84-5.11% and 2.02 - 2.17% respectively while fat content ... -
Public Procurement Practice
(White Falcon Publishing, 2021)This book is a good source of information on public procurement. It is intended to be direct, easy to read, and practical in its presentation. This book will be found useful by those with little or no experience in public ... -
A put option's value for a nonlinear black-scholes equation
(2016)We study a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation for modelling illiquid markets with feedback effects. After reducing the equation into a second-order nonlinear partial differential equation, we find that ... -
Quadratic Approach for Fast Topic Selection in Modelling Big Text Analytics
(International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, 2018)One challenging issue in application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is to select the optimal number of topics which must depend on both the corpus itself and user modeling goals. This paper presents a topic selection ... -
Quality and Safety Management of Health Care Service Delivery among Public Hospitals in Rwanda: a Cross-Sectional Survey
(2019-10)Background or Objectives: Quality and safety of health care service delivery remain a challenge worldwide due to unsafe care, inappropriate practices, adverse events and medication errors that result in harm, disability ... -
Range use and dynamics in the agropastoral system of southeastern Kenya
(2008)Occurrence of equilibrium and non equilibrium system dynamics in semiarid environments present serious management challenges. In these areas, resource management strategies are increasingly based on equilibrium rather than ... -
Range Use and Trophic Interactions by Agropastoral Herds in Southeastern Kenya
(2005)Habitat utilization patterns and feeding interaction of free ranging agropastoral herds were investigated in two cycles of four consecutive grazing periods, in a semiarid environment, southeastern Kenya. The bites count ... -
Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction
(Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2022)As the title, Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction suggests, this book seeks to restore the principal influence of Mother Nature in human life. Individual literary critics have ... -
Reactive Power-Voltage-Based Voltage Instability Sensitivity Indices for Power Grid With Increasing Renewable Energy Penetration
(2020-05)In this work, a reactive power-voltage (QV)-based framework to evaluate the voltage instability sensitivities of power system buses to increase in renewable energy (RE) penetration has been developed using two sensitivity ... -
Recent Research on Teachers’ Preparedness in Integrating Information Communication Technologies in Public Primary Teacher Training Colleges in Kenya
(2020-07-21)This study investigated teachers’ preparedness in integrating ICTs in public primary teacher training colleges in Kenya. Integration of ICTs brings revolutionary changes in teaching methodologies. The innovation lies not ... -
Reinventing the wheel? African cooperatives in a liberalized economic environment
(2016)Cooperative development in Africa can be said to have traversed two main eras: the era of state control and that of liberalization. The first era lasted up to the early 1990s and saw the origin and substantial growth of ... -
Relating Cost Efficiency and Profitability of Merged Firms in the Kenyan Financial Services Industry
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2016)Theory holds that firms merge to benefit from economies of scale, diversification and synergy, which are realized through cost efficiency. Empirical studies on the other hand report mixed findings with regard to the ... -
The Relationship between Adoption of Coffee Certification Standards and Productivity in Nyeri County in Kenya
(Asian Online Journals, 2015-12)Standards have been applied as strategic tools to help organizations increase productivity, and improve competitive advantage. They facilitate free and fair global trade, enhance customer satisfaction through improved ... -
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FARM PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACCESS FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS
(International Academic Journal of Economics and Finance, 2018)In Kenya and across the globe, the proportion of commercial bank’s loans the agricultural sector relative to other sectors is generally low. This is despite the considerable financial intermediation opportunities resulting ... -
The relationship between mission and performance of Christian faith-based hotels in Kenya
(2022-05)The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the mission and Performance of Christian Faith-Based Hotels (CFBHs) in Kenya. Mission defines a significant long-term direction for the organization. There ... -
The Relationship Between Organizational Culture, Entrepreneurial Orientation And Performance Of Christian Faith Based Hotels In Kenya
(2019-10)The alliance between Christianity and entrepreneurship has had an immense impact on the Kenyan economic performance and thus the connection between economic development and Christianity activity cannot be underscored. ... -
The relationship between the marketing strategies and competitiveness of four and five star hotels
(2015-12)The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between the marketing strategies and competitiveness of four and five star hotels in Kenya. The results showed that the hotels adopted the 5 P’s marketing concept ... -
Remédiation des erreurs morphosyntaxiques du français chez les lycéens kenyans à travers une proposition didactique
(Revues de l'Acaref, 2020-11)Cette contribution relève d’une réflexion menée en vue de proposer la remédiation des erreurs nominales et grammaticales en français à travers l’emploi du Schéma modélisant de la Trame Méthodique Repères (TMR) de Laurens ...