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Value Chain Analysis of a Commercial Bank A Case of Equity Bank in Kenya
(2014)
The banking industry has experienced a rapid growth in terms of profits, deposits and revenues during the President Mwai Kibaki’s era. This trend has triggered a lot of competition in the banking industry. Equity bank has ...
Factors Affecting Purchasing Effectiveness in the Public Sugar Sector: A Case Study of Nzoia Sugar Company Limited
(2014-06)
In the recent past, procurement performance has been attracting great attention from practitioners, academicians and researchers due to poor performance resulting from non adherence to proper processes and procedures. Many ...
A Review of Agent Based Interoperability Frameworks and Interoperability Assessment Models
(2014)
In a heterogeneous world, concurrent distributed development has led to many types of multi-agent systems that offer diverse functionality in agents as different types of platforms are not in a position to interoperate. ...
Treatment of Tungiasis with Dimeticone: A Proof-of- Principle Study in Rural Kenya
(2014-07)
Tungiasis (sand flea disease) is a neglected tropical disease, prevalent in resource-poor communities in South America and sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by an inflammatory response against penetrated female sand fleas ...
EVALUATING THE PUBLIC VALUE OF E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES: ACTOR NETWORK THEORY APPROACH
(2014)
Government all over the world are working on a broad array of e-services, re-designing
services as diverse as tax filing, applying and registering for social security, obtaining birth
and marriage certificates, procurement ...
Rural poverty and input use efficiency in smallholder dairy farms in western Kenya
(2014-09)
Increasing agricultural productivity depends on the adoption of modern technology that involves the use of modern improved technical embodied inputs. However, farmers have different production decisions and ability to ...
MPPT of a standalone wind energy conversion system using magnetostrictive amorphous wire speed sensor and fuzzy logic
(2014)
This paper details the design and implementation of a Fuzzy Logic based controller for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) of a case study standalone wind energy
conversion system(WECS). A magnetostrictive amorphous wire ...
Textbook for Lecture Notes on Weather Instruments Disasters
(2014)
Disasters are hazards which project negative impacts. They are unexpected threats to human life, livelihood, and their properties .The impact of the disaster on human, environment is greater when it is not prepared for or ...
Left to their own Devices: Understanding the Induction Needs of Beginning P1 Teachers in Public Primary Schools in Kenya
(2014-02)
This article reports on the findings from quantitative research on the views and experiences of beginning P1 teachers in public primary schools in Kenya regarding induction, mentoring and other supportive programmes. Aim: ...