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Role of camel milk in pastoral livelihoods in Kenya: contribution to household diet and income
(2016)
Pastoral livestock production in Kenya is subject to unpredictable rainfall and drought occurrences.
These adverse climatic conditions have led to vulnerable and insecure pastoral livelihoods. Despite the
potential to ...
Factors Influencing Pastoral and Agropastoral Household Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in the Drylands of Kenya: A Case Study of Kajiado and Makueni Counties
(2016)
This study establishes the determinants of household vulnerability to food insecurity in pastoral households of Kajiado and agropastoral households of Makueni Counties of Kenya. A randomly selected sample of 198 households ...
Performance review of the VSC-HVDC based controllers
(2016)
The Voltage Source Converters, High Voltage Direct Current (VSC-HVDC) system is the most preferred alternative technology for transmission and distribution of electrical power due to its intrinsic distinctiveness in ...
PREFERED HABITAT THEORY
(International Journal of Contemporary Applied Sciences, 2016)
Preferred Habitat Theory is a theory on the investing behavior of bond buyers. It states that individual investors have a preferred range of bond maturity lengths, and will only go outside of this range if a higher yield ...
Features of Resource Based View Theory: An Effective Strategy in Outsourcing
(International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations, 2016)
In Resource Based viewpoint theory (RBV), the resources possessed by a firm are the primary determinants of its performance. The resources may remain latent until the firm deploy its capabilities, with these may contribute ...
Spatial modeling of HIV and HSV-2 among women in Kenya with spatially varying coefficients
(2016)
Background: Disease mapping has become popular in the field of statistics as a method to explain the spatial distribution of disease outcomes and as a tool to help design targeted intervention strategies. Most of these ...
Food Insecurity in Turkana District, Kenya: A Focus on the Impact of Colonial Rule
(2016)
This paper examines the contribution of
colonial rule to food insecurity among Turkana
pastoralists living in the Turkana District in the arid
zone of north-western Kenya. It is argued that food
insecurity in Turkana ...
Human Resource Management Practices and Firm Effectiveness of Consumer Goods Manufacturing Firms In Kenya
(2016)
Manufacturing sector is salient to the Kenyan economy, with a total workforce of 13% in the formal sector and 1.4 million labour-force in the informal sector. Despite the significance, its contribution to the regional ...
Sexuality Education:Promoting safer sexual behaviour among university students in Kenya
(Department of Education Foundations, Kenyatta University, 2016)
Sex education has become a major concern in our universities that needs redress. Regardless of this, only few studies have been done on it. This paper seeks to review various studies done by researchers on safer sexual ...
Factors Affecting Performance of Cut Flower Firms in Kenya: A Case of Maji Mazuri Flowers Ltd, Uasin Gishu County
(2016-06)
The flower firms in Kenya face high competition from those in the developed countries whose produce is deemed to be of quality. There is a need therefore to improve on the activities in Kenyan flower firms to gain competitive ...