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A New Complexity Metric for BPEL Processes based on Weighted Structured Activities and Invokes
(2018-05)As is the case with traditional software, business processes created using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) have an inherent structural complexity that increases whenever the processes are modified. High ... -
Effective Use of Assistive Technologies for Inclusive Education in County Governments: Issues and Challenges from Two Case Studies
(2018-11)County governments face innumerable impediments in the process of implementation of inclusive education (IE). Effective use of Assistive Technologies (AT) can help county governments in Kenya achieve inclusive education ... -
A Review of Security Techniques against Black Hole Attacks in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
(IEEE, 2019-05)Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a special type of a wireless network formed by nodes that communicate without any fixed infrastructure or centralised management. Nodes in MANET act as a router and a host. These nodes are ... -
E-Voting Challenges in Kenya
(2016-06)Many developing countries have had disastrous presidential elections in recent years. In most of these cases, it was alleged that manual voting and vote-tallying took too long to produce the winning candidate, leading to ... -
A Blood Pressure Monitoring Prototype for Preeclampsia Management in Antenatal Care in Kenya
(2018-10-25)The health of women is a critical public health concern in public health as it impacts the personal well-being, family reproduction, and societal development. Globally, it has been noted that a significant number of women ... -
A Review of Approaches to the Quantification of Operating Reserve requirements in Systems with Large Scale Wind Power Integration
(2018-05)The need to diversify power generation sources, increase security of supply, incorporate sustainability in energy sources and reducing fuel usage and emissions has significantly led to the integration of variable renewable ... -
Designing of new proposed technique for lie Detection using EEG Signals
(2011-03)The proposed system is designed to make EEG database of criminals during the investigation by crime branch. System will be detecting the criminals on the bases of thought related to crime to be stored in brain, when the ... -
Designing and Development of Speech Database The Technical Review
(2011-01)The speech database is one of the crucial items used for the automatic speech recognition system (ASR System). The paper reviews numerous techniques to design and development speech databases for different purpose. The ... -
Climate Smart Agriculture in the African Context
(2015-10)Agriculture remains vital to the economy of most African countries and its development has significant implications for food security and poverty reduction in the region. Increase in agricultural production over the past ... -
TRANSFORMING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
(2016-09)Agriculture is a key driver for pro-poor economic growth in Kenya and supports over 80% of rural households (Amwata et al., 2015). Challenges in the agriculture sector (RoK, 2010; 2012; Nyariki et al., 2005): Limited ... -
Profit based unit commitment using evolutionary particle swarm optimization
(2015)The profit based unit commitment (PBUC) problem determines an optimal unit commitment schedule for a generation company (GENCO) participating in a deregulated environment with the aim of maximizing its profit. This is ... -
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 ... -
Profit based unit commitment in deregulated electricity markets using a hybrid lagrangian relaxation - particle swarm optimization approach
(2017)In deregulated electricity markets, individual generation companies (GENCOs) carry out independent unit commitment based on predicted energy and revenue prices. The GENCOs unit commitment strategies are developed with the ... -
Shore to ship power for Mombasa port possibilities and challenges
(2016)Control of air pollution from docked ships is one challenge that ports encounter in their effort to reduce operational environmental impact. Ship-to-shore power has been identified as one technology to reduce emissions by ... -
Optimal Placement of FACTS devices using voltage Stability Indices
(2016)Power System Voltage stability remains a major challenge for power utilities across the world. This research uses static load flow methods namely the voltage stability indices to come up with an optimal placement of FACTS ... -
Key performance indicators for manufacturing safety in paint manufacturing: A case of kenyan industry.
(2015)Manufacturing safety is a key priority in the success of any business, as it can affect both the present and future competitive position of an organization. Organizations must measure ... -
The use of RC4 Encryption for Smart Meters
(2014)The electrical power grid is undergoing improvements and is being transformed to the Smart Grid. Smart Grid makes use of two way flow of power and information to better monitor, plan and control the electrical power grid. ... -
Comparative analysis of SCIG and DFIG based wind generation on transient stability of the Kenyan power system
(2014)Generation of Electrical power from wind is achieved using the two mainly available generator technologies. These technologies are the squirrel cage induction generators (SCIG) and doubly fed induction generators (DFIGs). ... -
The dependency of bus voltage and frequency in load shedding
(2013)Load shedding schemes proposed in literature so far use voltage and frequency parameters separately. The individual consideration of these indices may not be reliable or effective, and may even lead to the over load shedding ... -
Design optimization of a renewable hybrid energy system
(2013)This paper proposes the optimal design of a renewable hybrid energy system consisting of solar, wind energy with battery storage suitable for application in remote areas. The study investigates the possibility of reducing ...
