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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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
Tourism, millennium development goals and climate change in Kenya
(2014)
Tourism growth in the last century has been remarkable with a record of 1Billion global arrival
recorded in 2012 and revenues at a tune of USD 1,075 billion. Tourism is also recognized as an
important sector in achieving ...
Natural Convection in a Rectangular Enclosure with Colliding Boundary Layers
(Journal of Applied Mathematics & Bioinformatics, 2014)
The movement of the fluid in natural convection results from the buoyancy forces imposed on the fluid when its density in the proximity of the heat transfer surface is decreased as a result of the heating process. The ...