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Climate change and tourism adaptation: Literature review
(2015)
Purpose – This paper reviews published English literature on tourism adaptation to climate
change. Climate change remains a challenge in the 21st centaury and beyond. Climate sensitive
industries like tourism are vulnerable ...
An Evaluation of Pharmacy Pre-Registration Trainees‟ Perception of Their Placement Tutors in the United Kingdom (UK)
(2015-09)
This article reports on the findings of the study that set out to investigate the views of pharmacy preregistration trainees regarding their placement tutors. The study adopted a quantitative survey approach and questionnaires ...
The ecotourism metaphor and environmental sustainability in Kenya
(2015)
While to some extent there is disharmony in defining the term ecotourism, most tourism research agrees that
the eco prefix is a definite pointer to environmental or natural resource management as a core value to the
concept. ...
Grievance Resolution Mechanism on Employee Productivity: Commercial Banks in Bungoma County, Kenya
(2015-09)
Motivation of employees has always been quantified in financial attributes. For productivity to occur then there is need for using non-financial motivational initiatives. This study purposed to analyze the role of motivational ...
Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell with Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes in the Active Layer: Effect of Nanocomposite Synthesis Technique on Photovoltaic Properties
(2015-05-08)
Nanocomposites of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs) have been synthesized by two methods; specifically, direct solution mixing and in situ polymerization. The nanocomposites were ...
Evaluating the Public Value of E-Government Services
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
Governments all over the world are working on a broad array of e-government-services. As a result, there is need to evaluate e-government services objectively to identify areas of concerns. Recently, researchers have shown ...
Anthropometric characteristics and nutritional status of older adults in the Lake Victoria Basin of East Africa: region, sex, and age differences
(2015)
Background: Malnutrition, either as undernutrition or overnutrition, leads to detrimental alterations in body composition. The objective of this study was to investigate selected anthropometric measurements, and the ...
A Review of Convergence in Information and Communication Technology
(International Journal of Scientific Footprints, 2015-11-18)
Convergence is the interlinking of computing and other information technologies, telecommunications networks and media content that originally operated largely independently. Convergence has arisen as a result of the ...
Volume of Deposits, A determinant of Total Long-term Loans Advanced by Commercial Banks in Kenya: Case of Bungoma County.
(2015-12)
Commercial banks have exponentially increased their total loans advanced over the period 2002- 2013. However commercial banks in Kenya have shown varying long term lending behavior. The main objective of this study was to ...
Credit Reference Bureau as the Factor Influencing the Profitability of Commercial Banks in Kenya: A Case of Standard Chartered Bank, Kenya
(2015-12)
The Kenyan banking sector was in the 1980's, 1990's and early 2000 riddled with numerous Non- Performing Loans (NPLs) portfolio which reduced the bank's profitability profoundly and led to the collapse of many banks Imperial ...