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Application of Mixture Experiments in Poultry Feed Formulation
(2018-12)
The quality, components, proportions and storage of feeds is critical in poultry farming. The rising prices and poor quality of feeds has constantly led to low returns due to low final weights among birds. The study applied ...
The influence of reaction times on structural, optical and luminescence properties of cadmium telluride nanoparticles prepared by wet-chemical process
(2016-01)
This paper explains one pot synthesis of type II water soluble L-cysteine capped cadmium telluride (CdTe) core shell quantum dots using cadmium acetate, potassium tellurite and L-cysteine as the starting materials. The ...
Effect of Authentic Leadership Style on Employee Engagement In Public Secondary Schools, Murang’a County, Kenya
(Society for Science and Education, 2018-11-25)
This study sought to examine the effect of employee authentic leadership style on
employee engagement in public secondary schools of Murang’a County in Kenya. A
survey research design was employed. The target population ...
Effect of Supply Chain Management Competencies on Organization Performance a Survey of Parastatals in Nairobi County
(2015-12)
Supply chains as one of the governance aspect are complex systems with different structures and power proportions between partners. Managers would be in a better position to meet the challenges of global supply chain ...
Human Resource Management Practices and Firm Effectiveness of Consumer Goods Manufacturing Firms In Kenya
(Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 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 ...
Biopesticidal Extractives and Compounds from Warburgia Ugandensis against Maize Weevil (Sitophilus zeamais)
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2015)
Agricultural production is constrained by insect pests, which cause serious post-harvest losses of up to 43% in developing countries. Maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky.) is one of the most destructive pests of ...
Provision of digital reference services in academic libraries in Kenya: a review
(Regional Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 2016)
Rationale of the study - The popularity of internet as an avenue of communication and source of
information has led to decreasing numbers of in-person reference transaction in academic libraries.
Consequently, academic ...
Constraints of rehabilitating degraded semi-arid lands of Kenya using indigenous perennial grasses
(2010)
Land degradation which among others include loss of vegetation is rampant in Kenya, destroying both the fragile arid and semiarid lands and the non-arid areas. Efforts to rehabilitate semiarid areas by re-vegetation has ...
A review on carbon nanotube/polymer composites for organic solar cells
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2014-04-13)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have unique properties, such as their electrical conductivity, that enable them to be combined with conducting polymers to form composites for use in organic solar cells (OSCs). It is envisaged that ...
The Effect Of Organizational Facilities On Employment Opportunities For People Living With Disabilities In Selected Universities In Kenya
(2017)
The world over, people living with disabilities amount to about 10% of the entire population and they are the least employed (World Bank 2010). In Kenya besides many organizations lobbying for the increased employment of ...