Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Board Diversity and Operational Efficiency: A Public Utility Perspective
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY, 2024)Effective corporate governance is essential for fostering sustainable, profitable, and socially responsible enterprises. It promotes transparency, accountability, and ethical leadership, enabling organizations to respond ... -
Strategic Fund Management Practices and Financial Sustainability of Social Economy Organizations in Kenya
(International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 2024)Social-economy entities are dedicated to social objectives rather than profit maximization. Among them, Agricultural NGOs (A-NGOs) play a crucial role in promoting sustainable farming practices. However, due to the financial ... -
Management Controls and Financial Performance: Insights from Transport Industry SACCOs in Kenya
(THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, 2025)This study examined the effect of management controls on the financial performance of SACCOs in Kenya's transport industry. While the sector plays a crucial role in the economy, many transport sector SACCOs have faced ... -
Leveraging Collaborative Financing: A Pathway to Sustaining the Social Economy
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY, 2025)Social economy organizations (SEOs) operate in the third sector economy squeezed between the private and the public sectors, and focus on fulfilling social missions rather than maximizing profits. The COVID-19 pandemic ... -
Security-aware Mobile Application Development Lifecycle (sMADLC)
(I. J. Education and Management Engineering,, 2023)With the high mobile phone penetration and subsequent significant usage of mobile phone applications, mobile users have become prime targets of hackers. Secure Software Development (SSD) advocates incorporating security ... -
Lightweight Proof-of-Stake Models for Privacy-Preserving Telemedicine Systems: A Systematic Review
(International Journal of Computer and Information Technology, 2025)Proof of Stake (PoS) models are energy-efficient and require limited computational power. These features are critical in telemedicine environments, where resource-constrained devices must handle sensitive data securely. ... -
ICT4D Research in Developing Countries: A Call for Pragmatism Approach
(International Journal of Computer and Information System (IJCIS), 2022)Today, Information Systems research and in particular in the area of ICT4D in developing nations is dominated by positivism and interpretivism paradigms. Information systems contributions are influenced by historical, ... -
E-HRM Practices and Public Value Creation. A Case of County Government in Kenya
(IST-Africa 2024 Conference Proceedings, 2024)Public organizations are adopting the use of electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM), as it is regarded as a key catalyst for generating value for HRM processes. However, empirical evidence is scanty, particularly ... -
An Ensemble Learning Model for Predicting Social Engineering Pharming Attacks
(International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research, 2023)Pharming attack has a broad scope as social engineers can masquerade as anyone, particularly during the COVID- 19 pandemic from health authorities or even organization executives getting in touch with their personnel. The ... -
A TRUST-BASED MULTIPATH CONGESTION-AWARE ROUTING TECHNIQUE TO CURB WORMHOLE ATTACKS FOR MOBILE NODES IN WSNS
(International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), 2025)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as a critical technology in diverse applications, ranging from environmental monitoring to precision agriculture. However, the inherent limitations of WSNs, such as constrained ... -
Effects of Catchment Land Use on Water Quality in Maragua and Mathioya Riverine Wetlands , Murang’a County , Kenya
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN APPLIED SCIENCE (IJRIAS), 2025)Wetland ecosystems in Murang’a County are diminishing due to increased catchment land use practices. Part of wetlands have been converted into farmlands where various agricultural activities are carried out while some ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Antiplasmodial Gallium (III) and Iron (III) Complexes of Aminochloroquinoline-3, 4-Hydroxypyridinone Conjugates: Preliminary Studies.
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN APPLIED SCIENCE (IJRIAS), 2025)Metallation is a drug optimization strategy that has been used to enhance efficacy as well as pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic PK/PD properties in antimalarials. In our earlier studies antiplasmodial aminochloroquinol ... -
Structural and Optical Properties of ZnO:Al:Ga Co-Doped Nanoparticles: Investigation on the Effects of pH of the Precursor Solution via a Simple Sol-Gel Route
(American Journal of Materials Science, 2024)Zinc oxide (ZnO) has unique properties that are suitable for solar cell applications. However, there is need to improve its effectiveness by incorporating dopants into ZnO structure. This study investigates how pH affects ... -
Rapid Macronutrient Profiling of Maize Varieties Grown in Kirinyaga County, Kenya Using Atr-Ftir Spectroscopy and Chemometric Techniques.
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN APPLIED SCIENCE (IJRIAS), 2025)Maize (Zea mays), a staple food in Kenya, is vital for food security and economic sustainability, contributing 12.65% to the agricultural GDP. Despite its centrality, limited studies have explored the nutritional ... -
Leveraging off higher plant phylogenetic insights for antiplasmodial drug discovery
(Natural Products and Bioprospecting, 2023)The antimalarial drug-resistance conundrum which threatens to reverse the great strides taken to curb the malaria scourge warrants an urgent need to find novel chemical scaffolds to serve as templates for the development ... -
Kojic acid derived hydroxypyridinone–chloroquine hybrids: Synthesis, crystal structure, antiplasmodial activity and b-haematin inhibition
(Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2014)Aminochloroquinoline–kojic acid hybrids were synthesized and evaluated for b-haematin inhibition and antiplasmodial activity against drug resistant (K1) and sensitive (3D7) strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Compound 7j ... -
Effects of Catchment Land Use on Nutrients and Heavy Metals Inflows into Maragua and Mathioya Wetlands in Murang’a County, Kenya
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN APPLIED SCIENCE (IJRIAS), 2025)Wetland ecosystems in Murang’a County are diminishing due to increased catchment land use practices. Part of wetlands have been converted into farmlands where various agricultural activities are carried out while some parts ... -
Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Tomatoes and French Beans from Murang’a and Kiambu Counties, Kenya
(European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety, 2020)Poor Pesticide-handling practices during production of tomatoes and French beans pose adverse health and environmental effects. This study was conducted to determine the concentrations of pesticide residues in tomatoes ... -
Prioritised identification of structural classes of natural products from higher plants in the expedition of antimalarial drug discovery
(Natural Products and Bioprospecting, 2023)The emergence and spread of drug-recalcitrant Plasmodium falciparum parasites threaten to reverse the gains made in the fight against malaria. Urgent measures need to be taken to curb this impending challenge. The ... -
Development of a Traceability Model for Geographical Origin of Kenya’s Black Teas Based on Principal Component Analysis of FTIR and UV-Vis Spectral Data
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN APPLIED SCIENCE (IJRIAS, 2025)Authentic tracing of the origins of black tea is important in the tea market as this helps to extrapolate the quality and thus prices. Tasting on its own can be a misleading test for tea quality and origin tracing since ...