Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Effects of 2005-2006 Drought: A Systematic Review of the Evidence in Morulem and Lokichar Pastoral Villages, Kenya
(2020-10)This paper presents the effects of the 2005-2006 drought and famine in the two pastoral villages in Turkana, Morulem and Lokichar, which were rural and urban respectively. Analyses is based on both qualitative and quantitative ... -
Individual Attributes and the Adoption of Cross-Network Mobile Money Transfer Service by SMEs in Murang’a Municipality
(IOSR Journals, 2020-10)Kenya introduced a platform-level cross-network mobile money transfer service in the year 2018, a move that made the country join other East African countries namely Rwanda and Tanzania in operating interoperable systems. ... -
Funding Effect on Strategic Plans Implementation: A Comparative Study between Amica and Mentor Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies
(IOSR Journals, 2020-10)Strategic management is a set of decisions and actions resulting from the formulation and implementation of strategies designed to achieve the objectives of the organization. The successful implementation of Strategic plans ... -
Impact of The Youth Empowerment and Development Fund (YEDF) on Livelihood Improvement of Youths in Nairobi County – Kenya
(2020-08-01)The introduction of Youth Empowerment Programmes (YEP) by the Government of Kenya was a move to satisfy the urgency of endowing youth to join in and nurture their development approaches. Empowerment of youths through ... -
Copper Extraction Using Aluminum in Acidic Leachate Media
(IISTE, 2020)Copper is found in several minerals with varied elemental composition. For instance, copper minerals occur as chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), bornite (Cu5FeS4), chalcocite (Cu2S), covellite (CuS), cuprite oxide (Cu2O), and malachite ... -
Impure Hydrazone Preparation from Chicken Dung
(IISTE, 2020-09-30)Hydrazones are strong reducing agents. Some hydrazones like hydrazine are is highly toxic and unstable and are therefore found dissolved in water. Chicken dung contains amines and uric acid that are potential sources of ... -
An Assessment of how Youth Empowerment Programmes have Influenced Availability of Jobs to the Youth in Nairobi County – Kenya
(2020-08)The Kenyan Youth today face a myriad of socio-economic hurdles. The introduction of Youth Empowerment Programmes (YEP) by the Government of Kenya was a move to satisfy the urgency of endowing youth to join in and nurture ... -
Technological Characteristics and Adoption of Cross-Network Mobile Money Transfer Service by SMES in Murang’a Municipality
(IOSR Journals, 2020-07)Mobile service operators in Kenya rolled out cross-network mobile money transfer services in the year 2018 intending to increase the penetration of mobile financial services in the country due to reduced costs and increased ... -
A Literature Survey of Visual Similarity Snooping Attacks in Emails
(2020-08)Snooping is one of the biggest issues that the cyber security industry is facing in this modern era of technology and it leads to big losses of finances both for individuals and organizations. The detection of snooping ... -
Cloud Data Privacy Preserving Model for Health Information Systems Based on Multi Factor Authentication
(2020-09)With cloud computing (CC) becoming popular in recent years, variety of institutions, organizations, businesses and individual users are creating interest. They are adopting the technology in order to take advantage of ... -
A Metrics-Based Fuzzy Logic Model for Predicting the Reusability of Object-Oriented Software
(Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication, 2020-08)Software reusability facilitates the engineering of new software or systems functionalities without having to start coding from scratch. This software quality provides numerous merits to the software developers including ... -
Review of HVDC Circuit Breakers Topologies
(2017-05)Voltage Source Converter-High Voltage Direct Current (VSC-HVDC) is the most efficient and reliable method for electrical power transmission over long distances. The greatest challenge with VSC-HVDC system is that short-circuit ... -
Application of Spritz Encryption in Smart Meters to Protect Consumer Data
(2019)The ongoing upgrade of the electrical power system into a more powerful system known as Smart Grid has both benefits and costs. Smart Grid relies on advanced communication and hence offers better services through improved ... -
The use of RC4 Encryption to Provide Privacy for Smart Meters
(2018)The electrical power grid is undergoing improvements and is being transformed to the Smart Grid. Smart Grid uses two-way power and information flow to better monitor, plan and control the electrical power grid. Advanced ... -
GENCO Optimal Bidding Strategy and Profit Based Unit Commitment using Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization Illustrating the Effect of GENCO Market Power
(Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science, 2018)In deregulated electricity markets, generation companies (GENCOs) make unit commitment (UC) decisions based on a profit maximization objective in what is termed profit based unit commitment (PBUC). PBUC is done for the ... -
Novel Modeling of a Fast DC Breaker for a VSC-HVDC Transmission System Protection
(2017-11)The inability to quickly isolate the faulty sections of the direct current (DC) network damages the converters and the transmission system. Further delay in fault interruption can be escalated to the generation system thus ... -
Energy Flow Strategy For A Small Scale Grid Tied Photovoltaic System Under Net Metering
(2019-10)Grid connected PV systems continue to attract investors and electricity customers all over the world. Due to interconnection with the utility grid, the system can glean some benefits such as selling PV electricity surplus ... -
Contribution of FACTS Devices to the Transient Stability Improvement of a Power System Integrated with a PMSG-Based Wind Turbine
(2019)The increasing penetration of wind energy to the conventional power system due to the rapid growth of energy demand has led to the consideration of different wind turbine generator technologies. In fault conditions, the ... -
Optimal Battery Sizing of a Grid-connected Residential Photovoltaic System for Cost Minimization using PSO Algorithm
(2019)This paper proposes a new optimization technique that uses Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in residential grid connected photovoltaic systems. The optimization technique targets the sizing of the battery storage system. ... -
Strengthening The Transient Stability Of A Power Grid Coupled With Wind Turbine Using Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor
(2019-10)The increase diffusion and circulation of wind energy to the conventional power system due to rapid growth of energy demand has led to consideration of different wind turbine generator technologies. It has been discovered ...
