http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:47:46 GMT 2026-04-20T14:47:46Z http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6620 Factors influencing availability of tracer essential medicines in selected health facilities in Nyeri County, Kenya Munga, Minai Samuel; Gitau, Tabither Muthoni; Kimani, Lawrence Mirie; Kariuki, Peterson; Ng’etich, Enoch Background: Tracer essential medicines are drugs which fully fulfil a population’s health requirements and ought to be always available allowing for a properly functioning health system all the time. They should be available in the appropriate dosage, adequate amounts and at assured quality at a price that many people and the community can easily afford. Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study design was used. This study utilized a mixed method approach (qualitative, observation and quantitative). Results: The study found out that artemether lumefantrine was the least available drug at 50% in all the sampled facilities with KEMSA cited as the main supplier of tracer essential medicines in these facilities. Policy formulation was done without any involvement of pharmacy in-charges and policies passed at the county management team merely passed onto the staff at the health facilities without their engagement. Conclusions: With the roll out of UHC program, majority of the participants indicated an increase in the availability of essential drugs in Nyeri County hence the government should roll out the program countrywide. Health management and leadership teams in the county needs to engage the pharmacy in-charges during policy making and changes, provide efficient communication in the supply chain system, including proper inventory management systems and to enhance research of drugs and emerging diseases in the county. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6620 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6592 Power System Analysis with Metaheuristics. Muriithi, Christopher M. Modern electric power systems are becoming increasingly complex due to the integration of renewable energy sources, distributed generation, electric vehicles, and intelligent control technologies. Traditional analytical techniques alone are often insufficient to address the nonlinear, large-scale, and multi-objective nature of contemporary power system problems. This book presents a comprehensive and practical approach to power systems analysis using metaheuristic optimization techniques, combining classical power system theory with modern computational intelligence methods. The text begins by establishing the fundamental principles of power system modeling, including the formation of network equations, bus admittance matrix development, and load flow analysis. Classical numerical methods such as the Gauss–Seidel method, Newton–Raphson method, and Fast Decoupled Load Flow method are introduced with detailed mathematical derivations and practical MATLAB implementations, providing a solid foundation for power system analysis. For example, the MATLAB implementations included in the book demonstrate the iterative solution of load flow problems and the formation of network matrices used in system studies. Building on these classical methods, the book introduces a wide range of metaheuristic optimization algorithms that have become powerful tools for solving complex engineering problems. Algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Simulated Annealing (SA), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and other swarm intelligence techniques are explained from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Their applications to optimal power flow, economic dispatch, voltage stability assessment, and system planning are illustrated through worked examples. A unique contribution of this book is the introduction of the Boda-Boda Optimization Algorithm (BBOA), a novel swarm-inspired optimization method derived from the dynamic and adaptive navigation patterns observed in motorcycle transport systems. The algorithm demonstrates strong exploration and exploitation capabilities, making it suitable for solving highly nonlinear optimization problems in power systems. To bridge theory and practice, the book includes extensive MATLAB codes, simulation exercises, and real-world case studies, enabling students, researchers, and practicing engineers to implement and test algorithms directly. The examples emphasize practical applications in modern power networks, including renewable integration, smart grid operation, and large-scale system optimization. Overall, this book serves as both a teaching resource and a research reference, providing readers with the theoretical foundations, computational tools, and algorithmic strategies necessary to analyze and optimize modern electric power systems. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6592 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6157 Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory: Traversing Genres to Contemporary Nyongesa, Andrew W. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6157 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6156 Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction Nyongesa, Andrew W. As the title, Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction suggests, this book seeks to restore the principal influence of Mother Nature in human life. Individual literary critics have demonstrated how literary writers have deliberately presented the impact of Mother Nature on the lives of characters. However, most of them have hardly demonstrated the indispensable role of ecological environment on the political, social and religious attributes of human life. Although most scholars single out human greed and imperialism as the prime causes of historical events such as colonialism, war, slavery and industrialisation, this book extendsit by investigating the influence of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels. This book is close textual analysis of works of fiction from any regions of the globe. The wide scope of choice of texts is deliberate because ecological issues are global and should be given the gravity they deserve in every continent. This study would have used academic and journalistic primary texts, but I choose literary texts because literature has the capacity to speak to hearts rather than minds of audiences. According to Brueggemann (1989): To address the issue of a truth greatly reduced requires us to be poets that speak against a prose world. The terms of that phrase are readily misunderstood. By prose I refer to a world that is organised in settled formulae, so that even pastoral prayers and love letters sound like memos (48) Brueggemann in the line “speak against prose world” suggests that works of art possess certain unconventionality that will invert the homocentric ethos that has constantly relegated Mother Nature. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6156 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z