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ANALYSIS OF SELECTED HEAVY METALS AND THEIR CORRELATIONS IN TOMATOES, SOILS, AND COMMONLY USED INORGANIC FERTILIZERS IN KIRINYAGA COUNTY, KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)The contamination of Agricultural products by harmful Heavy metals poses a significant global health concern, with potential links to severe public health issues such as cancer and neural impairment. Tomatoes (Lycopersicon ... -
GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TiO2 NANOPARTICLES CO-DOPED WITH Zn:Fe FOR POTENTIAL APPLICATION AS A PHOTOANODE IN SOLAR CELL
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)The utilization and overreliance on fossil fuels have dramatically spiked negative global climatic changes. When combusted to produce energy, they emit products including but not limited to oxides of carbon, which contribute ... -
MODELING THE PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AMONG MURANG’A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Around the world, depression is a prevalent mental illness and it affects the way people think, feel, talk and conduct their daily activities. The stigma associated with depression makes it to be misdiagnosed in the mild ... -
MODELING SELF-HELP GROUPS’ IMPACT ON MEMBERS’ LIVELIHOODS IN MURANG’A EAST SUB-COUNTY USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Approximately 8.9 million people, or 17% of Kenya’s population, live below the poverty line of 1.9 USD on a daily basis, majority of them in the rural areas. This research aimed to model the impact of self-help groups on ... -
OPTIMIZATION OF PRETREATED CASSAVA PEELS BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION USING TAGUCHI DESIGN INTEGRATING KINETICS OF YEAST (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) REACTION AND BIOETHANOL CHARACTERIZATION
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Majority of African rural homes use harmful energy sources like wood and fossil fuels, which are hazardous to human health and not environmentally friendly. Bioethanol is a form of ethanol produced from fermentation process. ... -
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ZnO:Al:Ga CO-DOPED NANOPARTICLES FOR POSSIBLE SOLAR CELL APPLICATION
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Pollution is a major reason traditional energy sources like crude oil and fossil fuels are not environmentally friendly, negatively impacting climate change. Creating of alternative clean energy sources such as solar energy ... -
EFFECT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON SERVICE DELIVERY: A CASE STUDY OF MURANG'A WATER AND SANITATION COMPANY
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Corporate governance has a long history of positively impacting society by generating jobs and solutions to evolving problems. It ensures honesty, integrity, and accountability in companies. Prudent corporate governance ... -
INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL ECONOMIC FACTORS ON DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MURANG’A EAST SUB COUNTY, MURANG’A COUNTY, KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)There has been a global increase of deviant behaviour in learning institutions most of which has resulted to destruction of property, loss of life, loss of learning time and decline in academic performance. Despite ... -
EFFECT OF PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT ON PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: MURANG’A COUNTY GOVERNMENT
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-03)The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of participative management on performance of public organizations case of Murang’a County Government. The study sought to examine the effect of employee participation, ... -
ADOPTION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AS A DRIVER FOR COST LEADERSHIP STRATEGY IN TOUR FIRMS WITHIN NAIROBI CITY COUNTY, KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Digital technologies have revolutionized the way tour firms operate. Adoption of digital technologies in tour firm operations has led to minimization of marketing costs, maximization of operational efficiency and maximization ... -
OPTIMIZATION OF PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL DERIVATIVE PARAMETERS BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)The control of linear and nonlinear systems is of paramount importance when it comes to improvement of the plant performance. Many industries employ different modes of control when it comes to the proportional integral and ... -
AN IMPROVED TEXT-TO-TEXT TRANSFER TRANSFORMER (T5) FOR TEXT SUMMARIZATION OF NEWS ARTICLES
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)Text summarization is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) task that condenses textual content while preserving essential information. With the exponential growth in digital news content, efficient summarization techniques ... -
INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC REGULATION ON SERVICE DELIVERY OF WATER COMPANIES IN MURANGA COUNTY
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-08)In accordance with the public regulation, sound policies and practices in public procurement are among the key components of good excellent stewardship and governance. However, the procurement process is still built on ... -
EFFECT OF INTERNAL CONTROLS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF TRANSPORT SECTOR SAVINGS AND CREDIT CO-OPERATIVES IN MURANG’A COUNTY, KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-07)The study sought to establish the effect of internal controls on the financial performance of SACCOs in the transport sector. The Kenyan transport sector accounts for about 8.3% of the Kenyan GDP. The sector faces inadequate ... -
EFFECT OF E PROCUREMENT ON THE TENDERING PROCESS OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-08)E-procurement is considered one of the major restructurings in public procurement. It is the utilization of electronic approaches over the internet to carry out procurement tasks such as needs identification, the bidding ... -
Integration of E-Supplier Management and Organizational Performance of Parastatals in Nakuru County
(2022-10)This study sought to investigate the integration of e-supplier management and its influence on organizational performance. The study aimed to specifically; analyse e-information sharing and its influence on organizational ... -
A Support Vector Machine and Artificial Neural Network Model for Enhanced Image Classification of Maize Leaf Diseases
(2022-10)Image classification accuracy is the total number of images predicted correctly out of the total images in the test dataset in the field of computer vision. Classifying the images accurately is still a challenge due to ... -
Effects of Stress Control Techniques by Middle Level Employees on Strategic Performance Management of Murang’a County Government
(2022-11)Globally, employees experience stress at the workplace. It has become a real exertion in most organizations especially in the developing countries where the significance amount of stress at the workplace has had influence ... -
Spatial Modelling of Malaria Prevalence in Kenya
(2022-10)Malaria is a leading cause of deaths in Kenya. A vector-borne disease caused by parasite of genus plasmodium; the disease is introduced into the human circulatory system from bites caused by infected female anopheles’ ... -
Forecasting of Banking Sector Security Prices in Kenya Using Machine Learning Techniques
(2022-10)Financial analysts should be able to make accurate predictions about the direction of the stock market. First and foremost, investors should understand how the stock market works before making any form of investment in a ...
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