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Influence of Communication Patterns on Employee Performance in Selected Large Manufacturing Businesses in Eritrea
(2019-05)Manufacturing businesses face challenges in terms of increasing productivity in which their products are competitive in the market. Particularly, the manufacturing businesses in Eritrea face challenges in terms of producing ... -
Factors Effecting Valued Resource Distribution
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SSH-Brute Force Attack Detection Model based on Deep Learning
(2021-01)The rising number of malicious threats on computer networks and Internet services owing to a large number of attacks makes the network security be at incessant risk. One of the predominant network attacks that poses ... -
Effect of Acid Treatment on the Chemical Properties of Clays from Selected Sites in Murang’a and Nyeri counties, Kenya
(2020-11-30)Assessing improvement on the quality of clay has been conducted by treatment with different concentrations of hydrochloric and oxalic acid. This project intended to assess the effect of acid treatment on the elemental ... -
Insecticidal Activity of Ocimum Suave Willd Extracts and Compounds against Sitophilus Zeamais Motschulsky
(2020-11-28)Insect pests cause significant loss of maize production in Africa. Among pests of maize, beetles are the most important, with the maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais Motsch.) and the larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus ... -
Validating Structural Metrics for BPEL Process Models
(River Publishers, 2020-10-28)Business process models tend to get more and more complex with age, which hurts the ease with which designers can understand and modify them. Few metrics have been proposed to measure this complexity, and even fewer have ... -
An Enhanced Multiview Test Case Generation Technique for Object-oriented Software using Class and Activity Diagrams
(Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication, 2020-11)Software testing is one of the vital steps in software development life cycle. Test case generation is the first process in software testing which takes a lot of time, cost and effort to build an effective product from the ... -
Perspectives of Teacher Trainees’ Preparedness and Adoption on Integration of ICT in Public Teacher Training Colleges in Kenya
(IJIER, 2020-09)This study was concerned with perspectives of student teacher trainees’ preparedness and adoption on integration of ICTs in public teacher training colleges. Effective preparedness and adoption on integration of ICTs ... -
Mosquitoes composition, abundance and distribution in swampy and flooded shoreline habitats of Lake Baringo, Kenya, during a period of extreme flooding (2012-2013)
(2020-10)Mosquito ecology is influenced by wetness in the environment. In 2011-2014, a rise in waters of Lake Baringo resulted in unprecedented flooding that inundated over 88km2 of the shoreline. A longitudinal study carried out ... -
Evaluation of Warburgia ugandensis Extracts and Compounds for Crop Protection against Prostephanus truncates
(2020-11)Insect pests cause a significant loss of maize production in Africa. Maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais Motchulsky) and the larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus Horn) are the most destructive insect pests of maize. ... -
Insecticidal Activity of Elaeodendron schweinfurthianum Extracts and Compounds against Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky
(2020-11)Agricultural production is constrained by pests which cause serious post-harvest losses in African. Maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky) is one of the most destructive insect pests of maize. Effective synthetic ... -
Critical Analysis of Response to Famine in Semi-Arid Areas of North West, Kenya
(2019-05)This paper analyses behavioral patterns which emerges in the process of adjustment to stem the negative effects of famine in semi-arid areas in North West, Kenya occupied by Turkana pastoralists. The paper takes a more ... -
Voltage stability assessment and enhancement of power grid with increasing wind energy penetration
(Elsevier, 2020-03)This paper presents the voltage stability assessment of power system with increasing wind energy penetration. The effects of increasing Doubly-Fed Induction Generator-based Wind Energy Conversion System (DFIG-WECS) penetration ... -
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 ...