Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Effect of Planning on Performance of County Governments in Kenya
(2018-09)The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of planning on performance of county governments in Kenya. Questionnaire was used to collect data from seven counties in Kenya drawn from 47 ... -
Information Needs and Seeking Behavior of Young Small-Scale Dairy Farmers in Murang’a County, Kenya
(2018-12)Access to agricultural information influences the farming practices adopted by farmers. Small scale dairy farmers need frequent access to agricultural information to cope with modern dairy farming practices. Inefficient ... -
Information Communication Technologies (Icts) Employed By Young Farmers in Access and Use of Dairy Agricultural Information in Murang’a County, Kenya
(2019-03)Information Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the way information is created, stored, accessed and disseminated. It has the potential to enhance access and use of agricultural information by farmers in rural areas ... -
An assessment of the Criteria used by Teachers in Selecting Learning Resources for Language Instruction in Secondary Schools in Uasin-Gishu County, Kenya
(2018)The main objective of this study was to establish the criteria used by teachers in the selection of learning resources for language instruction in Secondary Schools in Kenya. The study was carried out in Secondary Schools ... -
Employee Perceptions on Transformation Leadership: A Case Study of Kenyan Public Universities
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Copper extraction by wet chemical method
(Journal of Sustainable Mining, 2018) -
Emotional Intelligence Influence on Employee Engagement Sustainability in Kenyan Public Universities
(International Journal of Academic Research in Public Policy and Governance, 2014)Organizations the world over face challenges today which require reforms in the management and governance styles. Therefore the organizations continue to attempt to achieve more for less by creating and maintaining value ... -
An Assessment of Social Media Usage among TVET Students in Kiambu County, Kenya
(International Journal of Novel Research in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018)This study was carried out to assess the use of social media among the students of TVET institutions in Kiambu County. In the context of today’s electronic media, social networking sites have come to mean individuals, using ... -
Factors Affecting Internal Auditor’s Performance in Public Universities in Kenya
(Global journal of Economics and Business Administration, 2018)The study focused on the factors affecting internal auditors ‘performance in public universities in Kenya. It aimed at achieving the objectives: to determine how the working environment, to assess how the challenges to the ... -
Determinants of Insurance uptake in developing countries: Evidence from CIC insurance, Kericho Branch, Kenya.
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2017)Insurance plays a major role in the life of the humanity. The citizenry has gradually come to realize the necessity of insurance and these needs are unending as long as life exists. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Translation and validation of the breast feeding self efficacy scale into the Kiswahili language in resource restricted setting in Thika – Kenya
(GLOBAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2017)Background Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is one of the most cost‐effective, healthpromoting, and disease‐preventing intervention and has been referred to as the cornerstone of child survival. Many mothers however ... -
Effectiveness of structured nutrition education on maternal breastfeeding self‐efficacy and exclusive breastfeeding duration in Kiandutu health centre, Thika – Kenya
(GLOBAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2017)Background Optimal breastfeeding practices can help prevent under‐nutrition among under five children and WHO recommends Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first half of infancy. Rates of EBF are however low globally ... -
Incorporating Health Education in the Curriculum: The Kenyan Experience
(International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD), 2018)The most recent challenges in health could be tackled by incorporating health education at all levels of learning. This is in tandem with the new global health policy aimed at combating these challenges and developed by ... -
Effects of occupational strain among poiice officers to the general security of a community: a case of muranga town, muranga county, Kenya
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2018)Strain at work in any profession negatively affects the people working and overall performance of employees. This in turn has a negative impact on production or quality of services being offered. This applies to police ... -
Hindrances to Women Advancing to Principals’ Decision Making Positions in Secondary Schools in Kenya: Evidence of Convergence and Divergence Views among Current Male and Female Principals
(American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)The study set out to investigate the views of current female and male secondary school principals regarding barriers or hindrances to women teachers becoming secondary school principals in a County in Kenya. The study ... -
Employing the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework with a case study of climate change vulnerability in Mombasa, Kenya
(Sage, 2018)This paper attempts to provide an empirical application of the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework using a case study of Mombasa Kenya. Climate variability is a challenge to tourism destinations, ... -
Quadratic Approach for Fast Topic Selection in Modelling Big Text Analytics
(International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, 2018)One challenging issue in application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is to select the optimal number of topics which must depend on both the corpus itself and user modeling goals. This paper presents a topic selection ... -
A Survey of Topic Model Inference Techniques
(International Journal of Computer and Information Technology, 2018)— Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a probabilistic topic model that aims at organizing, visualizing, summarizing, searching, predicting and understanding the content of any given text data. The model enables users ... -
Effects of Stakeholders‟ Participation in the InterEthnic Conflicts and Economic Growth in Nyando, Muhoroni and Tinderet Sub-Counties
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2018)The impact of ethnic conflicts to economic growth has been of great concerns by many Nations globally. Africa is the most affected continent in regard to conflict due to many nations within the continent experiencing ... -
FACTORS INFLUENCING TRAINING COSTS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGES IN KENYA: A CASE OF MURANG’A UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
(2018-06)The study sought to find out the factors influencing training costs in university colleges in Kenya a case of Murang’a University College. This was occasioned by the fact that the university colleges charge different amounts ...
