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Impact of Educational Robotic Activities on Secondary School Students’ Interest in Engineering Career Pathways
(2022-11)Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics related careers are important in preparing any nation for development. There has been low interest by the secondary school students in the STEM fields and as such teaching ... -
Impact of Energy Management in a Solar PV Microgrid
(2022-11)Fossil fuel accounts for a bigger percentage of primary energy sources in the world. Studies show that the world energy demand is on the rise but the real sources of fossil fuel decline each day. Major oil producing countries ... -
IMPACT OF ROAD TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ON PERFORMANCE OF TEA PROCESSING FACTORIES IN MURANG’A COUNTY, KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-04)The relationship between road transport infrastructure development and the performance of tea processing factories is a crucial and complex matter with global implications. Given the pivotal role of the tea industry in ... -
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 Digital Distribution Strategies on Uptake of Bank Products and Services in Kenya
(2022-11)banking, online payments, Automated Teller Machines, and agency banking, among others. Despite this, just 36% of clients use technology for agency banking, 31% for mobile banking, 30% for ATM banking, and 3% for internet ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MONOPOLY STRATEGIES AND VALUE PROPOSITION ENVIRONMENT ON ELECTRICITY UTILITY IN KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-08)Studies have shown that lack of competition allows companies to artificially inflate prices, impacting consumers' quality of life and deterring investment in the economy. The research gap addressed by the study was the ... -
Isolation, Identification and Screening of Bacillus species from Rastrineobola argentea (Omena) for Production of Bacteriocins active against Bovine Mastitis Pathogens
(2015)Bacteriocins offer an advantage over antibiotics in that they target very specific organisms and they are generally regarded as safe for humans. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify bacteriocin-producing ... -
Marketing models for performance among four and five star Hotels in Kenya
(2016)Kenya has been slow in adjusting to the external hospitality environment and adopting competitive marketing strategies as evidenced by the higher growth of tourism in competitor countries. Marketing models such as the four ... -
MEDIATING ROLE OF TOURISTS’ EMOTIONAL SATISFACTION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERVICE QUALITY AND BEHAVIOURAL INTENTIONS IN MAASAI MARA GAME LODGES, KENYA
(Murang’a University of Technology, 2024-08)Providing high-quality services in game lodges promotes emotional satisfaction and, subsequently, favourable behavioural intentions, leading to enhanced business performance, including market share and profitability. ... -
A MODEL FOR SELECTING SECURITY PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
(2013)A MODEL FOR SELECTING SECURITY PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS Abstract The process of mapping security requirements to the most appropriate security protocol has over the time proved a great challenge. Though ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Moderating Effect of Business Regulatory Requirements on The Effect of Firm Specific Factors on Financial Performance of Private Security Firms in Kenya
(2022-10)Even though Kenya enacted Private Security Regulatory Act of 2016, majority of private security companies have continued to operate without complying with the regulation thus inhibiting their performance. For private ... -
A NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH TO VARIANCE FUNCTION ETIMATION: AN APPLICATION TO NAIROBI’S STOCK EXCHANGE MARKET
(2005)A NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH TO VARIANCE FUNCTION ETIMATION: AN APPLICATION TO NAIROBI’S STOCK EXCHANGE MARKET Abstract We consider the analysis of a method for fitting regression models to data in the field which exhibit ... -
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. ...
