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Socio-demographic Determinants of Soil Erosion Levels among the Farming Households in Nyakach Sub-county, Kenya
(Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2019)
Soil degradation is a world-wide problem facing humanity today. In Nyakach Sub-county the
problem has persisted over the years. This study set out to assess the influence of socio-demographic
characteristics of farmers ...
Knockdown of Cytochrome P450 Genes Gh_D07G1197 and Gh_A13G2057 on Chromosomes D07 and A13 Reveals Their Putative Role in Enhancing Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Gossypium Hirsutum
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-03)
We identified 672, 374, and 379 CYPs proteins encoded by the CYPs genes in Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium raimondii, and Gossypium arboreum, respectively. The genes were found to be distributed in all 26 chromosomes of the ...
Integrating Temperature-Dependent Life Table Data into Insect Life Cycle Model for Predicting the Potential Distribution of Scapsipedus Icipe Hugel & Tanga
(PLOS One, 2019-09-25)
Scapsipedus icipe Hugel and Tanga (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) is a newly described edible cricket species. Although, there is substantial interest in mass production of S. icipe for human food and animal feed, no information ...
Artisanal Fishing Supports Breeding of Malaria Mosquitoes in Western Kenya
(BMC, 2019)
Background: Everyday hundreds of people, mainly men, set out to take part in a vibrant artisanal capture fshing (ACF) industry on Lake Victoria. It is not known whether actions of artisanal fshers, in their unrelenting ...
Metacognitive Monitoring as Predictor of Mathematics Achievement among Students in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 2019)
This study investigated metacognitive monitoring as a predictor of mathematics achievement among students in public secondary schools in Kisii Central Sub County, Kenya. The study was guided by the Social Development Theory ...
Relationship between Goal-Setting and Mathematics Achievement among Students in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(International Journal of Advanced and Multidisciplinary Social Science, 2019)
The purpose of this study was to investigate selected goal-setting as a predictor of mathematics performance among students in public secondary schools in Kisii Central Sub-County, Kenya. The study was guided by the Social ...
Probability of Default Estimation for Commercial Lenders in Developing Economies: Creditworthiness of Consumer Borrower
(Global Scientific Journals, 2019-06)
The Business of advancing credits is gradually becoming a major target for many banks, as a result there is high competition among the financial institutions leading to default of most credits. In order to raise the quality ...
Invasive Species Population Status Modeling Using Stage Based Matrix: Mount Elgon Ecosystem
(Mathematical Theory and Modeling, 2019)
The matrix models have been applied to evaluate the impacts and management of tree species. Modeling of invasive species using stage based matrix methods has not been exploited to understand the population structure of the ...
On denseness of similarity orbits of norm-attainable operators
(International Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 4/16/2019)
The notion of dense sets has been extensively discussed on both metric and topological spaces. Various properties of the sets have been proved under the underlying spaces. However, if we consider these sets to be from ...
Optimal Allocation in Double Sampling for Stratification in the Presence of Nonresponse and Measurement Errors
(International Journal of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, 2019)
The present study addresses the problem of minimum cost and precision in the estimation of the
population mean in the presence of nonresponse and measurement errors. It is assumed that both the survey variable and the ...