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Competitive Forces Influencing Business Performance of Bicycle Taxis in Kisumu City, Kenya
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2013-05)
Whether domestically or globally, transport is the movement of people, goods and services from one place to another. It enables trade between people and organizations. Globally, transport is the key necessity for specialization. ...
A Discourse Analysis of Transactional Patterns in Two Health Facilities in Nyanza, Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013-01-01)
Receptionists who work in government health facilities in Kenya are part of large state funded ministry, the
Ministry of Medical Services. Their counterparts who work in private hospitals fall under the hospital
management, ...
Effect of General Computer Use on Secondary School Students’ Performance in Biology
(Greener Journal of Computer Sciences, 2013)
Although knowledge of biology is important for the survival of humans, performance in the subject, both in pre-Kenya
Certificate of Secondary Education (pre-KCSE) assessment and national examinations in Vihiga county has ...
The Role of ICT in Appreciating Tri-Axis Efforts of Research, Publications and Library Services in Higher Education
(2013)
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a principal enabler
to nearly all functional efforts including quality assurance sustenance in higher
education. Studies have revealed that research has a feeder effect ...
Successful contextual technology transfers and determinants of culture
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2013)
Why do so many projects in which technology transfer is involved, fail? This chapter analyzes this problem and offers an alternative for well-intended but unreflected ways of dealing with technology transfer. The authors ...
Application of the vitality test on small languages: The case of Suba in Kenya
(2013)
As yet, there is no conclusive framework with which the state of the world’s languages may be assessed, even when the literature features a strong constellation of the factors1 that underlie language loss or maintenance. ...
Multilingualism and language attitudes: Students perceptions towards kiswahili in Mtwara Region of Tanzania
(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)
The role of language attitudes on language choice, development and policy in multilingual societies cannot be over emphasized (Adegbija, 1994; Batibo, 2005). Monolingual speakers have only one attitude towards their language ...
Capacities and governance in Kenya: Lessons in technology transfer
(Springer, Cham, 12/4/2013)
First, the authors set the scene by exploring the main lines of the present development debate. They take a nuanced stand, not only looking at failures of Western development initiatives, but also going into the internal ...
Finite element approach to the solution of fourth order beam equation
(IJESM, 2013-06)
Finite element method is a class of mathematical tool which approximates solutions to initial and boundary value problems. Finite element, basic functions, stiffness matrices, systems of ordinary differential equations and ...
Derivation and solution of the heat equation in 1-D
(International Journal of Engineering, Science and Mathematics, 2013)
Heat flows in the direction of decreasing temperature, that is, from hot to cool. In this paper we derive the heat equation and consider the flow of heat along a metal rod. The rod allows us to consider the temperature, ...