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    • Numerical Analysis of Mathematical Model for Carbon Pollution in Roads with Ventilated Embankments in Absence and Presence of Forced Convection 

      Awino, J. O.; Aminer, T. J. O.; Onyango, T. M.; Okelo, N. B. (International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Engineering, 2018-11)
      In this paper, a two-dimensional grid based numerical carbon pollution model for the estimation of carbon pollutant concentrations in roads is developed. The simulations of carbon pollutants in roads with ventilated ...
    • Numerical Analysis of Prey Refuge Effects on the Stability of Holling Type III Four-Species Predator Prey System 

      Odhiambo, Francis; Aminer, Titus; Okelo, Benard; Manyala, Julius (Scientific Research Publishing, 2023-06-29)
      The dynamic behavior of a multi-species system that includes a prey refuge and a Holling type III functional response is examined in this work. The pre-requisites for the presence of the equilibrium points, as well as their ...
    • Numerical solution of dynamic vibration equation, ܠሷൌ ܐ܋܍ܛ ܠ 

      Ochieng, H. A.; Aminer, Titus J. O. (IJEMS, 2016)
      In this paper, we examine conservative autonomous dynamic vibration equation, f(x) = sech x which is time vibration of the displacement of a structure due to the internal forces, with no damping or external forcing. Numerical ...
    • Numerical solution of dynamic vibration equations 

      Aminer, T. J. O.; Okelo, B. N.; Ongati, Naftali O.; Okoya, M. E. Oduor (International Journal of mathematical Archive, 2011-09)
      In this paper, we examine conservative autonomous dynamic vibration equation, , which is time vibration of the displacement of a structure due to the internal forces, with no damping or external ...
    • Nutritional and developmental influences on components of rice crop light use efficiency 

      Xue, Wei; Lindner, Steve; Nay-Htoon, Bhone; Dubbert, Maren; Ochuodho, Dennis O.; Muraoka, Hiroyuki (Elsevier, 2016)
      Light use efficiency (LUE) plays a vital role in determination of crop biomass and yield. Important components of LUE, i.e. canopy structure, nitrogen distribution, photosynthetic capacity and CO2 diffusion conductance ...
    • Occurrence of Fungal Foliar Diseases of Tomato in Different Agro-Ecological Zones of Kirinyaga County, Kenya 

      Ogolla, Fredrick Otieno; Muraya, Moses M.; Onyango, Benson O. (Fundamental and Applied Agriculture, 2022-03-30)
      Tomato production is characterized by inconsistent quality and yields due to biotic constraints such as fungal foliar diseases. Information on the occurrence of the diseases in different agro-ecological zones of Kenya is ...
    • Occurrence of nodulation in leguminous trees in Kenya 

      Anyango, Beatrice; Keya, Shelemiah (Journal of Tropical Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2005)
      Exploitation of the potential for nitrogen fixing trees, soil improvement and multipurpose use, requires a good knowledge of their nodulation capabilities and agrosilvicultural manipulation. Nitrogen Fixation in some ...
    • On Centre Properties of Irreducible Subalgebras of Compact Elementary Operators 

      W, Kangogo; N. B, Okelo; O., Ongati (doi:10.30538/psrp-oma2020.0065, 2020)
      In this paper, we characterize the centre of dense irreducible subalgebras of compact elementary operators that are spectrally bounded. We show that the centre is a unital, irreducible and commutative C∗ -subalgebra. ...
    • On Characterization of Very Rotund Banach Spaces 

      Wanjara, A. O.; Okelo, N. B.; Ongati, O. (International Journal of Modern Computation, Information and Communication Technology, 10/23/2018)
      It is known that the Hilbert space H is the most rotund space among all Banach spaces. The question whether if a normed space X is a rotund Banach space implies we can obtain other most rotund spaces is still open and ...
    • On Compact Operators Whose Norms Are Eigenvalues and Completeness 

      Owino, J. N.; Okelo, N. B.; Ongati, Omolo (International Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences, 2/21/2018)
      Let X be a Banach space and T: X→Y be a linear operator, then Tis compact if it maps bounded sequences in X to sequences in Y with convergent subsequences, that is, if xn ∈ X is a bounded sequence, then T xn ∈ Y has a ...
    • On Compactness of Similarity Orbits of Norm-Attainable Operators 

      Mogotu, P. O.; Okelo, N. B.; Ongati, Omolo (International Journal of Mathematics And its Applications, 2019)
      The notion of compactness plays an important role in analysis. It has been extensively discussed on both metric and topological spaces. Various properties of compactness have been proved under the underlying spaces. However, ...
    • On denseness of similarity orbits of norm-attainable operators 

      Mogotu, P. O.; Okelo, N.B.; Ongati, Omolo (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 ...
    • On Equality of Complete Positivity and Complete Copositivity of Positive Map 

      Windaa, C. A.; Okelo, N. B.; Ongatia, Omollo (Journal of Linear and Topological Algebra, 5/30/2022)
      In this paper we construct a 2-positive map from M4(C) to M5(C) and state the conditions under which the map is positive and completely positive (copositivity of positive). The construction allows us to create a decomposable ...
    • On local minimum and orthogonality of normal derivations in Cp-classes 

      Owino, B. O.; Okelo, Bernad N.; Ongati, Naftali O. (G.I publications, 2017-02)
      The present paper gives some results on local minimum and orthogonality of normal derivations in Cp-Classes. We employ some techniques for normal derivations due to Mecheri, Hacene, Bounkhel and Anderson. Let CpCp be normal, ...
    • On necessary and sufficient conditions for rationality of operator norm bounds in measure spaces 

      Okelo, Benard N. (2016-11)
      Norm bounds are useful properties of operators with interesting applications in operator algebras and quantum mechanics. Rationality of these norm bounds is very important in the study of operators in measure spaces. As a ...
    • On Norm Estimates for Derivations in Norm-Attainable Classes 

      Nyabonyi, J. Z.; Okelo, N. B.; Obogi, R. K. (Eur. J. Math. Anal, 2023)
      In this note, we provide detailed characterization of operators in terms of norm-attainability and norm estimates in Banach algebras. In particular, we establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for norm-attainability ...
    • On Norm Inequalities and Orthogonality of Commutators of Derivations 

      Okelo, Nyaare Benard; Mogotu, P. O. (Arxvi, 2019-03-25)
    • On numerical ranges of convexoid operators 

      Otieno, J. A.; Okelo, Bernad N.; Ongat, Naftali O. (G.I publications, 2017-02)
      Numerical range is useful in studying operators on Hilbert spaces. In particular, the geometrical properties of numerical range often provide useful information about algebraic and analytic properties of an operator. The ...
    • On Tensor Products and Elementary Operators 

      Achieng, Otieno E.; Okelo, Benard; Ongati, Omolo (Core, 2018)
      In this paper we describe operator systems and elementary operators via tensor products. We also discuss norms of elementary operators.
    • On the Effects of Motocycle Accidents and its Trends (A Case of Kenya) 

      Maua, Muga Zablon; Ongati, Naphtali Omollo; Orwa, George Otieno (JKUAT press, 2016)
      This study analyzes recent data of accidents’ prevalence in Kenya and investigates whether there might be new trends in areas formerly not prone to accidents. Polynomials of order 6 are found best suited for accidents’ ...