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2024-03-29T08:01:41ZHandbook of Research on Coping Mechanisms for First-Year Students Transitioning to Higher Education:
http://ir.jooust.ac.ke/handle/123456789/13051
Handbook of Research on Coping Mechanisms for First-Year Students Transitioning to Higher Education:
Odhiambo, Janet Auma; Aloka, Peter J.; Aomo, John Agwaya
This chapter analyzes the key arguments as explored by previous researchers on coping strategies applied by first-year students transitioning to institutions of higher education. The majority of first-year students face various challenges in adjusting to college life. New students use their peer group as a source of their company, sympathy, affection, and experimentation, which can be either productive or wasteful. Quite a good number of students use negative coping strategies to eliminate the psychological pressures evoked by the situations they find themselves. Being aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses can aid one in choosing the best coping strategies. Having self-control, acceptance of individual differences, and positive thinking would contribute to an individual’s coping strategies. The recommendation is that the universities assign new students to individual peer guides and advise students on how to go about the university dynamics by getting involved in positive leisure activities such as sports, getting into serious peer study groups, and social networking.
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2023-02-01T00:00:00ZIntellectual Property Rights
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Intellectual Property Rights
AAB3423
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZAflatoxin B1: Chemistry, Environmental and Diet Sources and Potential Exposure in Human in Kenya
http://ir.jooust.ac.ke/handle/123456789/9368
Aflatoxin B1: Chemistry, Environmental and Diet Sources and Potential Exposure in Human in Kenya
Lalah, Joseph Owuor; Lugasi, Solomon Omwoma; Orony, Dora A.O.
Cancer incidences and mortality in Kenya are increasing according to recent reports and now number among the top five causes of mortality in the country. The risk factors responsible for this increase in cancer incidences are assumed to be genetic and/or environmental in nature. The environmental factors include exposure to carcinogenic contaminants such aflatoxins (AFs). However, the exact causes of the increase in cancer incidences and prevalence in many developing countries are not fully known. Aflatoxins are known contaminants produced by the common fungi Aspergillus flavus and the closely related Aspergillus parasiticus which grow as moulds in human foods. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is most common in food and is 1000 times more potent when compared with benzo(a)pyrene, the most potent carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). Aflatoxins have therefore drawn a lot of interest in research from food safety and human health point of view. In this chapter, the chemistry, synthesis, identification, toxicology and potential human health risks of AFB1 in Kenya are discussed.
2019-10-05T00:00:00ZCricket Rearing Handbook
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Cricket Rearing Handbook
Orinda, Mary Akinyi; Oloo, Jacqueline; Magara, Henlay Jo; Ayieko, Monica
2021-02-01T00:00:00ZWhat Determines Farmers’ Awareness and Interest an Adopting Cricket Farming? A Pilot Study from Kenya
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What Determines Farmers’ Awareness and Interest an Adopting Cricket Farming? A Pilot Study from Kenya
Halloran, Afton; Ayieko, Monica; Oloo, Jacqueline; Konyole, Silvenus Ochieng; Alemu, Mohammed Hussen; Roos, Nanna
Farming crickets for human consumption is emerging as a promising novel and sustainable animal-source food production system. Cricket farming in Kenya first began in 2013; however, adoption rates have been slower than expected. This paper presents a pilot study of farmers’ awareness of and interest in adopting cricket farming as a new agricultural technology in three counties of Nyanza district, Kenya. A household questionnaire was conducted and included farmers who practised cricket farming as well as those who did not practice cricket farming. Thirteen focus group discussions were also held with adopters (those farming crickets), exposed (trained) non-adopters, and non-exposed (untrained) non-adopters. Our results show that awareness is influenced by proximity to an existing cricket farm; the number of sources of agricultural information; frequency of consumption of animal source foods; frequency of fruit consumption; farm size; crop diversity score; off-farm income; frequency of visits to an extension office; and the consumption of crickets. Some of these factors – together with ownership of a mobile phone, the degree of risk averseness and the consumption of termites – also influence interest in adopting cricket farming. Adequate equipment, space, and housing were the most cited barriers to the adoption of cricket farming. Overall, the results of this pilot study suggest that cricket farming is still relatively unknown and adoption is low amongst rural smallholders in Kenya, which is explained by various factors. However, this pilot study should be followed with a more comprehensive study to investigate the adoption of cricket farming and its drivers.
2020-11-04T00:00:00ZPlanning and governance of food systems in Kisumu City
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Planning and governance of food systems in Kisumu City
Hayombe, Patrick Odhiambo; Owino, Fredrick Omondi; Awuor, Frankline Otiende
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZICT Powered Strategic Flexibility System Dynamic Model: A Pillar for Economic Development in Micro and Small Enterprises
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ICT Powered Strategic Flexibility System Dynamic Model: A Pillar for Economic Development in Micro and Small Enterprises
Mindila, Agnes; Rodrigues, Anthony J.; McCormick, Dorothy; Mwangi, Ronald
Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firm in strategic management literature focuses on firm internal endowments in terms of resources, capabilities and dynamic capabilities for their development. By establishing a learning mechanism, where they are able to adapt and influence the environment, enterprises build a dynamic competence and sustainable competitive advantage. This paper posits that this dynamic competence or strategic flexibility as referred to by strategic management scholars is a phenomenon that needs to be understood by scholars and practitioners in MSEs so that effective intervention programs can be designed. The paper argues that by treating strategic flexibility as a CAS provides a methodology within which models based on known theories in strategic management are employed and tested using system dynamics. The paper also posits that System Dynamics (SD) modeling is a good modeling methodology that captures the dynamism in a CAS. The paper therefore presents a conceptual model for strategic flexibility and a system dynamic model that reveals the variables in play and their relationships. In so doing the paper exposes influence points in the CAS that act as intervention points by practitioners in strategic flexibility of firms. The paper presents ICTs as interventions at the influence points and presents a generic strategic flexibility system dynamic model that brings to play the impact of ICT.
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZChapter 13 - Assessment of Catchment Water Resources Availability Under Projected Climate Change Scenarios and Increased Demand in Central Rift Valley Basin
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Chapter 13 - Assessment of Catchment Water Resources Availability Under Projected Climate Change Scenarios and Increased Demand in Central Rift Valley Basin
Gadissa, Takele; Nyadawa, Maurice; Behulu, Fiseha; Mutua, Benedict
This chapter describes the impact of climate change on available water resources under increasing demand in Central Rift Valley Basin. The study used the ensemble mean of five regional climate models (RCMs) under CORDEX—Africa. Two Representative Concentration Pathways, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, for current (1985–2016) and scenario period (2041–2070) were considered. The study has revealed that maximum temperature will increase on average by 1.73°C under RCP4.5 to 2.36°C under RCP8.5. Minimum temperature will increase by 2.16°C under RCP4.5 to 3.07°C under RCP8.5. On average, precipitation decreases by 7.97% and − 2.55% under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. Moreover, the average streamflow of Meki River will change by − 10.4% and 0.5% under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. However, the streamflow of Ketar River will decline by 18.8% and 3.4% on average under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. Hence, the available water resources will not meet the projected demand in the scenario period.
2019-11-01T00:00:00ZGovernment capital spending and financing and its impact on private investment in Kenya: 1964-2006
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Government capital spending and financing and its impact on private investment in Kenya: 1964-2006
Oyieke, Samuel O.
This paper examines the relationship between public investment and its financing on private investment in Kenya for the period 1964-2006. Using an error correction framework and time series data for the fiscal years 1964-2006, the study shows that investment in agriculture has a significant positive effect on private investment, while domestic debt has a significant negative effect. Political risk, real exchange rate, external debt, and tax though negatively related are insignificant. Investment in infrastructure has an insignificant positive effect. These findings have important policy implications that investment in agriculture crowds-in private investment. To encourage private investment, the government should channel increased resources to the agricultural sector. Domestic debt crowds-out private investment, thus the government should reduce its dependence on domestic borrowing to finance budget deficit. JEL classification:
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZKenya Airways: A case study of privatization
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Kenya Airways: A case study of privatization
Oyieke, Samuel O.
Various commissions and Kenya’s Comptroller and Auditor General consistently point to the inefficiency and mismanagement of parastatals (state-owned enterprises). Consequently, their advice has been to divest and privatize. The main reasons advanced by the Kenyan government for embracing privatization were to reduce the fiscal burden, develop the private sector, broaden ownership of wealth and raise revenue for the cash-strapped government. As these goals are mutually exclusive, achieving them, especially in a poor country like Kenya, is problematic. This has made privatization a rather unpopular process in the country. Presenting a case for privatization requires documentary evidence of successful privatization. It is in this respect that Kenya Airways was selected as a case study. The findings of the study demonstrate clearly that successful privatization is possible. The study concludes that privatization can achieve its objectives if conducted systematically and transparently. The support of the general public is possible in an atmosphere free of suspicion and with a free flow of information before and after privatization.
2002-01-01T00:00:00Z