Research Papers: Recent submissions
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Effect of provision of micro-finance on the performance of micro-enterprises: A study of youth micro-enterprises under Kenya Rural Enterprise Program (K-REP), Kisii County, Kenya
(ACADEMIC JOURNALS, 2013-09)Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) sector contributes 20% to the GDP of the Kenyan economy. The vision of micro finance is to promote the growth of micro enterprises. In pursuit of this vision, the rapid growth of Micro ... -
Effect of working capital management practices on financial performance: A study of small scale enterprises in Kisii South District, Kenya
(ACADEMIC JOURNALS, 2012-05)Small scale enterprises (SSEs) are acknowledged in Kenya as significant contributors to economic growth. Despite this, it is estimated that up to 40% of the start-ups fail by year 2 and at least 60% close their doors by ... -
Kenya Airways: A case study of privatization
(The African Economic Research Consortium, 2002)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 function of service charter as a communication tool for consumers of immigration services in Kenya
(2014)This study sought to establish the role played by communication in the on-going reform programmes in Kenya’s public sector, specifically in the immigration department. In particular, it has investigated the function of the ... -
Knowledge, practices and perception of health care workers on diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis: a case study of Bureti Sub County, Kericho, Kenya
(INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH, 2018)Background: Despite the advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, effective diagnosis remains a challenge among children. Several countries have rolled out effective diagnostic methods but capacity of health care workers ... -
Interferon-γ responses to Plasmodium falciparum vaccine candidate antigens decrease in the absence of malaria transmission
(Peer J, 2017-01-10)Background Malaria elimination campaigns are planned or active in many countries. The effects of malaria elimination on immune responses such as antigen-specific IFN- γ responses are not well characterized. Methods IFN- ... -
Sensitivity of fever for diagnosis of clinical malaria in a Kenyan area of unstable, low malaria transmission
(BMC, 2014-04-30)Background Malaria in highland areas of Kenya affects children and adults. Local clinicians include symptoms other than fever when screening for malaria because they believe that fever alone does not capture all cases of ... -
Norm inequalities of norm-attainable operators and their orthogonal extensions
(2016)We present new norm inequalities of matrices of norm-attainable operators and characterize the maps that act on matrices of these operators. Moreover, we characterize completely bounded norms, give their orthogonal extensions ... -
Factors associated with default from TB treatment among tuberculosis patients in Busia County
(IJASSH, 2016-08)Tuberculosis remains a major health problem in many tropical countries, including Kenya. Defaulting from treatment has been an obstacle to treatment management control. Inability to complete the prescribed regimen is quite ... -
Factors associated with non-adherence to Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) to malaria in a rural population from holoendemic region of western Kenya
(BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012-06-24)Background Over the years, reports implicate improper anti-malarial use as a major contributor of morbidity and mortality amongst millions of residents in malaria endemic areas, Kenya included. However, there are limited ... -
Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation
(Science, 2015-09-11)In order to explore the diversity and selective signatures of duplication and deletion human copy-number variants (CNVs), we sequenced 236 individuals from 125 distinct human populations. We observed that duplications ... -
School-based factors influencing the implementation of inclusive education in public primary schools in Nyamira County, Kenya
(International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Review, 2015-12)Inclusion is a philosophy that is based on values aiming at maximizing participation of all in society and education by minimizing exclusionary and discriminatory practices. Educational institutions are to provide learning ... -
The effects of home-based lunch provision on child retention in primary schools in Mbita Sub-County Kenya.
(Journal Articles, 2014-12)Despite the introduction of Free Primary Education in 2003 by the Kenya government in its quest to increasing access, retention and equity in education provision, child survival rate in primary schools in Mbita Sub-county ... -
Translating policies into informal settlements' critical services: Reframing, anchoring and muddling through
(Wiley Online Library, 2016-12-22)This paper examines how policies and plans are translated into informal settlements' practice. It builds on literature on policy implementation practice and organization studies, and more particularly, it applies the ... -
Land access and outmigration in densely populated areas of rural Kenya
(2016)One of the key drivers of youth migration of inequitable distribution of land which denies them access to work environment. Youths hold limited small land sizes even when they migrate and this limits there involvement in ... -
Plant residue-derived organic carbon input into soil in African indigenous vegetable production systems
(2016-09)Food production in sub Saharan Africa is constrained by low soil fertility, whereby soil organic matter (SOM) is key factor regulating many soil functions that determine the yielding ability of soils. SOM content is ... -
Isolation, characterization and identification of Diazinon degrading bacteria from the soil and gut of macrotermes
(Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES), 2013-09-14)Diazinon degrading bacteria were isolated from the soil and gut of fungus cultivating termites Macrotermes michaelseni using MM7 media supplemented with pesticide as the sole source of carbon and energy. The isolates were ... -
Estimation of carbon balance components for an agricultural landscape in South Korea
(2011)The goal of our work is to evaluate as far as possible carbon budget components for an agriculturally dominated landscape in South Korea. In the last decades, rapid changes of land use and land cover due to economic ... -
Institutional determinants of charitable funds generation by lottery organizations: a case of Kenya Charity Sweepstake
(IAJHRBA, 2017-08)The purpose of this study was to assess the factors affecting generation of charitable funds by the KCS. Specifically, the study assessed the effect of four key aspects namely: distribution and marketing channels; the ... -
Distance Effects on Diversity and Abundance of the Flower Visitors of Ocimum kilimandscharicum in the Kakamega Forest Ecosystem
(Hindawi International Journal of Biodiversity, 2018-08-28)Pollination is an important ecosystem service in the maintenance of biodiversity and most importantly in food production. Pollination is on the decline due to habitat loss, exotic species invasions, pollution, overharvesting, ...
