Scientific literature lack straight forward answer as to the most suitable method for missing data imputation in terms
of simplicity, accuracy and ease of use among the existing methods. Exploration various methods of ...
Purpose: Despite the critical role played by County Governments in strategic planning, they are faced by inability to implement the strategies effectively leading to poor performance characterized ...
Ngunguni, Joseph N.; Misango, Sedina B.; Onsiro, Martin(2020-04)
Purpose:The objective of this study wasto examine the financial factors which affect the profitability of general insurance companiesin Kenya. The profitability in this study is represented by ROA, asdependent ...
Muui, C. W.; Muasya, Reuben M.; Nguluu, Simon N.; Kambura, A.(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2020-05)
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is an important cereal crop in Kenya. Despite the crops importance, the yields
attained by farmers in Eastern, Coastal and Nyanza regions of Kenya remain low. Access to good quality seeds
of ...
Ndambuki, Benjamin K.; Kasivu, Gideon M.; Mwanza, Rose(2020-05)
Performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE) in public secondary schools in
Makueni County, Kenya has consistently been on the decline over years. Studies have not identified any
particular cause to ...
School discipline is a serious challenge facing schools globally. With banning of corporal punishment in 2001 in Kenya, Guidance and Counseling (G&C) has been promoted as an alternative approach to managing students’ ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze life skills education as used by head teachers in managing students discipline in Kenya; specifically, within public secondary schools in Machakos Sub-County. The objective of this ...
Community vulnerability to climate change can be conceptualized as an aggregate of three vulnerability components: exposure to climatic stress, sensitivity to climate stress and adaptive capacity. However, even within ...
A remote-controlled digital electronics
trainer device has been designed and implemented
based on ATmega328 QFN microcontroller, logic gate
integrated circuits (ICs) and an infrared (IR) detector.
On the board face are ...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have found use in many areas rangingfrom military to healthcare among other areas of interest. Multiuser broadcastauthentication is an important security feature in WSNs that can enable users ...
Mwakha, Fridah A.; Gichimu, Bernard M.; Neondo, Johnstone O.; Kamau, Peter K.; Odari, Eddy O.; Muli, Joshua K.; Budambula, Nancy L. M.(Hindawi, 2020-04)
Slender leaf (Crotalaria spp) is among the indigenous and underutilized vegetables in Kenya whose production is limited to the Western
and Coastal regions of the country. For a long time, this crop has been neglected in ...
Aspect-level sentiment analysis has drawn growing attention in recent years, with higher performance achieved through the attention mechanism. Despite this, previous research does not consider some human psychological ...
Deep learning has extensively been used in natural language processing with sub-word representation vectors playing a critical role. However, this cannot be said of Swahili, which is a low resource and widely spoken language ...
Ngugi, Keziah; Mureithi, S. M.; Gichaba, C. M.; Ertsen, M. W.(2020-03)
Lack of water in Arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) result to inability to meet other human needs such as
education and investment. In the arid Kitui county, education and livestock numbers are important
social economic ...
Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J.; Maithya, Harrison M.(Taylor & Francis, 2020-04)
How do the local cultural politics of secrecy intersect with biomedical and institutionalised global health knowledge and management of HIV? This question was ethnographically researched during a home counselling and testing ...
Karanja, Simon; Munyua, Jennifer; Mutukaa, Samuel K.(2019-09)
Village banks are put in place to help deliver banking services to members living in rural communities. However, they have been marred by a number of complaints from the clients due to their feeble service delivery. ...
Cassava (Manihot esculenta), is a major source of carbohydrates after rice and maize providing a basic diet to over half a billion people. It is an
annual crop belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. It produces edible ...
Nalyanya, Kallen M.; Rop, Ronald K.; Onyuka, Arthur; Birech, Zephaniah; Wambulwa, Moses C.; Sasia, Alvin(2020-02)
This present study reports the effect of Aloe
barbadensis miller and carrageenan on the
physical properties of crusted leather. Tensile
strength, tear strength, elongation at break and
distensions for control samples ...
Matsitsi, Muthama S.; Linturi, James M.; Kebwaro, J. M.; Maweu, O. M.(2019-03)
A total of 56 samples of raw building materials (26 rocks and 30 sand samples) each weighing 500g were randomly sampled along the riverine for the alternate rainy and dry seasons. Gamma-ray spectrometric analysis of rocks ...
Matsitsi, Muthama S.; Linturi, James M.; Kebwaro, J. M.; Kirago, L. M.(Oxford University Press, 2020-01-14)
Gamma spectroscopic analyses of sand and rock samples from Tyaa River report an average activity concentration of 33 ± 1, 55 ± 2.8 and 812 ± 40.46 Bqkg−1 for 226Ra, 232Th and 40K, respectively in the sand. A similar analysis ...