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Declining wood fuel and implications for household cooking and diets in tigania Sub-county Kenya

Fuchaka, Waswa; Mwamburi, Mcharo; Millicent, Mworia (Scientific African, 2020-05)

Research on rural energy has in the past focussed on access and environmental effects. Little is however documented on the relationship between declining availability of wood fuel, household cooking and eating patterns, ...

Exponentiated generalized exponential Dagum distribution

Suleman Nasiru; Peter, N. Mwita; Oscar, Ngesa (Journal of King Saud University, 2017-06)

In this study, the exponentiated generalized exponential Dagum distribution has been proposed and studied. This family of distribution consists of a number of sub-models such as the exponentiated gener alized Dagum ...

Response of Paddy Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) Morphological Characteristics to Nitrogen Fertilizers in Taveta, Kenya

Isaac, Righa Chawana; James, Gacheru; Marianne, Maghenda; Justin, Maghanga; Anne, Kelly Kambura; John, Kimani; Mwamburi, Mcharo (2021-06-23)

This study investigated the effect of applying nitrogenous fertilizers on the morphological traits in six paddy rice varieties in Taveta, Kenya. The six paddy rice varieties, including local control, were tested during the ...

Spatial mapping of the extents and volumes of solid mine waste at Samrudha Resources Mine, Kenya: a GIS and remote sensing approach

Francis, Gitau; Justin, Kambale Maghanga; Mary, Nelima Ondiaka (Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2021-05-18)

Monitoring and estimating solid mine waste produced during mining operations at a spatial–temporal scale plays a fundamental role in waste management and mitigation of environmental impacts. Iron ore mining and processing ...

Potential of Vetiver Grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) in Phytoremediation of Kipevu Wastewaters

Agnes, S. Kiungu; Paul, M. Guyo; Justin, K. Maghanga (Kenya Aquatica Journal, 2019)

Wastewater treatment worldwide has mainly been done using physical, chemical and biological treatment systems such as activated sludge and biological nutrient removal technologies. Mombasa produces large amounts of ...

Assessment of humaneelephant conflicts in multifunctional landscapes of Taita Taveta County, Kenya

Martha, Munyao; Mika, Siljander; Tino, Johansson; Godfrey, Makokha; Petri, Pellikka (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020-11-22)

People and wildlife have co-occurred, sharing resources for thousands of years, however, over the last four decades records of humanewildlife conflict have increasingly emerged. Humaneelephant conflict is a form of such ...

Optimization of Bioslurry-Available Plant Nutrients Using T. brownii and Acanthaceae spp. Biocatalysts

Bakari, A. Chaka; Aloys, M. Osano; Justin, K. Maghanga; Martin, M. Magu (Advances in Agriculture, 2020-10-24)

(e plant extracts of T. brownii and Acanthaceae spp. have been used as biocatalysts by several communities in Kenya to hasten anaerobic digestion. (is study aimed at assessing the viability of these two extracts in hastening ...

Insights into household fuel use in Kenyan communities

A, Osano; J, Maghanga; C.F, Munyeza; B, Chakaa; W, Olala; P.B.C, Forbes (Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020-01-11)

Clean household fuel use is a cornerstone of the development of sustainable cities, in order to minimise household combustion emissions in communities and the negative air quality and human health impacts associated with ...

Financing employee healthcare: fusing the preferences of employees in decision-making

Ochienga, George Ouma; Ogada, Maurice (International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 2021-06-02)

Good health is important for the happiness and productivity of employees of any organization and a nation. With the declining government funding for public Universities in Kenya, providing health cover for employees is ...

The Future of Africa in the Post-COVID-19 World

Inter Region Economic Network; NASHON, JUMA ADERO (Editor); JOSEPHAT, JUMA (Editor) (Inter Region Economic Network 2021, 2021-04)

Off the hundreds of pages of this book are key messages from fourteen authors whose revised contributions were accepted for publication after blind peer reviews. The authors represent various universities, research ...

Revealing a Transformation‑Induced Plasticity (TRIP) Phenomenon in a Medium‑Entropy Alloy

Ibrahim, Ondicho; Bernard, Alunda (Acta Metallurgica Sinica, 2020-05)

A transformation-induced plasticity phenomenon in Fe65(CoCrMnNi)35 medium-entropy alloy was investigated. According to the X-ray difraction patterns, the as-cast specimen contains a single-phase face-centered cubic (fcc), ...

Kinetic Study of the Thermal Decomposition for Mixed Municipal Solid Waste Using Thermogravimetric Analysis

Nzioka, Antony Mutua; Alunda, Benard Ouma (Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Scinces, 2017-11)

Thermal conversion of wastes is one of theperspectivesolution to ‘municipal solid waste’ problem. Thermal conversion process entails thermal decomposition of material with an increase in temperature. This experimental ...

Implementation of a Sinusoidal Raster Scan for High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy

Luke, Oduor Otieno; Yong, Joong Lee; Bernard, Ouma Alunda (Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 2020)

To improve the speed of an atomic force microscope (AFM), one must improve the bandwidth of its components, and the lateral XY scanner is no exception. Sinusoidal raster scans provide a simple way of improving lateral ...

Investigating the performance of square ring under uniform squeeze rate and internal pressure

B.O. Alunda; D.O. Agumba; I.O. Ondicho; L.O. Otieno; M. Chepkoech; N.A. Mutua; J.S. Hawong (Materialwiss. Werkstofftech., 2020)

Transportation and controlling fluid flow under high pressures in pumps, valves, boilers and heat exchangers is a common exercise in the industries. The main challenge, however that has confronted designers and manufacturers ...

Design and Fabrication of a High-Speed Atomic Force Microscope Scan-Head

Luke, Oduor Otieno; Bernard, Ouma Alunda; Jaehyun, Kim; Yong, Joong Lee (Sensors, 2021)

A high-speed atomic force microscope (HS-AFM) requires a specialized set of hardware and software and therefore improving video-rate HS-AFMs for general applications is an ongoing process. To improve the imaging rate of ...

Effect of Fe on the Hall-Petch relationship of (CoCrMnNi)100-x Fex medium-and high-entropy alloys

Ibrahim, Ondicho; Bernard, Alunda; Nokeun, Park (Intermetallics, 2021)

In the present study, a systematic investigation on the effect of Fe content on the Hall-Petch coefficient of (CoCrMnNi)100-x Fex (x =20, 40, 50, and 60) medium- and high-entropy alloys (M/HEAs) was carried out. The ...

Time Series Analysis Model for the Rate of Influx of Refugees in Kenya

Mudanyi, Lenard Allan; Mutua, Nicholas Muthama; Sinino, Zipporah Kinyanjui (The International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES), 2013)

There has been a large influx of refugees in Kenya from the neighboring countries due to their political instabilities. In this study, the number of refugees entering Kenya every year for a period 1993 to 2010 was analyzed ...

Investigation into the development poten-tial of biogas technologies for small-scale farmers in Taita Taveta, Kenya

Joshua, Holland (2014)

Rising energy prices of the 1970s triggered alternative energy research and develop-ment globally. Biogas technology took off in the agricultural sector of developed na-tions, but biogas dissemination failed to spread ...

THE IMPACT OF SUPPLIES QUALITY ON UNIVERSITIES PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sanewu, Esther Nasidai; Simiyu, Emmanuel Sikuku; Mutua, Nicholas Muthama (European Journal of Logistics Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, 2013-12)

The role of Quality supplies in the performance of universities cannot be under estimated. Quality is the driving force in university performance. However its role is greatly affected by having quality systems in the ...

The influence of process optimization on the fermentation profile of mango wine prepared from the Apple mango variety

Musyimi, S.M; Sila, D.N; Okoth, E.M; Onyango, C.A; Mathooko, F.M (Journal of Animal &Plant Sciences, 2013-04)

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of temperature and yeast concentration on the fermentation kinetics and chemical properties of Apple mango fruit wine through process optimization. The physicochemical ...

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