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Flood modelling: parameterisation and inflow uncertainty
(Water Management, 2014-01)This paper presents an analysis of uncertainty in hydraulic modelling of floods, focusing on the inaccuracy caused by inflow errors and parameter uncertainty. In particular, the study develops a method to propagate the ... -
Food and Nutrition Coping Strategies in Flood Prone Areas of Bunyala and Nyando Sub Counties Kenya
(Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology, 2020-10-26)The nutrition situation in flood affected areas in Kenya is precarious and likely to deteriorate sharply in the coming years. Humanitarian crises exacerbate nutrition risks and poor food consumption practices thereby ... -
Food availability, accessibility and dietary practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country survey
(Public Health Nutrition, 2021-05-24)Objective: To investigate the perceived effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic lockdown measures on food availability, accessibility, dietary practices and strategies used by participants to cope with these ... -
Food availability, accessibility and dietary practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country survey
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-03-05)Objective: To investigate the perceived effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic lockdown measures on food availability, accessibility, dietary practices and strategies used by participants to cope with these ... -
Foodservice clientele tipping behavior and its impetus on restaurant service reliability in Kenya
(Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 2020-10-19)Tipping is an interesting pecuniary behavior involving service providers and hospitality’s restaurant clients. The tipping act goes beyond the hospitality industry and therefore is a common practice across the entire service ... -
FORAGE SPECIES OF IMPALA SANCTUARY, KISUMU; KENYA
(2016)The study evaluated the forage species of Impala sanctuary-Kisumu over a six month period that corresponded to two seasons (wet and dry). The study identified the grasses in the sanctuary with the help of a hand book on ... -
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, EXTERNAL DEBT AND REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2020-06-19)ABSTRACT Development of the real estate sector immensely contributes to the economic growth and development of the country through upgrading the living standards of the people by providing better infrastructural facilities, ... -
Foreign Policy presipositions of Kenya and Tanzania influencing Econo Political integration in the East African Community
(2021-06-01)Foreign policy is the enabler of regionalism and it has been used globally to construct regional integration projects. The EU and NAFTA are examples in the West and in Africa there is SADC and EAC. Basing on their connectivity, ... -
Forms of multimodal approaches in the teaching of listening and speaking skills
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-08-01)This study sought to explore the factors that determine the teachers of English’s choice of multimodal approaches when teaching listening and speaking skills to Kenya’s Grade 1 learners. The study adopted a cross-sectional ... -
FOSTERING NATIONAL COHESION AND INTEGRATION IN KENYA THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES
(MMUST, 2023)With regard to knowledge, intellectual prowess, and democratic disposition—all of which are expected of students to actively engage in the society—the Social Studies (SS) supports national cohesiveness and integration. ... -
Freshwater Aquaculture and Household Performance in Busia County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-11-15)Aquaculture has become a household source of proteins, taking over the traditional red meat delicacy that promotes food security and livelihood for over 2.5 billion people. This covers approximately 40 percent of the world’s ... -
FRONTLINE HEALTH PROVIDERS COMPETENCE IN TRIAGING AT EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH FACILITIES IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
(2023-10)Triaging is characterized as assigning patients a priority based on the severity of their disease and giving the majority of patients the best treatment possible in the shortest amount of time feasible. Long waiting times ... -
Frozen strawberry quality enhancement using high hydrostatic pressure and vacuum infusion with pectin methylesterase and calcium chloride solution
(Afr. J. Food Agric. Nutr. Dev, 2021-06-21)Fresh strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) is a delicious fruit that is an excellent source of micronutrients and an array of beneficial phytochemicals. Emerging technologies like high pressure freezing and thawing have gained ... -
Full-Length Genome Sequences of Recombinant and Nonrecombinant Sympatric Strains of Rice yellow mottle virus from Western Kenya
(American Society for Microbiology, 2017)Five isolates of Rice yellow mottle virus from western Kenya were fully sequenced. One isolate of strain S4lv had been collected in 1966. Two isolates belonged to the emerging strain S4ug recently described in Uganda. ... -
Functional Haplotypes in the ADIPOQ Gene are Associated with Underweight, Immunosuppression and Viral Suppression in Kenyan HIV-1 Infected Antiretroviral Treatment Naive and Experienced Injection Substance Users
(Ethiop J Health Sci, 2020-07-01)Background Human immunodeficiency virus and injection substance use have an influence on genes and gene expression. These effects could be beneficial or detrimental in defining disease outcomes. Adiponectin gene is key ... -
FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY MODELFORENTERPRISERESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS IN KENYAN UNIVERSITIES
(MMUST, 2020-11-09)Managementof institutions needs correctinformation to enhance their competitiveness.Universities, just like any other institutionrequires proper information for decision-making. In universities,there are complex ... -
The functionality of lexico-pragmatic strategies in selected Lubukusu secular music texts
(Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literatures, 2021-04-15)This paper focuses on the Lexico-Pragmatic Strategies employed in selected Lubukusu secular music texts and their functionality. The study was anchored on the Relevance Theory (RT). The study purposively sampled out twelve ... -
The Fundamental Solution of the One Dimensional Elliptic Operator and its Application to Solving the Advection Diffusion Equation
(Journal of Applied & Computational Mathematics, 2020-09)The advection–diffusion equation is first formulated as a boundary integral equation, suggesting the need for an appropriate fundamental solution to the elliptic operator. Once the fundamental solution is found, then a ... -
FUNDING IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BUNGOMA COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2021-02-10)Education is a human activity that fashions and models mankind for the society. It is for this reason that the Kenyan government has put emphasis on the pursuit quality education for its citizens since ...