Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Predictors of Occupational Health and Safety Management practices in the Building Construction Industry, Kakamega Kenya
(IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS),, 2020-04)Building construction industry is one of the fastest growing industries in KakamegaCounty due to rapid urbanization. It employs a large workforce to cater for the growing demand of offices and housing estates. The industry ... -
Psychoanalysis and film spectatorship
(Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literatures, 2021-04-05)This paper interrogates selected cinematic and stylistic techniques with a view to establishing why film audience would enjoy watching a film featuring violence and instances of intense human suffering, which elicit ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION ON MULTIMORBIDITY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
(European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science, 2021-05)Introduction: Multimorbidity poses a current global health challenge due to its increasing prevalence and burden on individuals and health systems. Evidence suggests that more socially disadvantaged individuals share a ... -
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 ... -
Physiological and Anthropometric Characteristics of Amateur Women in the Kenya Rugby Union
(Journal of Advances in Sports and Physical Education, 2020-10-16)Rugby is a team body contact sport that is popular in many countries internationally. The team involves two opposing teams trying to carry an oval shaped ball to the end of a rectangular field, while preventing the other ... -
Influence of social media usage on knowledge of sexual violence among college medical students in Kenya
(European Journal of Public Health, 2020-08)Introduction: Sexual violence is a violation of human rights and a severe public health problem. It has a profound impact on physical, social, and mental health, both immediately and many years after the assault. Sexual ... -
Structural Behavior of Concrete Filled Bamboo Columns Under Axial Loads
(Civil and Environmental Research, 2020-08-31)This paper investigates the load carrying capacity development of concrete filled bamboo columns when subjected to static axial loads. Concrete Mix C20 and C30 were used to fill bamboo of different diameters and slenderness ... -
Aspects of Graphology in the Construction of Selected Kiswahili Childrens Novels.
(Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literature Kenya Royallite Publishers (UK) Limited, 2021-04-15)Graphology has today dominated children’s literature making it look like an amorphous and an ambiguous creature with its relationship to its audience. Children lack the required knowledge and skills to associate meaning ... -
Rhetorical questions as an off-record politeness strategy in language use among the Bukusu
(Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literature. Kenya Royallite Publishers (UK) Limited, 2021-04-07)This paper sought to discuss rhetorical questions as an off- record politeness strategy with the aim of determining the context and reasons for their use in communication. It focused on language use amongst users of Bukusu ... -
Mathematical analysis of a within host Ebola disease model
(Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2020-01)Ebola virus disease (EVD), is a savere, often fatal disease in humans with very high mortality rate. Currently, there are neither licenced vaccines nor approved medication for the disease. In this study, a within host ... -
Influence of Rice Husks Ash on Sub Grade Beqring strength in stabilizing of expansive soils for low volume roads in Kenya
(Civil and Environmental Research, 2020-11-30)The cost of cement and lime used in stabilizing soils can be reduced by using locally available rice husk ash which is known to contain pozzolanic properties. This paper studies the variations in sub-grade bearing strength ... -
Influence of Nutritional Management Practices on Dairy Cattle Productivity among Small Holder Farmers in Kakamega Central, Kakamega County, Kenya.
(IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science (IOSR-JAVS), 2020-05-01)Dairy industry is one of the fastest growing sub-sector in agriculture around the world. In Kenya, dairy industry is a major subsector of agriculture contributing to about 14% of the total agricultural gross domestic ... -
Method Approach to Social Network Analysis as an analytical Tool for Agricultural information sharing among farmers in Western Kenya
(International Journal of Science, Environmen, 2020-06)Flow of information among farmers is a complex process due to the nature of the unseen interconnected path of communication and actors involved in generation, packaging and dissemination. This complex process hinders ... -
Optimization of Biogas Production in a Batch Laboratory Digester Using Total Solids, Substrate Retention Time, and Mesophilic Temperature
(International Journal of Power and Energy Research, 2020-07)Optimization was done by investigating the interaction effects of total solids, mesophilic temperature, and substrate retention time on biogas production in a batch biodigester. The volume of the biodigester was 0.15m3 . ... -
Barriers to Interpersonal Communication as a Tool for Improving the Update of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Siaya County, Kenya
(Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2020-03-31)Despite its acknowledged importance in health management, particularly when dealing with such sensitive issues that transcend the boundaries of health as sexuality, stigma and discrimination, there is little research on ... -
ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF D-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN IRRADIATED CUPRATES
(IJRAR, 2020-11)We subject the minimized d-wave energy provided for by electromagnetic (e.m) radiation to the thermal activation factor and proceed to obtain transition temperature dependence on zenith and azimuthal angle of the d-electrons ... -
The Significance of Livelihood Support Projects to Health Communication Strategies in Resource-deprived Settings: A Look at the Medical Male Circumcision Programme in Siaya County, Kenya
(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020-06-30)Behaviour change communicators and health experts often assume that individual beliefs and perceptions hold the key to explaining health behaviours, thereby ignoring the extraneous constraints that obtain in the individual’s ... -
Aina ya Nyezo katika Ufundishaji wa Fasihi Simulizi ya Kiswahili Katika Shule za Sekondari Nchini Kenya
(East African Journal of Swahili Studies eajss.org, 2020-10-24)Madhumuni ya makala haya yalikuwa kubaini aina ya nyenzo katika ufundishaji wa Fasihi Simulizi ya Kiswahili katika Shule za Sekondari katika Kaunti ya Kakamega nchini Kenya kwa kuangazia madarasa ya mwanzo. Utafiti uliongozwa ... -
Analyse des competences de l’écriture des apparenants Kenyans du FLE à travers les textes injonctifs
(Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020-10-22)Cette étude à caractère descriptive s’est intéressé aux compétences des apprenants kenyans du FLE à travers leurs productions écrites, sous forme de textes injonctifs-recettes et programmes. Étant donnée l’apprentissage ... -
Politeness strategies used in Lwisukha in local public administrative meetings
(InternationalJournal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 2020-09-17)The use of politeness strategies among Abiisukha is propelled by the cultural need to maintain close ties and relationship. When the relationship is not maintained, there will definitely be a ...