Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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POTENTIALS FOR ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF SEWAGE FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Sewage biogas is one of the renewable green energy that is being developed in many countries of the world using anaerobic digestion. However, its utilisation in Kenya may be facing various challenges such as socio-economic, ... -
UTILIZATION OF CONTRACEPTIVES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MMUST)
(MMUST, 2017-11)Contraceptives uptake among the youth has been a sensitive and controversial issue in the society that has resulted to various social problems that include unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections among ... -
THE ROLE OF FAITH--BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN CURBING GENDER--BASED VIOLENCE IN NAIROBI COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Faith-based organizations are defined as faith-influenced non-governmental organizations. They are often structured around development and/or relief service delivery programs and are sometimes run simultaneously at the ... -
INFLUENCE OF SELF-EFFICACY, ACADEMIC SELF-CONCEPT AND PEER PRESSURE ON CAREER DECISION MAKING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Students in Kenyan secondary schools continue to face pressure on career decision making, despite thegovernment’s emphasis on career guidance and counselingprogramme in schools.Thousands of school-leavers miss out on ... -
HUMAN RESOURCE AUDIT AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KISUMU, KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Human resource audit (HRA) is responsible for identifying human resource problems that affect the human resource functions of an organization and improve organizational performance. Effectiveness of a HRA in the public ... -
PERINATAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BIRTH ASPHYXIA AMONG NEONATES IN MATERNITY WARD KAKAMEGA COUNTY REFFERAL HOSPITAL, KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Despite the important advances in perinatal care in the past decades, asphyxia remains a severe condition leading to significant mortality and morbidity. Perinatal asphyxia has an incidence of 1 to 6 per 1,000 live full-term ... -
INVESTIGATION OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE NURSING STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN THE NURSING COUNCIL OF KENYA LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS IN KENYA
(2017-11)Kenya has seen a drastic growth in nursing education sector recording high rates of enrolment of students to training while their performance in Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) examination remained variable. This study ... -
CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP IN IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG FEMALE BREAST CANCER PATIENTS IN FARAJA, NAIROBI COUNTY-KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Breast Cancer is one of the devastating types of cancer common and most prevalent in women accounting for 23% of all cancers of women globally, Kenya reporting high incidences. After diagnosis, the quality of life (QOL) ... -
INFLUENCE OF INTRINSIC REWARDS ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN SUGAR COMPANIES IN WESTERN KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Intrinsic motivation occurs when people engage in an activity such as a hobby without external incentives. Social and educational psychologists have studied this form of motivation since the early 1970’s. Research has ... -
ON THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE UNIT GROUPS OF A CLASS OF TOTAL QUOTIENT RINGS
(MMUST, 2017-10)Let R be a completely primary finite ring of characteristic pk, where p is a prime and k is a positive integer. Such finite rings have been studied extensively in recent years and the tools necessary for describing completely ... -
ON THE GENERATORS OF CODES OF IDEALS OF THE POLYNOMIAL RING FOR ERROR CONTROL
(2017-10)Shannon introduced error detection and correction codes to address the growing need of efficiency and reliability of code vectors. Ideals in algebraic number system have mainly been used to preserve the notion of unique ...
