MMUST Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Health Managers’ Utilization of Evidence to Inform Annual Health Sector Planning and Budgeting Process in Bungoma County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-08-19)Evidence-based planning and budgeting within the health sector are essential in strengthening the health system building blocks. Decentralization has presented opportunities for collecting local and reliable data to ... -
Nature of Drug and Substance Abuse in Kilifi and Mombasa Counties of Coastal Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-08-18)Drug and substance abuse has become one of the looming human-induced disasters globally, making it a profound concern among the comity of nations owing to the significant detrimental effects it has in almost every aspect ... -
Nature of Reintegration Programmes for Returnee Terrorist Fighters in Mombasa County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-08-17)Terrorism is a global threat to peace, security, and prosperity. It also puts conflict resolution strategies to the test. The rise of global terrorism has led to the emergence of numerous extremist groups, which have ... -
Effectiveness of Guidance and Counselling on Depression among Adolescents in Schools in Kakamega County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-08-16)Depression is a solemn health issue affects a large number of children and adolescents. Studies have identified high prevalence of depression among adolescent students in Kenya as well as in Kakamega County. Guidance and ... -
Socio-Cultural Dynamics Influencing Domestic Violence in Nyeri County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-08-16)For many years, domestic violence has been stereotyped as violence against women and girls, with men as perpetrators. However, in recent times, men have also become victims. Domestic violence is a violation of human rights ... -
Data collected to assess the effect of inquiry-based learning on environmental knowledge and attitudes among pre-service biology teachers in Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2023-07-18)The proliferation of global environmental problems has necessitated the need to re-examine the environmental impacts caused by human-nature relations. Yet individual attitudes and environmental literacy remain among the ... -
Role of School Administrators in the Implementation of Early Years Education Program in Khwisero Sub-County, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-08-23)With the promulgation of the Kenya Constitution in 2010, the responsibility of Early Year’s Education (EYE) was delegated to county governments. This study, therefore, sought to find out the role of school administrators ... -
Post COVID-19 Analysis of the Status of online Infrastructure use by Public Universities in Kenya: The Case of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2023-07-29)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about a lot of interference in learning institutions. Universities were not spared by this pandemic, and this brought about a need to reconsider modes of learning which had all along been ... -
Numerical Study of Copper Antimony Sulphide (CuSbS2) Solar Cell by SCAPS-1D
(Heliyon, 2023-07-27)Copper antimony sulphide has ability in applications on photovoltaics since it is a promising, less toxic, earth abundant absorber material. In this study, the photovoltaic characteristics of copper antimony sulphide ... -
The Implications of School Unrest on Students’ Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Bondo Sub-County, Kenya
(THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES, 2023-07-07)Schools are called to effectively assess and monitor school climate given its potential ability to enhance positive student outcomes and mitigate risk behaviors. When a positive school climate ... -
University Students’ and Lecturers’ Attitude towards Online Pedagogical Infrastructure in the Post-Covid 19 Pandemic Period The Case of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2023-08-08)Covid 19 pandemic became a game changer in the implementation of online learning in all higher learning institutions across the globe. Two years since the pandemic, educational systems are still dealing with its effect. ... -
Nexus between Academic Motivation and Self-actualization among Students of Public Universities in Western Kenya
(East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2023-08-18)The study investigated on the influence of academic motivation on self-actualization among university students in Western region of Kenya. The study employed a correlation research design with the sample size of 153 ... -
Spatial Variations in Aquatic Insect Community Structure in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya
(International Journal of Ecology, 2023-09-08)Background. Aquatic insect community structure is dynamic due to threats by anthropogenic activities coupled with changing climatic conditions. The insect’s survival is dependent on the substrate, water quality, and ... -
Soil Sterilization Eliminates Beneficial Microbes That Provide Natural Pest Suppression Ecosystem Services Against Radopholus similis and Fusarium Oxysporum V5w2 in the Endosphere and Rhizosphere of Tissue Culture Banana Plants
(Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022-03-01)Endosphere and rhizosphere microbes offer plant growth promotion and pest suppression ecosystem services in banana-based agroecosystems. Interest has been growing towards the use of such beneficial microbes in protecting ... -
Antimicrobial Coumarins from the Oyster Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Agaricomycetes), from Keny
(International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, 2016-10-05)Pleurotus ostreatus has been widely used as food because of its nutritional and medicinal properties. These have been attributed to the presence of macronutrients, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids, among other secondary ... -
Shotgun Metagenomic Analyses of Microbial Assemblages in the Aquatic Ecosystem of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya Reveals Multiclass Pollution
(BioMed Research International, 2023-07-21)Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, provides an important source of food and income, particularly fish for both domestic consumption and for export market. In recent years, Lake Victoria has ... -
Influence of Liquidity Risk Management on Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya
(African Journal of Empirical Research, 2023-07-05)The management of liquidity risk in commercial banks determines the banks' financial performance, which predominantly influences the quality of the loan portfolio and the nature of credit administration programs as a whole. ... -
On the Zero Divisor and Cayley Graphs of Some Classes of the 2-Radical Index of Nilpotence Finite Local Rings
(Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2022-07-08)The characterization of finite local rings via the well known structures of their zero divisor graphs and cayley graphs remains an open problem. Some classes of completely primary finite rings which are local, have however ... -
On Characterization of Norm Attaining Operators in Fr´echet Spaces
(Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2022-10-25)In this paper, the norm attaining operators in Fr´echet spaces are considered. These operators are characterized based on their density, normality, linearity and compactness. It is shown that the image is dense for a ... -
Regular Elements and Von-Neumann Inverses of a Class of Zero Symmetric Local Near-Rings Admitting Frobenius Derivations
(Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, 2023-01-01)Let N be a zero-symmetric local near-ring. An element x ∈ N is either regular, zero or a zero divisor. In this paper, we construct a class of zero symmetric local near-ring of characteristic p k ; k ≥ 3 admitting an ...
