Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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EFFECT OF BUDGET PLANNING ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN NAKURU TOWN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
(International Journal of Business Management and Processes (IJBMP) Vol 4. Issue No.2. November, 2018. PP 79-88., 2018)Several Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) fail to make budgets; others do it but fail to constantly update their budgets and evaluate their progress against the actual budgets, or are disgruntled by the futility of ... -
Does University Education Produce “Half-Baked” Graduates? Perspectives from Graduates of a Kenyan University
(African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR). Special Issue, January 2020. (103 - 119), 2020)University education in Kenya has had an exponential growth in terms of the number of chartered universities and that of students’ enrolment over the past decade. This phenomenal growth has been occasioned by the need ... -
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF HOUSING COOPERATIVES IN KENYA
(European Journal of Economic and Financial Research. Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017, 2017)Housing cooperatives were introduced in Kenya in the early 1980s and currently there are 650 registered housing cooperatives which are affiliated to the National Cooperative Housing Union (NACHU). Official statistics ... -
An Assessment of the Role of Credit Reference Bureau in Influencing Customer Credit Access in Mitigating Against Credit Default in Commercial Banks in Kenya
(International Journal of Research in Management . 7, Vol. 6 (October-November 2017), 2017)The study examined the role of Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) in influencing customer credit access in mitigating default risk among commercial banks in Kenya. The study was based on the theories of Adverse Selection and ... -
Assessing the Effects of M-Shwari on Financial Inclusion among Muhoroni Factory Sugarcane out - Growers’ Households in Muhoroni Sub-County, Kenya
(European Journal of Business and Management . Vol.8, No.19, 2016, 2016)In Kenya today the decline in cane production per given unit area has led to a domestic sugar consumption deficit that averages 200,000 tonnes of sugar annually. An aggressive financial inclusion strategy in the sugar ... -
Appropriateness of Liquidity Ratios Model in Predicting Shareholder Wealth of Non-Financial Firms Listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
(Research Journal of Finance and Accounting Vol.10, No.22, 2019, 2019)It is necessary that efforts are put in place by the global investing public to address the ever increasing need to accurately measure performance and financial strength of firms (Pandey, 2013). Analysts of financial ... -
A Suvery of Biometric Authentication Technologies Towards Secure And Robust Systems: A Case Study of Mount Kenya University
(2022-03)In response to the increased demand for more effective authentication methods, the usage of biometric authentication to secure systems against unwanted access has grown. Because of the recent COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, ... -
A Survey of Deep Learning Solutions for Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos
(Asian Online Journals, 2021-10)Deep learning has proven to be a landmark computing approach to the computer vision domain. Hence, it has been widely applied to solve complex cognitive tasks like the detection of anomalies in surveillance videos. Anomaly ... -
Under Voltage Load Shedding on a Modified IEEE 14-Bus System Using Hybrid ABC-PSO Algorithm for Voltage Stability Enhancement
(Elsevier, 2021-08)Voltage collapse tends to occur due to the voltage instability created during large faults. As a last resort, under-voltage load shedding (UVLS) is performed after all the available power operation and control mechanisms ... -
Development of DSTATCOM Optimal Sizing and Location Technique Based on IA-GA for Power Loss Reduction and Voltage Profile Enhancement in an RDN
(IJEER Forex Press, 2022-01)The efficiency of electrical distribution systems is being more affected by the increase in voltage drops and power losses. These issues of voltage drop and power loss can be significantly minimized by the incorporation ... -
Application of large-scale grid-connected solar photovoltaic system for voltage stability improvement of weak national grids
(Springer Nature Ltd, 2021-12)This paper investigates the application of large-scale solar photovoltaic (SPV) system for voltage stability improvement of weak national grids. Large-scale SPV integration has been investigated on the Nigerian power system ... -
Multiobjective optimal power flow for static voltage stability margin improvement
(Elsevier, 2021-12)Worldwide, utilities are aiming to increase the stability of modern power systems during system disturbances. Optimizing generation scheduling can improve system security in contingency and stressed conditions while lowering ... -
Modeling and Energy Management Strategy in a Grid Connected Solar PV System
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2021-09)Electric power is substantially an important resource in the modern world. With the increase in demand for electric energy, there is a need to search for alternative energy sources because conventional resources are being ... -
Evaluation of Thermal Interface Materials in Mediating PV Cell Temperature Mismatch in PV-TEG Power Generation
(2021-03)Among the emerging renewable energy technologies, solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation is growing steadily in the mainstream energy supply mix contributing about 2.58% of the global total power generation by 2018 from ... -
Application and control of flexible alternating current transmission system devices for voltage stability enhancement of renewable-integrated power grid: A comprehensive review
(Elsevier, 2021-03)This paper presents a comprehensive review on the application and control of Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices in order to improve voltage stability of power grid with high share of renewable ... -
Impact of integrating large-scale DFIG-based wind energy conversion system on the voltage stability of weak national grids: A case study of the Nigerian power grid
(Elsevier, 2021-11)This paper investigates the impact of integrating large-scale Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG)-based wind energy conversion system (WECS) on the voltage stability of the 52-bus, 330 kV Nigerian power grid. Indices ... -
Innovative Solar Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric Power Generator for a Recirculating Aquaculture System
(2020-09)Solar Photovoltaic power generation is fast gaining popularity in Kenya. However, the effects of high cell temperatures continue to be a major hindrance to their efficiency especially for standalone systems. Water can be ... -
Reactive Power-Voltage-Based Voltage Instability Sensitivity Indices for Power Grid With Increasing Renewable Energy Penetration
(2020-05)In this work, a reactive power-voltage (QV)-based framework to evaluate the voltage instability sensitivities of power system buses to increase in renewable energy (RE) penetration has been developed using two sensitivity ... -
A Framework for Verification in Contactless Secure Physical Access Control and Authentication Systems
(2022-02)Biometrics is one of the very popular techniques in user identification for accessing institutions and logging into attendance systems. Currently, some of the existing biometric techniques such as the use of fingerprints ... -
Effects of Extreme Flooding of Lake Baringo on Livelihoods of Communities Lining around the Lake
(Advances in Applied Sociology, 2021, 11, 404-414, 2021)Floods are among the natural disasters that often impact society. Floods tend to be more short lived but more disastrous. Between 2012 and 2014, Lake Baringo experienced unprecedented increases in their water levels, ...
