Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Factors Affecting Internal Auditor’s Performance in Public Universities in Kenya
(Global journal of Economics and Business Administration, 2018)The study focused on the factors affecting internal auditors ‘performance in public universities in Kenya. It aimed at achieving the objectives: to determine how the working environment, to assess how the challenges to the ... -
Determinants of Insurance uptake in developing countries: Evidence from CIC insurance, Kericho Branch, Kenya.
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2017)Insurance plays a major role in the life of the humanity. The citizenry has gradually come to realize the necessity of insurance and these needs are unending as long as life exists. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Translation and validation of the breast feeding self efficacy scale into the Kiswahili language in resource restricted setting in Thika – Kenya
(GLOBAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2017)Background Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is one of the most cost‐effective, healthpromoting, and disease‐preventing intervention and has been referred to as the cornerstone of child survival. Many mothers however ... -
Effectiveness of structured nutrition education on maternal breastfeeding self‐efficacy and exclusive breastfeeding duration in Kiandutu health centre, Thika – Kenya
(GLOBAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2017)Background Optimal breastfeeding practices can help prevent under‐nutrition among under five children and WHO recommends Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first half of infancy. Rates of EBF are however low globally ... -
Incorporating Health Education in the Curriculum: The Kenyan Experience
(International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD), 2018)The most recent challenges in health could be tackled by incorporating health education at all levels of learning. This is in tandem with the new global health policy aimed at combating these challenges and developed by ... -
Effects of occupational strain among poiice officers to the general security of a community: a case of muranga town, muranga county, Kenya
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2018)Strain at work in any profession negatively affects the people working and overall performance of employees. This in turn has a negative impact on production or quality of services being offered. This applies to police ... -
Hindrances to Women Advancing to Principals’ Decision Making Positions in Secondary Schools in Kenya: Evidence of Convergence and Divergence Views among Current Male and Female Principals
(American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)The study set out to investigate the views of current female and male secondary school principals regarding barriers or hindrances to women teachers becoming secondary school principals in a County in Kenya. The study ... -
Employing the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework with a case study of climate change vulnerability in Mombasa, Kenya
(Sage, 2018)This paper attempts to provide an empirical application of the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework using a case study of Mombasa Kenya. Climate variability is a challenge to tourism destinations, ... -
Quadratic Approach for Fast Topic Selection in Modelling Big Text Analytics
(International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, 2018)One challenging issue in application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is to select the optimal number of topics which must depend on both the corpus itself and user modeling goals. This paper presents a topic selection ... -
A Survey of Topic Model Inference Techniques
(International Journal of Computer and Information Technology, 2018)— Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a probabilistic topic model that aims at organizing, visualizing, summarizing, searching, predicting and understanding the content of any given text data. The model enables users ... -
Effects of Stakeholders‟ Participation in the InterEthnic Conflicts and Economic Growth in Nyando, Muhoroni and Tinderet Sub-Counties
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2018)The impact of ethnic conflicts to economic growth has been of great concerns by many Nations globally. Africa is the most affected continent in regard to conflict due to many nations within the continent experiencing ... -
FACTORS INFLUENCING TRAINING COSTS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGES IN KENYA: A CASE OF MURANG’A UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
(2018-06)The study sought to find out the factors influencing training costs in university colleges in Kenya a case of Murang’a University College. This was occasioned by the fact that the university colleges charge different amounts ... -
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FARM PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACCESS FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS
(International Academic Journal of Economics and Finance, 2018)In Kenya and across the globe, the proportion of commercial bank’s loans the agricultural sector relative to other sectors is generally low. This is despite the considerable financial intermediation opportunities resulting ... -
Influence of Technology Adoption on Credit Access among Small Holder Farmers: A Double-Hurdle Analysis
(Africa International Journal of Management Education and Governance, 2017)The proportion of bank lending to the agricultural sector is generally low across the globe, and the situation is no different in Kenya. This is despite the fact that commercial banks have continued to launch tailor-made ... -
Assessment of Perceived Ease of Use and Instructional Use of ICT by Lecturers in Technical Training Institutions in Kenya
(2018-04)In the past ten years, Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential part of our learning and development in education. The rapid development of these new technologies coupled with the worldwide challenge ... -
Left to their own Devices: Understanding the Induction Needs of Beginning P1 Teachers in Public Primary Schools in Kenya
(2014-02)This article reports on the findings from quantitative research on the views and experiences of beginning P1 teachers in public primary schools in Kenya regarding induction, mentoring and other supportive programmes. Aim: ... -
An Evaluation of Pharmacy Pre-Registration Trainees‟ Perception of Their Placement Tutors in the United Kingdom (UK)
(2015-09)This article reports on the findings of the study that set out to investigate the views of pharmacy preregistration trainees regarding their placement tutors. The study adopted a quantitative survey approach and questionnaires ... -
Admission into Public Secondary Schools in Kenya: Understanding Parental Preferential Limitations
(MCSER Publishing, 2015)This article reports on the findings of a study that set out to investigate parents’ preference of secondary schools that their children joined for form one in 2015. The study adopted a quantitative survey approach involving ... -
Form one selection process, an encouragement or a discouragement: Examining parents’ perceptions in Baringo County, Kenya
(Merit Research Journals, 2015)This article reports on the findings of a study that set out to investigate the views of parents in Baringo County in Kenya regarding the form one selection process. The study adopted a quantitative survey design and ... -
Spatial modeling of HIV and HSV-2 among women in Kenya with spatially varying coefficients
(2016)Background: Disease mapping has become popular in the field of statistics as a method to explain the spatial distribution of disease outcomes and as a tool to help design targeted intervention strategies. Most of these ...
