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Kenya: Socio-Demographic Determinants of Intractable Communal Land Use Conflicts in the Squatter Enclaves of Mount Elgon Region
(Conflict Studies Quarterly, 2024-10-04)In the post-Cold War world order, the African Continent has been a stage for some of the most violent intra-state conflicts arising from natural resources and land distribution. These contes tations have often been ... -
Conceptual Mappings of Metaphorical Euphemisms in Ekegusii Circumcision Ceremonies
(African Journal of Empirical Research, 2024-10-25)Conceptual mappings are a key tenet of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and are sets of systematic correspondences between the source and target domains. As observed in the relevant literature, it is argued that metaphors ... -
Second Order Extended Ensemble Filter for Non-linear Filtering
(https://doi.org/10.51867/ajernet.mathematics.5.4.25, 2024-09-25)Whenever the state of a system must be estimated from noisy information, a state estimator is employed to fuse the data with the model to produce an accurate estimate of the state. When the system dynamics and observation ... -
Evaluating the Role of Electronic Security Surveillance in Enhancing Safety in Secondary Schools: A Case Study of Trans Nzoia County, Kenya
(African Journal of Empirical Research, 2024-10-11)Secondary school safety is critical to sustaining comparable academic performance outcomes. However, there are so many threats that affect the safety of schools that make up this necessity throughout the world. Security ... -
Encumbrances in African regional integration architecture
(African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2024-09-06)Regional integration forms institutions whose primary objective is political economy cooperation. Governments often see the closer integration of neighboring economies as the first step in creating a larger regional market ... -
Evaluation of Effluent Quality Trends Before and After Filtration Through the Composite Filter from Shirere Wastewater Treatment Plant to River Isiukhu in Kakamega County, Kenya
(The African Journal of Empirical Research (AJERNET),, 2024-10-22)The current stabilization ponds as wastewater treatment practices in urban areas have proven insufficient with continued discharge of untreated wastes into water bodies. Their challenge comes from inappropriate system ... -
A Between-Host Cholera Mathematical Model Incorporating Temperature Dependence
(African Journal of Empirical Research, 2024-10-08)This paper establishes a between-host cholera model with temperature dependent parameter. This is done using system of ODEs to analyse the effect of temperature change on cholera disease. The model analysis reveals that ... -
Effect of Credit Risk Management Techniques on Financial Performance of Deposit Taking SACCOs in Kenya
(African Journal of Empirical Research, 2024-10-25)Financial performance is crucial in the realm of finance. The requirement to explain why two organizations operating in the same environment perform differently is a puzzle, and various financial research works have been ... -
Early-pregnancy BMI, maternal gestational weight gain, and asthma and allergic diseases in children
(wle, 2024-09-16)Background Association of early pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and maternal gestational weight gain (GWG), and asthma and allergic disease in children is unclear. Methods We analyzed data from 3176 mother–child pairs ... -
Factors Influencing Management of Enteral Nutrition Among Nurses in Health Facilities of Kisumu County, Kenya
(Evidence-Based Nursing Research, 2024-09-30)Context: Enteral Nutrition (EN) is a feeding method through the gastrointestinal tract used in patients whose oral intake is not possible. Over 3 million people receive EN globally annually. Nurses play a key role in EN, ... -
Effect of Risk Assessment and Management on Operational Performance of Kenya Revenue Authority
(Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, 2024-07-30)Purpose: Operational performance require effective and efficient internal control mechanisms to check on any leakages, cost of revenue mobilization, negative variance concern on revenue targets among other aspects. The ... -
Influence of Expected Loan Loss on Operational Performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya
(Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2024-09-30)Purpose: The main objective of this study was to examine influence of credit risk stress testing on operational performance of commercial Kenya. The theoretical framework was based on credit risk theory. Methodology/Approach: ... -
Influence of Financial Access on Performance of SMEs of Fish Trading along Lake Victoria Region Kenya
(Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2024-06-30)Purpose: Examine the effect of access to finance on performance of small and medium enterprise of fish trading along Lake Victoria region Kenya. Methodology/Approach: The study was anchored on positivism philosophy while ... -
Hepatic, Renal and Cardiovascular Biomarker Variability in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients with Poor Glycemic Control
(2024-08-24)Objective: The main aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the variability of the hepatic, renal and cardiovascular biomarkers in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with poor glycemic control. Materials and Methods: ... -
Optimization of Turbine Blade Pitch Angle of a Home-built Wind Turbine for Maximum Power Output
(Journal of Renewable Energy and Mechanics., 2024-09-30)Wind energy greatly reduces the world’s dependence on fossil fuels (oil and natural gas), and is environmentally friendly. One of the most cost-effective alternatives of energy sources is wind power. This study used a ... -
A geo-gender-based analysis of human health: The presence of cut flower farms can attenuate pesticide exposure in African communities, with women being the most vulnerable
(Journal of Global Health (JoGH), 2024-10-11)Background The rapid expansion of the cut flower industry in Africa has led to pervasive use and potential exposure of pesticides, raising concerns for local communities. Whether the risks associated with pesticide ... -
Security Evaluation Framework for Virtualised Environments
(Journal of Research and Academic Writing, 2024-10-13)With the expansion of cloud computing, virtual environments remain susceptible to sophisticated security threats, such as hypervisor vulnerabilities, VM escapes, inter-VM attacks, DoS attacks, and malware injections. Hence, ... -
Rethinking Teaching and Assessment in AI Crowded Higher Education Environment. A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
(SSRN, 2024-08-01)With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, higher education institutions are increasingly exploring innovative ways to rethink teaching and assessment practices. This research paper examines ... -
Spatio-temporal characterization of malaria prevalence in a peri-urban resource limited setting of Western Kenya Highlands
(African Health Sciences, 2024-10-06)Background: Malaria is the main killer disease in sub-Sahara Africa. Objective: The study identified malaria prevalence patterns in relation to space and time trends in a peri-urban resource limited setting of Western ... -
Ligand-based pharmacophore modeling, virtual screening, and molecular dynamics simulations of Pfhsp90 fingerprints in Plasmodium malaria treatment
(Computational and Structural Biotechnology Reports, 2024-10-06)The World Health Organization (WHO) documents malaria as one of the leading causes of high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The disease affects millions and kills thousands of people annually. Efforts to reduce the global ...