However, as recent as 2008, schools were hit by a wave of unrests where over “300 secondary schools were hit by unrests that saw students disrupt learning, besides destroying property worth of millions of shillings” (Daily ...

The World Bank estimates that Kenya’s poverty level stands at 44 to 46 per cent Rift Valley province where Baringo County is located had a poverty index of 50%, (Government, 2007). Research also shows that three out ...

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The secondary school segment in the education cycle of Kenya is important for three major reasons: It de-links one from elementary primary learning, It provides a chance for one to complete the cycle for basic ...

Procurement is an integrative process which offers a platform form for the government to venture into the market to acquire services and commodities for its citizens. A policy is a governing set of principles which ...

Tea is one of tree crops, and a beverage made from the leaves of tropical shrub of the camellia family. According Fuller [2008], “it is aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured ...

Computational modeling in materials science involves the employment of fundamental physical and life sciences as well as computer science to study the properties of matter at the microscopic level. Such studies can be ...

Gestational DM has been associated with increased risk of perinatal mortality and morbidity however, screening recommendations are not clearly described in Kenyan guidelines. Kenyan studies have shown wide-ranging ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) qualified antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of the principal threats to public health globally and inappropriate antibiotic prescription is its modifiable contributor. Therefore ...

The digital revolution is affecting various sectors in the world ranging from banking, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, insurance, and Government. Technological innovations like digital health and electronic ...

Machine learning literature is replete with algorithms for classification problems. The choice of an algorithm for a particular problem is not only dependent on statistical assumptions but also its performance. The current ...

In Kenya, Medical facilities have made efforts to adopt Electronic Health Records systems at various levels and for different use cases. However, there lacks a robust and secure system for sharing sensitive and confidential ...

Adaptive technology devices improve the quality of education and remove learning barriers for the Visually Impaired learners. This paper is a report of a study that assessed the tutors’ attitudes towards integration of ...

Students acquire attitudes within their classrooms, in their homes and within their community. The study focused on secondary school students attributes related to their attitudes towards agriculture as a subject and as ...

In Nairobi County, students in both private and public schools have not been performing satisfactorily in sciences. A study therefore was done to establish the effect of matching of teaching styles with preferred leaning ...

It has been noted that timely coverage of Biology syllabus is lacking in most of the secondary schools in Kenya. The need for timely coverage of secondary school syllabi is crucial in Kenya and the world at large. The ...

Ever since man evolved,he has continously manipulated the environment for his own survival and the society at large. The physical environment has been crucial in man’s adaptation process as it dictated what man should ...

This study investigated the use of Kenyan generated neologisms in the social media. This study was informed by the fact that human language is a dynamic and an ever-changing phenomenon only stable in performing its ...

The issue of sexual harassment in academia is increasingly becoming the centre of discussion. Indeed, in most educational institutions, sexual harassment and gender-based violence have become an issue of research and ...

Gender inequality exists all over the world, in access to and control of vital resources, in educational, economic and political opportunities. This paper investigates gender differences in enrollment pattern for Accountancy ...

Students in the universities and tertiary institutions manifest damning consequences of a dysfunctional family structure and family change. Family is a very important unit of the society and requires effort to build it. ...

With today’s technological evolution, wireless networks have become very common for organizations, homes and public places. For any device to be authenticated and authorized to use any of the wireless network services, ...

Due to the high dimensionality of the network traffic data, it is not realistic for an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect intrusions quickly and accurately. Feature selection is an essential component in designing ...

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that involves all the basic components of computing such as end-user machines (PCs), communication networks, access management systems and cloud infrastructures. According to ...

In the period 2004 – 2012, the Pierre Auger Observatory has recorded more than two million of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In seeking to interpret the data recorded for the events, it is necessary to simulate the ...

Huduma Kenya is government initiative that was started in the year 2013 with the aim of transforming public services delivery by providing citizens access to various public services and information to Kenyan citizens. ...

Silicon Carbide has become one of the promising materials that can be used for electronicand optical applications. This is as a result of its superior properties among them structural, thermal, chemical, electronic and ...

The discussions and the assertions of this paper concur with the words of Moody (1995) who observed that the innovation of any kind exemplified in much of the present century’s music is diametrically opposed to the ...

An ensemble is a group of players or musical parts playing together. The main purpose of such a collaboration is to bring together different players, of varied musical backgrounds, to make up one harmonized performance. ...

Every existence has its pioneering pillars that give it the foundation on which it stands. This is no exception to Kenyan Music Education. Kenyan Music Education as we know it today started as part of the first educational ...

Nations in Africa are struggling to maintain a respectable presence in the world economy, politics and culture. Kenya, in particular, has a strong visibility in its tourism and cultural elements that present the part of ...

The Kenya Music Festival has incorporated contemporary African musical genres in the festival under the name adaptation and arrangement of zilizopendwa. Somehow in this context, the genre has become very popular among ...

Performance management as a management process is designed to link the organizational objectives with those of individual employees in such a way as to ensure that the individual and corporate objectives are as far as ...

Sustainable development and societal transformation has gained significant importance in global agenda. Social learning processes will be needed to contribute to real change which is why the 2030 Agenda (UN, 2015) and ...

The need to have a deeper understanding of ethical practice in organizations across contexts has led to calls for an exploration of perspectives outside western derived notions prevalent in the literature. The response ...

This study investigated public perception on age and aging and its influence on the uptake of institutional care in Nakuru County, Kenya. This study was informed by the growing population of older people around the world ...

This study investigated public perception on age and aging and its influence on the uptake of institutional care in Nakuru County, Kenya. This study was informed by the growing population of older people around the world ...

Monitoring and evaluation frameworks allow for project activities to be measured and analyzed. There is a gap in the design of M&E frameworks to generate information during the process of monitoring and evaluation and ...

The primary determinant of the growth of the global tea economy is demand for the commodity. Tea auction markets refer to market leaders to discover prices and market behaviour. The purpose of the study was to evaluate ...

Football is an “industry” and clubs “businesses” characterized by competition for resources. The opportunities presented by expanding markets and the challenges of an environment characterized by increasing competition ...

The objective of the research was to analyze unique strategies leveraging on Kenya’s vision 2030 strategic plan for alleviation of absolute poverty in Bomet County. The literature review was based on Resource Based View ...

This paper assessed the effects of corporate governance on financial reporting lags, with particular emphasis to Nigerian listed deposit money banks. It is based on secondary data gathered from the published annual report ...

This paper reviews the impact of transparency on public expenditure management in Nigeria. The study explores the relationships between transparency and linked it with the public expenditure management in Nigerian. ...

Ohangla music can be traced to the Luo community of Kenya. Over the years, it has changed in form and texture with the rise of new generations and new demands on the artists. The initial intentions, which were basically ...

This paper explores the strategies of teaching Music and aurals to the Hearing-Impaired learners in Kakamega County, Kenya. It: establishes the challenges likely to be experienced by learners with HI in handling Music; ...

Children with special needs face: delayed language, difficulty making eye contact, disturbed social interaction, problems with pragmatic language and poor comprehension leading to poor communication skills which include ...

Millions of shillings are lost by mobile phone users every year in Kenya due to SMs Spam, a social engineering skill attempting to obtain sensitive information such as passwords, Personal identification numbers and other ...

E-commerce in Kenya continues to grow in leaps and bounds mainly driven by increased affordability of smartphones, greater internet penetration and affordability and the very extensive automation of government services ...

The use of smart devices in provision of healthcare provides numerous benefits. Use of technology in the healthcare profession has generally led to faster diagnosis, lower costs, health workers and research collaboration, ...

Memory retention can be defined as a process by which both working memory and long term memory preserves knowledge so that it can locate, identify and retrieve it in the future. Children with dyslexia suffer from lack ...

Kenya is an emerging economy averagely industrialized with manufacturing at the core contributing significantly to the Kenyan economy. Manufacturinghas then been made Big Four Agendas industrialization component. However, ...

Kenya has experienced an increase in the frequency of disasters over the past two decades. This study sought to analyse the effects of strategic environmental analysis on disaster management in Kenya, a case of national ...

We have described a simple theoretical model of an equation of state (EOS) for a twodimensional system. The goal was to give a clear description of the interplay between hydrostatic change in surface area and the two ...

While the sixth sustainable development goal to be achieved by 2030 is clean water and sanitation, there is still a global challenge in the supply of adequate clean water due to population growth and urbanization. This ...

Computational modeling in materials science involves the employment of fundamental physical and life sciences as well as computer science to study the properties of matter at the microscopic level. Such studies can be ...

Educational institutions generally adhere to tenets of organization management. This principles of management enable schools to play their unique functions that comprise assurance that sound policies and objectives are ...

This study was designed to examine the effects of communication and corporate social responsibility in public relations as a strategy to postgraduate enrollment in KabarakUniversity. This research employed a case study ...

Economic empowerment remains an important goal for any Government. Agriculture is a major source of income for Kenyans. Various agencies have carried many interventions to ease financial accessibility. The study used a ...

Whereas the Kenyan banking sector remained stable in profit during 2015; from Kshs. 3.2 trillion in 2014 to Kshs. 3.5 trillion in 2015, the period 2012 to 2016 registered declining trends despite the slowdown in global ...

Disaster recovery is associated with broader issues concerning environmental management and long – term sustainability of an organization. It is possible to plan for disaster recovery because it can be foreseen and ...

SnO2: F films are widely used for solar cell applications as the front electrode as well as other applications such as electrochromics and displays. Optical design of these and other applications need the knowledge of ...

The Kenyan government has put a spirited reform to ensure all Kenyans get universal healthcare. This has led to restructuring of several entities among them the health insurance industry. This is geared at alleviating ...

The government of Kenya plans to largely finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). However, most of the Kenyan population do not have health insurance cover. Studies have ...

Eighty percent of cancer cases in Kenya present at advanced stages, when little curative care can be done and palliative care is their best option of care. Majority of the end of life care in Kenya is done in the home ...

Infant and young child feeding practices contribute to the growth and development of infants as well as preventing the occurrence of common illnesses. Infants of young mothers are at risk of malnutrition because they are ...

Globally, Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) has been known to have negative effects on the lives of more than 2 billion people. Currently, pregnant women are the most vulnerable population corresponding to 24.8% of 3.7 billion ...

Stunting is low height for age with poor brain and physical development. It affects about one fifth of children less than five years globally with Africa having 39% in 2017. Stunting develops during pregnancy and in ...

Infrastructure development is a necessary activity; however, if the developers do not consider the environment during the design, planning and construction stages, ecosystem losses are bound to happen. African Cape buffalo ...

The main objective of this study was to determine the awareness and adaptation to climate change in Baringo County. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Purposive sampling technique was used to obtain the sample. ...

Polythene bags have been preferred for packaging purposes because they are light in weight, cheap and resistant to degradation. Despite the benefits, poor disposal of polythene causes degradation and pollution of soil, ...