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Effect of Corporate Environmental Disclosure on Financial Performance of Firms Listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
(2016-08-01)
Corporate environmental disclosure entails reporting on the impact of company activities on the natural environment such as waste management, recycling, carbon management, emission, pollution, wetland and wildlife conservation. ...
Thematic Choice as a Discursive Formation Used to Create Socio-Political Dominance in Kenyan parliamentary Debates between 1992 and 2010
(2016-08)
Speech that is made up of a group of statements that belong to the same discursive formation is referred to as knowledge. Participants in such a discourse manipulate it to achieve their desired goals. ...
The Use of Presupposition in the Creation of Socio-Political Dominance in Kenyan Parliamentary Debates between 1992 and 2010
(2016)
Presupposition, a linguistic element can be employed in utterances. When this is done it enhances the comprehension of what is being communicated. This aspect of language that is implicit assumption of an utterance is a ...
Improving seed potato leaf area index, stomatal conductance and chlorophyll accumulation efficiency through irrigation water, nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient management.
(Macrothink Institute, 2016-01)
A study was conducted in a Rainshelter (RTrial) at Horticultural Research and Teaching Farm, Egerton University to determine the effect of integration of irrigation water, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) application on ...
On Almost Similarity and Metric Equivalence of operators. Accepted for publication
(2016-06)
In this paper, we investigate almost-similarity relation, metric equivalence and other relations of operators on Hilbert spaces. We characterize almost-similar, metrically equivalent operators. Roughly speaking, we consider ...
Modeling and Forecasting Kenyan GDP Using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Models
(2016-04-13)
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all goods and services produced within the borders of a nation in a year. In this paper, Kenya's annual GDP data obtained from the Kenya National Bureau of statistics ...
Performance of Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation for Multimedia Handover Services in UMTS mobile Cellular Networks
(Jommo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology, 2016-05-03)
With the ever growing multimedia services in the telecommunicationindustry, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in cellular networksis becoming more challenging. Studies have suggested that QoSrequirements can be met by ...
). Characterization and classification of clay minerals for potential applications in Rugi ward, Kenya.
(African Journals Online, 2016-11-16)
The applications of various clayey minerals are related to their structural, physical and chemical characteristics. The physical and chemical properties of the clayey minerals dictate their utilization in the process ...
Sensitivity analysis of treatment and counselling in a co-infection model of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
(2016-02)
This study presents a co infection deterministic model defined by a system of ordinary differential equations for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The model is analyzed to investigate the potential impact of counseling ...
Agrobiodiversity conservation enhances food security in subsistence-based farming systems of Eastern Kenya
(2016-09-15)
Background
Globally, there is great concern about expanding agricultural activities due to their impact in the conservation of agrobiodiversity. African continent is known for its richness in biodiversity. In Kenya, there ...