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Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: an Empirical Analysis of Kenyan Data
(2014)
The paper investigates the main drivers of real Gross Domestic Product growth in Kenya as well as those that drive the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Kenya. It is widely acknowledged that FDI has potential benefits ...
Effective intervention to reduce intravaginal practices among hiv-1 uninfected Kenyan women.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Intravaginal practices (IVP) are common among African women and are associated with HIV acquisition. A behavioral intervention to reduce IVP is a potential new HIV risk-reduction strategy. Fifty-eight HIV-1-uninfected ...
Infant neutropenia associated with breastfeeding during maternal antiretroviral treatment for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hiv
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Maternal antiretroviral treatment (ART) is recommended for prevention of mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission (PMTCT), including in women with high CD4+ cell counts. Within a pediatric HIV-1 vaccine trial PedVacc 002, we ...
Prosperity gospel in Kenyan urban centres: come, see, pay and receive your miracles and healing
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
In this part of the 21st century, the impact of ‘New Age” religions created by secularization have exposed the western Christianity to several challenges which seem not only divergent to biblical doctrine but tend to give ...
Analysis of the single toggle jaw crusher kinematics
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Purpose
– This paper aims to obtain equations that can be used to describe the motion of any given point in the swing jaw of a single toggle jaw crusher.
Design/methodology/approach
– The swing jaw drive mechanism of ...
Roots and Routes of Political Violence in Kenya’s Civil and Political Society: A Case Study of Marsabit County
(University of Nairobi,, 2014-06)
Struggles to influence the balance of power and the distribution of economic resources in Kenya have a long history of violence: national and local, actual and threatened, physical and psychological. Somewhat controlled ...
Relationship between Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Parents’ Behaviours and Youths’ Non-Illegal and Minor- Illegal Delinquency in Nairobi Secondary Schools, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-05)
The study investigated the relationship between adolescents’ perceptions of
parental behaviours and their involvement in non-
illegal and minor-illegal delinquency in selected secondary schools, in N
airobi County of ...
Experimental Solidification Projection, Liquidus Surface Projection and Isothermal Section at 1000 °C for the Pt-Cr-V System
(University of Nairobi,, 2014-06)
Alloys of the Pt-Cr-V were studied in the as-cast and heat treated conditions using scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction. The solidification projection and isothermal ...
Effect Of Corporate Characteristics On Capital Structure Decisions Of SMEs: A Case Of DTMs In Kenya
(University Of Nairobi, 2014)
The choice between debt and equity for a business firm has implications on the value of a firm as well as strategic importance for corporate managers. Previous studies have addressed the issue of capital structure decisions ...