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Multicultural education as a mechanism for promoting positive ethnicity in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)
Since the world has become a global village, the need for better understanding and communication
among peoples from different cultures is crucial. Common markets, resource shortages, ethnic conflicts,
nuclear proliferations, ...
Towards populization of low cost building materials and technologies for urban housing in developing countries
(University of Nairobi, 2015-01)
This paper is based on a literature review and an e
valuation of practices that have been I place with
respect to low cost building materials and technolo
gies so as to lower costs and hence make the ...
Modeling returns and unconditional variance in risk neutral world for liquid and illiquid market.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
This article seeks to model daily asset returns using log-ARCH-Lévy type model which is expected to reproduce most of the stylized features of financial time series data (such as volatility clustering, leptokurtic nature of log returns, joint covariance structure and aggregational Gaussianity) that are empirically found in different types of market. In addition, unconditional variance of daily log returns in risk neutral world of different conditional heteroscedastic models is derived. A key observation is that liquid markets and illiquid market may not have the same underlying dynamics. For instance empirical analysis based on S&P500 index log returns as a liquid market do not have autoregressive part in their first moments while in Nairobi Securities Exchange NSE20 index there is strong presence of autoregressive dynamics of order three, i.e. AR(3). Higher moments of both markets are serially correlated....
Ubuntu: linguistic exporations
(University of Nairobi, 2015-01-02)
Quality health care strategies in the improvement of service delivery at the national referral hospitals in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)
This study investigated the effectiveness of quality health care strategies in improving service
delivery at the national referral hospitals in Kenya. National referral refers to any process in
which health care providers ...
Comparative study of breast cancer risk factors at Kenyatta National Hospital and the Nairobi Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Breast cancer rates in high-income countries increased sharply with industrialization and urbanization but are now declining. Rates in low-income countries are instead rising after adoption of western type lifestyles. Some ...
Enabling the development and deployment of next generation point-of-care diagnostics
(University of Nairobi, 2015-05-14)
Potential economic effect of oil and gas in East African countries
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Discoveries of oil and gas in East African Countries (EAC) has attracted the attention of many MNCs and
EMNCs. EAC governments of northern corridor countries have come together, not only to strengthen the
Northern Corridor ...
Evaluation of resistance reaction of maize germplasm to common foliar diseases in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Use of resistance varieties is the most practical method of managing crop diseases. There is a great variation in
terms of resistance reaction to diseases among the various maize germplasm and with the liberization of ...
Experimental investigation on performance, emission and combustion characteristics of croton megalocarpus biodiesel blends in a direct injection diesel engine
(University of Nairobi, 2015-01-01)
The emission, performance and combustion characteristics of croton biodiesel blends were tested in a direct injection (DI) single
cylinder four stroke diesel engine. The physico-chemical properties of the biodiesel blends ...