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Status of Waste Management Among Horticultural Processing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Horticultural recycling Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Kenya use raw agrarian yield to induce large amounts of solid and liquid waste. Waste operation includes the conditioning and conduct needed to manage ... -
Step-wise group testing in the presence of test error
(Department of Mathematics University of Nairobi, 2004)This study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one introduces the basic concepts in group screening designs. The chapter also has literature review that highlights the progress made over the years in the area of group ... -
Stereological observations on the kidneys of 16 avian species
(University of Nairobi, 1985) -
Steroidal and triterpenoidal sapogenins from rhoicissus revoilii, sesbania keniensis and albizia gummifera from Kenya
(1987)A system has been developed for the fractionation, purification for the free triterpenes, sugars and steroids of the tuber of Rhoicissus revoilii PLANCH. (Vitaceae). Hydrolysis of saponins using sodium periodate has been ... -
A stochastic analysis of claim reserving in General Insurance using bootstrapping technique
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Insurance is one of the key sector in ensuring stability and growth in any economy. Reserving actuaries therefore should do the best they can to ensure that the reserves declared are as accurate as possible. In most ... -
Stochastic Application of Absorbing Markov Chain to Secondary Schools: a Case Study of Monrovia Consolidated Schools System (Mcss), Monrovia-liberia.
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Since the end of the prolonged civil war in Liberia in 2003, general enrolment in secondary schools has increased, a scenario that necessitates a signi cant amount of resources. Enrollment forecasting is a critical ... -
A stochastic approach in determining claims reserve in general insurance
(University of Nairobi, 2009)This project illustrates the use of stochastic techniques in determining claims reserve in general insurance. The main objective being to obtain a ‘best estimate’ of the outstanding reserves and its variability with more ... -
Stochastic Interest Rates Model And Contingent Claim Pricing
(University of Nairobi,School of Mathematics,, 2013)This project designs and formulates prices and the inherent factors used in contingent securities. Participating contingent contracts are most popular in most financial jurisdictions. They present many different covenants ... -
Stochastic modelling for the pension funds companies; a case old mutual personal pension plan
(University of Nairobi, 2016)The study aimed to determine stochastic modelling for the pension funds companies; a case of Old Mutual Personal Pension Plan. The study was guided by the following objectives; to identify economic factors affecting ... -
Stochastic modelling of rainfall-runoff data for sondu and yala river basins
(1984)Linear transfer-function models Here fitted to different sets of concurrent daily areal rainfall and runof'f series. The daily rainfall and runoff records used were for two different catchments namely the Yala and Sondu ... -
Stochastic Modelling of Systematicmortality Risk Under Collateral Data and Its Applications
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Many actuaries worldwide use Systematic Mortality Risk (SMR) to value actuarial products such as annuities and assurances sold to policyholders. Data availability plays an essential role in ascertaining the SMR models’ ... -
Stochastic modelling of the default rates and recovery rates of a bank loan
(School of mathematics, 2011-10)In this project, the assumption of risk neutral will be applied to estimate jointly the default probabilities and recovery rate of a bank loan. This is achieved by putting into consideration the practical differences ... -
Stochastic population forecast for Kenya: Arima model approach
(University of NairobiSchool of Mathematics, 2011)Trends in population have important implications for a government 111 planning and formulating its manpower-related policies. A business may also need to adjust its long-term market strategies according to these trends. ... -
Stock price prediction at the Nairobi stock exchange
(School of computing and informatics University of Nairobi, 2004)Stock Price Prediction is a challenging, interesting and potentially very profitable task to carry out. The task has great dependence on economic phenomena, history, politics, the media, hype and even some psychology. ... -
Storage virtualisation and management for NASD devices.
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2010)This dissertation is a report on storage management model providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to Improve scalability (by eliminating the server ... -
Stores Control system for the College of Business Education Tanzania
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, 1991) -
Stores Control Systems
(University of Nairobi, 1993) -
STR Analysis Of Human DNA From Maggots Fed On Decomposing Bodies: Assessment On The Time Period For Successful Analysis
(University Of Nairobi, 2013-09)Forensic entomology is a branch of biology involving study of insects that are present on carrion in order to facilitate identification of the body, and to determine Postmortem Interval (PMI). Its importance becomes ... -
Strategic Interventions to enhance adoption of Open Source Applications and Creative commons licensed Open Content in the Kenyan Government
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2012)Open source software (OSS) is a viable alternative for proprietary software (PS), particularly in the government sector globally for reasons such as lowering software costs, growing local software development industry, ... -
Strategic management practices as a Competitive tool in enhancing performance of Small and medium enterprises in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Strategic management and its implementation have become the main focus in SMEs because of its role in generating economic wealth. Although, there are many advantages to use strategic management, there are still many SME ...