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Integration Of Road Design Information With Carrymap For Mobile Access
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Today, technological advancement is a major driving force in changing the face of the spatial information around the world. High spatial resolution satellite imagery has revolutionized the Mapping discipline. The GIS ... -
An intelligent backoff scheme for IEEE 80211 DCF wireless LANs
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2012)The wireless MAC Protocol in IEEE 802.11 uses a distributed contention resolution mechanism for sharing the wireless channel. In this environment, the CSMA/CA scheme requires nodes contending for access to the channel ... -
An intelligent model for detecting fraud in the non technical loss of commercial power: case of Kenya power-ruiru area.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Financial frauds are on the rise as a result large amount of money is lost by institutions to fraudsters, recognizing the problem of losses and the area of suspicious behavior is the challenge of fraud detection. Applying ... -
An intelligent subtopics suggester for an e-learning system
(University of Nairobi, 2014)ELearning, is a planned teaching or learning experience that uses a wide spectrum of computerbased technologies to reach learners. The focus of this project was the case where students are logging into and using the ... -
Intelligent support in group work in online collaborative learning environment
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)The increased demand for higher education has made online learning popular and appealing to many stakeholders including working staff and students. Though online learning has gained popularity, it is still being criticized ... -
An Intelligent Traffic Light Algorithm System
(University of Nairobi, 2011-04)Traffic light control systems have increased in use on our roads particularly in the urban areas. Every year, more cities are starting to implement traffic light control systems to control traffic in and out of the city. ... -
Inter annual variability of medium level circulation and Its association with seasonal rainfall over equatorial East Africa.
(Department of Meteorology University of Nairobi, 2006)This study was an attempt to explore the role of atmospheric circulation and its predictive association or linkage with seasonal rainfall over Equatorial Eat Africa. The data used in the study included the NCEP/NCAR ... -
Inter annual variability of onset and cessation dates of the long rains in Kenya
(Department of Meteorology University of Nairobi, 2007)The overall objective of the study was to determine the inter-annual variability of onset and cessation dates of the long rains season in Kenya. The specific objectives that were addressed to achieve the overall ... -
Inter carrier billing clearing house (a case study for the Kenyan ICT sector)
(School of Computing and Informatics, 2008)This project discusses principles of interconnection and activities involved in development of a framework of an efficient inter carrier billing clearinghouse system for the converging lCT market (one of the core area ... -
An Interactive And Platform Independent M-learning Game For Early Grade Learning
(University of Nairobi, 2014)There have been major efforts by the Kenyan government to implement the Education for All (EFA) goal no.6 which focuses on improving quality of education in both literacy and numeracy as well as the Millennium Development ... -
Interactive effect on morphology, phenology and growth of the wild rice (oryza longistaminata) ecotypes and cultivated rice (oryza sativa) cultivars from the Coastal region of Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Biological Sciences, 2011)Rice is the third most important cereal crop in Kenya after maize and wheat. Among the major constraints of rice production in Kenya is wild rice which occur in or near the rice fields as weeds or in wild form. One of ... -
Interactive Mobile Voice and Text Response Prototype for Reducing Maternal & Child Mortality
(University of NairobiSchool Of Computing And Informatics, 2013)Recent global focus on healthcare issues has stimulated research and development of innovative technologies which address much unsustainability of the current healthcare provision models. Rapid advances in mobile, wireless ... -
Interest Rates As A Mearsure Of Financial Risk
(University of NairobiSchool of mathematics, 2003)This paper argues that in the fundamental subject of financial risk analysis, a lot of valuable lessons can be drawn from interest rates as a measure of risk. It explores interest rates and why they exist. It's about ... -
The interference effects in the atomic absorption spectrophotometry determination of chromium and complexing of antimony and tin metal ions and consequent determination in the atomic absorption Spectrophotometry
(University of NairobiFaculty of Science, 1977)The interferent effects of thirty SlX metal salts vit.h the chromium absorbance in the air-acetylene flame has been studied. Twelve metal interferents of Fe, Co, Ni, Pd, Ti, V, Mg, Al, Zr, W, U and Mo were found to have ... -
Intergrating Bioinformatics Mechanism - Based Screening Into Kinetoplastids Antiprotozoan rRna Targets Compound Discovery Paradigm
(university of Nairobi, 2020-03)Kinetoplastids are human pathogens with devastating economic and health effects, which include Leishmania and Trypanosoma species from flagellated protozoans. With the developed technology platform that allows the generation ... -
Interlingual Machine Translation Approach For Local Languages:Ekegusii- Kiswahili
(University of NairobiSchool of computing and informatics, 2007)Development of natural language applications for local languages in Africa reqmres innovative approaches since many of these languages are resource scarce. By this we mean that there are hardly any local language corpora ... -
Internet utilization: a case of connected rural and urban secondary schools
(School of Computing and Informatics, 2009)The study looked at the utilization of the Internet among teachers and students in connected rural and urban secondary schools. The purpose of the study was to help policy makers, decision makers and investors make well ... -
Interoperability Framework for National Population Register A Case Study of IPRS
(University of Nairobi, 2019)The Government of Kenya has several different agencies all undertaking population registration functions under independent pieces of legislations. The IPRS department has the sole responsibility of hosting the National ... -
Interpretation of structural controls of ground water flow using geophysical techniques in the region South of Lake Nakuru (Delamere-Enderit area)
(University of Nairobi, 2011)Water is one of the vital elements all over the world and due to several factors such as over exploitation, water resources are steadily decreasing. This study is therefore aimed at characterizing the nature of the shallow ... -
Intra-seasonal characteristics of daily rainfall over Uganda during the wet seasons
(Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, 2007)Over 80% of the population in Uganda lives in rural areas whose most of socio-economic activities are rain-fed, yet rainfall displays largest variability in both space and time which is reflected in either the amounts ...