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Nairobi securities exchange:is it a reliable form of investment?

Ondari, Phyllis K (School of mathematics, 2012)

The big question remains" Is Nairobi securities exchange a reliable form of investment? ................ " Following the market confidence, that was generated in the first three year of independence due to stable economic ...

Name entity recognition and part of speech tagging: case study of Kikamba

Kituku, Benson N (University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2011)

There has been exponential multiplication of electronic information for the last two decades which has generated a large digital library for everyone to access over the internet. However, this library consists of ...

Natural language access to relational databases:an ontology concept mapping (OCM) approach

Githiari, Lawrence M (University of Nairobi, 2014)

Many applications that are accessed by non-technical or casual users, who prefer the use of natural language, rely on relational databases. Examples of such applications include government data repositories such as ...

Natural Pesticides: A case Study of Combination of Pyrethrins and Rotenoids and its Environmental Implications as a Strategy in Integrated Pest Management"

Njiru, Symon N (Depatment of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, 2006)

Natural Product-loaded Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy- Formulation, Characterization, in Silico and Cellular Studies

Andima, Moses (University of Nairobi, 2020)

Cancer is a dreadful disease affecting all categories of people globally. Treatments for cancer such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgical removal of tumors and / or combination therapies exist, but they present ...

The nature of spontaneous cure of Schistosoma Mansoni infection in the Rat, Rattus Norvegicus

Mutahi, Wilkinson T (University of NairobiSchool of Biological Sciences, 1984)

Near Real Time Machine Driven Signature Detection, Generation and Collection

Ngwawe, Edwin O (University of Nairobi, 2015)

Internet worms can spread very fast and cause losses both in terms of lost business opportunities as well as human resources required to alleviate the caused damages. There exists two ways of protecting against the worms ...

Negative Binomial Distributions For Fixed And Random Parameters

Okech, Nelson O (University of Nairobi, 2014)

The first objective of this project is to construct Negative Binomial Distributions when the two parameters p and r are fixed using various methods based on: Binomial expansion; Poisson – Gamma mixture; Convolution of ...

Negative binomial Mixtures, construction of negative binomial mixtures and their properties

Irungu, Eunice W (Mathematical Statistics, university od Nairobi, 2013)

The objective of this project was to construct Negative Binomial mixtures. We consider a class of mixture distributions generated by randomizing the success parameter p and fixing parameter r of a Negative Binomial ...

Nematode response to soil organic amendments in a semi-arid region under soybean (Glycine max), Naivasha, Kenya.

Orlando, Aduke V D (University of Nairobi, 2016)

Agricultural production within the smallholder farming sector of East Africa is constrained by numerous factors including parasitic nematodes. Existing control measures involving applications of chemical nematicides are ...

Nematodes Attacking the purple Passion Fruit (passiflora Edulls) Plants In Kenya And Studies On The Biology Of Two Common Species, Meloidogyne Javanica And M. Incognita With Special Reference To their Pathogenicity And Chemical Control

Kanyagia, S T (University of Nairobi, 1993)

In a survey of plant parasitic nematodes on passion fruit in Kenya 10 genera of nematodes were discovered. Of these, 8 were identified to species level, two of which attempts were made to determine the existence of races. ...

Network impact analysis of security attacks in mobile ad hoc networks

Mulonzya, Paul Kaloki (University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2012)

Mobile ad hoc networks also known as MANETs have been used extensively for the seamless provisioning of information exchange, where the deployment of infrastructure is difficult, if not impossible. Such cases include ...

Network intrusion monitoring and reporting using e-mail and sms

Kihuha, Cyrus K (School of Computing and Informatics, 2012)

The fundamental problem with any security administrators today is its ability to cope with the rising amount of network intrusions. Network security is fast becoming an absolute necessity to protect the information ...

Neural Network - Based Predictive Analytics of Covid-19 in the Health Sector for Decision Support in Kenya

Mwaura, Judith W (University of Nairobi, 2022)

COVID-19 spread rapidly across the globe and claimed many lives. As a result, it was declared a pandemic. Kenya, like most countries was negatively affected by the disease. In the face of COVID-19, predictive analytics ...

A neural network implementation for near real time tropospheric water vapour profiling over Nairobi using ground-based gps receiver

Onyango, Michael O (University of Nairobi, 2015)

A remote sensing tool employing an Artificial Neural Networks algorithm was proposed for near real time determination of the relative humidity profile using Global Positioning System (GPS) data recorded by a ground-based ...