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Testing Stochastic Dominance Of Manufacturing Stocks At The NSE Market
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Stochastic dominance relationships between two or more variables is crucial in the field of actuarial science, econometrics and in studying reliability. This project applies the Stochastic Dominance (SD) portfolio ... -
Testing Weak form of Market efficiency of exchange Traded funds at NSE Market
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Market efficiency is defined as a case when the prices in a market reflects the information, which is currently available within the market, or otherwise, the market is said to be inefficient whenever the prices of a ... -
Text operations for a relational database programming language
(School of Computer Science,Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, 1994)In this thesis we introduce a method of storing static text data, and algorithms for operations on the data, in a relational database programming language. We introduce a text data type, and implement relational algebra ... -
A Text Recognition System For Reading Meters
(University of NairobiSchool Of Computing And Informatics, 2013)T his stud y gives a solutio n for auto matic reading of meters b y taking digital images o f the meter s and using machine lear ning techniq ues to auto matically read the meter s. A dataset of positive examp les, negative ... -
A Theoretical Study and Evaluation of Kenya's Level of Voting for Presidential Position.
(University of Nairobi,School of Mathematics, 2005)Evaluating the level of voting for presidential post is of paramount importance to the country's political, social and economic well being, not only in Kenya, but also in other parts of the world, due to the significant ... -
Thermal conductivity of porous insulators, wood-ash and vermiculite
(Faculty of Science, University of Nairobi, 1987)A thermal probe was designed and used to measure the thermal conductivities of wood-ash and three grades of vermiculate, of different particle sizes. Different methods of evaluating the thermal conductivity from ... -
Thermal conductivity of refractory brick materials
(University of NairobiFaculty of Science. University of Nairobi, 1989)Thermal conductivities of refractory bricks made from the materials; fireclay, kaolin, siaya clay and Kisii soap stone have been measured. The thermal conductivities of the bricks in dry air at atmospheric pressure ... -
Thermal resistivity of Kenya soils
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Thermoregulation And Heat Balance In Some East African Herbivores
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geology, 1973)This thesis is an attempt to understand some aspects of the nature of the thermal physiology and physics of energy exchanges of animals studied in near-natural field conditions. Three indigenous species of herbivores, ... -
Three dimensional flow,temperature and humidity patterns and atmospheric fluxes over Africa during northern summer of 1971
(Department of Meteorology University of Nairobi, 1979)The problem of year to year variability of tropical rainfall attracts much attention in the wake of occurrence of severe floods and droughts over large areas. The severe drought That prevailed in the Sudano-Sahe1ian ... -
Three dimensional mean wind flow and thickness patterns over Africa
(1983)Conventional radiosonde wind observations and geopotential heights have been used to prepare ten-year mean motion field and thickness patterns over the African continent and its immediate neighborhood. Data for 75 ... -
Three-dimensional Printing and Characterization of Bottling Products Fabricated Using Polylactic Acid and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Polymeric materials have outpaced all other materials used in housing, packaging, building, as well as other applications Most countries have sought aggressive mitigation measures to address the threat of global warming ... -
Time And Space Relationships Between Faulting And Mineralization In The Keiyo- Marakwet District
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Time course RNA-seq differential expression analysis of wild type and Jumonji (atjmjd5) mutant of arabidopsis thaliana
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Next generation sequencing technologies coupled with bioinformatics tools has reduced the cost of generating vast amounts of biological count data while enabling researchers to sequence and study genomes. Ribonucleic ... -
Time intervals from symptom onset to diagnosis and treatment in childhood cancer in KNH and associated factors
(University of Nairobi, 2013)BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis and timely initiation of definitive treatment in childhood cancers is an important determinant of outcome. Unfortunately, prolonged time intervals from symptom onset to presentation and diagnosis ... -
Time series analysis of extreme rainfall and temperature over Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The objective of this study was to determine the characteristics of extreme climatic events of rainfall maximum and minimum temperatures over Kenya.Tobe able to achieve this, the trend series and frequency analysis of ... -
Time series analysis of rainfall in East Africa
(Meteorology, University of Nairobi., 1980)The present study is a time series an~lysis of the East African rainfall records. The first phase of the study investigated the nature of fluctuations in the rainfall records during the period 1922-1975. The components ... -
A time series forecasting approach to prediction of refugee population in kenya
(2016)Kenya has for many years been referred to as the Oasis of Peace in the Sea of Instability, this is due to the country’s geographical and political position as a safe haven for refugees fleeing from war and civil unrest ...