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Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling of Particulate Matter and Gaseous Emissions From Selected Cement Factories in Athi River Machakos County Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Cement manufacturing industries play a vital role in economic development through the development of infrastructure and the creation of employment opportunities. However, cement manufacturing results in the emission of ... -
Atmospheric emission budgets for domestic biomass burning in Kenya
(Depatment of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, 2000)The thesis is the culmination of a series of efforts designed to quantify the annual contribution of domestic biofuel burning in Kenya to local, regional and global atmospheric trace gas budgets in 1997, by way of a ... -
Attributable Factors To Learning Outcomes
(UoN, 2019-04)Kenya education system has experienced many challenges which have compelled the Ministry of Education to formulate and implement policies to address these challenges. For instance, after new policies governing administration ... -
Attrition Modelling for Online Media Users by Cox Proportional Hazards
(University of Nairobi, 2019)In this work survival analysis was used to analyse propensity to churn for online writers of a news website in Kenya known as hivisasa.com. The study sought answers on which covariates were major determinants of writer ... -
Audio Library Information System For Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC)
(School of Computing and Informatics, 2003)Radio broadcasting is an effective means of communication for educational, informative and entertainment programs. It involves audio or sound programs that are generated in the studios and then transmitted to the listeners ... -
Audit risk assesment framework using belief function model for Kenya national audit office (KENAO)
(School of Computing and Informatics, 2010)Program planning regarding the nature, extent, and timing of procedures is critical to audit efficiency and effectiveness. The prevailing paradigm in practice to accomplish this task is the Audit Risk Model. This model ... -
An Auto Telematics System for Insurance Premium Rating & Pricing
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Insurance telematics is a new technology that has been poised to transform and change the way we buy and underwrite insurance by 2020. Insurance Premium is a major variable that determines if a client will buy or take ... -
Auto-etl: a Generic Methodology for Transforming Entity-attribute-value (Eav) Data Model Into Flat Tables Using Form Metadata to Optimize Report Generation. A Case Study of Kenya EMR
(University of Nairobi, 2018)The use of Entity Attribute Value (EAV) data model is strongly favored by the existing research in both medical and other domains because of its flexibility and extensible nature that makes it suitable for storing highly ... -
Automated Car Parking Space Detection Using Deep Learning
(University of Nairobi, 2021-08)Parking space detection is a major challenge in our cities and drivers waste time when moving from one place to another in search of a free parking space. The current parking space detection systems available are based on ... -
Automated Customer Support With Conversational Agents Employing Text Mining: A Case of online University Application
(University of Nairobi, 2014-12)The use of online information systems that can be and are accessed on a 24 hour basis has continued to grow both locally and globally, these systems require available customer support at all times. Customer support is ... -
Automated Cybersecurity Briefing Using Deep Learning
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The urgency and timely requirements of cybersecurity briefings poses a challenge to a few cybersecurity professionals who have to read and summarize vast amount of cybersecurity reports from several sources (personal ... -
Automated detection and recovery of stolen electronic gadgets using radio frequency identification in Kenyan universities
(University of Nairobi, 2016-11)The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology is an important type of wireless sensor network that can be used for automatic detection of stolen electronic gadgets. Advancements in technology in the production of ... -
Automated greenhouse system using wireless sensor network
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Agriculture has been among the key contributors to the country Kenya‘s GDP and greenhouse technology has shown the improvement of the deteriorating soil value caused by the extreme weather conditions and continual usage, ... -
Automated multiagent-based interoperator billing and payment system (ambibpsy)
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2012)Different operators offering telecommunication services cannot operate in isolation. They have to depend on each other in order to provide all inclusive telecommunication services to their customers. A part from offering ... -
Automated rainfall data extraction from satellite imagery for crop index insurance
(2014)Crop insurance uses rainfall as one of the indeces on which farmers can be insured. The rainfall data can be obtained locally from the weather stations but it is limited to only 30 kilometres radius from a station. Though ... -
Automated route selection: Short term traffic decision support for Nairobi
(School of computing and informatics, University of Nairobi, 2006)The city of Nairobi is currently grappling with the problem of rapidly increasing traffic, and its management. We have developed a prototype decision support system for short term traffic prediction and subsequent shortest ... -
Automatic assessment of online discussions using text mining
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2011)Online discussion forums have rapidly gained momentum in e-learning systems because of the rapid growth and ubiquitous Internet. Today, there exist enormous growth in online messages and this places heavy burden on course ... -
Automatic characterization of named entity relational facts in unstructured incident reports
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2012)Natural language provides many different ways of expressing facts. These facts can either be explicit facts or implicit facts. Explicit facts could be in the form of entity relations expressed in a single sentence. Many ... -
Aweb-based Distributed Health Information System to Cater for Patients With Chronic Ailments
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Distributed Systems today are rising dynamically in terms of new applications, hardware and network components, users, workload changes and in various research applications. A distributed dataset is having its importance ... -
Aweb-based Distributed Health Information System to Cater for Patients With Chronic Ailments
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Distributed Systems today are rising dynamically in terms of new applications, hardware and network components, users, workload changes and in various research applications. A distributed dataset is having its importance ...