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Enhancement of peste des petits ruminants (ppr) diagnosis through analysis of experimental infection of sheep and goats and validation of real time polymerase chain reaction as a diagnostic tool in Kenya
(2014-09-05)Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute viral disease of small ruminants caused by a Morbillivirus and characterized by fever, oculo-nasal discharges, stomatitis, diarrhea and pneumonia. The disease is relatively ... -
Enhancing adaptive capacity of communities in informal settlement to flooding: the case of Mukuru kwa Reuben in Nairobi, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Mukuru Kwa Ruben informal settlement is located within the industrial area of Nairobi County. It is characterized by poor dilapidated housing exacerbated by poor drainage conditions and flooding in the area. According to ... -
Enhancing community based health information system CBHIS reporting through open source short message service based tool
(University of Nairobi, 2014-11)Evidence - based strategic decisions, planning, budgeting, policy formulation at all levels of health care can only be made possible if there is complete, accurate, timely health information. However, the use of manual ... -
Enhancing Food Security Through Crop and Livelihood Diversification Among Kimandi-wanyaga Community in Murang’a County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Climate change poses significant risks to food security globally with predictions of a 10-20% decline in rain-fed crop yields by 2050. In Kenya, climate change hazards including droughts and floods are affecting crop ... -
Enhancing location awareness of meter readers using mobile gps in a mobile meter reading application
(University of Nairobi, 2016)With the tremendous growth of the technology, people have more opportunities to use the new technology in their daily life as well as work in the practical environment, the main goal of this paper was to comprehend GSM- ... -
Enhancing Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Domains Using Deep Transfer Learning: a Case of Rt&b Crop Diseases in Scientific and Online Text
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Named Entity Recognition (NER) is important in fields where researchers have to review large amounts of scientific text, such as plant pathology. However, NER is especially difficult in low-resource domains, for ... -
Enhancing Public Service Delivery In Kenyan Rural Communities Using Mobile Platform.
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2013-07)It is the responsibility of each government to ensure continued improvement of public service delivery. Although the Kenyan government has strived to advance service delivery in rural areas, it is still grappling with ... -
Enhancing realtime reporting of maternal and new-born mortality through DHIS2
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: An audit by WHO (2010) revealed that there were low levels of maternal deaths reporting, lack of reporting forms, and lack of understanding of classification of various causes of death according to the International ... -
Enhancing Security Of Mobile Banking And Payments In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)The onset of e-commerce has led to the use of electronic devices such as computers and portable devices like phones and tablets in carrying out online financial transactions through deposits, withdrawals and funds transfer. ... -
Enhancing Smallholder Farmers’ Resilience Through Effective Climate Communication Channels in Rwanda: a Case Study of Ruhango District
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Globally climate change has been a major constraint towards achieving food security. Therefore, adaptation to climate change is imperative to reduce farmers’ vulnerability. The production and provision of climate information ... -
Enhancing web-based e-government models through integrated email-sms alert system
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2011)The development of ICT has enormously influenced the social, economic and political life pattern in both developed and developing countries. Governance, democracy and commerce have changed due to the development ofICT ... -
Enterprise Risk Management Among Commercial Banks
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)This project work majors on the effect of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) adoption on a commercial bank's corporate reputation and its overall effect after adoption of the strategy. ERM may impact corporate reputation in ... -
Entrepreneurial Orientation And Performance Of Pharmaceutical Firms In Nairobi City County, Kenya
(University Of Nairobi, 2016)The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation (OE) on the performance of pharmaceutical firms in Nairobi. Specifically, the study was to establish the influence of innovativeness ... -
Enumeration Of Rational Curves In Complex Projective Plane
(University of Nairobi, 2015)This project studies rational curves and their enumeration. First, we show that there are a finite numb er of rational curves of degree d passing through 3d − 1 general points in the complex projective plane. Finally, ... -
Environment and the production and supply of beef cattle in Uganda
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Environmental and health problems associated with artisanal mining in kenya: a case study of macalder mines in Migori.
(University of Nairobi, 2016)In order to understand the risk of heavy metal contamination in soil and water and their association with health problems among communities practicing artisanal gold mining, a cross-sectional study was carried out in the ... -
Environmental Radiation Exposure Hazard Associated With Coal Deposits Of Mui Basin Block C, Kitui County
(University Of Nairobi, 2016)Coal is extensively used in the generation of energy, the byproducts of which have profound applications in the building and construction industry and in agriculture. It is no doubt that the exploitation of coal deposits ... -
Environmental Radiation Monitoring Using Thermoluminescence Dosimetry in Kwavonza Area, Kitui County
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Exposure to ionizing radiation can cause health hazards. The annual effective dose from both natural and man-made radiation sources globally is about 3 mSv. Of this dose, 80% (2.4 mSv) comes from natural background radiation, ... -
Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Chromium Tanned Leather Wastes, Amino Acid Composition Analysis and Chemical Characterization of Hydrolysate
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The disposal of leather wastes poses many challenges and is a major threat to the environment in many countries across the world. Large amounts of wastes from the tanneries including: shavings, trimmings, sludge and ... -
Enzymatic Hydrolysis of fish waste, characterization of Hydrolysate and Proximate analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The fish industry generates a lot of waste which is attributable to the fact that there is an increased demand for fish and that filleting of tilapia fish yields about 37% skin-off fillets. Enzymatic hydrolysis used in ...