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Impact of GlobalGAP Compliance on the Relative Poverty Status of Smallholder Horticultural Farmers in Eastern and Central Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Global good agricultural practices (GlobalGAP) have significant, yet contentious impacts on
different livelihood aspects of smallholder farmers. The GlobalGAP pose the threat of
eliminating smallholder farmers from ...
A Data Mining approach to private healthcare services demand forecast in Nairobi County
(2014)
One of the most important indices of defining general welfare and quality-of-life of people in the
world is physical and mental health of individuals. Health care facilities in Kenya have always
aimed to provide health ...
Prevalence of cystic echinococcosis and diversity of echinococcus granulosus infection in sheep in Olokurto Division, Narok County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Cystic Echinococcosis is a serious zoonotic disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus species
complex. This research study was conducted to determine the level of infection of the disease in
sheep in Olokurto division, ...
The effects of product innovation on financial performance of commercial banks in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-09)
This project research is concerned with product innovation and its effects on financial performance of commercial banks in Kenya. Although studies have shown that financial performance of commercial banks is influenced by ...
Impact of natural disasters on rural household poverty - a case study of floods in lower Kano plains, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-11)
Disasters have disproportionate effects on the poor as they are relatively more vulnerable to
disaster events. In the Kenya‘s Nyanza region, floods in the Kano Plains have been a major cause
of impoverishment in the ...
Modelling telephone call center arrivals as a nonhomogenous poisson process with cyclic rate
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
This project demonstrates that telephone call center call-arrival data can be effectively
modelled as anonhomogenous Poisson process with cyclic rate. The data was from an
Israeli bank telephone call center collected ...
Multi- agent based realtime electric transformers monitoring system
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Vandalism of electrical equipment in Kenya has become a menace and a costly
affair to the society in terms of safety and low economic activities. Particularly, transformer
vandalism is on the rise year in year out and ...
Modelling the key determinants of child labour in Somalia
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Child labour is an effect of many factors that are addressed in the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). Historically, programmes and policies have not been rolled out to address child
labour owing to the fact that this ...
Systematic modeling of white noise with financial time series in decision making
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
n this study real non - diversifiable (systematic) risk is derived. This risk together
with diversifiable (non - systematic) risk is weighted against expectedreturns of certain
assets to determine maximum returns of these ...
Mobile network Fraud Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks
(University Of Nairobi, 2014-09)
The past decade has witnessed the rapid deployment and evolution of mobile cellular networks,
which now support billions of users and a vast diverse array of mobile devices from smartphones,
tablets, to e-readers and ...