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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 ...
Assessment of energy use at a liquid carbon dioxide production plant
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Energy acquisition and use have been of increasing concern. This being a valuable resource, many
people are looking at it with a view of either reducing overall energy used or improving efficiency. An
assessment of energy ...
Game theoretic Multi-agent algorithms for the job shop scheduling problem
(2014)
Job shop scheduling problem is a problem of scheduling n jobs on m machines with each job
having a set of equal number of operation that are to be process in unique machine routes.
The Job Shop Scheduling (JSSP) is one ...
Ecological effects of the invasive house sparrow (passer domesticus) on sympatric native sparrows in three urban areas in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-06)
House sparrow is one of the world’s most successful avian invasive species. It has colonized many ur
ban
environments in central Europe, Central Asia and Africa.
It was accidentally
introduced to Kenya in Momba
sa
in ...
Tissue Culture Of Two Nerica Rice Cultivars
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
In Kenya, rice is a highly important food crop and is considered to be the country‘s third
staple food after maize and wheat. However, there has been a decline in rice production in
recent years owing to the changes in ...