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Stabilization of Silt Clay Soil Using Molasses for Small Dam Embankment Construction as inner Zone
(2015)
The Agriculture sector contributes 45% of Tanzania’s GDP and about 30% of its export
earnings, while employing over 80% of the nation’s work-force (National Irrigation
Master Plan, 2002). The government of Tanzania is ...
Factors affecting information systems security effectiveness in University Of Nairobi
(2015)
Dependence on information systems (IS) is growing at a very high rate; this is
encouraged by business competitiveness. Though the growth is health literature reveals
that, there are security threats accompanying this.
The ...
Impact of longevity risk with best fit mortality forecasting model
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The data used in this research is from the Human Mortality database for
the United States for the period 2000 - 2009. We first begin by fitting
linear, Makeham, cubic smoothing spline and Lee Cater models to the data
to ...
Protecting mobile agents from malicious hosts in a distributed network
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Distributed applications provide challenging environment in today’s advancing technological
world. To enhance the aspects of better performance and efficiency in real scenario, mobile
agent’s concept has been brought ...
Forecasting maternal mortality ratio in Juba teaching hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
n an effort to reduce global maternal mortality, all countries that gathered at the United
Nation Millennium Summit in 2000 agreed to incorporate maternal mortality as MDG-5.
This was intended to improve maternal health ...
Factors influencing teenage pregnancy in public secondary schools in Imenti north sub county, Meru County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest levels of teenage pregnancies in the world. In spite
of that, there is paucity of research on causes of teenage pregnancies in African countries.
Teenage pregnancies and the ...
Predicting student’s loan default in Kenya: fisher’s discriminant analysis approach
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)
The current high student enrollments in Kenyan universities has outstretched HELB in terms of loan disbursement. High default rate which stood at 43% as at 2012/2013 financial year have been the major challenge to HELB in ...
Comparative analysis of anomally detection algorithms
(2015)
Attacks with no previously known signatures present a challenge on how to detect them. These attacks (commonly are referred to as zero day attacks) have not been experienced before and exploit vulnerability previously no ...
Determinants of projects delay in the construction industry in Kenya; the case of selected road projects implemented by Kenya national highways authority in Kenya’s coast region
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
ABSTRACT
The Principle objective of this project was to establish the major causes of delays in projects implementation in the construction industry in Kenya. The study delimited itself my limiting the scope into the roads ...
Factors influencing occupancy level of houses in slum upgrading projects: a case of Kibra Soweto-East in Nairobi county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to establish the factors influencing occupancy level of
houses in slum upgrading projects; a case of Kibra Soweto-East in Nairobi County.
Urbanization plays a major role in the development ...