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Software acquisition guidelines: The case of Kenyan private organizations and government institutions
(2004)
Software acquisition IS an everyday reality for individuals and corporate
organizations. Unlike most capital investments, software quickly becomes a liability,
regardless of the initial presentation of facility. The ...
Support Vector And Relevance Vector Machines: A Comparison And Their Use For Data Reduction
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Most machine learning algorithms suffer from the problems of over-fitting, complexity in
terms of computational time and memory storage due large training sets sizes. Two recent
kernel methods that have been developed ...
Knowledge based system for valuation of government securities
(2004)
The task addressed in this study is how to use a Knowledge Based System to determine
the most appropriate rate of discounting government securities, a task undertaken by the
Central Bank of Kenya on behalf of the Government ...
Bootstrapping repeated measures data (effect of trypanosomiasis on plasma luteinizing hormone level in female goats)
(2004)
This is a study on the effect of trypanosomiasis on plasma Luteinizing (LH) hormone level
in female goat Mixed model methodology and the bootstrap are used to analyse the repeated
measures data and to increase the power ...
A kinematic analysis of open excavation slopes in discontinuous rock masses: a case study of Gataka building stone quarries in Ololua-Nairobi area, Kenya
(2004)
This project work presents the results of a kinematic analysis of the open excavation slopes at the
building stone quany sites in OIoIua - Nairobi area. The study was aimed at establishing modes of
failure mechanisms ...
Comparative case study of rainfall - runoff models over the Nyando river basin
(2004)
The main objective of this study was to assess the performance of some existing
rainfall-runoff linear systems models and a conceptual model using data from the
Nyando catchment. In order to estimate the optimum parameters ...
Application of unsupervised classification in NIR spectroscopy of soil
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Assessment of soil quality requires expensive and time-consuming measurements in the laboratory
and the field. Many repetitions of the measurements are required to deal with high soil
variability. As a result, scientists ...
Isolation of functional phage displayed single domain antibody fragments against dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT),chloroquine and plasmodial thiazole kinase.
(2004)
The target of molecular engineers has been to generate smaller antibody
fragments from the large complete antibodies that still retain the antigen binding activity.
Small fragments equipped with radioisotopes can be used ...
Assessment of models of diffusion of information technology:
(2004)
This study reports an empirical assessment of models used by Hanna et al, in their study
titled "The diffusion of Information Technology: Experience of Industrial Countries and
Lessons for Developing countries". The ...
Modeling choice of breeding services by smallholder dairy farmers in the Kenyan highlands
(2004)
A socio-economic survey was conducted in three districts;- Kirinyaga, Rachuonyo and
Nakuru within the Kenya highlands in February to May 2004. The objective of the study
was to assess demand for breeding services of ...