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The impact of East African Community on the growth of university education in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
Regional integration on the higher education sector is a multidimensional process of fundamental relevance for the economic and social development of the countries in the region. This process is taking place in a radically ...
Determinants of initial public offer underpricing: Evidence from Nairobi stock exchange
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
Evidence of underpricing of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) has spawned a considerable theoretical literature attempting to explain the apparent contradiction to market efficiency. This paper reassesses that evidence by ...
Machine translation of embedded clauses (English French): A comparative analysis of google and Yahoo babelfish translates
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether machine translation (with specific reference to Google Translate and Yahoo! Babelfish Translate) is able to translate embedded clauses from English to French ...
Humanitarian intervention and the media: a comparative analysis of Somalia and Rwanda
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
The central problem of this study is that despite many years of experience and evolution of humanitarian intervention, it has not yielded a desirable pattern globally. It continues to attract much criticism. This is because ...
The delivery of youth friendly HIV testing and counselling (HTC) services: a study of Mombasa youth centres
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
The Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy responds to concerns about the youths raised in the National Population Policy for Sustainable Development, the National Reproductive Health Strategy and the ...
Factors Influencing School Dropout of Girls in Mathare Informal Settlements in Nairobi County
(University of Nairobi, 2011)
The study was be carried out to establish the extent to wIlicl1various factors influence school dropout of girls in informal settlements. The study focused 01'1 Mathare slums in Nairobi County. The problem ...
Intratextual syntactic and lexical inconsistencies in English-into French translation: A case study of the African charter for public service
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
The purpose of the present study was to see to what extent Corpus Referencing, an emerging Computer Aided Translation Tool (CA IT) technique, could be used to achieve intratextual consistency in the translation of concordant ...
Environmental diplomacy and national interest: a case study of the imported eucalyptus trees in Kenya, 1997-2010
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
Environmental security has become of greatest concern not only in Africa but also globally. 'The Coming Anarchy' an Atlantic monthly article by Kaplan popularized the idea that environmental pressures can contribute directly ...
The influence of microfinance institutions (MFIs) on soci economic empowerment of women: A case of jiwezi women development program (JIWEP), Nakuru municipality division, Nakuru county
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
Micro Finance Institutions are known to offer services which include Credit, Savings, and training. They use the group based model in their operation. MFIs offer financial services to women who otherwise are locked out of ...
The influence of motivation on employee performance: A case of the university of Nairobi secretarial staff
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)
The human resource is the singular resource that is key in the utilization of all other resources and therefore key in the optimization of these resources to maximize productivity. The need to have the employee highly ...