Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Title
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Quality Assurance and Relevance of Engineering Education in Africa
(1997)Economic development is correlated with the development of higher education: enrollment ratios in higher education average over fifty percent for countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ... -
The quality of an urban residential neighbourhood: a case study of Umoja I Estate, Nairobi
(2020-08-15)Purpose of the study: The study examined the quality of an urban residential neighbourhood in Umoja I Estate, Nairobi. Notably, the study sought to determine the indicators of quality in an urban residential neighbourhood ... -
quantifying biomass for firing thermax boilers in Thika Industrial district, a paper presented to the KSAE annual conference at Milimani hotel, Nairobi
(College of Architecture and Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2002)Annual seasonal droughts of 2-4 months occur in Kusa limiting access of households to safe drinking water. This compounds the health and socio-economic disasters through increased water borne diseases rated at 10% morbidity ... -
Quantitative structure-activity relationship biodegradability modeling in biofiltration of petroleum volatile organic compounds.
(Envrironmental and Biosystems Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2012) -
Radiactivity and dose assessment of limestone samples from Kitui South Limestone Deposits-Kenya
(2010)Activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K of limestone samples collected from Kitui South have been measured using Hyper Pure Germanium (HPGe) detector gamma ray spectrometry. A total of 48 samples were collected ... -
Radioactivity in Surface Soils around the Proposed Sites for Titanium Mining Project in Kenya
(Department of Physics, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya;Department of Physics, Northern India Engineering College, Babu Banari Das University, Nairobi, Kenya;Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Nairobi,Department of Physics, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 2011)Radioactivity measurements were carried out around Maumba and Nguluku villages, two of the proposed sites for tita-nium mining in the coastal area of Kenya. Samples of surface soils were analyzed using a HPGe gamma ... -
Radiometric Characteristics of Artisanal Coltan Ore Extraction and Processing in Rwanda
(2010)The use of products containing naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) such as minerals, quarry, sand, clays, etc is widespread in Rwanda, but they are not subject to radiological quality control. This paper ... -
Rahani: A Unique Commercial Land Tenure Arrangement Amongst the Digo of Kenya's Coast
(2008)Land ownership, distribution, utilisation and exchange amongst the Digo people of Kenya's lower Coast is done through both formal systems and informal arrangements, 'Rahani'is an informal arrangement that allows landowners ... -
Rain cell sizing for the design of high capacity radio link systems in South Africa
(2011)This paper investigates the influence of critical raindrop diameters on the specific rain attenuation in Durban (29°52'S, 30°58'E), South Africa. The total rainfall attenuation is evaluated by integrating over all the ... -
Rainwater engineering
(University of Nairobi,College of Architecture and Engineering, 2009)This book describes four types of indigenous water retention structures used in East Africa. These structures are the Berkad tank, the Charco dam, sand wiers and hillside water retention ditches. -
Rainwater Harvesting for Crop Production in Semi-arid Areas
(2003)This paper presents an analysis of economics of rainwater harvesting by poor farmers in Tanzania. A questionnaire was used to survey 120 households to obtain information on the performance of their enterprises over 6 years ... -
Rainwater Harvesting for Improved Livelihoods
(2003)For the last two years, GHARP has, with a financial grant from USAID, implemented a regional project whose overall objective was to identify and evaluate the performance of RWH systems in the GHA with the aim of promoting ... -
A rapid MRI reconstruction method based on compressive sampling and concomitant artifacts suppression
(University of Nairobi, 2018)In this paper, a proposed rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction method is presented. The method is based on the compressibility of the images in the wavelet domain and suppression of the resulting artifacts. ... -
Rate And Reliability Implementation Scheme For Polar Codes,SATNAC2012,EastLondon,SA
(University of NairobiDepartment of Electrical & Information Engineering, 2012)Communications channel coding that achieves capacity is implemented and solution suggested for selection of the optimal design parameter to achieve capacity:Rate or reliability of channels. -
Rating System in Kenya: Evolution, Constraints and Potentials
(College of Architecture and Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1996) -
The rationalisation of residential densities in an inner city area of Nairobi
(School of Built Environment, University of Nairobi, 2001-09)The need for a rational land utilisation in the inner city areas of Nairobi is becoming increasingly recognised in the urban development. In particular, it is made more urgent by the rapidly increasing levels of urbanisation ... -
The Rationalisation of Residential land Utilisation in the Inner City Areas: A Case Study of Bahati Estate in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Architecture and Building Science, 2011) -
Re-alignment of a guyed tower
(2008)Towers are typical structures that can be found in many urban and rural landscapes the world over. From their basic design, they are usually exposed to severe environmental loads. It is therefore prudent to carry out ...