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Sustainable urban communities: challenges and opportunities in Kenya’s urban sector
(University of Nairobi, 2011-04)
During the last forty years, the economic and demographic structure of Kenya has become increasingly urban. In
the 1980s the urban population in the country grew at over
6.5 percent a year, more than double the rate for ...
High-order additions to platinum-based alloys for high-temperature applications
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)
Platinum-based alloys are being developed with microstructures similar to nickel-based superalloys for potential high-temperature applications in aggressive environments. Since the chemistries of nickel and platinum are ...
Earth System Governance in Africa: knowledge and capacity needs
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)
Traditional approaches for understanding environmental governance — such as environmental policy analysis or natural resources management — do not adequately address the gamut of human–natural system interactions within ...
Combined Real and Reactive Power Economic Dispatch using Multi-Objective Reinforced Learning with Optimized Losses
(2015)
Most of the economic dispatch (ED) works so far deal with real power dispatch only. With the integration of renewable
energy into the grid, reactive power dispatch cannot be ignored any longer due to its importance in ...
Optimal error analysis of receive diversity schemes on arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh fading channels
(2016)
A simple optimal error analysis of multiple-branch equal gain combining (EGC) and selection combining (SC) in the presence of arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh fading channels is presented. It is shown that the error rates ...
A Case for Judicial Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Kenya
(2016)
This aim of this study was to demonstrate how the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process can be utilized to assist the Kenyan Judiciary address challenges of data integration in its operational systems and hence provide ...
Numerical Study Of County Solid Waste Management At The Dumpsite
(2015)
This study presents the development of one
dimensional mathematical model capab
le of simulating
simultaneous processes of oxygen flow. It is based on some
assumptions like the dumpsite ...
A Hierarchical Multilayer Service Composition Model for Global Virtual Organizations
(2015)
A major benefit of service composition is the ability to support agile global collaborative virtual organizations. However, being global in nature, collaborative virtual organizations can have several virtual industry ...
Mapping stakeholder positions in the Kenyan land reform process
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
The debate on land reform in sub-Saharan Africa has moved from the purpose and direction of reforms to the reasons why proposed reforms are not being implemented. The literature shows that one of the reasons for failure ...