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An investigation on industry-sponsored design projects' effectiveness at the first-year level: potential issues and preliminary results
(2006)
This paper presents the preliminary work for developing guidelines to ensure that industry-sponsored projects in first-year courses aid, not hamper, retention of students. Specifically, the overall research plan includes ...
Privatization of urban water service provision: the Kenyan experiment
(2006)
One of the services that have been poorly provided in the urban areas in Kenya is water and sanitation. There are many reasons, which can be attributed to poor provision of water and sanitation as undertaken by the local ...
Privatization model for water enterprise in Kenya
(2006)
The world over, the role and eligibility of the state in the provision of water supply is increasingly coming into question. Policy makers and analysts are advocating the abdication of the state in favour of private ...
Overstrain in flush optimal-chamfered cross-bored cylinders
(2006)
A three-dimensional finite-element method computer program was developed to establish the elastic—plastic, residual, and service stress distributions in cylinders with flush and non-protruding optimal-chamfered cross-bores ...
A Compromise Experimental Design Method for Parametric Polynomial Response Surface Approximations
(2006)
This study presents a compromise approach to augmentation of experimental designs, necessitated by the expense of performing each experiment (computational or physical), that yields higher quality parametric polynomial ...
Assessment of Ozone, Nitrogen Oxides, Air Particulate Matter in the Ambient Air of Nairobi city
(2006)
World wide, more than 1.1 billion people live in urban centres that are highly polluted by industrial and other human activities. Among the most common and most virulent air pollutants are sulphur dioxide,suspended particulate ...
The Nigerian “Fence Culture
(2006)
A fence is something with which virtually everyone is familiar. In everyday usage, the word is connotative
of a barrier or at best, a delimiting phenomenon. More technically, it can be said to be a structure (of
varying ...
The Challenges Associated with the Conservation of Historic Buildings and Collections:
(2006)
This paper is based on a condition assessment survey of a historic house and museum, Karen Blixen.
The aim was to assess the potential risks that historic buildings are exposed to through external and
internal forms of ...
Application of Science and Technology: Essentials and Promotion of Linkage Between Research and Development (R and D) and Entrepreneurship
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
In order for Kenya to address the many challenges facing the country such as poverty, unemployment, HIV/AIDS etc., the economy is required to grow sustainably at more than 7% p.a. To realize this economic growth, the ...
Teaching history and theory of architecture proposal for an anthropological approach
(2006)
proved sufficient to give students clear orientation in History and Theory of Architecture and therefore
architectural design. As a consequence, the debate as to how History and theory of Architecture should
be taught ...