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Nairobi: Running on empty
(1984-05)
What would happen to a major urban area during a severe curtailment of the oil supply? How would such a shortage affect an expanding Third World city? This article offers a scenario of the sequence of events in Nairobi ...
The rationalisation of residential densities in an inner city area 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 ...
A Model for HAZ Hardness Profiles in AI-Li-X Alloys: Application to the AI-Li-Cu Alloy 2095
(1998)
In a previous paper (Ref. 1),
details were presented of a theoretical
model describing the evolution of the
hardness profiles in the heat-affected
zones (HAZ) of AI-Li-X weldments. The
intent of the model was to ...
Water Modeling and simulating water level fluctuations: Mtera- Kidatu case study
(2003)
We investigated whether resistant pollen genotypes can be selected for when the maternal plants are infected and whether infection can result to changes in the pistil nutrient level influencing reproductive outcome. Both ...
Water Balance of The Mtera ? Kidatu Reservoir System System
(1999)
We investigated whether resistant pollen genotypes can be selected for when the maternal plants are infected and whether infection can result to changes in the pistil nutrient level influencing reproductive outcome. Both ...
Inherent Diversity in Replicated Architectures
(2015)
In this paper, we report our ongoing investigations of the inherent non-determinism in contemporary execution environments that can potentially lead to divergence in state of a multi-channel hardware/software system. Our ...
Particle Swarm Optimized Hybrid Kernel-Based Multiclass Support Vector Machine for Microarray Cancer Data Analysis.
(Hindawi, 2019-08)
Determining an optimal decision model is an important but difficult combinatorial task in imbalanced microarray-based cancer classification. Though the multiclass support vector machine (MCSVM) has already made an important ...
Inter-agency collaboration for fire disaster management in Nairobi City
(University of Nairobi, 2016-06)
The County Government of Nairobi faces a myriad of capacity challenges that have impeded fire disaster management in the City. This is further compounded by the lack of a comprehensive legal and institutional framework for ...
Towards populization of low cost building materials and technologies for urban housing in developing countries
(University of Nairobi, 2015-01)
This paper is based on a literature review and an e
valuation of practices that have been I place with
respect to low cost building materials and technolo
gies so as to lower costs and hence make the ...
Hygrothermal Comfort in Lamu Town (Kenya)
(University of Nairobi,, 1982-08)
Comfort measurements have been conducted over a period of one week, four times each year, inside several houses of different types in Lamu Town, a traditional Swahili settlement on Lamu Island off the Kenyan North Coast.
The ...