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Kenya: Urban Settlements and Development Profile
(2006)
This paper presents a development pro¬file of a sample of urban settlements in Kenya. Kenya is experiencing very rapid population growth, particularly in urban areas. The number and size of urban settlements has grown ...
Effect of air maldistribution on performance of an evaporator
(2000)
An experimental facility has been constructed to enable the effects of air flow non-uniformity on the transfer performance of refrigerant evaporators to be investigated. This is based on an open-circuit wind tunnel, which ...
Shield making in Western Kenya
(1971)
The Precambrian Kisii Series in Western Kenya is unmetamorphosed and contains andesites, rhyolites, quartzites and basalts. The basalts, for which a minimum K-Ar age of 930 My is cited, were sampled at 15 sites, and after ...
A Study of Community Industrial Design in Kenya
(2003)
Poverty reduction strategies show promise for more transparent and rational delivery of public services to meet the needs of Africa’s rural poor. An analysis was conducted to determine how closely Kenya’s Poverty Reduction ...
The Relationship Between Actual and Perceived Risk in Building Contracts in Kenya
(2008)
The success of any project critically depends on the extent to which inherent risks are identified, analysed, allocated to the parties and managed. Sound analysis of the potential impact of risk in turn depends on the ...
Functions of Juakali Artisans
(1994)
Mounting demographic pressures, rising unemployment among school leavers, the rising cost of education against diminishing resources and shrinking jobs in both formal public and private sectors are some of the key challenges ...
Informalising a planned neighbourhood in Nairobi
(2004)
Nairobi is in many ways an archetype of the African colonial city, having purely
colonial origins, which shaped its structure and management at the time of Kenya’s
transition to independence. In fact, Nairobi was born ...
Harmony in Colour and design
(1989)
Colour plays a key role in determining a consumer’s response to a product’s appearance. Accordingly, this study proposes an automatic design support system which enables a designer either to emulate the colour scheme of a ...
Triaxial testing of a Cemented Agricultural Soil under Varying Soil Water Levels
(2005)
The soil-water characteristic curve can be used to estimate various parameters used to describe unsaturated soil behaviour. A general equation for the soil-water characteristic curve is proposed. A nonlinear, least-squares ...
Temporal hydrologic response of unstable crusting soils in Semi- arid areas of Kenya
(1998)
Over the past three decades, agricultural watersheds in semi-arid Kenya
have experienced some rapid decline in soil and crop productivity due to severe soil
erosion, low soil water, low soil fertility and high soil ...