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Measuring exposure levels of inhalable airborne particles (PM2.5) in two socially deprived areas of Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016-07)
Introduction
Ambient air pollution is a growing global health concern tightly connected to the rapid global urbanization. Health impacts from outdoor air pollution exposure amounts to high burdens of deaths and disease ...
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 ...
Cassava chips quality as influenced by cultivar, blanching time and slice thickness
(2016)
Cassava forms part of diets in Kenya with both the roots and leaves being consumed as food. The short shelf-life of 72 hours and cyanogenic glucosides limit the extent of utilization. Currently, fried cassava chips and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Water, sanitation conditions and implications for child survival in Kenya: A review of statistical evidence from the 1999 census of population
(2016)
Water supply and sanitation are important requisites for basic human needs and primary health care. Their inadequate provision has far reaching economic and humanitarian consequences. In Kenya this is well expressed in ...
Designing for informal contexts: a case study of Enkanini sanitation intervention
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
Increasing social agency in the design profession corresponds to the call for greater participation of science in solving complex social problems. We analyse the complex problem of informal urban sanitation in the Enkanini ...