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Do Small Firms in Developing Countries Ever Transform? Evidence front Small Manufacturers in Kenya
(2010)
, Data from small Kenyan manufacturers unequivocally confirms that these firms not only trans¬form, but often enjoy deep transformation. A strong, positive firm-age effect on transformation suggests an underlying life cycle ...
Socioeconomic Determinants of Family Size in Nyeri District of Rural Kenya
(2010)
The objective of this article is to investigate the impact of social and economic factors on family size in rural Kenya and to draw public policy implications from the results. This is an important matter because the ...
Motivation and its Effect on Productivity of Workers in the Kenyan Construction Industry
(2010)
Human resource today has a strategic role for productivity increase of any organization. Effective and optimum use of human resource could result to enhanced productivity. Therefore, this study examined motivation as one ...
Mineral micronutrient density in local cereals sampled from Bungoma, Maseno and Kibwezi areas
(2010)
Cereals constitute a food staple in the African bread (Ugali) form. Overdependence
on maize as a predominant staple is partly blamed on the constricting indigenous
cereal phyto-diversity. Strategies rekindling interest ...
Motor Vehicles Air Pollution in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2010)
Air quality monitoring in most developing countries is not routinely conducted, and in some urban areas such information does not even exist, though signs of deteriorating air quality and health problems related to air ...
Training professionals for infrastructure development: The Troika of government, industry and academia
(2010)
The Kenya Vision 2030 is the country’s development blue print covering the period 2008 to 2030 which aims at making Kenya a newly industrializing middle income country, providing high quality life for all its citizens by ...
Dynamic Power Control for Wireless Backbone Mesh Networks: a Survey
(2010)
With the tremendous growth of wireless networks into the next generation to provide better
services, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged to offer ubiquitous communication
and seamless broadband applications. WMNs ...
Impact of Land Use /Cover dynamics on Streamflow: A Case of Nzoia River Catchment, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Degradation of watershed areas in Kenya’s basins is on the increase and is currently a major concern
for the government. The main causes of watershe
d degradation stem from the abuse and poor
management of forests ...
Trends in Heavy Metals Levels in the Rivers of the Nairobi Region and Measures to Reduce them
(2010)
The Nairobi, Ngong and Mathare are among the major rivers traversing the city of Nairobi, Kenya\'s capital city. The Ngong and Mathare rivers are both tributaries of the Nairobi River. The Nairobi river flows through the ...
A Negotiated Framework For Rehabilitation Of Riparian Zones In Nairobi City: The Case Of Mathare River Valley (Kenya)
(2010)
The term riparian is frequently used to mean the interface between land and a flowing surface
water body. Older and more classical riparian interpretations identify primarily woody vegetation
associated only with lotic ...