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Portrayal of women in the Daily Nation's Saturday magazine:Empowerment or subjugation
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
The coverage of women and women's issues has gradually improved, in part due to combined pressure of the different national and international lobbies and advocacy campaigns. Nevertheless, the portrayal of women as content ...
The drivers of return for firms listed on the Nairobi stock exchange.
(University of Nairobi., 2009-10)
The research provides a test on what are the drivers of return for the firms listed on the Nairobi
stock exchange. The data collected covered the period covering 2002 December to 2008
December. The focus was to come up ...
Dealing with missing data in demographic and health surveys
(2009)
This project deals with the problem of missing data in the
Tuunganepillars of Hope -PWP (2008) survey carried out by impact Research and
Development organization (IMPACT RDO)in Kisumu, Kenya. The emphasis of this
project ...
An empirical investigation of stock returns reaction around earnings announcements for quoted companies at NSE
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
This study investigates stock returns and trading activity reactions around annual earnings
announcements for listed companies at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) to verify" whether
these announcements possess informational ...
Performance contracting at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2009-03)
Performance contracting is one of the key planks of the new public management (NPM)
reforms aimed at improving public administration and service delivery in the public sector.
The NPM reforms have now become a global ...
A survey of the role of internal audit in promoting good corporate governance in Saccos
(University of Nairobi, 2009-10)
The importance of corporate in ensuring sound financial reporting and deterring fraud has
received growing recognition in the recent past. Internal auditing is one of the means of
enhancing corporate governance in ...
Effect of censoring on dependence of bivariate survival data
(2009)
Copula modelling has become an increasingly popular tool to model dependence. Copulas
helps to extract the dependence structure from the joint distribution function of a set
of random variables, and at the same time ,to ...
Evaluation of bacterial flora and antimicrobial susceptibility of chronic suppurative otitis media at the Kenyatta national hospital a prospective study
(2009)
Main objective: To determine the bacteriological flora of CSOM and its antimicrobial susceptibility at the KNH. The WHO definition of CSOM was applied in this study.
Study design: Cross sectional descriptive study ...
A Study of prevention of drug and substance abuse by Kenyan Youth
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
In the last two decades Kenya has suddenly experienced unprecedented abuse of drugs and
substances that has rapidly burst into unmanageable levels. These drugs and substance of
abuse are alcoholic beverages, tobacco, ...
Implications of the East African community-customs union with special regard to Kenya
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2009)
This work takes lip and investigates in general the implications of the East African Customs Union with specific regard to Kenya. The aim of this writing is to have an overview of EACU with regard to Kenya. This work is ...