Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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An assessment of the factors that influence the adoption of internet via a mobile phone
(School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, 2012)Mobile internet involves the use of a wireless handheld device such as a mobile phone to access the digitized contents of the internet. The devices remove the space and time limitations from internet access as they can ... -
Pathophysiological effects of a DNA virus infection on the host tsetse fly glossina morsitans centralis (Diptera: Glossinidae)
(Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi, 1995)Pathology of the Tsetse DNA virus and the effects of the infection on the physiology of the fly were studied in Glossina m. centralis flies artificially inoculated with the virus homogenate during the third instar larval ... -
A dynamic e-commerce model using multi agent systems
(School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, 2012)While there has been significant growth of e-commerce, most of the tasks remam manual. Placement of buy and/or sell requests have to be done manually from time to time. This inconvenience occasioned by the manual processes ... -
Design of a natural language front-end to a relational database
(School of computing and informatics University of Nairobi, 2007)The need for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLIDB) has become increasing acute as more and more people access information stored in databases. However, getting better database querying skills can involve a ... -
An ethnobotanical and phytochemical study of the medicinal plants of Makueni district, Kenya
(Department of Botany, University of Nairobi, 1999)Of all the uses of African plants, the aspect of medical use has probably attracted the most attention and has also been the most complex and varied. Nearly 70,000 species of higher plants have been used for medical ... -
GIS aided roads and traffic management system (RTMS) A case study for Nairobi Central Business District
(School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, 2006)Roads and Traffic Management (RTM) is one of the main areas in the transportation industry and of great interest in both urban and rural planning It is part of core functions in the administration of major cities and ... -
A low cost data logger
(1981)The aim of the project ls to build a low cost data logger, a device for collecting data over a period of time with chosen intervals. Though various data logging systems can be obtained from the manufacturers, their ... -
Mobilization rates of amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrates during experimental diet induced Kwashiorkor and Obese conditions in rats
(Faculty of Science, University of Nairobi, 1993)Rats have been used extensively as animal models for the study of metabolic disorders such as in obesity and kwashiorkor. Previous studies using animal models have revealed that there are certain disorders in energy metabolism ... -
Phytochemical analysis of Kenyan Medicinal Ypsinaceae plants
(Faculty of Science, University of Nairobi, 1988)There are five members of the Myrsinaceae in Kenya, four of which, Embelia schimperi, Myrsine africana, Rapanea melanphloes and Maesa lanceolata are applied broadly in our traditional medicine and at least one part of ... -
The development of an inexpensive, portable, versatile, microprocessor based data acquisition system
(1990)An inexpensive, portable, versatile, microprocessor based data acquisition system is presented. The design and development of the system hardware and software is described. The system is software intensive consisting ... -
Software acquisition guidelines: The case of Kenyan private organizations and government institutions
(2004)Software acquisition IS an everyday reality for individuals and corporate organizations. Unlike most capital investments, software quickly becomes a liability, regardless of the initial presentation of facility. The ... -
A User's Manual
(Department of Mathematics University of Nairobi, 1979)A utility program without any operational instructions is bound to render itself inaccessible; and thus a source of user frustration. The object here is to produce a user's manual for the system program (#XIS1) developed ... -
Software quality assurance(SQA):A case study of the University of Nairobi
(School of computing and informatics University of Nairobi, 2006)The Information Communications Technology (lCT) Center through its Management Information Systems (MIS) section is responsible for: development and support of management information services at the University of Nairobi. ... -
Text operations for a relational database programming language
(School of Computer Science,Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, 1994)In this thesis we introduce a method of storing static text data, and algorithms for operations on the data, in a relational database programming language. We introduce a text data type, and implement relational algebra ... -
Computerisation of the Kenya Agricultural Documentation Centre (KADOC) Ministry of Agriculture
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Objectivity and personal involvement in artificial intelligence: An examination of the Turing Test
(2004)The aim of this report is to study what an intelligent system entails. The study focuses on what makes natural intelligent system. This will be important in that it will form a guideline for the construction of ... -
A search for glucose transporters in trypanosoma brucei leads to identification of collagen like DNA sequences
(Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, 1998)The search for glucose transporter in T.brucei was based upon the fact that the bloodstream forms (BF)of the parasite are highly dependent onglucose uptake for their energy metabolism. Previous work has shown that the ... -
The analgesic effects of Clomipramine and Carbamazepine individually, and in combination with pethidine using the formalin test
(Faculty of Science, University of Nairobi, 1998)The aim of the present study was to investigate the analgesic effects of clomipramine (a tricyclic antidepressant) and carbamazepine (an anticonvulsant) individually, and in combination with pethidine (a narcotic) in ... -
Developing an Open-source Spell Checker for Dholuo using Hunspell language tool
(School of computing and informatics, University of Nairobi, 2010)Computational morphology is an important first step in most natural language processing tasks such as spellchecking and machine translation. Computational morphology involves the study of internal structure of words i.e. ...