Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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Molecular Analysis of Antimalarial Resistance Markers in Parasite Samples Obtained From Children Recruited Into a Drug Efficacy Trial in Kwale, Kenya, 2013.
(university of nairobi, 2018)Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have resulted to a significant drop in malaria incidences by 18% from 2010 to 2016. Unfortunately, ACT resistance reported in Western Cambodia in 2008 poses a consequential ... -
Cyber Security Preparedness Assessment Toolkit Presented
(university of nairobi, 2018)The internet is becoming an important thing in people’s daily life and has grown at an explosive rate. According to GlobalWebIndex (2018), internet users (population) around the world are over 4 billion, which corresponds ... -
Synthesis & characterization of polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites and their evaluation as sorbents for lead and cadmium in water pollution remediation
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Zeolites employ the principle of surface adsorption of toxic heavy metals in remediation of polluted water. However, at nanoscale, they tend to aggregate which reduces their effectiveness in adsorption. Incorporating ... -
Application of Random Survival Forests andAccelerated Failure Time Shared Frailty Models in Understanding Under-Five Child Mortality in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Under-five mortality rates is one of the health indicators of great importance for any country. Kenya is among those nations in the sub-saharan part of Africa which has high under-five deaths, and thus it ... -
Application of Ordinal Logistic Regression in Analyzing Students’ Performance at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Level in Kiambu County.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: In the Kenyan education system (8-4-4 system), education progresses from pre-school to primary school to secondary school to tertiary education. Transition from one stage/ level to another is normally done ... -
IT-business partnership as enabler for IT-Business Alignment in organizations, a case of Compassion International
(University of Nairobi, 2018)This study sought to assess IT-Business partnership as enabler for the IT-Business Alignment (ITBA) in the organization, a case of Compassion organization and understand the drivers and factors influencing forging of ... -
Mortality risk modelling using the feller process.
(University of Nairobi, 2018-08)In the present century, modelling of mortality risk has become a prerequisite consideration in the insurance industry, especially in product pricing and claims reserving. Actuaries and statisticians have developed various ... -
Past and future climate trends, impacts of charcoal production and adaptation options for lower Jubba of Somalia
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Climate is changing at an alarming rate threatening the critical pillars for environmental, social and economic development. Somalia is one of the countries of the GHA that has faced unique climate variability and climate ... -
Perceptions, challenges and adaptation strategies to climate change and variability: the case of smallholder dairy farming systems in Siaya sub-county, Siaya county.
(University of Nairobi, 2016-10)An in-depth understanding of perceptions, challenges and adaptation strategies of Smallholder Dairy Farming Systems (SDFS) is crucial if appropriate interventions to increase adaptive capacities to climate change and ... -
Molecular characterisation of microsporidia mb species and correlation with plasmodium presence in anopheles mosquitoes in Mwea and Mbita, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Much of sub-Saharan Africa suffers from high malaria infection rates in spite of several vector-control strategies set up to control Plasmodium transmission. Currently, these approaches are only partially effective, ... -
Factors influencing performance of county government projects: a case of Gatundu modern market, Kiambu County, Kenya
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018)Performance of projects is a concern for most project managers since this will guide in accounting for the resources provided and leads to customer’s satisfaction. The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors ... -
Modeling tail risks and systemic risks using copulas
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018-08)Understanding the relationship between financial variables is an essential part of managing financial risk. Such relationships in the context of risk management are of sensation interest in the modern world in which modeling ... -
Laplace distribution and its generalizations
(University of Nairobi, 2018)In this project construction of Laplace distribution has been reviewed using the difference method,method of mixture,product of Rayleigh and normal distributions.The properties of Laplace distribution including mgf,skewness ... -
Homotopy Perturbation Method and the Korteweg-de Vries Equation
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018-08)In this research project paper, our main aim is to solve linear and non-linear di_erential equations by perturbation methods. This study include the following aspects: (1) Give some basic concepts of the regular, singular ... -
Multiple Imputation and Random Survival Forests: Application to the Demographic and Health Survey Child Survival Data
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) provide data on a wide scope of risk-factors of under-five child survival. Missing covariate data is inevitable in the DHS under-five survival data since data is collected ... -
Antischistosomal activity, immunomodulation, safety and phytochemical composition of bridelia micrantha, ocimum americanum and chenopodium ambrosoides extracts.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Schistosomiasis is among the most common, debilitating disease of humans caused by several species of digenetic blood trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. It is estimated that 200 million people are infected with approximately ... -
The factors affecting adoption of online doctor services in Kenya. A case study of the Nairobi hospital.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)This research was concern with the factors affecting online doctor services adoption. The study is aimed to examine the critical factors affecting adoption of online doctor services in the context of Kenya. Aspects such ... -
Assessment of population exposure to climate change-induced exceedances of health-based air pollution thresholds in some urban areas in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2018-07)Air quality is worsening in the rapidly growing metropolises of sub-Saharan Africa, including those in Kenya. In parallel, there is increasing evidence that air pollution is affecting health. Furthermore, since air quality ... -
Diversity of ticks and tick-borne protozoan parasites from livestock and wildebeests at the Maasai-mara wildlife- livestock interface, Narok county, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2018-04)Wildlife-livestock interfaces are hotspots for tick-borne livestock diseases, which cause high mortalities and morbidity. Wild bovines in these interfaces play a major role in maintaining tick vectors and tick-borne ... -
Phytochemical investigation of selected tephrosia species for antiplasmodial and anti-inflammatory principles
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Malaria is one of the major diseases affecting human beings, whose symptoms include pain and inflammation. It is caused by five Plasmodium species of which P. falciparum and P. vivax are the important causative agents of ...