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Potential of Croton megalocarpus Nut as an Alternative Protein Supplement for Feeding of Ruminants in the Tropics
(University of Kentucky UKknowledge, 2022)
Croton megalocarous is a tree native to the arid and semi-arid rangelands of East Africa that produces nuts reported to contain high crude protein (CP). However, they are often neglected as a potential feed due to lack of ...
Does Universities’ Research Output Aligned to National Development Goals Impact Economic Productivity? Evidence from Kenya
(SAGE Publications, 2022)
Few studies on developing countries have investigated the alignment of research output to a country’s development agenda and economic productivity. Using evidence from Kenya, this study sought to empirically determine ...
The nexus between indigenous beliefs on environment and climate change adaptation amongst the Sengwer in Embobut Forest, Kenya
(Taylor and Francis group, 2022)
Climate change is one of the most serious challenges to humanity’s survival, making environmental adaptation and conservation critical to mitigating its impacts. Cherangany Hills in Kenya is among the water towers currently ...
Temperature-Dependent Elastic Constants of Substrates for Manufacture of Mems Devices
(Kabarak university, 2022)
We present a comparative computational study of temperature-dependent elastic constants of silicon (Si), silicon carbide (SiC) and diamond as substrates that are commonly used in the manufacture of Micro-Electromechanical ...
Aquatic Ecological Risk of Heavy-Metal Pollution Associated with Degraded Mining Landscapes of the Southern Africa River Basins: A Review
(Maseno university, 2022)
Africa accounts for nearly 30% of the discovered world’s mineral reserves, with half of the world’s platinum group metals deposits, 36% of gold, and 20% of cobalt being in Southern Africa (SA). The intensification of ...
Building Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages: A Case of Languages in East Africa
(AfricaNLP, 2022)
Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well repre sented in the existing Natural Language Processing ecosystem. African languages
lack essential digital resources to be engaged effectively in the ...
KenSwQuAD--A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language
(arXiv preprint, 2022)
This research developed a Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset KenSwQuAD from
raw data of Swahili language, which is a low resource language predominantly spoken in
Eastern African and also has speakers in other ...
Online Assessment and Examinations practices at the eCampus of Maseno University in Response to COVID 19 lockdown
(EasyChair, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increasing demand for online learning and led to the demand for the
offer of online assessment at Maseno university. Prior to the COVID19 pandemic the institution had put in place
measures ...
Internal Capability of the State Matters in International Relations: Evidence from East African Tri-national Border Zone
(OSF Preprints, 2022)
The realist theoretical perspective suggests that the ‘inside’ of the state is not a critical variable since, unlike the anarchical international system, the domestic arena entails a sovereign entity in form of a government ...
Business-financing options' effects on micro-enterprise performance in the tropics: The case of Kisumu County, Kenya
(Routledge, 2022)
Micro-enterprises play an important role in one of the world’s most socioeconomically challenged regions: the tropics. Although various business-financing options for micro-enterprises exist, little is known about whether ...