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The effect of constant and non constant pressure driving force on the power output in a solar chimney power plant
(Maseno University, 2015)Solar energy has a great potential for the future; it is free, its supplies are unlimited, it does not pollute the environment and cannot be controlled by one industry. Currently, the use of solar energy as an alternative ... -
Effective research methods support to large surveys; a scene for the Climate change, agriculture and food security on a field typology survey
(Maseno University, 2013)ABSTRACT The main objective of this work was to find strategies to support science projects with limited research methods support. Many research projects face major challenges in the full implementation on the ground. ... -
Effectiveness of Prevention of Mother to Child Hiv / Aids Transmission at Kandiege Level 4 Hospital, Kandiege, Homabay County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)Targeted intervention have proven effective in reducing the transmission of HIV from a mother to her unborn child and the infant in developed countries. PMTCT programs are well established in many developing countries. ... -
Enumeration of Trees With Local Orientation by Degree Sequences and Reachability of Vertices
(Maseno University, 2020)Trees in which edges are oriented from a vertex of lower label towards a vertex of higher label, commonly referred to as locally oriented trees, were introduced by Du and Yin in an attempt to solve a problem conjectured ... -
Evaluation of Adequacy and Level of Utilization of Sanitation Facilities in Primary Schools in Manga Sub County, Nyamira, County, Kenya
(Maseno university, 2016)Good sanitation and hygiene practices promote the wellbeing of children in schools. According to WHO(World Health Organization), 88% of all diarrheal related illnesses result from poor sanitation and hygiene practices ... -
Flexible parametric prognostic risk score models for short-term risk of aids on patients newly initiated on highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart) in Nyanza, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2015)About 22.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS reside in sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom have progressed to AIDS over time. Kenya has high numbers of new infections; a total of 104,000 in the general population with ... -
Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates in Kenya Using Time Series: A Case of Usd/Kes Exchange Rates
(Maseno University, 2019)In October 1993, Kenya adopted a floating exchange rate system where the exchange rates are determined by forces of demand and supply for the local currency. Exchange rate forecasts are necessary to evaluate the foreign ... -
Generalized Bloch Spaces of the Upper Half-Plane and Their Composition Semigroups
(Maseno University, 2021)Banach space structure of the Bloch space of the unit disc B(D) has been studied widely by many Mathematicians. Cima, Anderson, among others have proved that the Bloch space of the unit disc, B(D) and the little Bloch space ... -
Groups of composition Operators on dirichlet spaces Of the upper half-plane
(Maseno University, 2019)Composition groups has been a topic of interest in the past decades. Most studies have been on spaces of analytic functions of the unit disk. For instance; Matache studied bouncledness and compactness of composition operators; ... -
Hierarchical logistic regression model for Multilevel analysis: an application on use of Contraceptives among women in Reproductive age in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)Contraception allows women and couples to have the number of children they want, when they want them. This is everybody's right according to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Use of Contraceptive also reduces ... -
HIV Vaccine Model with Application to Kenya
(Maseno University, 2003).Many models for HIV pandemic have come up as humankind grapples with the blight. Scientists and policy makers are struggling to contain the scourge. Mathematicians are not left behind. They are modeling the epidemic as ... -
Impact Assessment of the Io-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Prevention Of Pneumonia Among Children Under Five Years in Kijabe Mission Hospital, Kiambu County
(Maseno University, 2016)This study assessed the impact of the 10 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumonia prevention by determining annual trends of pneumonia, recurrent pneumonia levels as well as establishing the association of other ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, practices and prevention of malaria: a statistical perspective of Kabras north division, Kakamega county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)An elaborate understanding of the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) of particular community can inform the design of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) campaigns to influence acceptance and use of Malaria control ... -
A Markov chain Analysis of HIV Progression in Key Populations; A case Study of HIV in Homa Bay County
(Maseno University, 2022)Key populations account for the highest number of individuals with HIV infections. Theyincludefemalesexworkers,menwhohavesexwithmenandpeoplewhoinjectdrugs. While many studies have been done regarding HIV/AIDS and its spread, ... -
Mathematical Model of the Roan Antelopes, Ruma Park
(Maseno University, 2011)Roan antelopes that were once abundant in the country in the 1880s have been reduced to a remnant population of less than fifty individuals in the last estimate,November 2009. Oksendal and Lungu developed population growth ... -
Mathematical Model to Determine the Concentration of Fly-Ash at Sony Sugar Company in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2015)Mathematical modeling continues to attract attention of applied math- ematicians, physicists, engineers, biologists, research institutions and oth- ers. This study focuses on air pollution concentration: a case study ... -
Mathematical Model to Determine the Concentration of Fly-Ash at Sony Sugar Company in Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2015)Mathematical modeling continues to attract attention of applied mathematician, physicist, engineers, biologists, research institutions and others. This study focuses on air pollution concentration: a case study of fly-ash ... -
Mathematical modeling of flood wave: a case study of Budalang’i flood plain basin in Busia county, Kenya
(Maseno university, 2022)Flooding is a worldwide problem with more adverse effects in developing countries. In Kenya, severe flooding is experienced on the lower tributaries of Lake Victoria, mainly Budalang’i area. This is indicated in the ... -
A Metapopulation ModelfFor Cholera With Variable Media Efficacy and Imperfect Vaccine
(Maseno University, 2021)Cholera, a diarrheal disease caused by a pathogenic virulent bacteria known as Vibrio cholerae, a_ects both children and adults and can kill within hours if left untreated. It continues to persist in developing coun- tries ... -
Model selection in generalized estimating Equations based on kullback’s i-divergence
(Maseno University, 2020)The method of Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) is often used in analyzing correlated longitudinal data and does provide consistent estimates which are robust to misspecification of the working correlation structure. ...