School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science: Recent submissions
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Simulation Model Approach on Effect of Manure on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Soil in Kaptumo, Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2014)Agriculture, especially livestock keeping contributes significantly to changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Research quantifying exchange of GHGs between the biosphere and atmosphere are ... -
Analysis of The Greek Parameters of a Nonlinear Black-Scholes Partial Differential Equation
(Maseno University, 2014)Derivatives are used in hedging European options against risks. The partial derivatives of the solution with respect to either a variable or a parameter in the Black-Scholee model are called risk parameters or simply the ... -
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; ... -
Network Modelling of Infectious Diseases
(Maseno University, 2014)Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases is an important tool for assessing disease dynamics. This branch of mathematics has provided many significant insights concerning the epidemiology of infectious diseases. ... -
Spectral Properties of Semigroups of Weighted Composition Operators on the Bloch Space
(Maseno University, 2019)Semigroups of composition operators on spaces of analytic functions have interested mathematicians for many years. The breakthrough in Hardy spaces was given by Berkson and Porta. On Bergman and Dirichlet spaces, Siskakis ... -
Analysing Data for Educational Research: Analysis of Mathematics Scores at Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education, 2011, for Western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014)Analysing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam results is vital to inform the design of interventions to improve teaching and learning of Mathematics in Kenyan schools. Here, further analysis of the 2011 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Analysis of The Effect of Integrating ICT In The Teaching Process in Primary Schools In Kisumu County
(Maseno University, 2016)ABSTRACT In September 2006 the Ministry of Education (MOE)introduced Information and Communication Technology (ICT)syllabus in curriculum of Primary 1Teacher (PIT) education, to equip the teacher trainees with understanding ... -
Norms of generalized derivations on norm ideals
(Maseno University, 2019)The norms of inner and generalized derivations on different kinds of algebras have been determined. However, the norms of their restrictions to norm ideals have not been fully explored. For instance, the concept of ... -
A Delayed Vaccination Model for Rotavirus
(Maseno University, 2019)Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis infection in infants and young children, occurring even with very high standard of hygiene. The disease spreads by contact with infected faeces and might also ... -
Prediction of Inflation Rates in Kenya Using Binomial Logistic Regression
(Maseno University, 2019)Inflation is increasingly becoming an important parameter that determines financial performance of central banks worldwide. Although many empirical studies have used time series and vector auto regression models to analyze ... -
Constraints Faced By Small and Medium Entreprises in Accessing Bank Finance In Eldoret Town Kenya
(Maseno University, 2019)Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economies of developed and developing countries, through creation of new jobs. Access to bank financial resources seems to be a major constraint to the ... -
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 ... -
Application of Markov Chain Model in Career Progression Of University Academic Staff:A Case Study of the Moi University - Eldoret, Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2019)The use of Mathematical models for manpower planning has increased in recent times for better manpower planning quantitatively both in public and private sectors. In respect of organizational management, numerous previous ... -
Stochastic Analysis of Single Queue Single Server versus Single Queue Multiple Servers Models: A Case Study Of Post Bank and Kenya Commercial Bank
(Maseno University, 2019)Banks play signi cant roles in a country's economy. For this reason many studies have been done on the management and general organization of banks. One such area is on queue management. It is common practice to see ... -
Application of discrete and continous time Models in valuation of credit insurance for Asset-based lending companies
(Maseno University, 2019)Asset-based lending companies and other loan providers are exposed to risk of loan defaults by borrowers. To reduce this risk, these companies acquire credit insurance. Thus when the borrower defaults in payment, the ... -
An analysis of patient flow using markov Chains: a case of Kapsabet county referral Hospital
(Maseno University, 2019)Hospital is an essential welfare of society. It provides management of illnesses through treatmentandpreventioninterventionsbymedicalandhealthprofessionals. Duetogrowing population and rise in chronic diseases, there is ... -
Application of auto-regression integrated Moving avaerage model to forecast tea Prices at Mombasa tea auction center in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2019)Development programs designed to address particular global challenges are facing increasing pressure to demonstrate their impact on the targeted com munities. The method mostly used to measure impact of development ... -
Difference in difference method to impact Evaluation: a case study of fruiting Africa Project
(Maseno University, 2019)Development programs designed to address particular global challenges are facing increasing pressure to demonstrate their impact on the targeted com munities. The method mostly used to measure impact of development ...