Maseno University Repository: Recent submissions
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Challenges on implementation of art and design curriculum in secondary schools in Kenya
(Academic Research International, 2013)Art and Design Curriculum contributes immensely in all areas of the society such as Social/cultural, Economic, Political, Utilitarian, Communication and Personal expression. This subject interlocks strongly within the ... -
Career Opportunities with implementation of Art and Design in secondary schools
(Progressive Academic Publishing,, 2014)This research was conducted to examine the level of awareness on careers available for students learning Art and Design in secondary schools in Kenya because some schools are dropping this curriculum in Western Kenya. ... -
Conserved excitation number and U(1)-symmetry operators for the anti-rotating (anti-Jaynes-Cummings) term of the Rabi Hamiltonian
(Cornell University, 2021)In this article we apply algebraic operator ordering property of the basic atom and field operators to construct and prove conservation of the excitation number operator of the anti-rotating (anti-Jaynes-Cummings) component ... -
Barriers to Pottery Production in Kenyan Prisons
(sryahwapublications, 2020)The purpose of the paper was to investigate barriers to pottery production in Kenyan prisons. Descriptive research design guided the study. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyse data in the ... -
Quality of pottery products produced in Kenyan women prisons
(Academic Journals, 2020)The purpose of the study was to assess quality of pottery products produced in Kenyan prisons. The quality of products produced in Kenyan prisons shows lack of standardization. Descriptive research design guided the ... -
An Evaluation of Paints Determinants among the Informal Fine Artists in Kisumu City
((IJSR, 2021)One of the important viewpoints which is criticized and reviewed in Art, are the styles and techniques used in paintings. Reviewed literature confirms that the motives of choice of paints used are relegated secondary ... -
On Generalized Fibonacci Numbers
(Communications in Advanced Mathematical Sciences, 2020)Fibonacci numbers and their polynomials have been generalized mainly by two ways: by maintaining the recurrence relation and varying the initial conditions, and by varying the recurrence relation and maintaining the initial ... -
Refined enumeration of 2-noncrossing trees
(Academic Publishing House, 2021)A 2-noncrossing tree is a connected graph without cycles that can be drawn in the plane with its vertices on the boundary of circle such that the edges are straight line segments that do not cross and all the vertices ... -
On Noncrossing and Plane Tree-Like Structures
(Communications in Advanced Mathematical Sciences, 2021)Mathematical trees are connected graphs without cycles, loops and multiple edges. Various trees such as Cayley trees, plane trees, binary trees, d-ary trees, noncrossing trees among others have been studied extensively. ... -
Reachability results in labelled t-ary trees
(Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2021)In this paper, we prove some new formulas in the enumeration of labelled t-ary trees by path lengths. We treat trees having their edges oriented from a vertex of lower label towards a vertex of higher label. Among other ... -
Construction of Feminine Ideology in Gusii Oral Poetry
(2019)Abagusii females of the Kisii community of Western Kenya are largely socialized through the community’s oral poetry to operate within the limits of a feminine ideology. The choice of Gusii oral poetry as a vehicle for ... -
A second chance to dream: initiating ODeL in secondary school re-entry programs for young adult secondary school dropouts the case of Mumias District, Western Kenya
(Routledge, 2018)The Kenyan education system has very limited re-entry options for learners who drop out before attaining secondary school certificate. It is very difficult to access training and or secure a job that requires at least ... -
Rethinking the Policies for Nurturing Teacher Identity Development in Indonesia
(The Qualitative Report, 2021)This study explored supports given by in-service teachers to student-teachers for professional identity development in Indonesia. In this qualitative study, sixteen student teachers taking the course of Curriculum ... -
Influence of Parent-Adolescent Communication on Adolescent Peer Relations and Gender Implications
(Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2015)This study was conceptualized against a backdrop of Kenya’s a troubled secondary school system; characterized by incidences of students’ unrests, drug abuse, examination cheating, school dropouts and other forms of ... -
Effect of cognitive behaviour therapy on depressive symptoms among HIV-infected outpatients in Kenya
(Universidad de Almería, 2017)Timely diagnosis and treatment of depression among persons living with HIV (PLWH) in sub-Saharan Africa which is home to about 70% of global HIV infection is disproportionately low. In Kenya, the effect of cognitive ... -
Antimicrobial Assay of Aqueous Extracts of Selected Ethno-pharmacologic Alternatives Used by the Maasai Community of Narok, Kenya
(2019)Aims: Antimicrobial resistance motivates the search for new antimicrobials. Besides Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain has emerged worldwide over the last decade, ... -
Determinants of adherence to tuberculosis chemotherapy in Nairobi City County, Kenya
(East Cent. Afr. J. Pharm. Sci, 2021)Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading global cause of death and Kenya is among the top 20 countries with a high burden of the disease. Adherence to drugs used to treat the disease remains a crucial challenge towards the elimination ... -
Scientific African
(Elsevier, 2021)Ebola virus is a neglected tropical disease widely accepted as one of the most fatal diseases of human and nonhuman primates ever encountered in recent years. For a long time, de velopment of vaccines and anti-Ebola drugs ... -
Ebola Virus Disease, Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Where is the Consensus in Over Three Decades of Clinical Research?
(Elsevier, 2021)Ebola virus is a neglected tropical disease widely accepted as one of the most fatal diseases of human and nonhuman primates ever encountered in recent years. For a long time, de- velopment of vaccines and anti-Ebola ... -
Factors Influencing the Spread of Domestic Violence among Heterosexual Marriage in Western Kenya
(Crimson Publishers, LLC, 2019)Domestic violence in heterosexual partners, remain a major challenge on, Sustainable Development Goals. Globally domestic violence is increasing, with 31% and 69% men and women respectively, being physically, sexually or ...