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Perceived Teacher Related Factors Influencing Academic Performance Among Public Secondary School Students in Suba Sub-County, Homa Bay County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2020)Education, all over the world, is regarded as key to overall national development as it improves the productive capacity of its citizens. Academic performance in terms of grades and mean scores may be a yardstick propelling ... -
An Assessment of Boda Boda Motorcyclists’ Compliance to The National Transport and Safety Authority (Operation of Motorcycles) Regulations, 2015 In Mbita Sub-County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)The National Transport and Safety Authority (Operation of Motorcycles) Regulations, 2015, is a Kenyan comprehensive plan designed to address safety in themotorcycle sector.Despite this, there still exist high rate of ... -
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 ... -
The Linkage Between Environmental Management Practices and Financial Performance of Three to Five Star Hotels in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)Environmental management has become an important issue of concern in the tourism industry particularly the hotel sector. The sector consumes large amounts of non-durable products, water and energy due to its functions, ... -
Effect of Corn Oil Emulsion Formulation of Cercospora Piaropi Tharp and Myrothecium Roridum Tode Fries in The Control of Water Hyacinth Under Greenhouse Conditions in Kibos, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2020)Accelerated settlement and industrialization around Lake Victoria have led to alarming pollution levels in the lake. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes [Mart.] Sol. Laub.) that thrives best in polluted waters has therefore ... -
Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV On Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Gem Sub-County, Western Kenya
(2019)The initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) was a major milestone in the care and management of HIV; however, ALHIV on ART was the only sub-population that registered a 50% increase in deaths even after initiating ART ... -
Role of cost of information adoption and utilization in the relationship between cost of sugar cane production and cost of food production among farmers in Nyanza region, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)In Kenya, agricultural sector absorbs 60% of the labour force, contributes 24% to GDP and sustains over 80% of the rural populations’ livelihood. In Nyanza region, sugarcane production covers 55.9% of the total arable ... -
Uchanganuzi wa Kisemantiki-Leksia wa Maneno Teule ya Kiswahili Yaliyotumika Katika Nyimbo Teule Zilizoimbwa na Nonini na Juacali
(Maseno University, 2019)Previous studies indicate that artists generally create abstract art forms that are mostly not comprehensible to the audience. Artists normally use commonplace lexicon in novel ways in their bid to communicate with their ... -
Relationship between instructional resources and teacher effectiveness in early years education centres in Siaya county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)Teacher effectiveness is a predictor of education quality. Research has established that teachers’ interaction with instructional resources and the environment contributes immensely to their effectiveness in the learning ... -
Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Isolates from Patients in Selected Hospitals in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2020)Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the major cause of community and hospital-acquired UTI cases.However,there is increasing resistance to antibiotics used in the treatment of UPEC infections. Escherichia coli can be ... -
Effect of Biochar Amendment On Ph, Selected Nutrients Availability and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in A Paddy Soil from Yala Basin Under Anaerobic Conditions
(Maseno University, 2021)Although tropical paddy soils have high levels of phosphorous (P), most of it is in forms that are not available for crops. Water logging of paddy soils during rice cultivation leads to anaerobic conditions which could ... -
Educational Assessment Service For Learners With Special Needs in Regular Primary Schools; Opportunities and Challenges for Teachers and Parents in Ugunja Sub- County, Siaya County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2020)Assessment in special education is an important ingredient in the entire process of education. Unfortunately, records in Ugunja Sub County education office indicated that from the year 2012-2014 there were 227 learners ... -
On The Algebraic Numerical Range of the Basic Elementary Operator and Norm of a Generalized Derivation
(Maseno University, 2020)An elementary operator is a bounded linear map defined on the set of bounded linear operators acting on an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space H. Various forms of elementary operators have been studied in the past ... -
Influence of Crop Diversification On the Resilience Of Smallholder Farmers in Bungoma South Sub- County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)Recognition that many agriculture-based economies have few other livelihood strategies has generated the desire to build resilience among smallholder farmers. Globally, due to rapid population growth and continual urban ... -
On shifted Fibonacci sequences and Their polynomials
(Maseno University, 2020)Fibonacci sequences 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 ... -
Gender differences in the relationship between selected Psychological factors and students’ performance in form four Cluster examinations in secondary schools in Nyakach sub-county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)Countries world over have endeavoured to achieve gender equality in education given that it is central in propelling national growth and development. Psychology provides a basis for understanding the teaching and learning ... -
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. ... -
Evaluation of serum thyroid hormones and lipid levels in HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga teaching and referral hospital in Kisumu county, western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2021)While Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) has significantly reduced HIV-associated mortalities, they are not devoid of adverse effects including endocrine and metabolic disorders like thyroid dysfunctions and ... -
Analysis of assimilated elements of contemporary music into traditional worship music in Africa inland church, Mukaa district church council, Makueni, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2019)Worship music is a genre which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with christian faith. Assimilated elements of contemporary music into AIC traditional worship music (TWM) expressions are becoming more popular with ... -
Perceptions of principals on the influence of drug abuse on student discipline and academic performance in public secondary schools in Vihiga and Sabatia sub-counties, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2020)Drug abuse is becoming increasingly problematic in Kenya. Studies done outside Vihiga and Sabatia Sub-counties have shown that students abuse drugs. The foremost concern was the number of these students that would form an ...