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Analysis of digital contact tracing technologies employed in Covid-19 pandemic
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a worldwide pandemic that has claimed lives and negatively changed the mobility patterns of humans. Various Infection control measures have been employed for COVID-19, among them ... -
Anemia among children exposed to polyparasitism in coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)Anemia represents a substantial problem for children living in areas with limited resources and significant parasite burden. We performed a cross-sectional study of 254 Kenyan preschool- and early school-age children in ... -
Antenatal infection with helminths and malaria increases susceptibility to malaria in Kenyan children: 1.1-063
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Antibiotic resistance of bacteria isolated from Nairobi River
(2006)This study aimed to evaluate the antibiotic resistance of bacteria isolated from six sites along the pollution gradient of Nairobi River. Bacteria were isolated by standard Methods and grouped into 3 categories; enteric ... -
Antiproliferative and Immunostimulatory activity of a Protein from Pleurotus Eryngii
(Wiley, 2014)Currently, the use of mushrooms as functional foods, nutraceuticals or phytopharmaceuticals source has risen. In contrast, the possible cellular cytotoxicity and immunostimulatory activity of Pleurotus eryngii (DC. ex Fr.) ... -
Application of HFMEA on risk assessment of radiology processes in public hospitals: a case study of Nyeri County Referral Hospital
(IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering (IOSR-JECE), 2018)Use of radiology medical devices in hospitals pose a risk to the patients and medical practitioners. The device risks may be as a result of technical, operational, logistical or maintenance reasons. It for this reason, ... -
Application of Queuing Theory to Vehicular Traffic on Nakuru Total Road Stretch
(American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 2017)Nations strive to avoid losing revenue and human lives through long traffic snarl ups and frequent accidents on the roads. For this reason Considerations must be made to increase the number of lanes or even better to change ... -
Application of Risk Management Techniques towards Realization of Quality Higher Education
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2017)The application of risk management as a component of governance and administration has not been fully embraced in training institutions. The stage at which the concept of risk management should be applied in the traditional ... -
Application of The K - Means Clustering Algorithm In Medic al Claims Fraud / Abuse Detection
(International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management, 2014)This paper is about a system which applies a modified K - Means algorithm[12] to flag out suspicious claims for further scrutiny has been developed. The Java programming Language and my SQL database tools were used. ... -
Arbitration Mechanism and its Influence on Labour Relations Equilibrium in Public Education Sector in Kenya
(Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2017)The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of arbitration mechanism on labour relations equilibrium in public education sector in Kenya with a view to instil labour relations harmony to enhance labour ... -
Are Kenyan Campus Ladies Too Generous? An Evaluation of Gender Biases in Staff Appraisal Systems in Kenya
(International Journal of Business & Management Science, 2020)There is empirical evidence regarding behavioral cross-gender disparity with male and female gender will arguably exhibit different behaviors when faced with similar circumstances. One school of management thought postulates ... -
THE ARTISANS: EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HANDICRAFT EXPORTING MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES IN TANZANIA
(International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Research, 2018)This study examines the influence of entrepreneurship training on performance of handicraft exporting Micro and Small Enterprises in Tanzania. Resource Based View (RBV) and Positivism approach are the key theory and ... -
Assessing Health System Challenges and Opportunities for better Noncommunicable Disease outcomes: the case of Mauritius
(BMC Health Science Research, 2020-03)Background The objectives of the study reported in this paper were: (a) to score the coverage of core NCD population-based interventions and individual services in Mauritius; (b) to analyse and score the presence of 15 ... -
Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practices of health care waste management among nurses in Nyambene Level 4 hospital
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)Healthcare waste management requires an organized, systematic channeling of waste, consistent with acceptable public health and environmental safeguards (Vanesh et al., 2019). The Ministry of Health estimates that 47% of ... -
An assessment of participatory integrated vector management for malaria control in Kenya
(National Institute of Environmental Health Science, 2015)The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends integrated vector management (IVM) as a strategy to improve and sustain malaria vector control. However, this approach has not been widely adopted.We comprehensively assessed ... -
Assessment of sanitation practices among households of Tigania West sub-county, Meru county, Kenya
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)A poorly constructed toilet may deter its use and provoke open defecation. Globally, 2.5 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation facilities. In Kenya, over 5 million people are forced to defecate in the ... -
An assessment of the effect of pulsed electrical fields on tenderness and selected quality attributes of post rigour beef muscle
(Elsevier, 2013)The effect of conventional and PEF treatment (electric field strength: 1.1–2.8 kV cm− 1; energy density: 12.7–226 kJ/kg), frequency (5–200 Hz) and pulse number (152–300) on selected quality attributes of beef Semitendinosus ... -
An assessment of the effect of pulsed electrical fields on tenderness and selected quality attributes of post rigour beef muscle
(Elsevier, 2013)The effect of conventional and PEF treatment (electric field strength: 1.1–2.8 kV cm− 1; energy density: 12.7–226 kJ/kg), frequency (5–200 Hz) and pulse number (152–300) on selected quality attributes of beef Semitendinosus ... -
An Assessment of the Financial Sustainability of Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies in Kenya
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) are voluntary associations of people with the common goal of encouraging savings and granting credit to members as a means to their economic improvement. For a ... -
An assessment of the impact of pulsed electric fields processing factors on oxidation, color, texture, and sensory attributes of turkey breast meat
(Poultry Science Association, Inc., 2015)Pulsed electric fields (PEF) is a novel nonthermal technology that has the potential to cause physical disruption to muscle tissue which in turn could alter the sensorial aspects of meat in both a positive (e.g., enhanced ...