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Factors affecting profitability of fish farming under economic stimulus programme in Tigania East District, Meru County, Kenya
(IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 2013)The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting profitability of fish farming under Economic Stimulus Programme in Tigania East District of Meru County, Kenya. In 2010, Economic Stimulus Programme was initiated ... -
Factors Affecting Requirements Elicitation for Heterogeneous Users of Information Systems
(International Journal of Computer Science Engineering and Technology, 2015)Modern organizations keep up with the fast changing technology through successful info rmation systems development and integration to automate their business operations. Among others, this can ... -
Factors associated with severe human Rift Valley fever in Sangailu, Garissa County, Kenya
(PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015)BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes acute, often severe, disease in livestock and humans. To determine the exposure factors and range of symptoms associated with human RVF, we performed a ... -
Factors associated with severe human Rift Valley fever in Sangailu, Garissa County, Kenya
(PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015)BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes acute, often severe, disease in livestock and humans. To determine the exposure factors and range of symptoms associated with human RVF, we performed a ... -
Factors associated with severe human Rift Valley fever in Sangailu, Garissa County, Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes acute, often severe, disease in livestock and humans. To determine the exposure factors and range of symptoms associated with human RVF, we performed a population-based ... -
Factors associated with the motivation of community drug distributors in the Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programme in Kenya
(Cogent OA, 2012)Annual mass drug administration (MDA) is the main strategy for elimination of lymphatic flariasis (LF), globally. In Kenya, community drug distributors (CDDs) are used to deliver drugs to household members. To determine ... -
Factors Contributing to Transmission of Domestic and Sylvatic Lifecycles of Echinococcus Species in Samburu and Maasai Mara, Kenya
(International Journal of Professional Practice (IJPP), 2019)Cystic echinococcosis (CE), caused by different species of the Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato (s.l), is an important global zoonotic disease with a particular impact on pastoralist communities. Depending on the species, ... -
FACTORS INFLUENCING ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPY UPTAKE AMONG HIV POSITIVE AND EXPOSED CHILDREN AGED BELOW 14 YEARS IN MERU NORTH DISTRICT, KENYA
(EAST AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2018)Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) is a major intervention for children infected and exposed to HIV infection and it influences their morbidity and mortality.Objective: To investigate factors influencing ARV uptake in HIV ... -
Factors Influencing Continuing Professional Development for Nurses in Western Kenya
(Kenyan Journal of Nursing & Midwifery, 2018)Introduction: Nursing practice takes place in a context of ongoing advances in research and technology hence, basic nursing education alone is no longer sufficient for a lifetime nursing career. However, participation in ... -
Factors influencing growth of dairy farming business in amentia south district of mere county, Kenya
(l IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 2014)National level production of livestock and livestock products in Kenya has increased over the years even though many households involved in livestock production have continued to be poor and food insecure. It is perceived ... -
Factors influencing loan repayment default in micro-finance institutions: the experience of Imenti North District, Kenya
(International Journal of Applied Science and Technology., 2013)Microfinance institutions in Kenya have suffered significant loan repayment default resulting into subsequently decreased employment levels and cash flow problems in microfinance institutions. This study was ... -
Factors Influencing the Intention to Use Location-Based Mobile Advertising among Micro-Enterprises in Kenya
(African Journal of Information Systems, 2016)The use of location-based mobile advertising to deliver context specific information from businesses to clients has the potential to help them increase revenues, personalize offerings and reduce marketing ... -
Faculty management practices of digital grey literature in an open access context
(Moi University, 2017)Digital grey literature is an important output that deserves management by libraries. The tools for achieving this frequently relinquish this task to the creators of the works with general poor results. The aim of this ... -
Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Perception towards Uptake and Utilization of Treated Human Excreta as Organic Fertilizer in Imenti South, Meru County
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)Universal access to safe and adequate sanitation for everyone remains a global challenge as over 35% of the total global populations have no access to adequate sanitation. This call for action and a paradigm shift from the ... -
Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya
(Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2016)Food and nutrition insecurity has been a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With land frontier closing, farmers in SSA must intensify and diversify food production to alleviate food and nutrition ... -
Farming characteristics in urban districts of Nairobi county-Kenya.
(RUFORUM, 2014)Urban farming practitioners face challenges like lack of quality irrigation water, poorly decomposed manure, diverse inputs of unknown sources, unhealthy farm environment and abject poverty. All these contribute to production ... -
A Fatal Outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni Enteritis in a Colony of Vervet Monkeys in Kenya
(Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science, 2017)In a group of 50 wild-caught vervet monkeys trapped for experimental studies, 23 developed severe diar-rhoea during the quarantine period. While 10 of these responded well to routine treatment with metronida-zole, kaomycin ... -
Financial Innovations on Financial Performance of Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies in Meru County, Kenya
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2023)There is more to innovation than commercializing ideas and inventions. What is labeled as an innovation may have little or no novelty in practice but a slight change in the use or application of the innovation. This study ... -
Financial Management Challenges Facing Implementation of Free Day Secondary Education in Imenti North District, Kenya
(Journal of Business and Management, 2014)Almost all modern organizations, including schools have the characteristics of the five basic functions performed by all managers which are planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and controlling. Due to low transition ... -
Financial Risk Management Practices and Business Sustainability: Empirical Findings from Private Hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2021)Access to affordable and equitable health is a global challenge. Health is the third sustainable development goal under the seventeen United Nations sustainable development goals of 2015. Private hospitals play a key role ...