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Addressing challenges in communicating adaptation practices to smallholder farmers in Kenya through a radio intervention
(2017)
Farmers in Africa are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their high dependency on climate-sensitive natural resources. Kenyan farmers are faced with limited public agricultural ...
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 ...
Effect of Video mediated Instruction on Students’ Achievement, Attitudes and Motivation in Learning Kiswahili Proverbs in Kenya: A Literature Review
(Kabarak j. res. innov., 2017-07-20)
The importance of proverbs in enhancing the students’ mastery of a language is well documented.Over time, video-mediated-instructions have boosted students’ academic achievement and attitudes when compared with other ...
Technological Preferences, Levels of Utilization and Attitude of Students Towards Mobile Learning Technologies in Chartered Universities, Kenya
(International Journal of Education & Literacy, 2017)
The affordances of mobile technologies are being felt in many sectors of world’s economy including university education. By solving the limitations of fixed instructional technologies, mobile technologies have received ...
Glycemic Indices of Cassava and Sweet Potatoes Consumed in Western Kenya
(Food Science and Quality Management, 2017)
Glycemic index (GI) is used to classify carbohydrate-rich foods especially those containing at least 15%
carbohydrates on the basis of their ability to raise blood sugar. Interest on the GI of carbohydrate-rich foods ...
Preparation and Chemical/Microstructural Characterization of Azacrown Ether-Crosslinked Chitosan Films
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017)
Chemically stable porous azacrown ether-crosslinked chitosan films were prepared by reacting varying molar amounts of N,N-diallyl-7,16-diaza-1,4,10,13-tetraoxa-dibenzo-18-crown-6 (molar equivalents ranging from 0, 0.125, ...
Defect-induced room temperature ferromagnetic properties of the Al-doped and undoped ZnO rod-like nanostructure
(Elsevier, 2017)
In this work, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiment on undoped ZnO and Al doped ZnO (AZO) nanoparticles prepared by facile sol–gel method were investigated. The effects of the Al concentration on room temperature ...
A Multiplicative Bias Correction for Nonparametric Approach and the Two Sample Problem in Sample Survey
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)
Let two separate surveys collect related information on a single population U. Consider situation where we want to best combine data from the two surveys to yield a single set of estimates of a population quantity (population ...
Narrow Visible Emission And Narrowing Band Gap In Ho3+ -Co Doped Y2O3: Eu3+ Nanopowders Prepared Via Sol- Combustion Route.
(IOSR Journal of Applied Physics, 2017-12)
Nanocrystalline Eu3+, Ho3+co-doped Y2O3 powders with a maximum size of 9.8 nm were prepared by the sol-combustion process, using Y (NO3).6HO2 as an oxidizer, europium and holonium nitrates as activators, thiourea as a fuel ...
The Possibility of Angle Trisection (A Compass-Straightedge Construction)
(Journal of Mathematics and System Science, 2017)
The objective of this paper is to provide a provable solution of the ancient Greek problem of trisecting an arbitrary angle employing only compass and straightedge (ruler).(Pierre Laurent Wantzel, 1837) obscurely presented ...