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What Is the Best Surgical Approach for Bilateral Pulmonary Hydatid Cysts in Children?
(Scientific Research, 2015-03)Introduction: The most common site for hydatid cysts in children is the lungs while in adult hepatic cysts are predominant. Bilateral pulmonary involvement is relatively rare and its surgical management is poorly described ... -
When Does My Future Begin? Student Debt and Intragenerational Mobility
(Scientific Research, 2018-04)Higher education financing policy largely assumes that college graduates enjoy equal opportunities for economic mobility regardless of how they finance their degrees. To examine this contention, this study uses data from ... -
When Utility Jumps: The Value of Having Cash in the Hand
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)Different theoretical explanations have been developed for seemingly inconsistent actions that deal with varying levels of risk and time. We propose a simple model of utility that unifies these seemingly separate ... -
Why Judaism and Islam Prohibit Eating Pork and Consuming Blood as a Food?
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)To date, many influential religious leaders from both Judaism and Islam have attempted to provide answers to the question of why both these religions prohibit eating pork. The most straightforward answer is that the Lord ... -
Why the Bible Cannot and Should Not Be Taken Literally
(Scientific Research, 2014-08)This paper argues that there are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally defies logic or otherwise makes no sense, and why literalists are in no position to claim that they have the ... -
A Wideband Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna for 60 GHz Wireless Communications
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-07)This paper presents the design of a fully packaged 60 GHz wideband patch antenna incorporating an air cavity and a fused silica superstrate. Circular polarization (CP) is realized by introducing a diagonal slot at the ... -
WiMAX System Simulation and Performance Analysis under the Influence of Jamming
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2010-07)This paper presents simulation of WiMAX based system under jamming. The performance of the system was found out to greatly differ with the use of different jamming signals, allowing central areas to be identified, where ... -
A Wireless Body Sensor Platform to Detect Progressive Deterioration in Musculoskeletal Systems
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-03)Recent developments in technology have helped to reduce the physical size and weight of devices and opened up new opportunities for their application in delivering unobtrusive healthcare services. In particular, kinetic ... -
Wireless Hybrid QoS Architecture with an Enhancement of Fair Intelligent Congestion Control
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-07)More subtle and explicit QoS control mechanisms are required at the radio access level, even though the simple and scalable Differentiated Services (DiffServ) QoS control model is acceptable for the core of the network. ... -
A Wireless Sensor Network Solution for Precision Agriculture Based on Zigbee Technology
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2011-12)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted much atten tion in recent years. The potential applications of WSNs are immense. They are used for collecting, storing and sharing sensed data. WSNs have been used ... -
Witchweed’s Suicidal Germination: Can Slenderleaf Help?
(MDPI, 2020-06)The parasitic plant Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth. is stimulated to germinate by biomolecules (strigolactones) produced in the roots of host and some non-host plants. Non-hosts induce Striga’s suicidal germination ... -
Women Empowerment and Skilled Attendance/Facility Delivery in a Rural Community of Western Kenya
(2014-04)It is estimated that over 500,000 women die annually due to maternity complications, majority occur in the developing countries. In Kenya, maternal mortality ratio still remains high despite increased maternal health ... -
Women Enterprise Fund Influence to Women Economic Empowerment Perfomance in Micro F'inance, Case Study, Manyatta Constituency-Embu County
(University of Embu, 2019)This study aims on investigating Women enterprise Fund influence to women economic empowerment performance, in Manyatta constituency of Embu County. This research study is guided by the following listed objectives: ... -
Women Enterprise Fund Influence to Women Economic Empowerment Perfomance in Micro Finance, Case Study, Manyatta Constituency-Embu County
(University of Embu, 2020)This study aims on investigating Women Enterprise Fund influence to women economic empowerment performance, in Manyatta constituency of Embu County. This research study is guided by the following listed objectives: ... -
Working Capital Management Practices and Financial Performance of tea Processing Firm in kenya
(2017-05-11)The tea sector is the most important agricultural sub-sector in Kenya contributing about 26 percent of the total foreign exchange earnings. The sector has been listed by the government as one of the pillars of achieving ... -
Working capital management practices and financial performance of tea processing firms in Kenya.
(University of Embu, 2017-08)The tea sector is the most important agricultural sub-sector in Kenya contributing about 26 percent of the total foreign exchange earnings. The sector has been listed by the government as one of the pillars of achieving ... -
Working Capital Management Practices and Profitability of Textile Industries.
(University of Embu, 2019)Working capital is a measurement used to define the differential between current assets and current liabilities, in other words, assets that are expected to turn into cash in the near future versus liabilities that require ... -
Working Capital Management, Asset Base, Board Diversity and Financial Performance of Coffee Wet Mills in Embu County, Kenya
(University of Embu, 2021-09)Agro-processing plays a pivotal role in enhancing economic growth and socio-welfare at large. However, over the last two decades, the financial performance of small-scale agroprocessing firms, including coffee, has ... -
Workplace Environment and Organizational Performance of Public Universities in Mount Kenya Region, Kenya
(University of Embu, 2019-09)Performance of employees influences the current performance and future competitive advantage of the organizations they are working for. The quality and capacity of work made by employees is influenced by the workplace ... -
World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001)Use of scientific (Latin) names of living organisms is a basic norm in all scientific literature. Yet, to write these names correctly is a daunting task for not only the novices, but even seasoned professionals. This ...
