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Influence of Budgetary Controls on Service Delivery in County Government of Nakuru in Kenya
(2010-10)
In spite of collecting revenue from their jurisdictions, none of the county governments is
financially autonomous. They have to rely on the disbursements from the central government.
The general objective of this study ...
Factors Influencing implementation of Public Financial Regulations by National Sub-County Treasuries in Nakuru County, Kenya
(2016-10)
Regulation is amongst the central instruments through which governments seek to deliver on
their policy priorities. However, a lack of consensus on how regulation should be conceptualized
can make studying its nature and ...
Potential human pathogenic bacteria in five hot springs in Eritrea revealed by next generation sequencing
(PLOS ONE, 2018-03)
Human pathogens can survive and grow in hot springs. For water quality assessment,
Escherichia coli or Enterococci are the main thermotolerant enteric bacteria commonly used
to estimate the load of pathogenic bacteria ...
Effects of Land Fragmentation on Food Security in Three Agro-ecological Zones of Embu County in Kenya
(2017-08)
Land fragmentation is a common agricultural phenomenon in many countries where a single large
farm is subdivided into a large number of separate small land plots. This paper is based on a study
that was carried out to ...
Temporal genetic structuring of a specialist parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking a specialist aphid on tansy
(2010-11)
In insect species characterized by inbreeding, limited dispersal, and a metapopulation structure, high genetic
differentiation and reduced genetic diversity within local populations are expected. Using the model ...
An Analysis of The Impact of Agro-Ecological Zones on The Influence of The Key Factors That Affect Food Security: The Case of The Embu County in Kenya
(2017-08)
This paper is based on the results of a study that was carried out to determine the impact of agro-ecological zones (AEZs) on the influence of the key factors that affect household food security through a case study in the ...
Impact of Financial Literacy on Access to Financial Services in Kenya
(2012-10)
The main thrust of this study is to establish the impact of financial literacy on access to financial services in
Kenya using the 2009 National Financial Access (FinAccess) survey data. Using a multinomial logit approach ...
Foreign direct investment, institutional quality and economic growth in Kenya
(2016-07)
The study was done to investigate the effect of FDI on economic growth in Kenya, to determine the influence of
institutional quality on the effect of FDI on economic growth, and to determine the effects of structural ...
Advances in the development of molecular genetic tools for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Elsevier, 2018-07)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a Gram-positive bacterium of great clinical relevance, is a lethal pathogen
owing to its complex physiological characteristics and development of drug resistance. Several molecular
genetic ...
External debt servicing and Current account balance in Kenya
(2018-07)
Kenya has experienced persistent current account deficits that have remained underneath the threshold that
economists would consider sustainable. At the point when a nation runs steady current account deficit for a ...