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Rainfall Variability, Drought Characterization, and Efficacy of Rainfall Data Reconstruction: Case of Eastern Kenya
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-08)
This study examined the extent of seasonal rainfall variability, drought occurrence, and the efficacy of interpolation techniques in eastern Kenya. Analyses of rainfall variability utilized rainfall anomaly index, coefficients ...
Effect of Government Regulations on the Relationship Between Return on Investments and Financing of Water Investments In Nairobi Peri-Urban Markets in Kenya
(2014)
For any economic development it is important to finance infrastructure such as water and sanitation. Water has historically been viewed as public good not as a market commodity and thus water utilities have ...
The effects of exchange rate liberalization in Kenya on French beans exports
(Pak Publishing Group, 2014)
The adoption of a floating exchange rate system in Kenya was an effort to make it more aligned to the market determined equilibrium rate. However, there is limited empirical evidence that success has since been achieved ...
Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended descriptions of the order Planctomycetales and the family Planctomycetaceae
(2014)
Planctomyces brasiliensis Schlesner 1990 belongs to the order Planctomycetales, which differs from other bacterial taxa by several distinctive features such as internal cell compartmentalization, multiplication by forming ...
Determinants of Corporate Capital Structure among Private Manufacturing Firms in Kenya: A Survey of Food and Beverage Manufacturing Firms
(Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014-07)
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing corporate capital structure in private firms in Kenya. Although the capital structure issue has received substantial attentio n, it is noteworthy ...
Effects of selected soil and water conservation techniques on runoff, sediment yield and maize productivity under sub-humid and semi-arid conditions in Kenya
(Elsevier, 2014-05)
tillage practices on runoff amounts, sediment yield and maize yields under semi-arid and sub-humid environments. Field trials were set in Kigogo primary school in Meru South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County, representing ...
Exploring internal auditor independence motivators: Kenyan perspective
(Science Publishing Group, 2014-03)
The institute of internal auditors expressed the role of internal audit as that providing objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. In performing thisrole ...
Roles of doping ions in afterglow properties of blue CaAl2O4:Eu2+,Nd3+ phosphors
(2014-04)
Eu2+ doped and Nd3+ co-doped calcium aluminate (CaAl2O4:Eu2+,Nd3+) phosphor was prepared by a urea-nitrate solution combustion method at furnace temperatures as low as 500 °C. The produced CaAl2O4:Eu2+,Nd3+ powder was ...
Demarcating day-light-length from temperature effects in PGMS rice using back tracking method.
(2014)
Two near isogenic rice lines ZAU11S106 (Photoperiod sensitive genic male sterile) and ZAU11F121(a ZAU11S106 whose PGMS gene has undergone reverse mutation to become a non-PGMS) were used. These two lines were studied to ...