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Influence Of Worklife Balance Practices On Performance Of The Banking Industry In Kenya

Mungania, Agnes Kinanu (COHRED - JKUAT, 2-12-07)

The demand for work life balance solutions by employees and managers is expanding at unprecedented rate and work life balance is one of the challenges that organizations and the banking industry are expected to manage to ...
Epidemiological Models for Tuberculosis Cases Progression

Kipruto, Hillary Kipchumba (JKUAT COHES, 10-08-20)

This research developed epidemiological models for the susceptible infected recovered for tuberculosis epidemic in Kenya using stochastic and deterministic models as well as spatial temporal models. Tuberculosis disease ...
Influence of Alignment on Strategy Implementation in HIV/AIDS Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya

Mutinda, Bernadette (JKUAT-COHRED, 28-10-20)

Strategy in many companies is almost disconnected from execution. The best-formulated strategies may fail to produce superior performance for the firm if they are not successfully implemented. Poor implementation of strategic ...
Role of high performance work practices on organizational performance. A survey of listed state corporations in the Nairobi stock exchange in Kenya.

Sabwami, Peter Butali (Human Resource Management ,JKUAT, 201-03-01)

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of High performance work practices on organizational performance on listed state corporations in Kenya. The study was guided by selective hiring, employee participation and ...
Assessment of benefits and risks of outsourcing environmental, health and safety management services by organizations in Nairobi, Kenya

Thiane, James (IEET- OSHA, JKUAT, 216-07-26)

The research assessed the benefits and risks of outsourcing Environmental, Health and Safety management services in selected organizations in Nairobi. The research used descriptive research design. Sampling technique was ...
The use of catechins as biochemical markers in diversity studies of tea (Camellia sinensis)

Magoma, G.N.; Wachira, F.N.; Obanda, M.; Imbuga, M.; Agong, S.G. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999-03-29)

The concentrations of catechins in a Kenyan tea germplasm collection of 102 accessions were determined by HPLC. Total green leaf catechin concentrations and the ratio of dihydroxylated to trihydroxylated catechins were used ...
Constraints and Sustainable Solutions for Adoption of TC Banana Technology and Marketing

Kahangi, E.M.; Muthee, A.M.; Chege, B.K. (CIDA, 2004)

Proponents of biotechnology assert that this technology offers enormous opportunities to poor farmers and low-income consumers in developing countries. However, this study has revealed that very little can be accomplished ...
Overstraining of flush plain cross-bored cylinders

Kihiu, J.M.; Rading, G.O.; Mutuli, S.M. (SAGE, 2004-02-01)

A three-dimensional nite element method computer program was developed to establish the elastic–plastic, residual and service stress distributions in thick-walled cylinders with ush and non-protruding plain cross bores ...
Rhodococcus opacus strain RW, a resorcinoldegrading bacterium from the gut of Macrotermes michaelseni

Ngugi, David Kamanda; Tsanuo, Muniru Khamis; Boga, Hamadi Iddi (Academic Journals, 2005)

The population of resorcinol degrading bacteria in the intestinal tract of fungi-cultivating termite, Macrotermes michaelseni, was estimated to be 6.8 × 102 cells/ml. A gram-positive bacterium designated RW, capable of ...
Performance of a prototype baited-trap in attracting and infecting the tick Amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae) in field experiments

Maranga, R.O.; HASSANALI, A.; KAAYA, G.P.; MUEKE, J.M. (Springer, 2006)

Investigations were commenced to study the potential use of the fungi, Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae, and the attraction-aggregation-attachment pheromone (AAAP) for the control of Ambloyomma variegatum as ...
Overstrain in flush optimal-chamfered cross-bored cylinders

Kihiu, J.M.; Rading, G.O.; Mutuli, S.M. (SAGE, 2006-01-01)

A three-dimensional finite-element method computer program was developed to establish the elastic–plastic, residual, and service stress distributions in cylinders with flush and non-protruding optimal-chamfered cross-bores ...
Volatile Constituents of Mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) Peel Oil from Burundi

Njoroge, Simon Muhoho; Mungai, Hellen Njoki; Koaze, Hiroshi; Phi, Nguyen Thi Lan; Sawamura, Masayoshi (Taylor & Francis Group content, 2006-11)

The essential oil constituents of mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) grown in Burundi were extracted by coldpressing method and analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Fifty-eight constituents, amounting to 97.2% of the total ...
Traditional medicines among the Embu and Mbeere people of Kenya

Kareru, P.G.; Kenji, G.M.; Gachanja, A.N.; Keriko, J.M.; Mungai, G. (AJOL, 2007)

Ethnobotanical information and traditional medicines were investigated and documented in Embu and Mbeere districts, Eastern Province of Kenya. Oral interviews were obtained from over 100 herbalists, both men and women aged ...
Bacterial diversity in the intestinal tract of the funguscultivating termite Macrotermes michaelseni (Sjöstedt)

Mackenzie, Lucy Mwende; Muigai, Anne Thairu; Osir, Ellie Onyango; Lwande, Wilber; Keller, Martin; Toledo, Gerardo; Boga, Hamadi Iddi (Academic Journals, 2007-03-19)

Microorganisms in the intestinal tracts of termites play a crucial role in the nutritional physiology of termites. The bacterial diversity in the fungus-cultivating Macrotermes michaelseni was examined using both molecular ...
Solid-phase extraction of Zn(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) and Pb(II) on poly(vinyl chloride) modified with 3-ferrocenyl-3-hydroxydithioacrylic acid, and their subsequent determination by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

Kiptoo, Jackson K.; Ngila, J. Catherine; Silavwe, Ned D. (Springer-Verlag, 2007-03-24)

A new chelating resin based on poly(vinyl chloride) functionalized with 3-ferrocenyl-3-hydroxydithioacrylic acid has been synthesized and characterized. The resin was used as a packing material in an off-line mini-column ...
Variable amplitude loading in en8 (080m40) steel: a detailed experimental study of crack growth

Ng'ang'a, S. P.; James, M.N. (WILEY, 2007-04-02)

The load interaction effects that occur under variable amplitude loading conditions following single peak overloads, low-high blocks and high-low blocks have been investigated on a commonly used structural steel. A detailed ...
The contents of Pb, Cu, Zn and Cd in meat in Nairobi, Kenya

Oyaro, Nathan; Ogendi, Juddy; Murago, Elizabeth N. M.; Gitonga, Eric (WFL Publisher, 2007-05-17)

The most important uptake of heavy metals by man occurs through ingestion, hence food analysis is of great importance. In Kenya, meat is sold in butcheries, which are strategically situated near the roadsides and near bus ...
Constitutive Expressor of Pathogenesis-Related Genes5 affects cell wall biogenesis and trichome development

Brininstool, Ginger; Kasili, Remmy; Simmons, L. Alice; Kirik, Viktor; Hülskamp, Martin; Larkin, John C. (BioMed Central, 2007-09-14)

Background: The Arabidopsis thaliana CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES5 (CPR5) gene has been previously implicated in disease resistance, cell proliferation, cell death, and sugar sensing, and encodes ...
STATUS AND THE POTENTIAL OF STINGLESS BEES (APIDAE: MELIPONINAE) FOR FOREST CONSERVATION AND INCOME GENERATION: A CASE STUDY OF KAKAMEGA FOREST

Macharia, Joseph Kimunge (Zoloogy, JKUAT, 2008)

Stingless beekeeping (meliponiculture) is a unique eco-friendly agro-practice with the potential for environmental amelioration, employment and income generation. Meliponiculture would be ideal for generation of supplementary ...
STATUS AND THE POTENTIAL OF STINGLESS BEES (APIDAE: MELIPONINAE) FOR FOREST CONSERVATION AND INCOME GENERATION: A CASE STUDY OF KAKAMEGA FOREST

Macharia, Joseph Kimunge (Zoloogy, JKUAT, 2008)

Stingless beekeeping (meliponiculture) is a unique eco-friendly agro-practice with the potential for environmental amelioration, employment and income generation. Meliponiculture would be ideal for generation of supplementary ...

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