The role of this study was to explain the relationship between religious cultures and student retention in Chartered Christ ian Universit ies in Kenya. The study was based on Students’ Integration Theory by Tinto [1] and ...

The role of this study was to establish the relationship between instruction cultures and student retention in Chartered Christian Universities in Kenya. The study was based on Students’ Integration Theory by Tinto ...

This study examines the contribution of financial distress indicators to corporate failure for commercial banks in Kenya. Specifically, the study examined the contribution of cash flows, liquidity, solvency, profitability ...

Working capital management involves planning and controlling current assets and current liabilities in a manner that eliminates the risk of inability to meet due short term obligations on the one hand and avoid excessive ...

Kenyan banking sector has experienced rapid growth in profits, deposits and revenues in the recent years and this has triggered a lot of competition among banks. In response, banks have developed new strategies to weather ...

The objective of the study was to investigate the role of problematic internet usage in the risk of addiction to online sexual violence among undergraduate students in Kenyan universities. The study utilized Behaviourist Theory ...

Internet connectivity and usage have increased tremendously over the last few years. Although the connectivity in institutions of learning is meant for accessing important information and academic purposes, university ...

Procurement is an integrative process which offers a platform form for the government to venture into the market to acquire services and commodities for its citizens.  A policy is a governing set of principles which ...

Psychosocial health of many learners at both primary and secondary levels in the 21 st century has been adversely affected by various factors. Amongst many documented factors, the influence of bullying on psychosocial ...

This study examines the dramaturgies used in the representation of the female gender in Kenyan drama. The study examines Kyalo‘s The Hunter is Back (2010), Imbuga‘s The Return of Mgofu (2011) and The Green Cross of ...

With globalization-no physical/geographical boundaries, hence intercultural communication is part of our daily life, (Neuliep, 2009) thus a necessary concern. -Kenya is home for diff. societies and cultures  Studies have ...

ICT is transforming various aspects of human activity . A new global economy powered by technology, fuelled by information, and driven by knowledge has been created. Technology has changed the way people live, communicate, ...

This study’s purpose was to identify the role of counseling services in mitigating risky sexual behaviors among undergraduate students of main campuses in Nakuru County. Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura and ...

Psychosocial factors may shape sexual attitudes and behaviours of young people either positively or negatively. Risky sexual behaviours have become a challenge all over the world and may have major negative impact on ...

Provision of teaching resources in educational institutions is central to achievement of the goals of education. It could facilitate effective performance of teachers’ instructional roles. This study sought to investigate ...

Human resource management is the strategic approach to the management of an organizations most vital asset, the people who contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization. Employee incentives ...

Medical facilities in Kenya have adopted Electronic Health Records systems but lack a robust and secure system for sharing sensitive and confidential health records. These efforts do not provide comprehensive data integrity ...

Medical facilities in Kenya have made efforts to adopt Electronic Health Records systems at various levels and for different use cases. However, there lacks a robust and secure system for sharing sensitive and confidential ...

Information infrastructure is one of the most important assets in universities. With rapid advancement in technology, it poses a challenge as adversaries have come up to attack information and information systems. Most ...

Information infrastructure is one of the most critical assets in organizations. With continued and rapid advancement in technology especially brought by the need for employees to use their personal devices, it presents a ...

Popular music is an important ingredient in the day-to-day lives of many young people, especially the youth. In Kenya, this genre has not been included in the secondary school music curriculum. The glaring omission of ...

Privacy invasion is an offence perpetrated by availability, access, and use of advanced mobile devices when they land in the wrong hands of people who have the intention of infringing into the space of either individuals ...

 Problem Statement  Objective of the Research  Expected Outcomes  Recommendation  Conclusion

The concepts of girls and women in relation to issues of education have been met with a lot of resistance for a long time in history.  Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1779), believed that women were created to entertain ...

(Mathew 25.35), "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. was ....needed clothes and you clothed me, was in prison and you came to visit me". • Evangelizing without ...

Regional integration in the SSA is no shortcut; its instead a requirement. Member states, however poor, backward and isolated require political goodwill and support. Trade blocs enhance the co-operation in the region though ...

(Mathew 25.35), "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. was ....needed clothes and you clothed me, was in prison and you came to visit me". Evangelizing without ...

This study sought to establish the financial management literacy and application among University students as a contingency against unemployment in Kenya. The specific objectives included: to find out the savings ...

The right to own one's genius is not a new concept. However, with the arrival of the digital age, it has become much harder to remain in control of one's intellectual property. Intellectual property has grown from the ...

This reference guide introduces the eight active international courts in Africa.1 Also included is a ninth inactive court, the Arab Maghreb Union’s Judicial Organ. The discussion of the Arab Maghreb Union’s Judicial Organ ...

Kenya’s form of quasi-federalism termed devolution was introduced under the Constitution of Kenya (2010) (‘2010 Constitution’). This governance system establishes 47 county governments which are constitutionally independent ...

Criminal sentencing is an integral part in in any judicial system for the fair administration of justice. The process of sentencing and the standards applied by judicial officers has, however, been a notoriously difficult ...

The cardinal principle governing jus in bello demands a distinction between combatants and civilians and authorizes the attack of the former. In essence, loss of civilian life is prohibited unless it occurs within the ...

Sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) are incessant non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade in both intra and extra-African trade. New SPS measures are now set up in the African Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) ...

Following years of intense lobbying, disagreements and a circus of back and forth arguments, intellectual property rights eventually found their way into the legal framework regulating global trade.1 This followed the ...

In 2012, the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi declared Section 2 of the Anti-Counterfeit Act (ACA) unconstitutional because its enforcement would limit access to affordable and essential drugs and medicines and thereby ...

The healthcare sector in Kenya has been in a state of turmoil for a long time with this manifesting itself in varied forms. This has in many ways translated to adverse outcomes on individuals seeking healthcare services. ...

On May 9 2001, the Arab Republic of Egypt ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Along with said ratification, Egypt submitted five reservations against Articles 21 (2), on child marriage, ...

At its January and July 2016 Assembly, the AU, continuing its long held call for African states to withdraw from the Rome Statute, adopted a decision indicating its most operational intent to so withdraw. In October 2016, ...

Human rights record is often monitored through mass media content. However, in repressed societies, mass media is often policed, resulting in sanitised depictions of life. Such mass media appears inadequate as a source ...

The load capacity of a PSV vehicle is normally determined by tare weight and not the available cargo space as stated in section 56 of the Traffic act Cap 403, Kenya. Unfortunately, law enforcers on Kenyan roads only check ...

Specific objectives of the study were to determine the effect of the accounts receivables period, accounts payables period, inventory conversion period, cash conversion cycle, financing policy, investing policy and ...

Public participation (PP) is a key constitutional principle outlined in the Constitution of Kenya. It promotes democratic and accountable exercise of power. It gives the citizens an opportunity to enhance self-development ...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC or the Convention) is quite simply, the greatest treaty-making achievement of the United Nations (UN) era. This appraisal of the recent developments of 2015-16 in ...

Professor Yash Pal Ghai did not just lead the process of writing the Constitution of Kenya; he is actually embedded in it. Our Constitution benefited not just from Ghai’s long experience in negotiating peace but also his ...

Kenya has already adopted the devolved system of government in different spheres of education, ECDE among them. The County Early Childhood Education Bill 2014 tasked the County Governments to establish and maintain ECDE ...

Traditionally Kiswahili proverbs have been taught using teacher centered methods This has been thought to contribute to the poor performance of students in Kiswahili in KCSE Emerging technologies such as videos are a ...

Broad Perspective – Religion and Politics but Now – Practical theology Negative ethnicity is a social evil which the church must fight The ministry of the church is beyond evangelism to social concern Jesus preached ...

Pre- colonial Women for years (Africa) in particular were regarded simply as being weak, fearful and with no power to speak out their intentions and greavances. They were underestimated; said to be only suitable for ...

In our contemporary society, there has emerged growing concern in the appropriacy of the domain of performance and arts and its contribution to matter concerning a given community. Humankind is known to have been ...

Introduction and Background of Concept Paper. Theoretical Framework and Physiological basis of Thesis. Limitations of Attachment Theory. Biblical Basis of Parenting. An Analysis of Two Programs Focusing on Father Issues ...

For the youth to have success in self-employment they need to develop saving and investment skills. Students, being on the verge of entering the job market and thereby starting to earn, need to demonstrate a proper ...

Today’s marketing approaches is characterized by the narrow focus of attracting new customers and increasing the sales in order to deliver competitive advantage. As a strategic response, the business leaders are embracing ...

One of the significant concepts in consumer behavior is information processing by consumers, which encompasses the process during which consumers’ come into contact with information, notice it, apprehend it, retain it in ...

Daniel (2007) defines M-Banking as the deployment of technology to offer services using systems that include short message services, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), smartphone Apps, among others. M-Banking ...

Information systems have emerged to be a powerful tool for driving competitive advantage for firms Prior research has shown that very few SMEs use the analytical power of IS to drive their performance especially in ...

The progression and success of any institution is dependent on its adeptness to adapt to the diverse changes from global perspective. To cope with the changing expectations of the institutions, a culture that embraces ...

The progression and success of any institution is dependent on its adeptness to adapt to the diverse changes from global perspective. To cope with the changing expectations of the institutions, a culture that embraces ...

Governance is a theoretical concept referring to actions and processes by which stable practices and organisations arise and persist. These actions and processes may operate in formal and informal organisations such as ...

Peace is defined as the absence of widespread physical violence. The term is derived from Galtung’s (1976) idea of positive peace where non-violence, social justice and ecological sustainability remove the causes of war ...

There has been a widespread belief among educational economists that educational development would lead to accelerated economic growth, more wealth and income distribution, greater equality of opportunity, availability of ...

The current thinking on development issues indicates that there is a gender imbalance in access to and control over resources in most African communities (Snyder, 2000) In communities like the Keiyo of Kenya, women were ...

Hearing impaired learners encounter many challenges which are caused by their inability to hear and effectively use oral language. A functional guidance and counseling programme has a pivotal role in providing the hearing ...

The nexus between the mind and socio-cultural setting begets the concept ‘Cognitive Linguistics’ which is an appliance exploited to make sense of experiences in contexts where provisions of grammar are too inadequate( ...

While the secondary school educational opportunities have continued to expand, a significant number of female students are not enrolling and participating effectively in secondary schools. In Thailand, children from poor ...

Increased mining activities in Kenya, targeting titanium, gypsum gold to name a few Extractive industry is potentially an important contributor to water pollution

A time series is defined as data recorded sequentially over a specified period. Since the data are records taken overtime, missing observations in time series are very common. They may occur as a result of lost records, ...

Groundwater exploration has been done extensively using electrical resistivity methods by many workers(Olurunfemi and Fasuy, 1993) Electrical resistivity considered to be the most suitable method for groundwater investigation ...

E-government – Enables citizens to interact with government at all levels and access services through electronic means Implementation and adoption Implementation and adoption models Rapid application development approach

Several studies have shown that beans are the leading source of protein and calories for many of the poorest families in Kenya Two dry bean cultivars (Chelelang and Ciankui) have been reported to be suitable for growing ...

Text translation is critical for the acquisition, dissemination, exchange and understanding of knowledge in the global information society this form the basis of much multilingual research in natural language processing, ...

Boran cattle are predominant breeds in NE, a region that produces 70% livestock for meat Dark pigmentation; black points-protection from sunburns; smooth, loose but motile and shiny coat/skin-reflection solar radiation; ...

Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both left and right appendages (such as the hands). It is one of the most famous varieties of cross-dominance.

Reproductive woman seeking to have children needs to undergo a preconception care check-up. Mother’s health and life-style affect pregnancy Underweight and obesity are associated with: Gestational diabetes, Pre-clampsia, ...

Cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL), a by-product cashew nut processing contains : anarcardic acid, cardanol, cardol & 2 – methyl cardol. Cardanol & cardol were isolated from CNSL using chemical method adopted from Kumar ...

Hair in Africa: An Overview Hair reacts to our state of mind Hair has a meaning in African culture and similary to the Samburu.

ICT is transforming various aspects of human activity . A new global economy powered by technology, fuelled by information, and driven by knowledge has been created. Technology has changed the way people live, communicate, ...

However, as recent as 2008, schools were hit by a wave of unrests where over “300 secondary schools were hit by unrests that saw students disrupt learning, besides destroying property worth of millions of shillings” (Daily ...

The World Bank estimates that Kenya’s poverty level stands at 44 to 46 per cent Rift Valley province where Baringo County is located had a poverty index of 50%, (Government, 2007). Research also shows that three out ...

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The secondary school segment in the education cycle of Kenya is important for three major reasons: It de-links one from elementary primary learning, It provides a chance for one to complete the cycle for basic ...

Procurement is an integrative process which offers a platform form for the government to venture into the market to acquire services and commodities for its citizens. A policy is a governing set of principles which ...

The commercial banks in Kenya are currently operating in a more dynamic business environment than before, since the market has been liberalized. Due to the liberalized economy, there has been intense competition in the ...

The Internet is a useful tool that can be used by entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) alike to market their products/services and considerably reduce costs of doing business. The government of Kenya ...

Tea is one of tree crops, and a beverage made from the leaves of tropical shrub of the camellia family. According Fuller [2008], “it is aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured ...

Technology is easy to acquire and therefore the advantage that results from it depends on how it is exploited. When it is fully exploited, it strengthens the core capabilities of the business. Technology has become an ...

Venture capital financing continues to play a major economic role in Kenya especially towards the attainment of the vision 2030 which aims at making Kenya a middle-income country. It is a type of financing that involves ...

One of the main challenges facing secondary education sector in Kenya and other parts of the world today is low secondary school completion rates, which is an indicator of low internal efficiency. Despite the effort by the ...

There has been increased frequency of information systems' security breaches within universities. Studies indicate that information technology security management could be improved if IT security management were used ...

Background Gestational DM has been associated with increased risk of perinatal mortality and morbidity however, screening recommendations are not clearly described in Kenyan guidelines. Kenyan studies have shown wide-ranging ...