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HEMATOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS AS ALTERNATIVE MARKERS OF STOCKING DENSITY- INDUCED STRESS IN CULTURED NILE TILAPIA, (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) UNDER CULTURE CONDITIONS.
(Maseno University, 2022)Fish and fisheries play a significant role in meeting nutritional food security, more so of the poor communities in the low and middle income countries (LMIC).Oreochromis niloticusisone the most valuable warm water fishes ... -
EFFECT OF COUNTY BUDGET DEFICITS ON GROSS COUNTY PRODUCT IN KENYA
(Maseno University, 2022)Globally, the performance of any economy is determined by the proportion of productive resources available to support its needs. Low resource base compared to needs of any economy, contribute to economic instability, which ... -
FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE 2018 UHURU-RAILA HANDSHAKE DISCOURSE IN KENYA
(Maseno University, 2022)In Kenya, the Uhuru-Raila handshake on 9th March, 2018 elicited diverse discourse. Both the print media and the populace were replete with the discourse on it. This particular handshake ostensibly surpassed the traditional ... -
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, PRACTICES AND RISK PERCEPTION TOWARDS HIV AND AIDS PREVENTION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GWASSI SOUTH WARD, HOMA BAY COUNTY, KENYA
(Maseno University, 2022)Approximately 1.5 million people were reported to be living with Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV) infection in Kenya by 2020. The prevalence of HIV and AIDS in Homa Bay County (19.6%) is 4.5 times higher than the national ... -
Effect of institutional ownership structure on earnings management of the non-financial companies listed in Nairobi securities exchange, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Earnings management has emerged as an imperative issue in the Nairobi securities exchange. The recent fall of Chase bank which was placed under receivership in 2016, Nakumatt in 2019, Dubai bank in 2015, Imperial bank in ... -
Effect of microfinance practices on credit accessibility by consumer based small scale business in Kisumu city
(Maseno University, 2022)The SME sector is important for the growth of any economy, and responsible for job creation, contribution to GDP, mopping up of productive labour and alleviation of poverty in developing economies. However, consumer-based ... -
Effect of iinternal iaudit ipractices ion ifraud irisk imanagement iin idevolved igovernment isystems iin ikenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Internal audit practices have been documented to be effective in enhancing financial reporting quality and also improving financial performance. Practices such as audit planning, periodic risk assessment, and audit automation ... -
Effect of change management practices on productivity of transport sector in Migori county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Change management is an emerging tool and is increasingly being seen as a working tool that provides solutions to various problems which may be affecting the organization today. It compasses the organizational tools that ... -
Strategy implementation and performance of energy and petroleum sector state corporations in Kisumu County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Strategy implementation is an interactive process of implementing strategies, policies, programs, and action plans that allows a firm to utilize its resources to take advantage of opportunities in the competitive environment. ... -
Influence of relationship marketing practices on customer retention among supermarkets in Kisumu city
(Maseno University, 2022)Relationship marketing has been used by many firms to attain competitive advantage, more so customer retention. Research has shown that it is five times more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain the existing ... -
Effect of financial literacy on financial independence among retirees of public Universities in Western Kenya region
(Maseno University, 2022)Financial Independence (FI) means an individual’s capacity to control own finances, make decisions regarding money, support oneself financially through a job, savings, investments, or a combination of all three; without ... -
Effect of promotional mix strategies on non-financial performance of supermarkets in Kisumu city, Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2022)Retail sector in Kenya contributes averagely 10% of GDP to the economy according to Cyton survey, 2017. Oxford business group report, Kenya 2016 showed that performance of retail sector in Kenya is still low in terms of ... -
Influence of strategy implementation factors on performance of Kenya rural roads authority
(Maseno University, 2022)Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) is a road agency vested with the responsibility of management, development, rehabilitation, and maintenance of rural roads. However, the Authority has not adequately accomplished its ... -
Assessment of public participation in the budget process in Kisumu county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)Globally, governments, researchers, and policy practitioners have advanced public participation as an important tool for democratic governance. In Africa, countries such as Kenya have recently embraced public participation ... -
Effects of psychosocial and work condition on job satisfaction of public secondary school female principals in Siaya county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2022)The 2010 Constitution enhanced affirmative action to boost women’s participation in educational leadership in Kenya. However, in Siaya county female principals face problems in their leadership roles and work conditions ... -
A reinforcement learning multi-agent systems architecture for guaranteeing advancing conversations in task-oriented dialog systems
(Maseno University, 2022)The conversational capabilities of a dialog system have a direct impact on the tasks it can accomplish. Solving all conversational issues in dialog systems have the potential to make them serve in complex domains. While ... -
Anti-Jaynes-Cummings interaction of a two-level atom with squeezed light: A comparison with the Jaynes-Cummings interaction
(Maseno University, 2022)We considered the anti-Jaynes-Cummings (AJC) interaction of a two-level atom in an initial ground state interacting with a field mode in an initial squeezed coherent state at arbitrary values of squeeze parameter r and ... -
On atomic state purity operator, degree of state purity and concurrence in the JC and anti-JC models
(Maseno University, 2020)The state of an atom in a bipartite qubit, Jaynes-Cummings (JC) or anti-Jaynes-Cummings (aJC) interaction is described by a reduced density operator. The purity of the state has been measured by taking the trace of the ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Cornell University, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ... -
Diversity of Culture dependent endophytic bacteria isolated from leguminous agroforestry trees in western Kenya
(Research square, 2022)Plants have diverse and vast niches colonized by endophytic microorganisms that promote the well being of host plant. These microbes inhabit internal plant tissues with no signs of ill health. Bacterial endophytes from ...