• Green isolation of cellulosic materials from recycled pulp and paper sludge: a Box-Behnken design optimization 

  Evans K. Suter , Hilary L. Rutto , Tumisang S. Seodigeng , Sammy L. Kiambia , nd Wesley N. Omwoyo (2024)

  Cellulose was isolated from recycled pulp and paper sludge and used to synthesize cellulose nanocrystals. Response surface methodology and Box-Behnken design model were used to predict, improve, and optimize the cellulose ...
• Stabilized Bare Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Characterization 

  E.K. Suter, H.L. Rutto, W.N. Omwoyo, Musamba Banza, (2023)

  Iron is a ubiquitous element found on Earth's crust, existing in various forms, such as Magnetite (Fe3O4) and Hematite (α-Fe2O3). Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MIONPs) have become increasingly popular because they ...
• In situ capping of silver nanoparticles with cellulosic matrices from wheat straws in enhancing their antimicrobial activity: Synthesis and characterization 

  Shappo Tloua , Evans Suterb , Mitem Alfred , Hilary Rutto , and Wesley Omwoyo (2023)

  Silver nanoparticles have gained worldwide attention in the scientific community due to their high antimicrobial activity. However, they tend to agglomerate and lose their shape and properties, thus capping agents necessary ...
• Recycled pulp and paper sludge, potential source of cellulose: feasibility assessment and characterization 

  E. K. Suter, H. L. Rutto, T. S. Seodigeng, S. L. Kiambi & W. N. Omwoyo (2024)

  The pulp and paper industry stands out as an example of a technology based on a renewable resource, cellulose. The sludge, however, poses major environmental and public health problems. To effectively manage the sludge ...
• Modeling Dependence using Copula Garch 

  Floriane Nsabimana , Hellen Waititu and Cornelious Nyakundi (2023)

  This study sought to investigate the tail dependence between government debt and bank’s nonperforming loans. The objectives of this study were formulation of a bivariate copula model which captures the dependence between ...
• Kenyan Free-Tailed Bats Demonstrate Seasonal Birth Pulse Asynchrony with Implications for Virus Maintenance 

  Tamika J. Lunn , Reilly T. Jackson, Paul W. Webala , Joseph Ogola, and Kristian M. Forbes (2024)

  : Ecological information on wildlife reservoirs is fundamental for research targeting prevention of zoonotic infectious disease, yet basic information is lacking for many species in global hotspots of disease emergence. ...
• Human impacts on bats in tropical ecosystems: sustainable actions and alternatives 

  Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec, William Douglas Carvalho, Ana Rainho , Paul W. Webala and Ludmilla M. S. Aguiar (2024)

  1 Programa de Po´ s-Graduac¸ão em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazoˆ nia, Manaus, Brazil, 2Instituto Tecnolo´ gico Vale, Bele´ m, Brazil, 3Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM), Departamento de Ecolog´ıa, ...
• Frequent and intense human-bat interactions occur in buildings of rural Kenya 

  Reilly T. JacksonID1 *, Tamika J. Lunn, Isabella K. DeAnglis , Joseph G. Ogola , Paul W. Webala , Kristian M. Forbes (2024)

  Simultaneous use of domestic spaces by humans and wildlife is little understood, despite global ubiquity, and can create an interface for human exposure to wildlife pathogens. Bats are a pervasive synanthropic taxon and ...
• A review of bats of the genus Pseudoromicia (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with the description of a new species 

  Amanda L. Grunwald, Terrence C. Demos, Yvette Nguéagni, Martin N. Tchamba, Ara Monadjem, Paul W. Webala, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Bruce D. Patterson & Luis A. Ruedas (2023)

  The Cameroon Volcanic Line, which divides the Congo Basin fauna from the West African fauna, is a known area of high endemism for various taxa, but the region’s bat fauna has received little attention. We review variation ...
• Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Pixie Production in Makueni County, Kenya 

  Wambua Samuel Muuo* , Simon Mwaura, Christopher Maokomba (2024)

  The purpose of the study was to determine the farm technical efficiency in pixie farming in Makueni County, Kenya and the factors which influence the technical efficiency. The specific objectives of the study were: ...
• An Analysis of Urban Green Space Policies, Laws and Institutional Frameworks in Dandora Estates, Nairobi County 

  Silva M. Namalwa , Maurice Omollo , & Charity Konana (2024)

  Urban green spaces have long been integral to urban planning, offering a vital connection between city dwellers and the natural world. Sustainable development and urban well-being are increasingly influenced by policies ...
• Frequent and intense human-bat interactions occur in buildings of rural Kenya 

  Reilly T. JacksonID1 *, Tamika J. Lunn2,3, Isabella K. DeAnglis , Joseph G. Ogola , Paul W. Webala , Kristian M. Forbes (2024)

  Simultaneous use of domestic spaces by humans and wildlife is little understood, despite global ubiquity, and can create an interface for human exposure to wildlife pathogens. Bats are a pervasive synanthropic taxon and ...
• DETERMINING THE UNBIASED ESTIMATOR OF THE POPULATION GEOMETRIC MEASURES OF VARIATION ABOUT THE MEAN 

  Troon John Benedict , Obere Almadi , Karanjah Anthony , Alilah Anekeya David (2021)

  Geometric Measures of Variation about the mean is a measure that uses the geometric averaging technique to average the deviations from the mean. From previous studies, it has been determined that the measure is more ...
• THE NEXUS BETWEEN REWARD MANAGEMENT AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. A KENYA COMMERCIAL BANK’S PERSPECTIVE 

  Justus Nyongesa Wesonga, Johan Van Der Westhuizen (2023)

  The foundation of reward management is the idea that people run organizations; they are the ones that generate value by utilizing company resources to provide goods and services that customers want, and they must be paid ...
• THE MODERATION EFFECT OF PERSONAL FACTORS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF EMPLOYEES IN HUDUMA CENTRES IN WESTERN KENYA 

  Justus Nyongesa Wesonga, Johan Van Der Westhuizen (2023)

  The Kenyan Government mounted the following efforts to improve service delivery: privatization, voluntary early retirement, and restructuring, but the results were not good, thereby opting for performance contracting using ...
• The impacts of community-based water development projects on rural poverty among small-holder farmers: Evidence from the Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area, Kenya 

  Simon Ng’ang’a Mwaura , Isaac Maina Kariuki , Simon Kiprop , Augustus Sammy Muluvi , Gideon Obare and Boniface Kiteme (2021)

  The main challenge with respect to water in the rural setting, lies in access, control and management. Collective action has been taken up following the International Water Management (IWM) principles and institutionalized ...
• The Effect of Performance Contracting on Public Service Delivery of Employees in Huduma Centres in Western Kenya 

  Wesonga Justus Nyongesa and Johan van der Westhuizen (2023)

  Kenya's government has faced community pressure to enhance service performance. Service delivery has not improved due to privatization, voluntary early retirement, or reorganization. Performance contracting was an option for ...
• Sa¨rndal Approach and Separate Type Quantile Robust Regression Type Mean Estimators for Nonsensitive and Sensitive Variables in Stratified Random Sampling 

  Usman Shahzad , Ishfaq Ahmad, Nadia H. Al-Noor , Soofa Iftikhar, A. H. Abd Ellah, and Troon J. Benedict (2022)

  Surprising perceptions may happen in survey sampling. Te arithmetic mean estimator is touchy to extremely enormous or potentially small observations, whenever selected in a sample. It can give one-sided (biased) results ...
• Repairing Event Logs to Enhance the Performance of a Process Mining Model 

  Shabnam Shahzadi, 1 Xianwen Fang, Usman Shahzad , Ishfaq Ahmad, and Troon Benedict (2022)

  Organizations and companies are starving to improve their business processes to stay in competition. As we know that process mining is a young and emerging study that lasts among data mining and machine learning. e main ...
• Properties and Construction Method for Symmetric Balanced Incomplete Block Design with λ=1 

  Troon John Benedict , Onyango Fredrick , Karanjah Anthony (2023)

  Symmetric Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with λ=1 is a common class of BIBDs which are mostly used in incomplete experimental block design set up because of their simplicity in set up and also in analysis. Over the ...

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