• A Quantitative Analytical Chemistry Research-based Experiment Involving Comparative Analysis of Amaranth Grain Oils Extracted from Embu and Meru Districts in Kenya 

  Rugutt, Joseph K.; Okoth, Kevin Otieno; Wanjau, Ruth N.; Gikonyo, Nicholas K.; Machocho, Alex; Rugutt, Kipgeno J.; Obel, Millie Chepkemoi; Mibei, Erick (The Chemical Educator, 2014)

  : Amaranthus cruentus grains from Meru and Nyeri regions in Kenya were milled and oil extracted by the Bligh and Dyer method. Samples of oil from grains in the same regions extracted by cold pressing method were obtained ...
• Effects of essential oils of lemon grass, Cymbopogon citratus and the Mexican marigold, Tagetes minuta on mortality and oviposition in adult sandflies, Phlebotomus duboscqi 

  Ngeiywa, Moses; Njagi, Peter G. N.; Mulaa, Margaret; Ingonga, Johnstone; Nyamwamu, Lydia B.; Ombati, Cyprian; Ngumbi, Philip; Kimutai, Albert (International Journal of Biomedical Research, 2015)

  The efficacy of the essential oils of Cymbopogon citratus and Tagetes minuta in causing mortality in adults of the sandfly Phlebotomus duboscqi was tested in a laboratory bioassay. The effect of the oils on oviposition ...
• Movement Patterns And Home Range Sizes Of The Rothschild’s Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis Rothschildii) Translocated To Ruma National Park, Kenya. 

  Caroline, Anyango Dolphine; Adhiambo, Were - Kogogo Pamella Jael (The International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES), 2013-07)

  The need for management of small, wild populations has been given limited attention. The Rothschild’s giraffe is poorly represented in East Africa, therefore, it is important that its populations and environments should ...
• US-Africa Collaboration in a Chemical Education Project Involving Analysis of Amaranthus Grain Oil from Selected Agro-Ecological Zones in Kenya 

  Rugutt, Joseph K.; Okoth, Kevin Otieno; Wanjau, Ruth N.; Gikonyo, Nicholas K.; Machocho, Alex; Rugutt, Kipgeno J.; Rykhlya, Kristina Y.; Harris, Keil B.; Wilson, Katie R. (Chem. Educator, 2014)

  Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan genus of annual and perennial plants. Worldwide, amaranths are cereals, leaf vegetables, or ornamental plants. Two African species of amaranthus grain; Amaranthus cruentus and Amaranthus ...
• US-Africa Collaboration in Guided Inquiry Synthesis and Characterization of the “Frustrated” Amino Acid-Based Calixarene Molecules 

  Rugut, Joseph K.; Rugutt, Kipgeno J.; Koske, Julius; Chirchir, Denis; Cheruiyot, Gilbert; Koech, Joel; Mibei, Erick; Obel, Millie Chepkemoi; Bii, Christine Chemutai; Rop, Ronald (Chem. Educator, 2010-09-23)

  The Department of Chemistry at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) is internationalizing the existing research activities by initiating a collaborative Kenya-U.S. Chiral Science (chiroscience) project. The ...
• Investigating Challenges and Interventions in the Implementation of Libraries Strategic Plans in Selected Public University Libraries in Kenya 

  Harrison, Janet Nankui; Otike, Japhet; Amoth, Duncan (International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research & Innovation, 2022)

  Strategic plan provides different avenues for libraries to make options that give emphasis to their relevance in a competitive environment and to create sustainable benefits. However, university libraries that have ...
• Detection and typing of Human Papillomavirus in urine from patients attending a sexually transmitted infections clinic in Nairobi County, Kenya 

  Langat, Hillary K.; Ongus, Juliette R.; Kombich, Janeth C.; Omire, Agnes; Baliach, Caroline C.; Kerosi, Danvas O.; Lihana, Raphael W.; Lwembe, Raphael M. (Journal of Biology, Agriculture and Healthcare, 2015)

  Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that has been etiologically linked to cervical cancer. Different types of samples can be used for cervical screening, including Pap test or ...
• Prevalence and genetic diversity of rotavirus infection in children with acute gastroenteritis in a hospital setting, Nairobi Kenya in post vaccination era: a cross-sectional study 

  Agutu, Mary-Theresa; Ongus, Julliette; Kombich, Janeth; Kamenwa, Rose; Nyangao, James; Kagira, John; Ogutu, Adelaide Ayoyi; Bitek, Austine (The Pan African Medical Journal., 2017-01-24)

  Introduction: Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children. Each year more than 611 000 children die from rotavirus gastroenteritis, and two million are hospitalized, worldwide. In ...
• On Pointwise Product Vector Measure Duality 

  Olwamba, Levi Otanga; Oduor, Maurice Owino (Journal of Advances in Mathematics, 2021)

  This article is devoted to the study of pointwise product vector measure duality. The properties of Hilbert function space of integrable functions and pointwise sections of measurable sets are considered through the ...
• On Absolute Continuity of Non Negative Functions 

  Olwamba, Levi Otanga (Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, 2022-11-17)

  This paper is committed to the study of absolute continuity of non negative functions with respect to vector measures. Almost everywhere properties are applied to establish boundedness, measurability and convergence of ...
• Immunization Awareness and Alert Mobile Phone Based System for Kapsabet County Referral Hospital 

  Gichatha, Kamau Anthony; Bii, Harrison; Milgo, Edna (International Journal of Research in Engineering and Management, 2017)

  Despite increased investment on immunization awareness globally, immunization adoption rates still remain low in developing countries. However, the exponential growth, ease of access, and acceptance of mobile based ...
• Knowledge Sharing Among Communities of Practice in Public Universities in Kenya 

  Kimile, Nancy Mueni; Bii, Harrison; Kurgat, Kibiwott; Wasike, Jotham (Stratford Peer Reviewed Journals and Book Publishing, 2020)

  Knowledge as the fourth factor of production is significant in the knowledge economy. In particular, it can be asserted that Knowledge sharing through Communities of Practice (CoPs) creates a competitive advantage for ...
• Pre-implementation failure of information systems in public universities in Kenya: A case study of Moi University, Kenya 

  Bii, Harrison; Rukwaro, Monica (International Journal of Library and Information Science, 2019)

  Moi University was established in 1984 and its first decade of growth and expansion necessitated the adoption and utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to manage information generated by its operations. ...
• A Knowledge-Based System for Life Insurance Underwriting 

  Bii K., Harrison; Kiplang’at N., Joseph (International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science, 2017)

  The purpose of this work is to enhance the life insurance underwriting process by building a knowledge based system for life insurance underwriting. The knowledge-based system would be useful for organizations, which ...
• Solution of Third Order Viscous Wave Equation Using Finite Difference Method 

  Rop, Esther Chepngetich; Oduor, Okoya Michael; Oduor, Owino Maurice (Nonlinear Analysis and Differential Equations, 2019)

  The aim of this paper was to solve the third order viscous wave equa tion: utt = vuxx + c 2uxxt, which is a PDE. It occurs in many real-life situations such as water waves, sound waves, radio waves, light waves and ...
• On Conjugacy And Order Structure Of Certain Classes Of Finite Groups 

  Osango E.O., Hesbon; Oduor, Owino Maurice (International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2014)

  The classification of finite groups still remains an open problem. The concept of conjugacy provides an insight on the structure of finite groups. It is an equivalence relation which provides a neat algebraic description ...
• Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rubella transmission dynamics using mobile phone data 

  Wesolowski, Amy; Metcalf, C. J. E.; Eagle, Nathan; Kombich, Janeth; Grenfell, Bryan T.; Bjørnstadi, Ottar N.; Lessler, Justin; Tatem, Andrew J.; Buckee, Caroline O. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014-12-11)

  Changing patterns of human aggregation are thought to drive annual and multiannual outbreaks of infectious diseases, but the paucity of data about travel behavior and population flux over time has made this idea difficult ...
• Immunization coverage and its determinants among children aged 12 - 23 months in a peri-urban area of Kenya 

  Maina, Lilian Chepkemoi; Karanja, Simon; Kombich, Janeth (The Pan African Medical Journal, 2013-01-02)

  Introduction: The institutionalization of strong immunization services over recent years has ensured that today more than 70% of the worlds' targeted population is reached. In Kenya, approximately 77% of children aged ...
• Automorphisms of Zero Divisor Graphs of Square Radical Zero Commutative Unital Finite Rings 

  Mude, Lao Hussein; Oduor, Owino Maurice; Onyango, Ojiema Michael (Journal of Advances in Mathematics, 2020)

  There has been extensive research on the structure of zero divisors and units of commutative finite rings. However, the classification of such rings via a well known structure of zero divisors has not been done in general. ...
• Classification of Units of Five Radical Zero Completely Primary Finite Rings with Variant Orders of Second Galois Ring Module Generators 

  Were, Hezron Saka; Oduor, Maurice Owino; Gichuki, Ndiritu (Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, 2022)

  Let R be a commutative completely primary finite ring with a unique maximal ideal Z(R) such that (Z(R))5 = (0); (Z(R))4 ̸= (0). Then R/Z(R) ∼= GF(p r ) is a finite field of order p r . Let R0 = GR(p kr, pk ) be a ...

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