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• #### Factors influencing students’ academic achievement in linear algebra ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2017)
This study investigated the relationship between students’ year of study, gender and academic achievement in Linear algebra in a selected university in Kenya. One hundred and one 3rd and 4th year students were sampled for ...
• #### Family and economics in nation building: an aristotelian perspective ﻿

Raphael Alvira reminds us that originally Economics meant the law or norm of the house or simply “household management”; whose other names are (oikia, domus, Haus) . He also suggests that there are three elements that ...
• #### Finite population total estimation with measurement errors ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2019-08)
We consider measurement errors on linear regression estimates of the finite population total. A general case of the linear regression estimates with unbiased measurement errors where the effect of biases on the simple ...
• #### Finite rings with homocyclic $p-$groups as Sylow $p$-subgroups of the group of units ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2017)
In 1960, Laszlo Fuchs posed, among other problems, the following: characterize the groups which are the groups of all units in a commutative and associative ring with identity. Though this problem still remains open, ...
• #### Flower pollination algorithm feature selection for chronic kidney disease classification ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2019-08)
Chronic kidney disease is a general term for heterogeneous disorders affecting kidney structure and function. It is recognized now that even mild abnormalities in measures of kidney structure and function are associated ...
• #### Fluctuating tourism patterns : SME’s adaptive strategies in Nairobi ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2014)
Tourism seasonality has been well reviewed in available literature. However, research on effects of seasonality on Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has been limited, especially in East Africa. This study sought to investigate ...

• #### Fostering sustainable development through quality assurance in higher education ﻿

According to the World Bank working paper no. 124, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is home to 740 million people. Although the number is increasing, Africa has 635 out of the world’s 17,716 universities (3.6%). The gross tertiary ...
• #### Foundations of an autonomic manager for maintaining quality of service in enterprise data warehouses ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2017)
Data stored in an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) is an essential asset to enterprises. Through efficient access to data (where efficiency is quantitatively measured in terms of speed), SMEs can enhance their growth, ...
• #### From innovation to entrepreneurship venture: a conversion model for Mobile innovations ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2019-08)
Mobile innovations is still an untapped entrepreneurial opportunity in Kenya and local developers are increasingly encouraged to think about accessing global markets by using the windows of opportunity offered by the ...
• #### From m-transactions to low-cost m-commerce framework for Kenya ﻿

Paper presented at ICT conference of 2008. Theme : ICT's Role towards a Knowledge Economy.
• #### From smileys to Smiley coins -using a crypto currency in education ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2017)
This paper describes a crypto currency to reward students for their studies. The currency bears the apt name Smiley coin or SMLY and is used within the tutor-web online learning platform. In order to make the SMLY more ...
• #### From the banking hall to the bandwidth: implications of mobile banking systems ﻿

Paper presented at Strathmore ICT Conference 2008. Theme : ICT's Role towards a Knowledge Economy.
• #### Gaps and trends in mathematics education research in East Africa: reflections of an emerging scholar ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2019-08)
In this presentation I reflect on my considerations of the key gaps and trends in mathematics education research in East Africa. The reflections are based on exploration of mathematics education literature and interactions ...
• #### GDD (n1, n, n + 1, 4; λ1, λ2) for n1 = 1 or 2 ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2017)
The main subject matter for this paper is GDDs with three groups of sizes 1, n, (n≥ 2) and n + 1, respectively, and block size four. A block has Configuration (1, 1, 2), means the block has the point from the group of size ...
• #### Gender equity as an element of education quality: issues beyond access ﻿

Paper presented at Strathmore International Maths Research Conference on July 23 - 27, 2012
• #### Gender ideology proposals and its consequences ﻿

For more than a decade the evolution of the notion of the term “gender” has grown in importance, both in intellectual debate and in the realm of praxis. Initially,the expression “gender” was used within the field of grammar ...
• #### Generalization and classes of probability distributions ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2019)
Highlights of various methods for constructing probability distributions are given. The distributions are based on : power series, transformations, mixtures, sums of independent random variables, recursive relations, ...
• #### GIS application for health facilities ﻿

Paper presented at Strathmore ICT Conference, 2009
• #### Global stability of equilibrium points of typhoid fever model with protection ﻿

(Strathmore University, 2017)
A non-linear Mathematical model of typhoid fever disease incorporating protection is hereby considered to study the global stability of equilibrium points. To study the global stability of the disease free equilibrium point ...