Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Syntheses and Application of Nitrogen - Donor Zinc(Ii) and Copper(Ii) Complexes as Catalysts In Ring Opening Polymerization of Lactides and Caprolactones
(Maseno University, 2018)Petrochemicalderived plastics have numerous advantages, however, there are several drawbacks arisingfromnon-renewable sources and their accumulation in the environment due to their nondegradablenature. This has led to the ... -
Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction among Secondary School Deputy Principals in Hamisi District, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014)Deputy Principals playa pivotal role in management of schools. The prerequisite of good job performance by a deputy principal is job satisfaction. However, when they are not satisfied they are likely to decline the ... -
Une Evaluation Des Competences En Pyoduction Ecrite Des Apprenants Kenyans Du Fle Au Niveau Secondaire: Cas du District de Vihiga
(Maseno University, 2012)French as a foreign language has been taught in Kenya since the colonial period. When Kenya attained independence in 1963, the government decided to continue the teaching of French. It was integrated in the Secondary ... -
Effects of Rates and Split Applications of Nitrogen Fertilizer on Soil and Leaf Nutrients Levels, Quality and Harvesting Age of Ratoon Crop of Two Sugarcane Varieties in Western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2015)Sugarcane is the third most important commodity crop in Kenya after tea and coffee. Though high yielding and early maturing varieties have been introduced in Kenya Sugar Industry to overcome low yields, the problem ... -
Effects of Rainfall Variability on Subsistence Crop Production in Kahangara Division of Magu District, Tanzania
(Maseno University, 2013)ABSTRACT Rainfall variability is a major problem that affects subsistence crop production all over the world. African countries are most affected, because they are very much dependent on rain fed subsistence agriculture ... -
Socio-cultural Factors and Birth Registration of Children in Gucha Sub-County, Kisii County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2013)Children hold a unique and privileged position in society. One of the obligations that state parties assume upon assenting to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and ... -
Extent of Impact of Selected Stress Factors on Students' Academic Achievement in Technical Institutions in Kisumu County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)Examination records in the technical institutions in Kisumu County indicate that out of the 517 (2010), 543 (2011) and 653 (2012) candidates who sat for KNEC technical examinations, only 180 (34.8%), 206 (37.9%) and 206 ... -
The Impact of Hiv And Aids in Public Primary School Education and It's Implication on Planning Interventions in Rarieda Division, Rarieda District, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2013)In the past few decades, HIV and AIDS has become one of the major public health challenges worldwide. In Kenya, as in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, its impactis felt in all sectors. In the education sector, a number ... -
Microsatellites Polymorphism Within Pfnhe-L And Pfmdr-6 Genes in Association with ant malarial Drug Susceptibility in Kenyan Plasmodium Falciparum Isolates Circulating In 2010-2011
(Maseno University, 2014)Drug resistance continues to undermine malaria control, threatening malaria elimination efforts. Resistance to artemisinin has now been confirmed in Southeast Asia and quinine monotherapy clinical failure, although rare, ... -
Effects of Prescribed Physical Therapy Exercises on Blood Glucose, Metabolic and Hbaic Profiles in Prediabetes at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Uasin Gishu County in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2018)Pre-diabetes is characterized by plasma glucose above the normal range (3-6mmollL) but below that of clinical diabetes (>9.0mmoVL). In Kenya the estimated prevalence of diabetes was 7.2% in 2014 which comes as a result ... -
Analysis of The Greek Parameters of a Nonlinear Black-Scholes Partial Differential Equation
(Maseno University, 2014)Derivatives are used in hedging European options against risks. The partial derivatives of the solution with respect to either a variable or a parameter in the Black-Scholee model are called risk parameters or simply the ... -
Effects of Drought Dynamics On Vegetation Cover and Water Resources in Marigat Sub-County, Baringo County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)Droughtis a natural phenomenon that exists when precipitation is significantly below normal, affecting landresourceproduction systems. In the arid and semi-arid areas, where pastoralism is the main source of livelihood,droughts ... -
Perceptions on opportunities and challenges for public Secondary school principals in the implementation of Selected safety policy guidelines in Kisumu West district, kenya
(Maseno University, 2014)Safety of students in schools is a matter of concern globally. In Kenya, students have lost their lives in the past five years due to arson, accidents and poisoning in spite of existence of Safety Standards Manual for ... -
Groups of composition Operators on dirichlet spaces Of the upper half-plane
(Maseno University, 2019)Composition groups has been a topic of interest in the past decades. Most studies have been on spaces of analytic functions of the unit disk. For instance; Matache studied bouncledness and compactness of composition operators; ... -
Optical Properties of Seloo-Xbix Thin Films Deposited On Glass Substrates by Flash Evaporation Method
(Maseno University, 2014)The global need for sustainable energy production is pushing scientific research towards the development of inexpensive thin film solar cells which can compete with established commercial silicon-based technologies. These ... -
Network Modelling of Infectious Diseases
(Maseno University, 2014)Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases is an important tool for assessing disease dynamics. This branch of mathematics has provided many significant insights concerning the epidemiology of infectious diseases. ... -
Influence of Teacher Attitude, Capacity Building And Teamwork On Teacher Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Ndhiwa Sub-County, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)Studies conducted in India, Thailand, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, have revealed that Teacher Attitude (TA), Capacity Building (CB) and Teamwork (TW) enhance Teacher Performance (TP) by about 11.6%. In some parts of ... -
Spectral Properties of Semigroups of Weighted Composition Operators on the Bloch Space
(Maseno University, 2019)Semigroups of composition operators on spaces of analytic functions have interested mathematicians for many years. The breakthrough in Hardy spaces was given by Berkson and Porta. On Bergman and Dirichlet spaces, Siskakis ... -
Analysing Data for Educational Research: Analysis of Mathematics Scores at Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education, 2011, for Western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014)Analysing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam results is vital to inform the design of interventions to improve teaching and learning of Mathematics in Kenyan schools. Here, further analysis of the 2011 ... -
Mathematical Model to Determine the Concentration of Fly-Ash at Sony Sugar Company in Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2015)Mathematical modeling continues to attract attention of applied mathematician, physicist, engineers, biologists, research institutions and others. This study focuses on air pollution concentration: a case study of fly-ash ...