Masters Theses and Projects: Recent submissions
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(UoEm, 2025-06-03)GENERAL ABSTRACT The dairy industry is important for its contribution to the living standard of people, industries, foreign exchange and 4% of the total GDP in Kenya. Productivity of 7.8 liters/cow/day is low and ...
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(UoEm, 2025-06-03)Despite the great advancements in healthcare systems and sanitary improvements globally, sub-Saharan Africa including Kenya bears a significant burden of infectious diseases, among which typhoid fever continues to exert ...
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(UoEm, 2025-06-03)ABSTRACT Increased economic growth is a key objective that the Kenyan government strives to achieve in order to reap its welfare benefits. To achieve this, the government of Kenya incorporated the economic pillar in its ...
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(UoEm, 2025-06-03)ABSTRACT Delivery of quality services to pupils in primary schools is key to developing their academic foundation. Poor service delivery in core functions such as transport, procurement, and inventory management generally ...
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(UoEm, 2025-06-03)ABSTRACT Learning outcomes in Christian Religious Education are attributed to the teaching and learning approaches utilized by teachers. In Kenya, conventional methods are prevalent in classrooms, as teachers often prefer ...
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(UoEm, 2025-06-03)ABSTRACT Public debt management and forecasting remain challenging for developing economies, including Kenya, where accurate predictions are essential for sustainable fiscal planning. This study aimed to analyze and ...
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(UoEm, 2024-09)Several pest management programs have been developed to control the rising agricultural pest populations. However, the challenge of rapid evolution and pest resistance towards the control measures continues to cause high ...
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(UoEm, 2024-09)Declining soil fertility poses a serious threat to food production and food security to most farming households. Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) comprising the combination of organic and mineral fertilizer and ...
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(UoEm, 2024-09)Public procurement related expenditure is approximately fifty to seventy percent of the national budget of developing countries and represents close to 33% of the GDP. Mindful of the huge assets committed in open acquirement, ...
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(UoEm, 2024-09)Accurate assessment of the risk posed by prospective policyholders is crucial for life insurance companies to effectively price policies and manage long-term liabilities. However, the complexity of risk factors makes relying ...
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(UoEm, 2024-09)This thesis explores the discursive construction of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya's newspaper headlines. This study was guided by the following objectives: to examine how metaphors were used to discursively construct the ...
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(BILLIAH KEMUNTO BWANA, 2022-11)Tsetse fly is a primary vector of Human African Trypanosomiasis and Animal African Trypanosomiasis. Tsetse fly exploits chemical cues from the environment to distinguish a non- from suitable hosts. Genes in tsetse fly ...
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(Mary Muluki Kithome, 2022-09)Agricultural productivity has been significantly impacted by climate change and variability. Because of their reliance on rain-fed agriculture Kenya's small-scale farmers have been severely impacted by the climate change ...
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(SUSAN WAIRIMU MURIUKI, 2020-11)Ready to eat fast food vending business has grown exponentially however, the microbiological safety of most of these fast foods is questionable. Despite the cholera outbreak in Embu in 2017, diminutive information exists ...
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(Esphorn Kibet, 2022-09)The up-surging population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has led to the conversion of forests to agricultural land leading to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The resilient land utilization types are key in soil carbon ...
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(Mercy Achieng Wasonga, 2020-11)Slender leaf (Crotalaria spp.) is an African indigenous leafy vegetable with high nutritional benefits. However, despite these benefits, this vegetable has been neglected in terms of research, and information on breeding ...
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(COLLINS MUIMI MUSAFIRI, 2020-08)The influence of soil fertility management technologies on crop production has widely been researched in Tharaka-Nithi County. However, data on their contribution towards national greenhouse gas budget is scanty. This study ...
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(LILY GICUKU NJIRU, 2024-08)Declining soil fertility is a significant constraint to sorghum and green gram yields for smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions of Kenya. This research was carried out in Siakago, Embu County, Kenya, with the aim of ...
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(Abraham Kipkemei Maiyo, 2024-08)This research examined the effect of exchange rate fluctuations on tourism demand in Kenya using Vector Autoregressive (VAR) and Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS) models. Secondary data from 2010 to 2023 was sourced ...
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(Kelvin Murimi Nthiga, 2024-08)In Kenya horticulture contributes greatly to the economy and particularly nuts play a crucial role in income generation with macadamia production been ranked among the top enterprises. The crop leads to job creation and ...
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