• Work-life balance and employee retention in public level five hospitals in Kenya. 

  Nkanata, S. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Work-life balance practices are human resource practices that ensure alignment of work and personal life. Retention of employees is a strategy that an organizations use to keep employees from preferring employment ...
• Influence of Community Forest Association Activities on Dryland Resources Management: Case of Kibwezi Forest in Kenya 

  Kagendo, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Gazetted forests in Kenya are owned and managed by the government through Kenya Forest Service. Other stakeholders including communities formally participate in forest management through Participatory Forest Management ...
• An Investigation on Declining Water Levels of River Mutonga in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. 

  Kagendo, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Variations in river water volumes have direct or indirect effects on biodiversity because sustainable development is highly dependent on availability of adequate water. Global records show declining water levels in most ...
• Analytic Solution of a Nonlinear Black-Scholes Equation via Long and Short Gamma Positions. 

  Esekon, J. E. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  This study presents a nonlinear Black-Scholes equation whose nonlinearity is due to feedback effects. The market involved is illiquid as a result of transaction costs. An analytic solution to the equation via long and ...
• On Dentable Sets and Mappings. 

  Owuor, J., Okelo, B., Owino, J., & Kinyanjui, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Characterizations of properties of operators in a Banach space setting have been done over many years with interesting results obtained. Dentability of sets and norm-attainable mappings is one of the important properties ...
• Modelling of Daily COVID-19 Cases in Kenya Using a SARIMA Model. 

  Kamotho, C., Ngure, J., & Kinyua, M. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is the primary cause of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The first case was reported in Wuhan, China, on December 30th, 2019 with the first case in Kenya on 13th March, 2020. This contagious ...
• Bivariate based susceptibility mapping for gully erosion in Wanjoga River catchment upper Tana basin, Kenya. 

  Ireri, C., & Muchangi, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Gullies often occur in semi-arid regions characterized by rainfall variability, seasonality and increased overland flow, affecting ecological fragility of an area. In most gully prone areas, extent of land affected by ...
• Big data analytics for sustainability of SMEs' performance after COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. 

  Musyoka, C., & Wanjohi, P. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  The majority of a nation's wealth comes from small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), which account for half of all jobs and 90% of all businesses worldwide. However, SMEs continue to face limited credit availability ...
• Macro facial expression recognition and analysis using supervised 2D-PCA and linear SVM. 

  Mageto, V. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Facial expressions are a convenient way of expressing non-verbal communication effectively. The feasibility of this subject has become a dominant area of research in the field of computer vision and artificial intelligence. ...
• Web services sharing among business enterprises 

  Mwikya, R.J., & Karani, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Web services are self-contained, modular, distributed, dynamic applications that can be described, published, located, or invoked over the network to create products, processes, and supply chains. These applications can ...
• Effects of fresh water degradation on human activities: A case of Athi River, Machakos County, Kenya 

  Kagendo, J (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Global diminishing of essential natural resources for survival of biodiversity due to depletion and pollution is a concern for governments and the United Nations's agenda 21 which suggested best ways to conserve the ...
• A deep decision forests model for hate speech detection. 

  Ndenga, K. M. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Detecting and controlling propagation of hate-speech over social media platforms is a challenge. This problem is exacerbated by extreme fast flow, readily available audience, and relative permanence of information on ...
• Knowledge management systems as a catalyst for societal empowerment: A Kenyan perspective. 

  Wasike, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-04)

  Despite the potential benefits of knowledge management systems (KMS) for societal empowerment, there is limited understanding of how KMS can be effectively implemented and utilized in a Kenyan context to address societal ...
• Determination of invitro lethality of actinomycetes antibiotic extracts from Menengai Crater geothermal vents, Kenya. 

  Waithaka, P.N (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Drug resistance is a serious threat to human existence today. This study investigated sensitivity of selected pathogenic microorganisms to antibiotic extracts from soils of Menengai crater geothermal vents in Kenya. ...
• An assessment of social media use on mental health of university students. 

  Ngunyi, H., & Irungu, C. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Studies on how social media platforms are being used as tools for individuals to interact, connect and support one another have been done in the past. A great number of youth are spending significant amount of time ...
• Effects of leasehold on community forest association benefits in dryland resources management: A case study of Kibwezi Forest in Kenya. 

  Kagendo, J. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  The aim of this paper was to investigate whether or not community forest association (CFA) get benefits as they conserve dryland forest that is also fully leased. The study adopted descriptive survey design and was ...
• Effect of cultural conditions and physical factors on production of antibiotic metabolites by selected actinomycetes. 

  Waithaka, P.N (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest global problem of our times. The leading producers of antibiotics that can be used to curb this problem are actinomycetes. This study sought to isolate antibiotic producing ...
• Effect of prison programs on rehabilitation of inmates in county, Kenya 

  Maina, C. W. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  The main objective of prisons in general and Kenyan in particular is to rehabilitate the inmates facilitate acquisition of self-dependence skills with a view of avoidance of repeat. The aim of this research was to ...
• Limited potency of adjuvant capecitabine treatment in TNBC patients with residual invasive disease. 

  Mburu, S., & Gitonga, H. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-03)

  The triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the sub-types of breast cancers. This subtype is not only very aggressive, but also has worse prognosis, than the others. For instance, patients without pathological ...
• Exploring the potential of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery in disease treatment. 

  Odira, M.O. (6th Annual International Conference-2023, Kirinyaga University, Virtual, 2023-02)

  In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of nanotechnology for drug delivery in disease treatment. Nanoparticles, which are particles with a size range of 1- 100 nanometers, have unique properties that ...

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