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Determinants of Successful Implementation of Total Quality Management in Public Organizations in Kenya; A Case of Kenya Cooperative Creameries
No full textConstruction of Markov Transition Matrices for Cohorts of Students in Bsc.Actuarial Science Programme
No full textThis paper presents an application of Markov Analysis of student flow in a higher educational
institution. In the education system not all students who begin an academic year stay till the end.
Many of them invariably drop out for a variety of reasons. A transition model is one which
describes the stocks and flows of students through an education system in terms of transition
ratios. In this paper we describe one such model which traces the flow of a cohort of students
through the system. In this study, the model considered is that of first-order Markov chain. Also
the particular Markov chain studied here has a finite number of states and a finite number of
points at which the observations are made.
It is shown that under fairly general Markov chain
model of the transitional determination, student flows do not display the random walk
characteristics which may be interpreted as purely following a Markov proces
Factors affecting employee conflicts in service delivery in Kenya: a case of Postal Corporation of Kenya(PCK)
No full textFactors facing children enrollment in Primary School in Mutomo District ,Kitui County in Kenya
No full textAnalysis of the impacts of job rotation onemployee morale;Acase of kenya pipeline company-KPC
No full textEffects of micro credit on the performance of women-owned income generating projects:Acase of Microfinance Funded Projects in Nyeri County
No full textAn analysis of motivation on procurement Staff turnocer: A survay of Supermarkets in Busia County
No full textThe deleterious effect of pyrollic-nitrogen on the substitution reactivity of tridentate N^C^N platinum(II) complexes. A kinetic and mechanistic study
No full textThe rate of substitution of the chloride ligand in 1,3-bis(pyridyl)benzene platinum(II) chloride (Pt1), 1,3-bis(N-pyrazolyl)benzene platinum(II) chloride (Pt2), 1,3-bis(8-quinolyl)benzene platinum(II) chloride (Pt3), and 1,3-bis(7-azaindolyl)benzene platinum(II) chloride (Pt4) by three neutral nucleophiles with different steric demands, thiourea (Tu), N,N’-dimethylthiourea (Dmtu), and N,N,N,’N-tetramethylthiourea (Tmtu), was studied under pseudo-first-order conditions in methanol. The investigation was performed as a function of concentration and temperature using stopped-flow and UV–visible spectrophotometric techniques. The observed pseudo-first-order rate constants for substitution obeyed the rate law: . The reactivity of the rigid planar five-membered chelate complexes (Pt1 and Pt2) is influenced by the push and pull effect of the σ/π-character of the cis moieties, while in the six-membered complexes (Pt3 and Pt4) it is dependent on their structural topology and electronic features. The study showed that the presence of the pyrrolic-N π-donor within the chelate, irrespective of the chelate size, rigidity/flexibility, and symmetry, retards ligand substitution reactions. The second-order kinetics and large negative entropies support an associative mode of activation. DFT calculations were performed to support the interpretation and discussion of the experimental data
7000 to graduate at Mount Kenya University today
No full textOver 7,000 Mount Kenya University (MKU) students, including six PhDs from the School of Medicine, are set to graduate today
