ABSTRACT Small arms have devastating effects on children either directly or indirectly, which not only occur during conflict or war but may have long lasting impacts even after the war. Research on the impacts of small arms has shown that children affected by small arms require much attention and support to put their lives back to normalcy and integrate them into the society. In Kenya, the proliferation of small arms in the Northern parts of the Country is an issue of serious concern for the ...
ABSTRACT Despite the many feasible benefits of ICT in the organizational competitiveness, the extent to which ICT has been applied to carve a niche in the hospitality industry still remains unclear. Various studies have demonstrated that companies which leverage Information and Communication Technology and product differentiation create an environment where ICT has a great impact in the business arena. While there exists some studies on ICT, none has focused on the efficacy of ICT in creating...
ABSTRACT The rapid growth and increase in contract catering services in Universities in Kenya, seeks to lower costs and respond to high level of competition. The main purpose of this study was to examine the influence of management of contract catering services on customer satisfaction in selected universities in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study was to specifically seek to: assess the effect of policy guidelines, identify challenges, assess the effect of service quality, establish the ma...
ABSTRACT At independence and in post independent period, the people of Kenya had a vision that would guide them to pursue radical socio-economic changes for the common good. But after forty years into independence majority of the people living in Turkana District still lived in abject poverty. This study therefore attempted to examine the roles played by the State, the IGAD and the Civil Society Organizations in the socio-economic development of the people of Turkana District of north-western...
IKISIRI Utafiti huu ulijikita katika kutathmini utayari wa Wakenya katika utekelezaji wa sera ya lugha ya Kiswahili kama lugha rasmi nchini Kenya. Utafiti ulilenga wakaazi wa mji wa Nairobi hasa katika ofisi za shughuli za kiutawala na vyombo vya habari vinavyopatikana humo. Utayari wa utekelezaji wa sera ya lugha ya Kiswahili umeathiriwa na mambo mbalimbali. Baadhi ya mambo hayo ni kama vile: hadhi ambayo lugha hii imepewa, manufaa ya lugha hii miongoni mwa athari nyingine. Malengo ya u...
ABSTRACT This study was necessitated by the fact that some parents in the ACK Diocese of Murang’a south have challenges with some of their children because they engage in drugs and substance abuse, irresponsible sexual behaviour, and instead of working to develop society, some have destroyed even what had been invested by their parents. The church has a responsibility of assisting parents in their parenthood. Part of the mission of SPU is to develop servant leaders who will serve the church...
ABSTRACT Gender is a socially constructed unit in society. This means that society assigns identities as either masculine or feminine through studying behavior. Language too has been categorized as either feminine or masculine. Studies on differences in language used by male and female appear to have focused on speech and rarely on writing. This motivated the researcher to carry out a study on the construction of gender in opinion articles in Kenya, specifically, the Saturday magazines from T...
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the different DP structures and roles in Ekegusii using the Minimalist approach. The study has three objectives, namely: to describe the structure of the DP, to analyze the semantic roles of the DP and to establish the extent to which the DP in Ekegusii can be accounted for using the MP. In terms of structure, we found out that the DP in Ekegusii projects various functional projections. These include DemP, PossD and QP. Overt noun raising was observed as the NP r...
ABSTRACT This study set to investigate the participation motives and competitive orientations of women football players in the Kenyan premier league. The major objectives of the study were to examine what motivates them to participate in football, what goals they seek to achieve in playing football and how selected demographic factors of age, educational level and years of experience influence their participation motives and competitive orientation. The study also examined the relationship be...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish how behavior modification techniques can be applied in handling maladaptive behaviors displayed by boys and girls in secondary schools during games and sports in Kimilili Sub-County, Bungoma County. This study was guided by two theories: Bandura-The Social Learning Theory (1972) and BF Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory (1948). The target population was 498 teachers from 21 secondary schools in Kimilili sub-county. The study involved n...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, various departments are established constitutionally or through legislation to carry out prescribed functions to pursue or enhance national security interests. One of the key legislations is the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011. The legislation on immigration policy has a broad mandate and the Immigration Department is intended to regulate and control the entry and exit of both aliens and nationals of Kenya. While this security-related function is outlined in the...
ABSTRACT Diagnosis of cancer profoundly affects every aspect of an individual’s life.These include the psychological,physical, spiritual, interpersonal,and economic aspects of the patients’ functioning. This may negatively interfere with the cancer recovery outcomes. AdversityQuotient (AQ) isa person’s resilience when faced with obstacles,the ability to bounce back to his/her normal functioning. It has been suggested that AQ could be an important aspect of recoveryand promoting it may b...
ABSTRACT Most studies in Social media indicate that about 52% of the world’s population, including school going ones has been found to be frequent users of the social media networking. Despite this understanding few studies have examined the implication of media networks on academic performance of secondary school students. Using rational choice theory and planned behavior theory, this study examined the Implications of psycho- social media networking on academic performance among Adolescen...
ABSTRACT Increasingly, hotel industry has witnessed rapid growth in the 21stcentury and as a result competition within the industry has also intensified. This competition has been fueled by the preoccupation of service quality to add value and strengthen the complete guest experience. However, a major challenge facing the sector is the aspect of service quality particularly in budget hotels which target price sensitive customers. These hotels provide the customers with satisfactory core produ...
ABSTRACT Fishing is known to be one of the oldest occupations of mankind all over the world. A significant proportion of people depend on fisheries activity; it generates income for the households, creates employment and provides a source of livelihood to the people around water bodies and beyond. However, fish catch and fishing activities in Lake Victoria, Kisumu County, is in great danger of fluctuation and decline.There is limited research to explain this phenomenon especially along the be...