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    • The Structural Quality of Soil Organic Matter under Selected Soil Fertility Management Practices in the Central Highlands of Kenya 

      Kiboi, Milka; Githongo, Mirriam; Ngatia, Lucy; Muriuki, Anne; Fliessbach, Andreas; Musafiri, Collins; Fu, Riqiang; Ngetich, Felix (Sustainability Journal, 2023)
      As influenced by agricultural practices, soil organic matter (SOM) stability is imperative in maintaining soil fertility and crop production. Integrated soil management practices have been recommended for soil fertility ...

    • Applying Data Mining in Graduates’ Employability 

      Mburu, Lucy W; Mwendia, Simon N; Mpia, Héritier N (International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 2023)
      Envisaging an adequate IT/IS solution that can mitigate the employability problems is imperative because nowadays there is a high rate of unemployed graduates. Thus, the main goal of this systematic literature review (SLR) ...

    • Further Construction Of Balanced Arrays 

      Ngaii, John W; Manene, Moses; Njui, Francis (Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 2020)
      The relation between balanced arrays and two other combinatorial structures, namely, orthogonal arrays and transitive arrays is pointed out. We provide three new and simple but rather stringent methods of constructing ...

    • Efficiency Factors For Linear Contrasts In Confounded Asymmetrical Factorial 

      Ngaii, John W; Manene, Moses; Njui, Francis (Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 2019)
      With reference to a confounded asymmetrical design for an factorial experiment, a very powerful tool for expressing factorial arrangements in a compact and convenient form has been given and also used in this paper in order ...

    • Construction Of Some Balanced Asymmetrical Factorial Designs 

      Ngaii, John W; Manene, Moses; Njui, Francis (ICASTOR Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2015)
      Two distinct methods of obtaining high efficiency balanced asymmetrical factorial designs that are resolvable have been discussed. One of these methods uses pseudofactors and factors of asymmetry while the other method ...

    • To tap digital economy, let us support it 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (The Nation Newspaper, 2021-06)
      What you need to know: Local innovations are the right response to the growing dominance by multinationals. With the right policy and support, this country can churn out its own multi-billion-shilling techpreneurs and ...

    • Pairing taxpayers might be solution to evasion of tax 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (Business Daily, 2022-04)
      It takes two to tango; that’s so true in business. Every transaction has two parties involved. Every seller must have a buyer, every employee must have an employer and every service provider must have a service recipient. ...

    • Let’s harvest water during rainy season 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (Business Daily, 2023-03)
      We are a few days to the onset of the much-awaited long rains. The weatherman has issued a warning that the rains may be below average. This is disheartening news after a period of prolonged drought, but the encouraging ...

    • Make housing affordable across Kenya 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (The Nation Newspaper, 2020-10)
      What you need to know: Construction loans are much preferred. Incentives available to mortgagors should be extended to construction loans. Construction loans, which are essentially personal loans, are secured against ...

    • Tax Education ties that can grow compliance. 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (Business daily, 2022)

    • Kenya’s economic potential points to a country capable of self-sustenance 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (The Standard, 2021)
      Covid-19 has extensively suppressed world economies over the past one year -Kenya’s included. Thousands have had to contend with substantial pay cuts as their employers endeavored to align to the tough times. In a report ...

    • Transfer Pricing in Kenya 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin Mwongela (The Professional Journal of kasneb, 2020-05)
      Head office, parent company, divisions, branches or subsidiaries of a firm trading amongst themselves will invariably set the prices at which goods and services will be exchanged. The prices need not be the same as the ...

    • This tech can tap every collectible coin 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin (Business Daily, 2023-04-12)
      The electronic tax invoice management system (e-Tims) that the Kenya Revenue Authority recently rolled out is touted to be the game-changer in tax administration. It allows VAT-registered traders to connect real-time to ...

    • Electric buses offer a way out of the transport chaos 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin (Business Daily, 2022-07-06)
      The 14th day of every month is a day all Kenyans have to hope against hope. They are all ears as the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) announces the monthly fuel price review, with the expectation of a ...

    • Stability in tax policy is key to investor confidence. 

      Mwinzi, CPA Faustin (The Accountant, 2022-07-26)
      Every Second Thursday in the Month of June is a special day in Kenya’s fiscal calendar. This is the day everyone waits for anxiously. It is a day for surprises and reliefs, for hits and misses, for the goodies and losses- ...

    • Correlates of compliance with recommended levels of physical activity in children 

      Onywera, Vincent O; Gomes, Thayse Natacha; Katzmarzyk, Peter T.; Hedeker, Donald; Fogelholm, Mikael; Kuriyan, Rebecca (Springer, 2017)
      he purpose of this study was to describe children’s daily compliance with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) recommendations across a week in different parts of the world, and to identify individual- and ...

    • Thresholds of physical activity associated with obesity by level of sedentary behavior in children: Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and obesity 

      Onywera, Vincent O; Tremblay, Mark S; Chaput, Jean-Philippe; Olds, Tims; Lambert, Estelle Victoria; Barnes, Joel D (Research Gate, 2018)
      It is unknown whether moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) thresholds for obesity should be adapted depending on level of sedentary behavior in children.

    • Relationships Between Outdoor Time, Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Body Mass Index in Children: A 12-Country Study 

      Onywera, Vincent O; Sarmiento, Olga L; Tremblay, Mark S; Larouche, Richard; Standage, Martyn; Fogelholm, Mikael (Pub Med, 2019)
      This study investigated the relationship between outdoor time and physical activity (PA), sedentary time (SED), and body mass index z scores among children from 12 lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, and high-income ...

    • Outdoor time and dietary patterns in children around the world 

      Onywera, Vincent O; Chaput, Jean-Philippe; Tremblay, Mark S; Sarmiento, Olga L; Tudor-Locke, Catrine; G LeBlanc, Allana (Pub Med, 2018)
      Whether outdoor time is linked to dietary patterns of children has yet to be empirically tested. The objective of this study was to examine the association between outdoor time and dietary patterns of children from 12 ...

    • Functionality of Elderly Persons: A Comparison Between Institutionalized and Non – Institutionalized Elderly Persons in Nairobi City County, in Kenya 

      Vincent Onywera; Mugo, Judy Wairimu; Waudo, Judith; Otieno, Ochieng George (Science Publishing Group, 2018)
      This study compared the Functionality of Institutionalized elderly persons and that of the elderly persons living with their family and or community members using the Modified Barthel Index. Two hundred and seventy elderly ...