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Crime Risk Estimation with a Commuter- Harmonized Ambient Population
(Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016)
Residential population data are frequently employed to link the crime incidence of an area with the number of residents to estimate the underlying risk. Human mobility patterns cause shifts in the baseline population, ...
Evaluating the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Criminal Geographic Profiling Methods: The Case of Dandora, Kenya
(The Professional Geographer, 2014)
Criminal geographic profiling (CGP) prioritizes offender search, extensively reducing the resources expended in criminal
investigations. The utility of CGP has, however, remained unclear when variations in environmental ...
A Spatial Approach to Surveying Crime Problematic Areas at the Street Level
(Research Gate, 2014)
Reaching far beyond the realm of geography and its related disciplines, spatial analysis and visualization tools now actively support the decision-making processes of law enforcement agencies. Interactive mapping of crime ...
Communities as neighborhood guardians: A spatio-temporal analysis of community policing in Nairobi's suburbs
(Research Gate, 2015)
The efficacy of citizens to participate in neighborhood-watch activities and report signs of trouble is important for safeguarding communities against crime. Community policing is a key policing strategy for utilizing the ...
A contextualized and personalized model to predict user interest using location-based social networks
(Research Gate, 2016)
The accurate determination of user interest in terms of geographic information is essential to numerous mobile applications, such as recommender systems and mobile advertising. User interest is greatly influenced by the ...
Analysis of community properties and node properties to understand the structure of the bus transport network
(Research Gate, 2016)
Akin to most infrastructures, intraurban bus networks are large and highly complex. Understanding the composition of such networks requires an intricate decomposition of the network into modules, taking into account the ...
Modeling and Mapping Crime in Eastern Nairobi, Kenya
(Research Gate, 2013)
This working paper provides a description of the phases of my PhD study. Drawing on assumptions from various theories of environmental criminology, this study applies various crime mapping methodologies to observe geographic ...
Environmental Risk Factors influencing Bicycle Theft: A Spatial Analysis in London, UK
(PLoS ONE, 2016)
Urban authorities are continuously drawing up policies to promote cycling among commuters.
However, these initiatives are counterproductive for the targeted objectives because
they increase opportunities for bicycle ...
A Knowledge-as-a-Service Support Framework for Ambient Learning in Kenya
(, 2020)
Knowledge as a Service (KaaS) is a relatively new model, albeit one that is rapidly gaining popularity within cloud
computing environments. Over the recent years, learners have experienced a constant need to access on ...
Applying Data Mining in Graduates’ Employability
(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) ...





