ABSTRACT Black South African (SA) women are disproportionally affected by obesity and insulin resistance, which have been associated with depot-specific alterations in adipose tissue function. This thesis aimed to evaluate the differences in fatty acid (FA) composition and gene expression between abdominal (aSAT) and gluteal subcutaneous adipose tissue (gSAT), and the changes in response to exercise training in relation to body composition, hepatic fat, inflammatory and oxidative stress mark...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this dissertation is to research aspects of the historical development of Nursing F..ducation and Nursing Management at the Carinus Nursing College from 1949 to 1987; to determine and explain how the College has adapted and coped with historical change and to determine whether proposals for the future can be made. Research has been done by applying the general systems theory and by using the standard methods of historical analysis. Data has been collected by means of o...
ABSTRACT Sport mega-events are a contemporary phenomenon which embody and unify global processes in an increasingly globalised world. Whilst the sport industry has grown exponentially as a result of global market forces envisaging extensive economic opportunities, hosting a mega-event has also been economically attractive for cities and countries. In aiming to be globally competitive and world-class, mega-events derive from an economic-growth centred model of urban development, whereby benef...
The Applicability Of The School Effectiveness And School Improvement Approaches To School Reform In Africa
ABSTRACT Corporate governance is increasingly becoming important in organization as an approach of improving performance. Corporate governance is the system through which organizations are directed and controlled. It is concerned with transparency, accountability and power relationship within and outside the organization. There has been an increasing importance in corporate governance in organizations in recent years. Some studies have argued for a positive relationship while others argued th...
ABSTRACT The fisheries sector is significant to socio-economic development through provision of employment, income and food security. Global fisheries resources face unsustainable fishing pressure. In Kenya, unsustainable harvesting is due to use of management measures not informed by stock assessment studies. The aim of this study was to conduct stock assessment and characterize socio-economic dynamics for Lake Baringo Fisheries management. Stock assessment studies featured estimation of bio...
ABSTRACT It is the expectations of good corporate governance that the managers take stock of the risks their respective businesses are exposed to so as to put in place both preventive and control measures. In light of this, there is a wide spread customer dissatisfaction in the life assurance subsector on account of persistency as brought to the fore by the persistency rates posted by the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA,2016). This is partly due to the fact that the reputation of the ind...
ABSTRACT The dairy sub-sector in Kenya is of particular importance as it provides vital employment, income and nutrition, in an environment where job opportunities are scarce. The subsector markets about 55 percent of the total milk produced but the informal sector accounting for more than 75 percent of all the marketed milk. Large milk quantities are marketed through the informal sector raising questions over the safety and quality of milk products. In spite of the growth of value added milk...
ABSTRACT The government of Kenya has over the years promoted the adoption of farm-forestry through various programmes and initiatives with the aims of reversing land degradation and increasing forest cover. One of the most recent efforts was through the establishment of the farm-forestry rules of 2009 which stipulated that 10% of agricultural land should be under trees. However, farm-forestry adoption in the country has remained sub-optimal causing concerns to policy makers. This study, ther...
ABSTRACT Advertising, as part of communication strategies for marketing, is the key for building, creating and sustaining brands, as it also plays a major role in persuading, informing and reminding both potential and existing customers towards making a purchase decision. Consumer purchase decisions vary greatly and are influenced by several factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of advertising on university campuses students decision to purchase sport bet, in Nakur...
ABSTRACT The mobile telephony sector in Kenya has seen an unprecedented growth since its liberalization in 1998. Although there has been a huge growth in the mobile subscriber base, the sector has experienced a fierce competition whereby the mobile phone players have engaged in a price war which intensified from the year 2008 to date, following the entry of two new players YU and Telkom Orange. The decline in conventional voice service tariffs has gradually reduced average revenue per user (A...
Abstract This thesis consists of three papers on child labour and schooling in Ghana. The first paper examines the correlates of child labour and schooling, as well as the trade-off between work and schooling of children aged 5-17 years with the 2013 Ghana Living Standard Survey data. A bivariate probit model is used since the decisions to participate in schooling and in the labour market are interdependent. The results show that there is a gender gap both in child work and schooling. In par...
Abstract Interviewers are a principal source of error in quantitative surveys. While surveys are often self-administered (e.g. in online surveys), it is often required to administer these face-toface. This is the case, for example, in census surveys in low-income areas where there is little internet penetration, like that of the quality-of-life surveys presently being conducted in multiple countries through a residential door-to-door approach (Carr et al., 2018). In such situations, the soci...
ABSTRACT Globally, the past two years have been successful years in oil and gas exploration with discoveries almost doubling those made in 2017.1 Notwithstanding Africa’s endowment in vast natural resources, including substantial oil and gas reserves, one of the most dramatic finds in Africa has been Mozambique’s natural gas developments. Mozambique is set to become one of the largest and most dominant natural gas finds in the world. These developments have attracted the attention from c...
ABSTRACT This study empirically examined the effect of research and development on agricultural sector growth in East African Community from the year 2000-2014. According to the endogenous growth theory, research and development leads to increase in the stock of knowledge which in turn has got spill over effects hence leads to economic growth. However, information on the effect of R&D on the agricultural sector in the EAC was lacking hence the study sought to bridge this knowledge gap. The ob...