Abstract The ‘City Logistics’ activities are contributing to traffic congestion and accumulating to environmental challenges, such situation has prompted the creation of urban consolidation centre (UCC), as a multimodal logistics park facility in the outskirts. The relocation of business from city to the outskirts requires the evaluation and assessment of the key factors in order to make the better decisions. However, no relocation decisions evaluation model has been found, neither its ap...
ABSTRACT The operation of maize markets has been associated with a number of challenges. These challenges have affected maize supply in the markets. Because the adaptation of interrelationships among construct is limited in most of studies especially in Tanzania, this study intended to analyze the maize supply in Kibaigwa maize market using Time Series Techniques and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The study employed retrospective longitudinal research design. Secondary data that were u...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) is a national strategy for implementing community-based health care service by reorienting and relocating primary health care from sub district health centers to convenient community locations (Frimpong, 2018). As a step to make health services accessible to Ghanaians, the Government of Ghana in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and Ministry of Health adopted the CHPS concept in 1999 but it became opera...
ABSTRACT Climate variability is an environmental pressure to urban slum dwellers economic activities in most developing countries where households have been adapting to it for years. Slum dwellers are faced with inadequate access to water and proper sanitation. This problem is partly attributed to climate change. This research project aimed at exploring the adaptation and coping mechanisms of Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum community in Nairobi City, due to poor water supply and access to basic sanita...
Abstract: Globally, crickets are gaining recognition as a valuable alternative protein source for human consumption due to their lower resource requirement and ecological foot‑print compared to traditional livestock. In this paper, we examine strategies that may expedite the sustainable domestication of crickets as a food source. Using survey data from 306 households in western Kenya, we fnd that supplying cricket production starter kits, granting access to credit facilities, encouraging p...
ABSTRACT An insurance company promises its policyholders to pay out benefits if certain events occur, for example, events such as a car accident and health conditions. When this is happens, the insurance company has a liability to pay the claims by technical provisions or claim reserving. The calculation of claim reserving must be done carefully in such a way that it should not cause loss to the company. Two of the common methods to calculate technical provisions in non-life insurance are the...
Abstract The study was on an investigation into the effective utilization and management of serial by researchers in research institutes in southwest Nigeria. A descriptive survey method was used. A purposive sampling technique using an interval of 1:2 was employed to select 50% of the researchers from each of the research institute to give a total of 130 respondents from the research institutes. Data were collected through the use of a structured questionnai...
ABSTRACT Solid wastes management in most states of Nigeria especially in Lagos State is unsatisfactory despite consuming a relatively high proportion of the State's budget. This tends to 'crowd out other social amenities. Most of the attempts made to improve performance in the discharge of solid waste services have focused mainly on supply-side activities such as collection and disposal capacity which have failed to yield very desirable results. On this premise, this thesis therefore explored...
ABSTRACT The use of Mathematical models for manpower planning has increased in recent times for better manpower planning quantitatively both in public and private sectors. In respect of organizational management, numerous previous studies have applied Markov chain models in describing title or level promotions, demotions, recruitment, withdrawals, or changes of different career development paths to confirm the actual manpower needs of an organization or predict the future manpower needs. The ...
ABSTRACT Suusa is spontaneously fermented raw camel milk prepared by pastoral women and informally marketed in Kenya. Processors, traders and consumers of suusa rely on organoleptic testing for quality and safety along the suusa value chain. Handling practices in raw milk and suusa products potentially exposes the product to microbial contamination which is associated with reduced shelf life and risk of infections to consumers with milk borne and zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis and tub...
The main objective of the study was to estimate the responsiveness of tobacco supply to change in prices in Zimbabwe. Historical time series data from 1980 to 2015 and the OLS approach were used in order to achieve the stated objective. The study followed the adapted ARDL Nerlove (1958) logarithmic supply response model also used by Leaver (2004). All variables except for short-run technological improvements and sales quotas were found to be statistically significant. Supply of tobacco in Zim...
ABSRACT Primarily, the project has focused on finding out the Online Buying trends and behavior of Maasai Mara university consumers with an age range of 18- 25 years. The proposed primary objective of the study was further divided into secondary objectives with an aiming of finding detailed information on the research topic. Precisely, information regarding buyer’s buying frequency, average spending, and famous product purchase was gathered. Since the objectives were quantifiable, a quantit...
Abstract: The study involved a conclusive research on women and their involvement in violent extremism activities. The study was carried out in Mombasa Corm°, and its six Sub Counties. The main rationale behind the study was to be able to understand women involvement in violent extremism and the factors contributing to their involvement. The study involved studying the unit of analysis, which was a young woman aged between 18 to 25 years living in any of the Sub Counties of Mombasa County. ...
The study have the following objectives: 1. To access the gain the hotel stands to obtain from aggressive advertising. 2. To find out how the hotel budget for advertisement 3. To find out how NTA Enugu charge for advertising. INTRODUCTION The impact of advertising for businesses and brands in the 21st century has become imperatively permanent and therefore cannot be overemphasized. Advertising, it is generally believed, dates back as old as man himself, and thus has been present in his ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of money supply on economic growth in Nigeria. In the model specified, real gross domestic product (real GDP) is the regress while broad money supply, real exchange rate, and real interest rate are the regressors. Data was collected from CBN statistical Bulletin for the period 1981 – 2010. The statistical techniques used for the analysis is the ordinary least square techniques with the aid of Stata 10 software package. The research in...