ABSTRACT Kenya is one of the tobacco growing countries in Africa with most tobacco being produced in South Nyanza, Eastern and Western parts of Kenya. Despite the increasing deterioration of the environment caused by tobacco farming, very little is known about the measures in place to manage the situation. It is not clear to what extent the environmental management practices are employed in tobacco growing zones.Furthermore, it is not known how widespread the environmental degradation and env...
ABSTRACT Kenya holds a huge honeybee population and the ability of honey production is high due to different ecological conditions. Beekeeping therefore has the potential of promoting economic development by supplementing household incomes from selling of honey and other products from the hive. Investment in bee farming contributes to environmental conservation because it helps reduce pressure cropping exerts on agricultural land. Many dry areas of Kenya usually face acute food and nutrition ...
Abstract: Kenya is one of the tobacco growing countries in Africa with most tobacco being produced in South Nyanza, Eastern and Western parts of Kenya. Despite the increasing deterioration of the environment caused by tobacco farming, very little is known about the measures in place to manage the situation. It is not clear to what extent the environmental management practices are employed in tobacco growing zones.Furthermore, it is not known how widespread the environmental degradation and e...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Currently, organisations have benefited enormously the positive influence of new information systems (IS). Focus of this analysis is on a broad variety of information systems that a contemporary organisation such as Korean Airline uses (BPM, MIS, ERP, and CRM). The purpose is to identify different information systems, also offer an in-depth analysis of systems to ascertain the mea...
Abstract This thesis investigates Question answering system in general and then applying it in a specific domain: Arabic language and Holy Quran. A corpus of questions and answers from Albagarah and Alfatihah chapters was built, using three types of files: excel worksheet, texts and database table. This corpus was collected from many resources and validated by Islamic scholars from Gabrah college. The thesis contains six chapters: Chapter one defines the problem statement, objectives and mot...
ABSTRACT Information technology is increasingly being used in the office, factory, shop, home, supermarket and in many other places. It is being used to carry out transactions, provide information, record data, perform an ever increasing range of tasks and even in making decisions. This means that with the development of information technology, many manual operations are being converted to modern automated systems. The new development does not elude pension and gratuity system. Pension and....
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of The Study 1 1.2 Statement of The Problem 3 1.3 Aim and Objectives of The Study ...
ABSTRACT This study focused on the contribution of computerized internal control systems to the public sector financial management in Dodoma City. The general objective of the study was to assess the contribution of computerized internal control systems in the public sector financial management. The study employed a case study design, which provided opportunity to deeply study on the individual case of Dodoma City Council. Data were collected through questionnaire and interviews. The sample ...
Abstract Government accounting is the process of recording, analyzing, summary; communication and interpreting financial information abut government in aggregate and in details, reflecting all transactions involving the receipts, transfer and disposition of government funds and property. This is the effect it his laid down in the audit ordinance in 1956 and the finance control and management ordinance of 1958. The provision of these two ordinances of 1958. The provision of these two ordinance...
ABSTRACT Chlorella vulgaris is an edible microalgae and a highly notorious potential feed resource for many agriculturally important animal species. Chlorella vulgaris intake has also been linked to improvements in animal health and welfare. Its influence over animal development stems from its nutritive and protein-rich composition, thus leading to an increased commercial production to meet consumer demand. The aim of this work is to isolate and identify microalgae used in poultry farming a...
Abstract This study investigates the landuse conflict between cattle herdsmen and farmers in Plateau state, Nigeria. It analyzed the landuse and landcover dynamics of the study area between 1986 and 2014 and identified the trance-humance routes, grazing corridors and conflict zones in the area. It went further to determine the optimal farming and grazing zones using GIS multi-criteria analysis. The study made use of Landsat images of 1986, 2001 and 2014, elevation data (SRTM) of 2014, topogr...
Abstract: Understanding soil attributes guides arable farming initiatives in many countries, especially developing countries. In this study, soils of the Gamodubu area, in the Kweneng District, Botswana, were analysed to determine their suitability for arable farming. Soil organic matter (SOM) was estimated by determining soil organic carbon (SOC) times a factor. Five samples of soil were collected in the Gamodubu area for evaluation in the laboratory. There was positive correlation between ...
Abstract At the present time, architecture has not been immune to the technological development that has taken place in the world. Modern technologies have begun to modernize architecture, making them think, analyze, decide and implement. It is known that the internal environment of hospitals is considered as a catalyst for healing, which has become one of the topics that reflect the thought of the world and show the extent of intellectual development in the field of hospital design, which d...
Abstract: This project studied on analysis of performance measures of queuing system in commercial bank of Ethiopia, Finkile Branch (CBEFB), Eastern Ethiopia, described multi-server Markovian queuing model (M/M/c) and present mathematical governing equations of the model. Waiting lines and service systems are important parts of the business world. An M/M/c model is one applications of queuing theory that is used to examine and analyze waiting lines of service systems with a certain assumptio...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to examine farmers’ perceptions of the contribution of maize farming technologies to livelihoods in the Buea Sub-Division of Cameroon. The specific objectives dealt with farmers’ demographic characteristics and their use of maize technologies, farmers’ views of other factors that influence their use of maize technologies, a comparison of the yields, incomes and livelihood perceptions of farmers who use traditional technologies and those who u...