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    • Influence of Instructional Practices on Secondary School Students' Achievement in Mathematics. 

      Nandwa, O.M.; Wekesa, W.D.; Wanjala, T.W. (ISTE. No 1 Central, hong kong Island, Hong Kong SAR, 2015)
      Mathematics is a key subject which students cannot avoid if they have to lead a bright future. Despite the introduction and implementation of different teaching methods and strategies suggested by researchers the achievement ...
    • Effectiveness of a Language Based Program in School Mathematics on Students Understanding of Statistics 

      Wekesa, W.D. (2006-12-01)
      . Mathematical knowledge and understanding is important not only for scientific progress and development but also for its day-to-day application in social sciences and arts, government, business and management studies ...
    • Investigation of factors that influence syllabus coverage in secondary school mathematics in Kenya 

      Musasia, A.M.; Nakhanu, S.B.; Wekesa, W.D. (2012)
      Mathematics plays a vital role in individual, national and global development. However, over the years mathematics has been one of the most poorly performed subjects in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations ...
    • On derivation of the probability of occurrence of an epidemic with application to HIV/AIDS spread given tuberculosis co-infections in the presence of treatment 

      Simwa, Richard Onyino; Muhati, Nelson L.; Chikamai, Lucy W. (Science Publishing Group, 2017-08-22)
      Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) infections are two major world’s public health problems especially in developing countries. Worldwide, 13% of TB cases are estimated to be co-infected ...
    • Hybrid single particle simulation of atmospheric pollutants over Bungoma County in Kenya 

      Shem, Godfrey Juma; Makokha, John Wanjala; Kelonye, Festus Beru (Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management (EJESM), 2018-12-20)
      Microscale dispersion models with different levels of complexity may be used to assess urban air quality and support decision making for pollution control. Mathematical models calculate pollutant concentrations by solving ...
    • On generation of measurable covers for measurable sets using multiple integral of functions 

      Olwamba, Otanga Levi.; Aywa, Shem.; Oduor, Owino Maurice. (200-09-20)
      A fundamental notion in many areas of mathematics, including optimization, probability, variational problems, functional analysis and operator theory, is that of an integral functional. By this is meant an expression of ...
    • Partition of measurable sets 

      Olwamba, Otanga L.; Oduor, Owino M.; Aywa, Shem. (American mathematical society, 2019-05-09)
      . The following question was posed by D. Maharam: Can one divide the unit square into two or more measurable sets each of which has a non-null intersection with every product set A XB of positive measure, where A and ...
    • Sequence in the range of a vector- value measure 

      Aywa, Shem. (Journal of school of computer, statistical and mathematical sciences, 1999)
      Liapounoff, in 1940, proved that the range of a countably additive bounded measure with values in a finite dimensional vector space is compact and, in the nonatomic case, is convex. Later, in 1945, Liapounoff showed, ...
    • Measurable feller semigroups on rn 

      Oduor, Maurice.; Owino; Aywa, Shem. (2007)
      Fractional derivatives are used to model anomalous diffusion, which occurs when the particles spread in a different manner than the prediction of the classical diffusion equation ∂ ∂tu(x, t) = D ∂ 2 ∂x2 u(x, t), ...
    • Aspects of (p.q) summing multipliers 

      Aywa, Shem.; Agure, J.O.; Rao, W. (Vdm verlag Dr. Muller aktiengeselischaft & co. kg., 2010)
      A sequence (uj )j∈N of operators in L(X, Y ) is a (p, q)-summing multiplier (or (p, q)-summing sequence of operators), in short (uj ) ∈ `πp,q (X, Y ), if there exists a constant C > 0 such that, for any finite collection ...
    • On characterization of u-ideals determined by sequences 

      Matuya, Wanyonyi John.; Makila, Patrick.; Achiles, Simiyu.; Aywa, Shem.; Sammy, Musundi. (2012)
      The area of ideals is important in the study of Analysis, algebra, Geometry and Computer science. The various types of ideals have been studied, for example m ideals and h ideals. The m ideals defined on real Banach ...
    • Unconditional banach space ideal property 

      Musundi, S.; Aywa, Shem.; Fourie, Jan.; Matuya, W.J.; Godefroy, G. (Journal of mathematical sciences advances and applications, 2012)
      A Banach X is an M-ideal in its bidual if the relation \\y^t\\ = \\y\\ + 11^1 1 holds for every y € X* and every t e X1 £ j^***. The spaces Co(J) — / any set-equipped with their canonical norm belong to this class, ...
    • Equivalent banach operator ideal norms 

      Musundi, S.; Aywa, Shem.; Fourie, J. (International journal of mathematical analysis, 2012)
      We continue the investigation of coorbit spaces which can be attached to every integrable, irreducible, unitary representation of a locally compact groupG and every reasonable function space onG. Whereas Part I was devoted ...
    • On redemacher boundedness in operator – norm 

      Wanyonyi, W.; Simiyu, J.A.; Aywa, Shem.; Kirui, C.S. (Journal of agriculture, pure and applied science and technology, 2012)
      In these lecture notes we report on recent breakthroughs in the functional analytic approach to maximal regularity for parabolic evolution equations, which set off a wave of activity in the last years and allowed to establish ...
    • Conecture of banach space operator ideals in nuclear spaces 

      Musundi, W.; Ombaka, S.O.; Njogu, C.M.; Muthengi, S.F.; Mugambi, D.; Aywa, Shem. (Asian journal of current engineering and maths, 2013)
      We apply the notion of Banach space operator ideals in nuclear spaces through topological vector spaces. The motivation for this study came from attempts to generalize the structure of nuclear spaces as a result of nuclear ...
    • Ideals if polynomial ring got error control in computer applications 

      Olege, F.; Aywa, Shem.; Rao, R.D.K.; Wanambisi, A. (Mathematical theory and modelling, 2013)
      We generalize the classical Knuth-Schonhage algorithm computing GCD of two polynomials for solving arbitrary linear Diophantine systems over polynomials in time, quasi-linear in the maximal degree. As an application, we ...
    • Factorization of large composite integer 

      Wanambisi, Aldrin.; Aywa, Shem.; Maende, Cleophas.; Muketha, Geofrey Muchiri. (International journal of mathematics and studies, 2013)
      This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining theoretical estimates for the number of arithmetical operations required to factorize a large integer n or test it for primality. One way of making these problems precise ...
    • Advances in composite integer factorization 

      Wanambisi, Aldrin.; Aywa, Shem.; Maende, Cleophas.; Muketha, Geoffrey Muchiri. (Mathematical theory and modelling, 2013)
      In this research we propose a new method of integer factorization. Prime numbers are the building blocks of arithmetic. At the moment there are no efficient methods (algorithms) known that will determine whether a ...
    • The relationship between students socio-economic status and access to public university education in Bungoma west district, Kenya 

      Manyonge, M.; Aywa, Shem.; Odebero, S.; Poipoi, M. (International journal of advanced research, 2013)
      The relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and student achievement is well documented and indicates that students from more advantaged backgrounds perform better at school. Numerous international and national ...
    • A probabilistic data encryption scheme (PDES) 

      Wanambisi, Aldrin W.; Maende, Cleophas.; Muketha, Geoffrey.; Aywa, Shem. (2013)
      A chaos-based cryptosystem has exhibited some unconventionally excellent properties. At the same time, it is of vital significance for its advancement to give a mathematically rigorous cryptanalysis. In this study, we ...