• Drug delivery strategies for porphyrin-based photosensitizers in photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy 

  Murage, Margaret W.; Amuhaya, Edith K.; Mbatia, Betty N.; Muge, Edward K.; Derese, Solomon (World Scientific Connect, 2024)

  In the face of increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the looming threat of a return to a pre-antibiotics era, the exploration of alternative antimicrobial strategies becomes imperative. Among these, Photodynamic ...
• Revolutionizing drug delivery: The promise of surface functionalized dendrimers in overcoming conventional limitations 

  Omolo, Calvin A.; Ismail, Eman A.; Amuhaya, Edith K.; Fasiku, Victoria; Nwabuife, Joshua C.; Mohamed, Mahir; Gafar, Mohammed A.; Kalhapure, Rahul; Thirumala, Govender (Elsevier, 2025)

  Dendrimers are well-defined hyperbranched macromolecules with characteristic globular structures for the larger systems. The recent strides in supramolecular synthetic approaches have brought to life the functionalization ...
• Effect of porphyrin metalation and synergistic combination with fluconazole in antifungal PDT against Candida spp 

  Murage, Margaret W.; Amuhaya, Edith K.; Mbatia, Betty N.; Muge, Edward K. (World Scientific Connect, 2025)

  Candidiasis, a common fungal infection, presents significant treatment challenges due to the increasing resistance of Candida species to conventional antifungal medications. Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT) ...
• Synergistic effect of porphyrin-induced photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy combined with Gentamicin against clinically important gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria 

  Murage, Margaret W.; Amuhaya, Edith K.; Mbatia, Betty N.; Muge, Edward K.; Derese, Solomon (World Scientific Connect, 2024)

  Infectious diseases remain a major cause of death globally, particularly in developing countries, with antibiotic resistance exacerbating the issue. To address this, alternative treatments like Photodynamic Antimicrobial ...
• Photodynamic antimicrobial activity of indium(III) porphyrin complexes against foodborne pathogens 

  Murage, Margaret W.; Amuhaya, Edith K.; Mbatia, Betty N.; Muge, Edward K.; Derese, Solomon (World Scientific Connect, 2024)

  This study reports the synthesis, characterization, and biological application of indium(III) porphyrin complexes for in vitro photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT) against foodborne pathogens Methicillin-resistant ...
• Integrated Photocatalyst Adsorbents based on Porphyrin Anchored to Activated Carbon Granules for Water Treatment 

  Oyim, James; Amuhaya, Edith; Matshitse, Refilwe; Mack, John; Nyokong, Tebello (Elsevier, 2022)

  Integration of adsorption and photocatalysis processes can lead to several benefits in water treatment. Integrating well-known adsorbents with photocatalysts ensures that all the interesting components are preserved and ...
• Enhanced Optical Limiting Behavior of an Indium Phthalocyanine–Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composite: An Investigation of the Effects of Solvents 

  Sanusi, Kayode; Amuhaya, Edith K.; Nyokong, Tebello (American Chemical Society, 2014)

  The nonlinear optical behavior of 2(3),9(10),16(17),23(24)-tetrakis-(4-aminophenoxy)phthalocyaninato indium(III) chloride (2) and its carbon nanotube composite in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and dimethylformamide (DMF) solutions ...
• Trilateral Research Chairs Initiative: Final Report 

  Amuhaya, Edith; Scaiano, Juan; Nyokong, Tebello (International Development Research Centre, 2023)

  This project set out to use light to solve environmental issues that are of high importance in Africa and beyond. In addition, the project chairs regarded high quality personnel training as a major component of the research, ...
• An Evaluative Study of the United States International University-Africa’s Internship Program: Perspectives from Internal Stakeholders 

  Opiyo-Newa, Elsie; Arasa, Josephine Nyaboke (United States International University - Africa, 2019)

  This study evaluated the quality of the internship program offered to students at the USIU-Africa. Its specific objectives were to gauge students’ rating of the delivery of the internship program., document the benefits ...
• The Negative Impact of Telling Leadership Style on the Performance of Employees at the Kenya’s International Airports 

  Nderitu, John Mwangi; Ouma, Caren Akomo; Okanda, Paul Michael (Kabarak Journal of Research & Innovation, 2024-12-09)

  Due to the low employee performance, the four international airports in Kenya are currently experiencing unhurried processing of arriving, transiting and departing air passengers leading to incessant customer complaints. ...
• An Attempt of Integrating Video/Audio Recording Assignments in Japanese Courses at USIU, Kenya 

  Nakamura, Katsuji (Japanese Language Teachers’ Association – Kenya (Jaltak), 2020)
• ケニアの日本語教育：２０１６ Japanese Language Education in Kenya: 2016 

  Nakamura, Katsuji (Japanese Language Teachers’ Association – Kenya (Jaltak), 2020)
• ケニアの日本語教員養成 The Status of the Training of Japanese Language Teachers in Kenya 

  Nakamura, Katsuji (Japanese Language Teachers’ Association – Kenya (Jaltak), 2020)
• Enhancing Accuracy in a Touch Operation Biometric System: A Case on the Android Pattern Lock Scheme 

  Ng'ang'a, Allan; Kigen, Paula Musuva (Hindawi Mobile Information Systems, 2020-06-10)

  The main objective of this research study is to enhance the functionality of an Android pattern lock application by determining whether the time elements of a touch operation, in particular time on dot (TOD) and time between ...
• A Naturalistic Methodology for Assessing Susceptibility to Social Engineering Through Phishing 

  Kigen, Paula Musuva; Chepken, Christopher; Getao, Katherine (DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University, 2019-01-07)

  Phishing continues to be a prevalent social engineering attack. Attacks are relatively easy to setup and can target many people at low cost. This study presents a naturalistic field experiment that can be staged by ...
• A new approach to modelling the effects of cognitive processing and threat detection on phishing susceptibility 

  Kigen, Paula Musuva; Getao, Catherine W.; Chepken, Christopher K. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Phishing threats are real and are ever increasing in their reach and devastating effects. This study delves into the role of cognitive processing in detecting and curtailing phishing attacks. The proposed model is grounded ...
• A self-learning framework for validation of runtime adaptation in service-oriented systems 

  Mutanu, Leah (Lancaster University, 2018-02-21)

  Ensuring that service-oriented systems can adapt quickly and effectively to changes in service quality, business needs and their runtime environment is an increasingly important research problem. However, while considerable ...
• Integrating Non-Functional Requirements for Marginalized Users in the Design of IoT Systems 

  Mutanu, Leah; Gupta, Khushi; Gohil, Jeet; Karania, Dharmik; Ali, Abdihamid (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020)

  The drive towards automating solutions to societal challenges has seen an increase in the use of emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT). Subsequently a lot of research exists that focuses on designing IoT ...
• Consumer-Centred Validation for Runtime Adaptation in Service-Oriented System 

  Mutanu, Leah; Katonya, Gerald (IEEE, 2016-12-26)

  Ensuring that service-oriented systems can adapt quickly and effectively to changes in service quality, business needs and their runtime environment is an increasingly important research problem. However, while considerable ...
• State of runtime adaptation in service-oriented systems: what, where, when, how and right 

  Mutanu, Leah; Katonya, Gerald (Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2018-12-12)

  Software as a Service reflects a ‘service-oriented’ approach to software development that is based on the notion of composing applications by discovering and invoking network-available services to accomplish some task. ...

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