Environment-surrounding The surrounding conditions which influence behaviour and development of living things. Environmental science therefore is the study of the environment, its living and non-living components and their interactions.

Notes on IT projects, development and their management

The purpose of this unit or module is to equip the trainee or student with knowledge and skills to enable him or her apply Management techniques in any organization or institution. These notes can also be used in KNEC courses such as Certificate in Human Resource Management Module 1, Diploma in Secretarial Studies, Diploma in Business Administration, Diploma in Human Resource Management Module 1, Diploma in Personnel Management , Diploma in Secretarial Duties Module 3 that share this common unit in business related courses

Early man used drawings to communicate even before he learnt to talk, write, or count. Incidentally, these ancient hieroglyphics (picture-writings) communicate as well today, as they must have done thousands of years ago, this fully supports the saying that “A picture is worth a thousand words” and in the era of computers we can add on to it or we may as well revise the saying to “A computer is worth a million pictures!”

The purpose of this unit is to equip the trainee or student with knowledge and skills to apply human resource management techniques in his or her organisation as a human resource manager and management as a whole.These notes can also be used in KNEC courses such as Diploma in Business Administration, Diploma in Personnel Management, Diploma in Human Resource Management Module 2, Diploma in Business Management Module 2,Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management, Higher Diploma in Entrepreneurship Development that share this common unit.

The purpose of this unit or module is to equip the trainee or student with knowledge and skills on accounting basics and information. These Business Finance notes can also be used in courses such as certificate in Business Administration,certificate in Accountancy, certificate in BM Module 2 and Diploma in Accountancy that share the common units.

The purpose of this unit is to equip the trainee or student with knowledge and skills to enable him or her apply Commercial And Administrative Law in the organization. These notes can also be used in courses such as Diploma in Secretarial studies, Diploma in Business Administration,Diploma in Marketing, Diploma in Business Management Module 2, Diploma in Secretarial Duties Module 2 that share this common unit in business related courses.

This is intended to expose students to the principles, processes, practice and procedures in financial management of pension schemes and similar funds.

OCTANE RATING AND MOTOR FUELS i) Gasoline consisting primarily of straight chain alkanes has poor combustion characteristics when burned in an internal combustion engine. ii) Consequently air and vaporized gasoline mixture tends to ignite spontaneously in the engine’s cylinder before it is completely compressed and ignited by the spark plug. This may result in “Engine knocks” resulting in “loss of power.