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AGD 100: INTRODUCTION TO GENDER DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Trending!
The differences between women and men within the same households and between cultures that are socially and culturally constructed and change over time. The differences are reflected in: roles, responsibilities, access to and control over resources, constraints, opportunities, needs, perceptions, views etc, held by men and women.
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DATA MINING TECHNIQUES Trending!
The paper presents application of data mining techniques to fraud analysis. We present some classification and prediction data mining techniques which we consider important to handle fraud detection. There exist a number of data mining algorithms and we present statistics-based algorithm, decision treebased algorithm and rule-based algorithm. We present Bayesian classification model to detect fraud in automobile insurance. Naïve Bayesian visualization is selected to analyze and interpret the classifier predictions. We illustrate how ROC curves can be deployed for model assessment in order to provide a more intuitive analysis of the models
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AGD 303: GENDER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Trending!
The purpose of the course is to discuss the concepts that are essential to the subject of natural resource and environmental management and relate them to gendered understanding of environmental challenges and solutions. We hope that you will find this module exciting, educative, and engaging.
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AGD 101: EVOLUTION OF GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
In this lesson we shall learn about gender, sex, sex roles, and gender roles. This shall strengthen our perception of the concepts in the area where these concepts have been taken as synonymous.
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AGD 304: GENDER ASPECTS IN REGIONAL COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Trending!
The objective of this course is to develop intellectual and analytical capacity in gender and Regional Cooperation. The course will introduce students to forms of regional Cooperation and explain gains made from various ventures in and outside Africa from a gender perspective. The course will introduce students to forms of regional cooperation and explain gains made from various ventures in and outside Africa from a gender perspective.
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AGD 202: PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES AND TOOLS IN GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT Trending!
This Module focuses on participatory approaches and tools in gender and development. Development process world over is expected to be result oriented in that it is more about how people benefit from the process rather than the dynamic of process itself.
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FAS/AMS 311: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS NOTES
Supply chain is the network of organizations that are involved through upstream and downstream linkages, in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of product and services in the hands of the ultimate customers.
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BBA 314: PUBLIC RELATIONS Trending!
publics. In the analysis of the definition (i) it is” the planned and sustained effort” ,meaning that PR activity is organized as a campaign or program and is a continuous activity, it is not haphazard. (ii) Its purpose is “to establish and maintain mutual understanding” – that is, to ensure that the organization is understood by others. This mutual understanding is thus between an organization and its publics, since many groups of people are involved.
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MICROECONOMICS FULL NOTES
This course provides the student with an introduction to the basic elements of modern microeconomics. The course provides coverage of the institutional background and the history of significant microeconomic ideas and issues in Kenya and around the world. It will develop an understanding of how microeconomics relates to practical life. Students are expected to apply the knowledge in other economics units. The study employs extensive use of diagrams and mathematical expressions in the illustration of concepts.
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ASC 200: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL THEORY
Social Action, according to Max Weber, is action that takes others into account. At the individual or group level this refers to interpersonal influence: how people are affected by co-present others or the expectations associated with generalized others, so that they dress, talk, and act in predictable ways but social action also includes groups, organizations, and institutions, however, and influence within and across these levels of analysis.
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AGD 214: GENDER ISSUES IN GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Trending!
In this lesson we shall critically analyze the emerging issues in governance that revolve around such themes as corruption, leadership, ethnicity, land, civil and human rights and their gender implications.
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APS 303: PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE
The term adolescence, derived from the Latin adolescence meaning "to grow up", can be defined as a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood.
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ASC428: SOCIAL POLICY AND ANALYSIS Trending!
The objective of the course is to enable students to be able to define policy and social policy, appreciate types of public policy, review foundations of the public policy including social policy, challenges and vulnerabilities in societies, the need and rationale for social policy, UN based social policy, development and social policy in Kenya, evaluation (analysis) of social policy, and policy development cycle.
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BMS 400: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Trending!
A System is an integrated set of interoperable elements, each with explicitly specified and bounded capabilities, working synergistically to perform value-added processing to enable a User to satisfy mission-oriented operational needs in a prescribed operating environment with a specified outcome and probability of success.
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AGD 408: GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Trending!
Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.
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TOOLS OF CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING. Trending!
There are three set of tools used in the articulation and actualization of critical thinking; they include: Tools of Analysis (dimensions or elements of thinking), Tools of Evaluation (Universal intellectual Standards) and Tools of Transformation (valuable intellectual Traits)
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LESSON 9: CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY, INDEPENDENT EVENTS AND BAYES’ THEOREM Trending!
In this lesson we will discuss conditional probability, independent events, Bayes’ theorem and its application.
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WRITING A POLICY PAPER Trending!
In this lesson we will take a close look at policy briefs and learn how to produce them.
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APS 214: PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
Sexuality is part and parcel of a person’ s total personality from birth to death, with or without sexual activity. Sex is part of every culture and can be found historically in every period through the paintings and drawings.
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304: ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Trending!
Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder. Abnormal psychology studies the nature of abnormal behaviour, its causes and its treatments with the overall aim of describing, explaining, predicting, and changing abnormal patterns of functioning.
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