The objective of this paper is to determine the efficiency of manufacturing companies in Kenya over the period of 2009 to 2011 as well as suggesting appropriate policies to be employed by the manufacturing companies in Kenya based on the findings of the study. Three critical inputs variables (raw materials, staff expenses and plant and machinery) and two output variables (net sale and earnings ...

for the first time this study reported the success of using nanocrystalline hexagonal close-packed (hcp) nickel (ni) modified composite graphite (cg) electrode (hcp-nano ni/cg) for the electrocatalytic oxidation of glycerol in alkaline medium (0.1 m koh). the hcp-nano ni/cg electrode had an improve response and specificity on the electrocatalytic oxidation of glycerol over the bare cg. the elec...

Nonpotential effects in nonlinear evolution of Marangoni convection patterns are investigated analytically and numerically. Three manifestations of nonpotential effects are considered: (i) spatial modulations of hexagonal patterns; (ii) interaction between a short-scale hexagonal pattern and a long-scale slow deformational (Goldstone) mode; (iii) generation of the mean flow by the free-surface ...

The vertex set of the resonance graph of a hexagonal graph G consists of 1-factors of G, two 1-factors being adjacent whenever their symmetric difference forms the edge set of a hexagon of G. A decomposition theorem for the resonance graphs of catacondensed hexagonal graph is proved. The theorem intrinsically uses the Cartesian product of graphs. A canonical binary coding of 1-factors of cataco...

Eccentric distance sum (EDS), which can predict biological and physical properties, is a topological index based on the eccentricity of a graph. In this paper we characterize the chain hexagonal cactus with the minimal and the maximal eccentric distance sum among all chain hexagonal cacti of length n, respectively. Moreover, we present exact formulas for EDS of two types of hexagonal cacti.

Hexagonal Ag/Pt nanoshells were prepared by using a hexagonal Ag nanoplate as the displacement template and by introducing Pt ions. The prepared Ag/Pt nanoshells played the role of an electrocatalyst in an oxygen reduction process. Compared to spherical Pt and Ag/Pt nanoparticles, the hexagonal Ag/Pt nanoshells showed higher activity for oxygen electroreduction.

In our present work undoped CdS and Cu doped CdS thin films were deposited on glass substrate by chemical bath method. XRD analysis of the as-prepared sample indicated CdS:Cu nanorods to be mixture of two phases namely hexagonal and cubic. It has been observed that one particular plane (100) has preferentially grown as the maximum intense peak whereas the other two planes (101) and (102) have d...

This paper studies the construction of highly symmetric compactly supported wavelets for hexagonal data/image and triangle surface multiresolution processing. Recently hexagonal image processing has attracted attention. Compared with the conventional square lattice, the hexagonal lattice has several advantages, including that it has higher symmetry. It is desirable that the filter banks for hex...

A first-principles pseudopotential study of neutral self-interstitial defects in silicon is reported, together with calculations for Pandey’s concerted exchange mechanism for selfdiffusion. The energies and structures of the fully relaxed hexagonal, tetrahedral, split-〈110〉, ‘caged’ (Clark S J and Ackland G J 1997 Phys. Rev. B 56 47), split-〈100〉, and bond-centred interstitials are calculated u...