ABSTRACT Underutilized indigenous vegetables from Morogoro and Kilimanjaro regions were investigated. Out of these, four underutilized vegetables (UVs); Sunga (Launea cornuta), Kikundembala (Vigna vexillata), Mokiki (Momordica foetida) and Inyiri (Basella alba) were identified, collected and studied. The overall objective was to identify and analyze safety and nutritional excellence of the identified UVs used as food and claimed to be remedy to the sick. Primary data was collected using a che...
ABSTRACT Arboviruses belong to various families of viruses that are transmitted by arthropods, mainly mosquitoes and ticks causing clinical disease symptoms in humans ranging from febrile illnesses to hemorrhagic fevers. A systematic vector surveillance spanning two months and covering five sites in Kyela district was carried out in order to determine mosquito abundance and evaluate the potential role of Aedes spp in arbovirus transmission in the study area. Mosquitoes were collected, identif...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to estimate the prevalence and related risk factors of porcine cysticercosis (caused by Taenia solium) and African swine fever (ASF) in domestic pigs, and assesses the state of pork inspection in urban/peri-urban areas of Morogoro region, Tanzania, between November 2010 and January 2011. A two stage random sampling was employed. A total of 260 live pigs were tested serologically. Serum samples were tested for the presence of circulating parasite antigen usi...
ABSTRACT Reuse of wastewater for vegetable irrigation is common in developing countries due to its accessibility and being rich in fertilizing elements thus improving crops yield. Regardless of these advantages, the practice plays an important role in transmission of intestinal parasitic helminths to vegetable consumers. This study was conducted to assess farmers’ awareness, perceptions, managerial and consumption practices regarding vegetables irrigated with reused wastewater on health ris...
ABSTRACT A study on rapid detection and diagnosis of foot and mouth disease (FMD) field outbreaks was carried out in field settings using a Svanodip® foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV)- antigen (Ag) test lateral flow device (LFD) in Serengeti and Ngorongoro districts of Tanzania. Epithelial tissues from cattle (n=80) were collected from different villages and tested at penside using Svanodip® FMDV-antigen test to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of LFDs relative to gold standard re...
Abstract Keywords: social media, analytics, framework, Namibia Social media use within the business and branding spheres has exploded globally over the past few years. While Namibian SMEs are actively involved in social media marketing, there is a lack of deeper knowledge of audience analysis, campaign analytics and proper strategic planning for full benefit extraction. This is compounded by the relative lack of locally produced and published research within the field of social media that exp...
ABSTRACT Pseudomonas aeruginosa is gram negative bacterium which causes nosocomial infections in patients and is highly resistant to most antibiotics as it possess numerous mechanisms of resistance. These mechanisms possessed by P. aeruginosa make it difficult to treat in infections thus being of medical concern. A study was carried out to determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of P. aeruginosa isolated from wound pus and urine samples. A total of 1200 primary culture...
ABSTRACT Agile software development offered a deceptively simple means to organise complex multi-participant software development while achieving fast delivery of quality software, meeting customer requirements, and coping effectively with project change. There is little understanding, however, of how agile software development projects achieve effective coordination, a critical factor in successful software projects. Agile software development provides a unique set of practices for organisin...
ABSTRACT ZB Financial Holdings Virtual Banking and Loan Application system is a system that enables customers to log into the system and be able to carry out all the transactions such as having the access to view their account balances, view all latest transactions and be able to download bank statements in portable document format. Data was gathered by the use of interviews, questionnaires and observations and this brought out the expectations of the customers and the employees as well as th...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to come up with a Mobile health (m-Health) application system. This system allows patients’ to communicate directly via an android mobile system through notifications or messages and at the same time enables them to perform electronic booking of appointments, receive e-prescription and accessing after visit summaries from the hospital or clinic. The development of this system comes out after the identification of numerous problems which are associated ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate into the use of Information Communication technology in the teaching of Geography at ‘O’ level in Mhondoro Ngezi District Secondary Schools. Descriptive survey design which utilized mixed approach method was used. Questionnaires were administered to thirteen teachers teaching Geography at selected schools. School heads of three schools were interviewed. Purposive sampling technique was used to select teachers for study. The findings re...
Abstract The source of contact details of public and private organizations used to be the telephone directory. The telephone directory would contain the physical location of the organization as well as the telephone number. With the advent of the mobile phones whose use has grown exponentially, the fixed network market share has declined drastically. And so is availability of the telephone directory. This proposal is to develop a service provider’s directory accessed by mobile phone using t...
ABSTRACT The aim of the research was to determine the occurrence of antibiotic residues in milk in Gweru. The population consisted of twenty-eight farmers. Ten farmers were randomly selected from the population. The average volume that the farmers supply to dairy processing companies was twenty thousand liters during the time of sampling. Raw milk was sampled in two hundred and fifty mls sterile sample bottles. The samples were frozen up to the time of analysis. Detection and quantitation of ...
ABSTRACT The main motive behind the research was to derive an answer to the discovered problems of the current system of the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) with regards to the way the fault reports were being carried out and the quality of services offered. The conduction of research through research methodologies such as questionnaires, observations as well as interviews led to problems identification such as being more manual since it does not allow the ZETDC ele...
ABSTRACT Plumtree Town Council is an urban local authority located in Plumtree town in Matebeleland South district of Zimbabwe. It is situated 100 km away from the City of Bulawayo along Bulawayo Botswana road and railway line, 10 km from the border. It services local residents, outlying farmers in Bulilima and Mangwe rural districts as well as tourists as it is a border town. Like other local authorities it is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Construction Rural and Urban Plan...