ABSTRACT Service delivery to the citizens is the core business of the Gweru City Council. This means that they have to provide quality services always in order to keep the citizens secure from disease and crime. To enhance the quality of the services provided the city council the Gweru Complaints Reporting and administration mobile application is an effort to ease the process of lodging complaint by providing a highly available online system. This is an effort to make the city smart. A Smart ...
Abstract E-Readiness assessments have been identified as a pre-requisite for successful systems implementations and therefore it is a pre-requisite for e-Government as well. It is however difficult to use existing e-Readiness assessment tools as most have been designed to cater for a specific context. In the absence of previous assessments, the level of e-Readiness of local authorities in Namibia is undetermined. The aim of the study is to design an automated assessment tool to assess the ...
ABSTRACT Bovine brucellosis is endemic in Zimbabwe and is an important veterinary disease, responsible for large losses in livestock through abortions and still-born calves. It is also a zoonotic disease and as such poses a threat to public health. For this reason, it is important for every farmer to know the status of their herd. This study was carried out to compare the reliability of serological tests with molecular test in the detection of bovine brucellosis. A total of 17 whole blood and...
ABSTRACT The kinetics and mechanisms of the reactions of nitro-activated diphenyl ethers with substituted anilines in benzene have been investigated. The reactions except that of 2', 6'- dinitro phenyi 2, 4, 6- trinitrophenyl ether are base catalysed. For some of the nucleophiles, the rates decreased with increasing temperature in the range 5 - 35 °C resulting in negative enthalpies of activation (AH" -4.1 to -20.0 kJmol. This can be rationalised in terms of a step-wise mechanism involving (...
ABSTRACT Zimbabwe as an agro economic country focuses immensely on the profit from farming. The government has been investing heavily on the inputs that help make farming easy. The major reason for developing such a system is to impact expert information to farmers at a click of a button.. This document consists of the development of a software system that gives farmers expert information. This system is an easy to use intelligent system that captures the crop disease and give information abo...
Abstract The manual staff appraisal system at ZIMRA is slow and tiresome due to the length of time it takes to generate and fill in individual employees’ evaluation forms resulting in low throughput of employees. The process is also not cost effective to the company as voluminous appraisals are posted to the head office for evaluation and back for feedback. The analysis phase saw the researcher using various data gathering methodologies which included interviews, questionnaires and focus gr...
ABSTRACT Elite cowpea varieties IT84E-124 and Vita 7 of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, were exposed to varying doses of chemical and physical mutagens. Optimum doses of 10mm EMS for 6 hours and 0.1mM and 1.0mm NaN, for 2 hours, determined from seedling growth tests, and 100R and 200R gamma radiation were applied to seed samples of cach genotype. A total of 2000 seeds from each cultivar/treatment were planted. The suitability and efficacy of the treatment regimes...
ABSTRACT The public sector is witnessing a digital revolution and are being challenged by many obstacles as correct electronic platforms are provided for the improvement of collaborative activities, sharing of information and knowledge, regardless of time, space or location. In this study the focus was on three main subject matters: decision-making, tools for collaboration, and challenges that may arise when using these tools for collaborative activities. The empirical part of the thesis empl...
SUMMARY Antisera were produced against the most prevalent Campylobacter strains 'LA 4', LA 12', 'LA 36', 'LA 53, LA 78 and 'LA 1214' isolated and identified in Lagos, Nigeria. A total of two hundred other Campylobacter strains were screened using the six antisera produced to determine their serogrouping, Eight (4.08) of the strains reacted positively with antiserum raised against strain LA 4", seventy-seven (38,58) with antiserum raised against strain 'LA 36"; eleven (5,5%) reacted with the a...
ABSTRACT This document entails full details of research given in phases of the development of the Adverse behaviour and protest prediction system for Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU). It is a sentiment analysis system designed to read sentiments in text posted by students and members of the university community at large in order to aid the institution’s administration in predicting possibility of protests at the university. It was seen necessary to develop this system due to several ...
ABSTRACT Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are a serious problem globally and are some of the most common diseases encountered in medical practice today. Despite the widespread availability of antibiotics, UTIs remain a problem because of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing therefore provides information that allows physicians to select the most appropriate antibiotics for UTIs. This study was carried out to: (i) determine the prevalence of UTIs among patients present...
Abstract The purpose of this study is to unpack computer aided teaching. It focuses on an exploration into the methods of using a computer as a teaching tool for ordinary level students in Shurugwi District Urban Cluster located in the Midlands Province. A multiple case study approach was used to gather relevant data required for the study. Three School Heads, three computer science teachers and six pupils from form three and four purposively participated in the study. The research attempted ...
ABSTRACT Steady-state problems in Engineering and Applied Science can be modelled in a way that requires the solution of differential or integro-different in equations, involving the Laplacian equation. Numerical procedures instead of variation and analytical tecniques) are often applied through the finite difference approximations among other techniques. In this research, the finite-difference expressions for two two, three and n-dimensional Laplacian operator based on linear, quadratic and ...
ABSTRACT This thesis reports on a statistical analysis on risk factors associated with under-five mortality in Namibia. Secondary data were obtained from the 2013 Namibia Demographic and Health Survey data. Children survival was measured by age at death and the event variable was whether the children were still alive or dead after the first five (years) of their lives. Variables included were maternal education, mother’s marital status, the age of the mother at first birth, preceding birth ...
ABSTRACT The need for utilizing renewable resources to meet the future demand for fuel and other value added products has increased the attention on lignocellulose, the most abundant and renewable resource in the world. Lignocellulose is degraded by lignocellulolytic enzymes produced by fungi and bacteria. Mutagenic agents can be used to achieve improvement of these strains. However, there has been a challenge in improving and optimizing fermentation process which in most cases has been carr...