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Confined poultry production, which is expected to double by 2050, produces a lot of manure. For successful and sustainable poultry production, manure management is prompted and should be prioritized. Poultry litter can serve as an energy feedstock for space heating and electricity generation....

Zambia’s electricity is largely from hydro power which has an installed capacity of 2,347 MW representing 96 % of national consumption while the remaining 4 % is from other sources such as fossil fuels. With low level of rainfall recorded in the past few years, Zambia was left grappling with...

Structural Health Monitoring by use of Visual inspections of bridge structures can be subjective and inaccurate. Recent developments in sensing, communication and information technologies, however, have completely modernized the inspection procedures and significantly increased the efficiency in...

Public expenditure particularly on infrastructure has been shown to be of paramount importance to the development of many economies, including Zambia. Like many developing and developed countries, Zambia, has accessed and continues to access public external debt to finance infrastructure...

In 2014, the Zambian Government through the Ministry of Education introduced ICT as a compulsory subject at junior secondary despite schools having inadequate facilities. This was a source of concern to many. The study aimed at investigating the impact of making ICT Subject Compulsory at Junior...

The construction industry is a composite sector with wide range of products, services and technologies that play an important role in economic growth of a country. The Zambian economy suffered an economic downturn in the period of 2015 – 2017 arising from global and domestic headwinds in more...

The study sought to identify gaps in the processes affecting the customer quality of mobile service experience in Zambian telecommunications call centers using eTOM. Enhanced Telecommunications Operations Map (eTOM) being defined as a business process framework that is service oriented and helps...

The research aimed at answering key questions regarding the use of ICTs amongst SMEs in their businesses with an analysis and consideration of the possible factors that enable ICTs to be valued, as drivers and the possible factors that deter them not to be recognized as business development...

A semi- cylindrical natural convection Solar Tunnel Dryer (STD) was used for experiments to dry partially field- dried maize cobs with a moisture content of about 30 % wet basis to a safe storage moisture content of 12.5 % wet basis. Air temperatures ranging from 15.8 oC to 20.8 oC above ambient...

The diversity of datums in use today and the technological advancements that have made possible global positioning measurements with sub-meter accuracies, require careful datum selection and careful conversion between coordinates in different datums. This is due to different positional accuracies...