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A number of research concerns have arisen in the concrete research community on the fire resistance of Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) beams, despite their improved mechanical properties at ambient temperature. The traditional experimental approach to performance-based...

The use of renewable energy sources is one of the crucial components of the contemporary issues of sustainable development. Sustainable energy development gives a rationale to have resources that are economical, environmentally friendly and whose social effects are acceptable. However, the...

The swift expansion of Mobile Phone Technology in the developing world has created rapid development and deployment of a wide array of Potential Applications, including Mobile Banking, Data Collection, Patient Tracking, and Behavioural Interventions which has allowed many Organizations to Monitor...

This dissertation investigates the effect of spectral efficiency as the number of service antennas and number of users in Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) Long Term Evolution (LTE) network increases. The channel estimators studied namely Zero Forcing (ZF), Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE)...

Concrete is one of the most widely used construction material in the world and the construction industry is looking for ways of making concrete using greener methods so as to reduce ecological effects on the environment that come as a result of large scale exploitation of natural aggregates. The...

This research presents the design and development of a mobile money solution that targets illiterate people, applying user-centered requirements gathered in a Zambian context. Existing mobile money platforms have text-based interfaces and target literate people. Illiterate people, without the...

Developing Countries in Africa in general and Zambia in particular, have seen a rapid rise in the use of mobile payment platforms. This has not only revolutionized access to financial services for the poor but also allowed them access to other financial products such as savings or insurance. With...

The Zambian Buildings Sector (ZBS) has witnessed a significant growth in the number of building projects being undertaken at individual, corporate and government levels over the past decade. However, there has been a major outcry from clients (end-users) on the poor quality of buildings being...

In the present era, quality and affordable patient health care is now the main concern for hospitals in Zambia. Hospitals have to accept the obligation of the patient safety and the patient’s well-being. However, due to the congested and understaffed hospitals in Zambia with intricate work...

Until recently, risk management discourse has paid scant attention to the issue of organizational culture and behavioral finance biases in banking. Yet ethical lapses and systematic weaknesses exposed in the 2007-09 financial crises suggest that future risk policy dialogue is unlikely to ignore...