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Dominant human malaria vectors in Chongwe district, Zambia, were identified and impacts of indoor Residual House Spraying (IRHS) on their diversity, abundance and distribution assessed. A case-control type of study design was used in which Chishiko village in the district was the case in point,...

Many people in Zambia and world over perceive bottled water as safe for consumption. However, studies have indicated that not all bottled water is up to standards. This study aimed at establishing compliance to bacteriological quality standards of bottled drinking water sold in Lusaka district...

A college timetable is a temporal arrangement of a set of lectures and classrooms in which all given constraints be it hard or soft are satisfied. The Time Tabling Problem is a well-known combinatorial search problem that consists of scheduling events over a period of time. The events being...

One of the sad features of urbanization is the failure of the Public Sector to provide effective urban services like solid waste management to citizens. According to literature, lack of capacity has been one of the major problems that had been sighted for failure of the Public Sector to perform...

Nchanga Underground Mine applies a variant of block cave mining to exploit the massive copper ore deposits with generally low ore grades fairly distributed within the orebody. Mining activities date as far back as 1937 when underground production commenced. Traditional block caving mining method...

Zambia’s ethnic groups have each developed indigenous practices and systems that make up their Indigenous Knowledge (IK). This IK has not been adequately documented nor has it been used in modern approaches to natural resource conservation. IK is useful not only in managing water resources but...

In this work, a report is given of a centralized smart metering system intended to run an algorithm designed to address the problem of peak-hour energy deficit in Zambia. A survey study conducted in Lusaka to establish household power-usage patterns led to the development of the load-management...

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Electronic devices are shrinking to ever smaller dimensions, a trend technically known as downscaling. The main drive for downscaling is to increase device functionalityand computational capability. However, one challenge that arises as a result of downscaling involves the materials that are best...

The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge and practices of Ndola Urban residents towards home accidents in children. A non-experimental descriptive research design was conducted using a standard questionnaire. The study was conducted in Ndola, on the Copperbelt Province. Ndola has an...