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Cassava is one of the alternative crops to Zambia’s staple crop maize. Unlike maize, cassava is drought resistant; maize has adversely been affected by drought. Unfortunately cassava has been ravaged by the African cassava mosaic virus for over one hundred years. It causes cassava mosaic disease...

This study is aimed at developing processes that could mitigate bottlenecks and develop ideal lead times for the public sector procurement system. This was a cross-sectional functional pragmatic study design employing a concurrent mixed methods design. Thirty five participants from six public...

The value expectations of Information Technology (IT) for socio-economic and human development in developing countries have been high, but the real benefits and the positive impacts have been somewhat disappointing. Most developing countries in Africa are at the emerging stage of e-government...

The purpose of the study was to develop strategies and a framework for successful implementation of public sector construction projects in Zambia. An exploratory sequential mixed method was used. The major findings were that there were twelve (12) key challenges and eleven (11) possible Critical...

Public Private Partnerships have become an alternative contract model for government infrastructure. Construction and management of public markets has not been left out in this shift. Public markets come with several benefits, some of which include creating additional tax base with minimal local...

The University of Zambia is experiencing increasing challenge of car parking space and vehicle access controls to and within campus premises. Vehicles have been stolen without being detected. There has not been any effective means of recording and tracking vehicle activities in and out of campus....

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and also a leading cause of visual impairment among people in the working age group. Retinopathy develops overtime in all diabetics and controlling the modifiable risk factors delays its onset and progression....

The contemporary smooth structures that describe the motion of particles on underlying sets through the related specified differential geometry need to be assessed in the sense of stabilising the advantage of working with one or another. Such a study is what we call a comparative smootheology. A...

In Zambia, many smallholder farmers achieve household food security through the production of maize ‘zea mays’. During the years of maize failure due to drought, there is need for other crops to enhance food security like Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato. Since the 2010/2011 farming season, the Orange...

Background: Microbial translocation is a poorly understood consequence of several disorders such as environmental enteropathy (EE) and hepatosplenic schistosomiasis (HSS) disease. Direct biomarkers of microbial translocation such lipopolysaccharide, 16S rRNA gene and Toll-like receptor ligands...