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The study explored the determinants of school choice by parents in selected secondary schools in Lusaka district. This was done by investigating whether school choice was determined by the school‘s academic performance, parents‘ socio-economic status, location of parents and moral and religious...

John Cunningham virus (JC virus) is a polyomavirus that causes Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) a debilitating and often fatal disease of the central nervous system. JC virus is ubiquitous, approximately 50% of adults globally have antibodies against the virus and about 30%...

Background- Psychiatric co-morbidities, particularly mood and anxiety disorders, occur more frequently in patients with epilepsy compared to the general population and tend to worsen morbidity and mortality in this group of patients via suicide among other causes. Treatment of these disorders is...

This study examines the development of postal services in Northern Rhodesia from 1893 to 1964 by focusing on the major transformations in the provision of the services in the territory. The study also analyses the availability and significance of postal services and the challenges encountered by...

Background: Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) characterised by heart, eye and hearing defects usually affects an unborn baby when the mother is infected with Rubella virus in the first trimester of pregnancy. It is vaccine preventable and has been eliminated in certain parts of the world. In...

The study sought to establish current practices and policies in drug and alcohol abuse prevention education in selected secondary schools in Zambia. This need was necessitated by the fact that despite escalating incidences of drug and alcohol abuse among schoolgoing children, little was known...

This study was aimed at exploring and understanding the lived experiences of school authorities, military authorities and education authorities of the dual management of military aided schools in Arakan Barracks in Lusaka. The motivation behind this study was that there was no known study had...

E-policing as a service is a newly extended research concept of e-policing. It strikes a balance on cloud computing or mobile cloud computing concepts and applied policing strategies in matters of public security. The recent past has witnessed extensive expansion in broadband networks and mobile...

Background: Globally, 15 million babies are born preterm (<37 weeks gestation) each year, and more than 1 million of those do not survive their first month of life. (Lawn, 2006). Preterm birth accounts for 75% of all perinatal mortality in some series. Causes of deaths and antecedent pregnancy...

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) causes severe economic production losses in humans due to loss of man power and death. In Zambia most of the studies that have been done have focused on analysing the parasite while none have been conducted to establish the economic consequences of the burden...