Background: Hepatitis B is a viral infection of the liver and causes both acute and chronic disease. It is transmitted through contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids. It is an occupational hazard for health care workers (HCWs) and can be prevented by the administration of a vaccine. The...
Download PDF ↓Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonotic and devastating disease that affects households‟ potential to improve their well-being through trade in livestock and livestock commodities. Despite the disease being endemic in Zambia, there is inadequate information, on its socio-economic impact on...
Download PDF ↓A retrospective longitudinal study was conducted to assess the impact on malaria prevalence of ITNs combined with IRS in Geita district, IRS alone in Nyang’hwale district and to compare the two interventions between the two districts. Malaria is a protozoan disease and one of the leading causes...
Download PDF ↓This dissertation looks at the impact of outsourcing on the quality of service of a cellular mobile network service provider. Outsourcing is when any operation or process that could be or would usually be performed in-house by an organisation’s employees is sub-contracted to another organisation...
Download PDF ↓This study was aimed at investigating whether there was a significant difference in the implementation of the biology science curriculum between the upgraded and old established secondary schools. The study subsequently sought to assess the nature of school infrastructure in the two sets of...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of guidance and counselling guidelines in selected secondary schools in Chongwe district. The specific objectives of the study were: to assess how the guidelines on the administration of guidance and counselling have been done, to...
The focus of agricultural development in Africa and Zambia in particular is on transforming the agricultural system from conventional to conservation agriculture (CA). This study examined the linkages between conservation agriculture narratives and environmental conservation in terms of forest...
The aim of this study was to examine the implications of the conversion of customary land tenure to leasehold tenure on rural livelihoods in Chibombo and Chongwe districts by drawing on a comparative approach. In particular, the study was conducted in three chiefdoms namely; Bunda Bunda and...
Download PDF ↓Firstly, I would like to thank the almighty God for having kept me this far and having accorded me a rare opportunity to study at the University of Zambia. The completion of this dissertation would not have been possible without the contributions, support and help of many people. Many thanks to...
Download PDF ↓Given a set, the Sikorski differential space structure is determined on it by a collection of real-valued functions, while the Frölicher (smooth) structure is defined by a pair of paths into along with real-valued functions which fulfil specified sets of axioms. According to A. Batubege and P....
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