Prudent management of natural forests requires information on their ecological status that can be estimated by monitoring population structure and regeneration especially in the presence of exploitation such as logging. A ...

An experiment was conducted in a greenhouse at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zimbabwe to test the use of various plant water status indicators for use in the irrigation scheduling and water stress ...

Objectives: The main objectives of the study were (i) to determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome disorders, (ii) to determine the frequency, of ApoE gene polymorphism at codons 112 and 158, of the ACE gene 287-bp ...

This thesis presents mathematical models for thermal energy storage in low energy buildings. Two different cooling systems are considered. One uses a ventilated slab, the other a packed bed. The ventilated slab design is ...

Due to high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in developing countries where HIV prevalence is also high, developing effective TB vaccines that will prevent infection and reactivation of latent infection is a high priority. ...

A prevalence study of parasitic infections in 1 260 school pupils living in urban, rural tribal trust land and commercial farming environments of Zimbabwe was done. Stool specimens were collected on 3 alternative days and ...

The project seeks to investigate the possibility of efficient water use in irrigation scheduling systems through the use of a designed flexible computer based irrigation control system. One of the specific objectives of ...

The movement of skilled professionals from developing countries like Zimbabwe to industrialised countries is taking place at an alarming rate, and there is little evidence that these flows will decrease in the near ...

Malaria is a major public health problem in most sub-Saharan countries. Anopheles merus (Dönitz), a saltwater breeding member of An. gambiae complex, is involved in low rate malaria transmission in this region. In this ...

The water quality of Kwekwe River, upstream and downstream of the industrial effluent discharge point was examined with the view of determining the effect of the effluent on water quality. Five sampling sites, each 20m ...