University of Zimbabwe Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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What determines the resilience of retail business in an unstable business environment? Evidence from Harare Province
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2015-04)Over recent years, a growing number of researchers and practitioners have developed an interest in the concept of organizational resilience. Amid the turbulent, complex and unpredictable business environment, organisational ... -
Pensioners under the Zimbabwe defined benefit social security scheme: Are they losers?
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2014)Private occupational schemes have expressed reservations on the way the national scheme is designed. Since the national scheme is compulsory private, schemes have complained that it is crowding them out of the pension ... -
Survival strategies of small firms located in a Marshallian Industrial District: A case study of Zimbabwe's furniture manufacturing industry
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2013-09)The growth and survival of Zimbabwe's small firms located in geographical clusters have been largely shaped by historical developments in the 'informal sector'. In spite of the plethora of problems that they face, these ... -
Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Proportions Are Diminished in Young Helminth Infected Children and Restored by Curative Antihelminthic Treatment
(PLoS, 2015-03-20)Group 2 Innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) are innate cells that produce the TH2 cytokines IL-5 and IL-13. The importance of these cells has recently been demonstrated in experimental models of parasitic diseases but there is ... -
Effect of treating Schistosoma haematobium infection on Plasmodium falciparum-specific antibody responses
(BioMed Central, 2008-11-17)The overlapping geographical and socio-economic distribution of malaria and helminth infection has led to several studies investigating the immunological and pathological interactions of these parasites. This study focuses ... -
Efficacy of integrated school based de-worming and prompt malaria treatment on helminths -Plasmodium falciparum co-infections: A 33 months follow up study
(BioMed Central, 2011)The geographical congruency in distribution of helminths and Plasmodium falciparum makes polyparasitism a common phenomenon in Sub Saharan Africa. The devastating effects of helminths-Plasmodium co-infections on primary ... -
Knowledge attitudes and practices of grade three primary school children in relation to schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis and malaria in Zimbabwe
(BioMed Central, 2011)Helminth infection rates in grade three children are used as proxy indicators of community infection status and to guide treatment strategies in endemic areas. However knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of this target ... -
Downregulation of MIP-1α/CCL3 with praziquantel treatment in Schistosoma haematobium and HIV-1 co-infected individuals in a rural community in Zimbabwe
(BioMed Central, 2009-10-23)Chemokines have been reported to play an important role in granulomatous inflammation during Schistosoma mansoni infection. However there is less information on their role in Schistosoma haematobium infection, or on the ... -
Identifying and evaluating field indicators of Urogenital Schistosomiasis-related morbidity in preschool-aged children
(PLOS, 2015-03-20)Several studies have been conducted quantifying the impact of schistosome infections on health and development in school-aged children. In contrast, relatively little is known about morbidity levels in preschool-aged ... -
The development of European agriculture in Rhodesia 1945-1965
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Community development
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An aspect of order in the physical world
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Combining ability and GXE analysis for grain yield performance among CIMMYT germplasm
(2016-06)The International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) develops inbred lines and hybrids yearly that have several breeding and commercial attributes. However, the recently developed inbred lines that are adapted ... -
A fertilizer management strategy for sequential production of maize and legumes in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe
(2016-06)Grain legume-cereal rotations are long known to farmers in southern Africa, but their productivity and benefits to household food and income security is often compromised by inadequate fertilization. This study was conducted ... -
Pricing in the informal sector: Evidence from Zimbabwe's urban informal metal firms
(2014-06)The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the price-setting behavior of Zimbabwe's urban informal metal firms. In order to achieve this objective, data collected from 647 urban informal metal entrepreneurs is used. ... -
Factors associated with defaulting among women initiated on option B+ in urban clinics- 2015
(2016-06)Introduction: We carried out this study to describe the demographic characteristics of the mothers on Option B+ at Budiriro, Mabvuku, Rutsanana and Kuwadzana poly-clinics. To determine the patient level factors, the service ... -
Managing nutrient interactions for improved agronomic efficiency under contrasting soil carbon levels in smallholder farms
(2016-06)Much of Sub –Saharan Africa is plagued by food insecurity due to low and variable soil fertility recurrent droughts and limited access to external inputs among other reasons. Variable levels of soil fertility caused result ... -
Management of common bean (phaseolus vulgaris) angular leaf spot (pseudocercospora griseola) using cultural practices and development of disease-weather models for prediction of the disease and host characteristics
(2016-06)Bean seed collected from 82 households growing beans in Chinyika Resettlement Area indicated that sugar (sweet) bean type was the most preferred and cultivated by 84.1 % of farmers. The most common seed source was ... -
Translating integrated soil fertility management information and knowledge into crop productivity benefits through farmer learning and participatory action in Eastern Zimbabwe
(2016-06)Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa are faced with challenges of low crop yields linked to inherently poor soils. Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) is one of the many technologies ... -
An assessment of the profitability of small holder commercial egg production in Zimbabwe: A case study of Goromonzi, UMP and Mutasa districts
(2016-06)The past few years in Zimbabwe have seen a rise in the number of smallholder farmers taking up commercial poultry production. Past research has also shown that smallholder poultry production suffers from low profitability ...
