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Access to improved sanitation facilities in low-income informal settlements of East African cities
(2015-03-05)Throughout Africa, the population in urban areas is increasing rapidly beyond the capacity and the resources of the cities to accommodate the people. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of urban dwellers live in informal ... -
Amplifying local voices to reduce failure in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
(Royal Academy of Engineering, 2021)WASH endeavours regularly fail. Sometimes this means that entire programmes do not achieve their stated aims, sometimes these failures are setbacks which can be rectified with sufficient reflection and action. This ... -
Analysis of persistence soil nutrient status in abandoned cattle kraals in a semi arid area in Botswana
(2010-12)The aim of this study was to analyze the depletion of soil nutrients with time on abandoned kraals in a peri-urban area of Botswana. Active kraals are enriched with nutrients through the accumulation of animal droppings ... -
Analysis of the Accuracy of GMF, NMF, and VMF1 Mapping Functions with GPT 50 a Priori Zenith Constraint in Tropospheric Delay Modelling
(2015-01)When modelling the tropospheric delay in Global Positioning System (GPS), the zenith delay is mapped to the slant with numerous mapping functions. The accuracy of the modelled tropospheric delay will be affected by the ... -
Application of a yeast-based assay protocol developed to monitor total oestrogenic activity induced by 17β-oestradiol in activated sludge supernatants from batch experiments
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2006-04-11)Batch experiments were carried out with activated sludge from laboratory reactors and a full-scale treatment plant spiked with 17β-oestradiol (E2). An oestrogen-sensitive yeast-based assay protocol, described in detail in ... -
Assessing demand for improved sustainable sanitation in low-income informal settlements of urban areas: a critical review
(2014-03-13)Sanitation improvement is crucial in saving lives that are lost due to water contamination. Progress towards achieving full sanitation coverage is still slow in low-income informal settlements in most developing countries. ... -
Assessment of apparent losses in urban water systems
(2011-08-17)Apparent losses relate to water that is consumed but not paid for. Most research carried out in the last decade particularly in the United Kingdom focused mainly on leakage. Until now, there are no set procedures and ... -
Assessment of physical conditions and proposed best management practices of domestic storage tanks supplied by a water utility in a rapidly growing City.
(International Formulae Group Journal, 2021)The physical conditions of domestic storage tanks for customers supplied by a water utility were assessed in Kampala, a rapidly growing City in Uganda. A longitudinal assessment of 372 storage tanks in 6 sampled administrative ... -
Biologically directed environmental monitoring, fate, and transport of estrogenic endocrine disrupting compounds in water: A review
(Elsevier Publications, 2006)Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are contaminants that may be hormonally active at low concentrations and are emerging as a major concern for water quality. Estrogenic EDCs (e-EDCs) are a subclass of EDCs that, when ... -
Calibrating an optimal condition model for solar water disinfection in peri-urban household water treatment in Kampala, Uganda
(IWA Publishing, 2013)In low income settlements where the quality of drinking water is highly contaminated due to poor hygienic practices at community and household levels, there is need for appropriate, simple, affordable and environmentally ... -
A case for urban liveability from below: exploring the politics of water and land access for greater liveability in Kampala, Uganda
(Local Environment. The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2019)Improving urban liveability and prosperity is commonly set as a priority in urban development plans and policy around the world. Several annual reports produced by international consulting firms, media, and global agencies ... -
Challenges to Achieving Sustainable Sanitation in Informal Settlements of Kigali, Rwanda
(2013-12-10)Like most cities in developing countries, Kigali is experiencing rapid urbanisation leading to an increase in the urban population and rapid growth in the size and number of informal settlements. More than 60% of the city’s ... -
Characterization of municipal waste in Kampala, Uganda
(2014-02-18)In Kampala, Uganda, about 28,000 tons of waste is collected and delivered to a landfill every month. Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) records show that this represents approximately 40% of the waste generated in the ... -
Characterizing the movement patterns of minibus taxis in Kampala’s paratransit system
(Journal of Transport Geography, 2021)Urban travelers in Africa depend on minibus taxis for their daily social and business commuting. This paratransit system is loosely regulated, self-organizing, and evolves organically in response to demand. Our study used ... -
Communities of Trees Along a Tropical Forest Restoration Gradient
(2016-01)Increasing rates of deforestation in tropical forests have been linked to agriculturalists. A critical concern generating debate is how well communities of trees recover into a more species rich ecosystem after restoration ... -
Compound cis-regulatory elements with both boundary and enhancer sequences in the human genome
(Oxford University Press, 2013-10)Motivation: It has been suggested that presumably distinct classes of genomic regulatory elements may actually share common sets of features and mechanisms. However, there has been no genome-wide assessment of the prevalence ... -
Computational identification of transposable elements in the mouse genome
(2007)Repeat sequences cover about 39 percent of the mouse genome and completion of sequencing of the mouse genome [1] has enabled extensive research on the role of repeat sequences in mammalian genomics. This research covers ... -
Design of an Improved Cooking Stove Using High Density Heated Rocks and Heat Retaining Techniques
(Journal of Renewable Energy-Hindawi, 2018)In sub-Saharan Africa, dependence on wood fuel has caused significant depletion of vegetative resources. Whereas there exist hundreds of improved cooking stoves, many have not reached their maximum potential because their ... -
Detecting estrogenic activity in water samples with estrogen-sensitive yeast cells using spectrophotometry and fluorescence microscopy
(2006-03)Environmental estrogens are environmental contaminants that can mimic the biological activities of the female hormone estrogen in the endocrine system, i.e. they act as endocrine disrupters. Several substances are reported ... -
Developing a yeast-based assay protocol to monitor total oestrogenic activity induced by 17β-oestradiol in activated sludge supernatants from batch experiments
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2006-04-11)A yeast-based assay protocol developed for detecting oestrogenic activity in activated sludge (AS) supernatant is described. The protocol used Saccharomyces cerevisiae construct RMY/ER-ERE with human oestrogen receptor ...
