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  • New developments in the national examination system in Botswana 

    Chilisa, B. (National Council on Measurement in Education. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com, 1999-12)
    The study briefly looks at the new developments in the national examination system in Botswana. With this new system, the government opted for a criterion-referenced testing (CRT) model for primary and junior secondary ...

  • New family medicine residency training programme: residents’ perspectives from the University of Botswana 

    Mbuka, Deogratias O.; Tshitenge, Stephane; Setlhare, Vincent; Tsima, Billy; Adewale, Ganiyu; Parsons, Luise (AOSIS, http://aosis.co.za/, 2016)
    Background: Family Medicine (FM) training is new in Botswana. No previous evaluation of the experiences and opinions of residents of the University of Botswana (UB) Family Medicine training programme has been reported. Aims: ...

  • A new general approach to vector valued stochastic integration 

    Robdera, Mangatiana A. (International Journal of Modeling and Optimization, www.ijmo.org, 2014-08)
    We use an extended theory of integral that generalizes the integration of vector valued functions with respect to non-negative, monotonic,countably subadditive set functions, in order to introduce a new approach to stochastic ...

  • New media and the mediatisation of religion: an African Perspective 

    Nkomazana, Fidelis (University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-13)
    The book entitled New media and the mediatisation of religion: an African perspective, co-edited by Gabriel Faimau and William O. Lesitaokana explores and examines how new media shapes religious discourses of different ...

  • A new method of quantifying aerosol concentrations in atmosphere 

    Rao, Madhava K. S.; Verma, T. S.; Chimidza, S.; John, Shibu K. (Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Part of Springer Nature, https://www.springer.com/journal/703, 2014-04)
    Africa is one of the sources of biomass burning emissions. It is estimated that about 6 million tons of fuel per day is consumed in the southern hemisphere. Biomass burning has an important contribution on aerosol particle ...

  • New public management and the corporatisation of the public sector in peripheral capitalist countries 

    Marobela, M. (Emerald Group Publications, www.emeraldinsight.com, 2006)
    Capitalist transformation of the public sector is global phenomenon that affects many countries. This paper seeks to examine recent public sector reforms introduced by the Government of Botswana to improve civil service ...

  • The new role of the construction manager/client engineer/quantity surveyor 

    Ntshwene, K.; Kashiwagi, J.; Kashiwagi, D. (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors http://www.rics.org/site/download_feed.aspx?fileID=5042&fileExtension=PDF, 2009)
    The traditional contracting/delivery system in Botswana, introduced by the US, UK, and European educators, consultants, and practitioners, has not been working well in Botswana. The poor project delivery system results ...

  • Ngwato atitudes towards Zimbabwean immigrants in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1950s 

    Makgala, Christian John (Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)
    This article is a modest sketch of the historical background to the phenomenon of xenophobia, with which policymakers in Botswana are grappling in the early twenty-first century. It is not, however, a historical treatise ...

  • Nitrogen cycling in the soil–plant system along a precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands 

    Aranibar, J.N.; Otter, L.; Macko, S.A.; Feral, C.J.W.; Epstein, H.E.; Dowty, P.R.; Eckardt, F.; Shugart, H.H.; Swap, R.J. (Blackwell Publishing, 2004-01-01)
    Nitrogen (N) cycling was analyzed in the Kalahari region of southern Africa, where a strong precipitation gradient (from 978 to 230mm mean annual precipitation) is the main variable affecting vegetation. The region is ...

  • No easy walk to linguistic freedom: a ritique of language planning during south Africa's first decade of democracy 

    Kamwendo, G. H. (Nordic Association of African Studies. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi, 2006)
    In 1994, South Africans of all races and political parties took part in the first democratic elections. The election and inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first black president marked the beginning of a new era - an ...

  • Nollywood films and the cultural imperialism hypothesis 

    Akpabio, E.; Mustapha-Lambe, K. (Brill academic publishers, 2008)
    From the viewpoint of the cultural imperialism hypothesis and its complications, the overall aim of this study was to find out if foreign films still had a stranglehold on Nigerian audience members. The findings indicate ...

  • Non-communicable diseases in antiretroviral therapy recipients in Kagera Tanzania: a cross-sectional study 

    Magafu, Mgaywa Gilbert Mjungu Damas; Moji, Kazuhiko; Igumbor, Ehimario Uche; Magafu, Naoko Shimizu; Mwandri, Michael; Mwita, Julius Chacha; Habte, Dereje; Rwegerera, Godfrey Mutashambara; Hashizume, Masahiro (African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET); www.afenet.net/, 2013-11-06)
    Introduction: The aim of this study was to describe the extent of self-reported non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) recipients in Kagera region in Tanzania and their effect ...

  • Non-racial casting in African theatre and cinema 

    Rapoo, Connie; Kerr, David (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2018-09-12)
    Racial and non-racial casting in theatre and cinema has become a widely, and sometimes hotly discussed issue in European and North American performance. The debates are fuelled by the increasing popularity of ...

  • Nondestructive measurement of momentum transfer collision frequency for low temperature combustion plasma 

    Letsholathebe, Douglas; Mphale, Kgakgamatso M.; Chimidza, Samuel (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/, 2014)
    Accurately measured momentum transfer collision frequency and electron density for fire plasma enable correct simulation of electromagnetic wave propagation in the medium. The simulation is essential for designing ...

  • Notes on adult mortality levels and trends in Botswana 

    Unknown author (Botswana Notes and Records, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr, 2015-11-22)
    This paper uses the data from 2011 Population and Housing Census (PHC) to examine levels and trends in adult mortality in Botswana using information on the distribution of deaths and population by age. Estimates of mortality ...

  • Notes on infant and childhood mortality levels and trends in Botswana 

    Majelantle, Rolang G. (Botswana Notes and Records, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr, 2015-11-22)
    This paper is based on the Botswana Demographic Survey (2006), and the 2001 and 2011 Population and Housing Censuses (PHC) data. The 2011 census allows us to estimate the past and current levels of infant and childhood ...

  • Notes on levels and patterns of child labour and child work in Botswana 

    Kgosidintsi, Gofaone; Rakgoasi, Serai Daniel (Botswana Notes and Records, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr, 2015-11-22)
    This paper uses the 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census (PHS) to document the levels and patterns of child labour and child work in Botswana. The results show that only 2.1% of children aged 12 to 17 were involved ...

  • Notes on the Informal Sector and Employment Creation in Botswana 

    Moffat, B.; Kapunda, S.M. (Botswana Notes and Records, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr, 2015-07-09)
    It is increasingly becoming clear that the role of Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) in employment creation, and income generation cannot be over-emphasized especially in Botswana and possibly in other African ...

  • A novel and fatal method of copper sulphate poisoning 

    Motlhatlhedi, Keneilwe; Firth, Jaccqueline A.; Setlhare, Vincent; Kaguamba, Jackson K.; Mmolaatshepe, Mmapula (Elsevier, https://www.elsevier.com/, 2014-04)
    Introduction: Copper sulphate is widely used around the world as a pesticide and seed fungicide. Many cases of accidental intoxication with this substance have been reported among farm workers who have absorbed large amounts ...

  • Novel natural products from marketed plants of eastern and southern Africa 

    Abegaz, B.M.; Ngadjui, B.T.; Bezabih, M.; Mdee, L.K. (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/, 1999)
    Marketed plants are an important but a vulnerable group of plants whose investigations as well as conservation should be considered with priority. The chemistry, and in some cases biological activities of novel iso¯avonoids, ...