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Management of waste oil in Botswana and the possibilities of energy recovery from waste oil
(University of Botswana, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, http://ajol.info/index.php/bjt, 1998-04)Since independence, the economy of Botswana has been undergoing a rapid transition from one in which the majority of the people depend on traditional agriculture and pastoralism to one in which formal sector employment ... -
Managerial Competency and Organizational Flexibility in Small and Medium Enterprises in Botswana
(Business Perspectives; Sumy State University (Ukraine); http://www.businessperspectives.sumy.ua/, 2005)Although the discovery of diamond has propelled Botswana from one of the poorest countries in 1966 to its current stage of development as a middle-income country, the country still faces the problems of economic diversification, ... -
Managing behind the scenes: a view point on employee empowerment
(Academic Journals, http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM, 2009-01)Empowerment is a concept which is widely used in management and many managers and professionals in various claim to be practicing it. Nowadays empowerment has occupied a central point in many organisations of the 21st ... -
Managing behind the scenes: employee empowerment
(Asian Network for Scientific Information, http://www.ansinet.org, 2008)The main objective of this study was to find out the strategies for success of employee empowerment in organisation to reduce employee turnover. In addition, the study focusses on the benefits and criticism of employee ... -
Managing indigenous knowledge systems in Botswana using informatio and communication technologies
(2013-08-09)Indigenous Knowledge (IK)and Indigenous Knowledge Systems(IKSs)have long been undermined especially in Africa. Due to its intrinsic values and the advancement of information and communication Technologies (ICTs), only ... -
Managing linguistic diversity and academic performance through dual language programs in California
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2018-09-12)Formulation of language policy is one of the tools for managing linguistic diversity in education and society in multilingual contexts. California is resident to 213 of the 325 languages spoken in the United ... -
Managing organizational change in higher education: lessons from the University of Botswana
(The Haworth Press, www.haworthpress.com/, 2008)Utilizing data collected from a randomly selected sample of 360 academic and managerial staff, regression analysis was performed to identify the determinants of acceptance of change among employees at the University of ... -
Managing records for ISO compliance: record keeping at the Botswana Meat Commission
(SAGE Publications, http://idv.sagepub.com, 2000-06)More and more companies in the developing world are desiring to export their products to the western world. How ever, in as much as the western world would wish to trade with developing countries, they need some assurance ... -
Manpower systems operating under heavy and light tailed inter-exit time distributions
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2014)This paper considers a Manpower system where “exits” of employed personnel produce some wastage or loss. This system monitors these wastages over the sequence of exit epochs {t0 = 0 and tk; k = 1, 2,∙∙∙} that form a re- ... -
Mantle structure and composition to 800-km depth beneath southern Africa and surrounding oceans from broadband body waves
(Elsevier Science Ltd. www.elsevier.com/locate/lithos, 2003)Average one-dimensional P and S wavespeed models from the surface to depths of 800 km were derived for the southern African region using travel times and waveforms from earthquakes recorded at stations of the Kaapvaal and ... -
Mantle structure beneath the incipient Okavango rift zone in southern Africa
(The Geological Society of America, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/, 2107-02-01)Numerous investigations of the mature segments of the East African rift system (EARS) have significantly improved our understanding of the structure and processes associated with well-developed continental rifts. In contrast, ... -
Many paths to one God: revisiting ecumenism in the era of pluralism in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)In this paper we seek to re-examine ecumenism in the phase of religious pluralism in Botswana. We acknowledge that religious diversity, whether it is within one religion or many, is often characterized by conflict borne ... -
Marketing effectiveness of Botswana’s commercial Banks
(2016-07-14)Banks nowadays face competition not only from other banks but also from other financial services companies which offer the same products that were traditionally offered by bank. Banks also have to deal with new regulations ... -
Marula oil and petrodiesel: a comparative performance analysis on a variable compression ignition engine
(Scientific Research Publishing, http://www.scirp.org/, 2011-07)The quest for biofuel production and use in Botswana is driven by factors including volatile oil prices, need for fuel security, potential for job creation, potential reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and economic ... -
Masculinities, gender-based violence, HIV and AIDS in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2016-12-29)Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant public health problem with a demonstrated link with gender ideologies, power relations, intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, and risky sexual behaviours. This paper ... -
Maternal risk factors for childhood anaemia in Ethiopia
(Women's Health and Action Research Centre [WHARC], https://www.ajrh.info/index.php/ajrh, 2013-09)A total of 8260 children between the ages of 6-59 months were analyzed to identify the risk factors associated with childhood anaemia in Ethiopia. The overall mean (SD/ standard deviation) haemoglobin (Hgb) level among the ... -
Mating type determination of cryptococcus neoformans isolates obtained from faecal samples of veterinary animals in Botswana
(Centre for Info Bio Technology (CIBTech), http://www.cibtech.org/, 2016)Cryptococcus neoformans/gattii species complex cause cryptococcosis, a fatal condition in susceptible humans and animals. This paper aims to find the association of C. neoformans with veterinary excreta, and to carry out ... -
Mbizi: empowerment and HIV/AIDS prevention for adolescent girls in Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2010-06)This article describes a small group intervention for HIV/AIDS prevention among adolescent girls in Botswana. The psychoeducational group model is designed to empower girls to overcome the gender inequality that puts women ... -
Mean global radiation captured by inclined collectors at various surface azimuth angles in Nigeria
(Elsevier Science Ltd, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405891/description#description, 1995)The use of solar energy is well established for low-grade thermal applications such as water heating and purification. In many of the solar systems, the collector surface located in the Northern Hemisphere faces the true ... -
The meaning, lived experiences and intentions for safer sex communication among young Batswana women in dyadic relationships
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2012)Increased heterosexual transmission of HIV among young women and their difficulties with safer sex com- munication calls for women-focused research. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the mean- ing and lived ...