University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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Desiccation of the Gomoti River: Biophysical process and indigenous resource management in Northern Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.02.001, 2005)For at least 200 years, Gomoti River people and their neighbours lived interactively with the Okavango flood pulse system, travelling widely in dugout canoes, practicing flood recession agriculture, fishing, hunting, and ... -
English articles and modals in the writing of some Batswana students
(Multilingual Matters and Channel View Publications, http://www.multilingual matters.com, 2007)What syntactic patterns emerge in students’ use of articles and modals? What are the reasons for these patterns? What implications do the findings of the study have for English language instruction in Botswana? Exactly ... -
Accessing applications from multiple file servers in a computer network
(Science Publications http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=abstract&id=116222, 2005)This study proposes a technique of accessing applications from multiple file servers in a computer network that caters for a large user community. The technique is a step towards creating a computer network system that is ... -
Implementing the LASO model: development of a pilot online course at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Botswana
(Emerald http://www.emeraldinsight.com, 2004)This paper reports on the process of developing a blended online engineering course at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the University of Botswana. It presents the actual development process in terms of its ... -
Assessment of ICT-based course delivery for mechanical engineering students: a case study
(http://www.ais.up.ac.za/digi/docs/oladiran_paper.pdf, 2009)During the first semester of 2007/2008 academic session at the University of Botswana (UB), some mechanical engineering courses were delivered using a blended method i.e. online resource (eLearning) and traditional face to ... -
Wildlife resource utilisation at Moremi Game Reserve and Khwai community area in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.03.007, 2005)This paper uses the concept of sustainable development to examine the utilisation of wildlife resources at Moremi Game Reserve (MGR) and Khwai community area (NG 18/19) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both secondary ... -
Freedom of information in the SADC region: implications for development and human rights
(Emerald, 2006)Abstract Purpose – To argue that developing countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region should embrace the concept of freedom of information to enable better human rights and economic ... -
Changing gender contracts in self-help housing construction in Botswana: the case of Lobatse
(Elsevier http://www. doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2003.09.005, 2005)The purpose of this essay is to identify gender contracts in self-help housing construction. Gender contracts have been defined as invisible power relationships that determine roles, responsibilities, privileges, status, ... -
Forecasting the spatial extent of the annual flood in the Okavango delta, Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.11.010, 2004)The pristine Okavango Delta wetland of northern Botswana is potentially under threat due to water abstraction from its tributaries. We have developed a statistical model which makes it possible to predict the extent of ... -
Enclave tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2003.11.005, 2005)This paper draws on the dependency paradigm to explain the development of enclave tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both primary and secondary data source, the study indicates ... -
Comments on ‘‘Flexural behavior of concrete slabs with corroded bars”
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0958946508000784, 2008)This paper presents a discussion on a paper authored by Chung et al. [Chung L, Najm H, Balaguru P. Flexural behaviour of concrete slabs with corroded bars. Cement Concr Compos 2008;30:184-93]. -
Health worker opionion/perception of health services provided to patients in Selibe Phikwe Ni-Cu mine area, Botswana
(African Forum of Health Sciences http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajhs/article/view/30803/23134, 2005)This study determines the prevalence of types of sicknesses and diseases affecting patients vising health service facilities and the available health services within the Selebi Phikwe Ni-Cu area, Botswana.Through the ... -
Information flows: the real art of information management and freedom of information
(Australian society of Archivists, 2007)This paper puts forward ideas about trying to take public access to government information from where it currently is - a few painful, costly and hard fought steps from its strongly resisted implementation - towards where ... -
Migrant labour and the Peasantry in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1930-1965
(Taylor & Francis, 1999)This article grapples with issues that have largely remained outside the realms of migrant labour studies in colonial Botswana: the positive input of migrant wages to agricultural production and the effects of migrant ... -
Safety and efficacy of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in HIV-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma
(Dove Medical Press Ltd. http://www.dovepress.com/biologics-targets--therapy-journal, 2009)Kaposi’s sarcoma is a vascular tumor linked to the presence of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus-8) and the incidence of which has increased considerably the world over after the onset of the ... -
Traditional ecological knowledge and community-based natural resource management: lessons from a Botswana wildlife management area
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014362280300033X, 2004)The advent of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Botswana in the late 1980s ushered in a new paradigm in natural resource management. The strategy marked a change from state-controlled to community-controlled ... -
Review of analysis methods for inelastic design of steel semi-continuous frames
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0143974X05001057, 2006)Three groups of methods for the inelastic analysis of steel plane frames with semi-rigid joints are considered in this paper. The first one consists of simplified second-order (or P–Δ) plastic-hinge methods for the ... -
Lagrangian approach to a generalized coupled lane-Emden system: symmetries and first integrals
(Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=1120288190&view=c&_acct=C000043160&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=778200&md5=2911144ac0b419d4936d24596384b313, 2009)This paper aims to classify a generalized coupled Lane–Emden system and to compute the Noether operators corresponding to a Lagrangian for a generalized coupled Lane–Emden system which occurs in the modelling of several ... -
Lie group classification of the generalized Lane-Emden equation
(Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2009.01.008, 2009)We carry out the Lie group classification of the generalized Lane–Emden equation xu00 þ nu0 þ xHðuÞ ¼ 0, which has many applications in mathematical physics and astrophysics. We show that the equation admits a three-dimensional ... -
Enhancing access through electronic resources: the University of Botswana Library experience
(Emerald, 2000)Libraries are changing their modes of delivery at a very fast rate. This article describes how the University of Botswana library has advantage of the new technologies to enhance its service to its patrons. The University ...