University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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Accessibility of University of Botswana main campus buildings to wheelchair users
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2013-12-11)The built environment, including schools, has many architectural barriers which may prevent wheelchairs users from independently gaining access to buildings. The purpose of this study was to assessthe accessibility of the ... -
Potential welfare benefits of Agricultural transformation in Botswana: A computable general equilibrium model analysis
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2012-07-05)This paper analyses the agriculture sector’s performance, and quantitatively evaluates the development impact on the Botswana economy of the agricultural transformation strategy. The evidence shows that the agriculture ... -
Prospects and challenges for China-Africa agricultural cooperation: the case of Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2015-11-12)This paper argues that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Botswana in January 1975, the two countries have cooperated in trade, education, health, construction, culture, politics and diplomacy, ... -
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Enabled Trade Facilitation in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2012-07-05)This paper explores the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the facilitation of trade in Botswana. Its aim is to improve the understanding of the role ICTs can play in enhancing trade through better ... -
Constructions of traditional womanhood in Botswana myths and popular culture
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2013-12-11)Mythic-historical narratives, oral legends, popular culture, and traditionalmarriage rituals offer African traditional forms of performance that shedlight on the nature of sexual politics in Africa as well as practices ... -
Macroeconomic fluctuations in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2013-07-05)This paper documents some empirical regularities in Botswana's macroeconomic variables. The facts we document include the volatility and persistence in and the co-movement among output and other major real and nominal ... -
On the Riesz representation theorem and integral operators
(NISC (Pty) Ltd, http://www.nisc.co.za/, 2015-12-14)We present a Riesz representation theorem in the setting of extended integration theory as introduced in [6]. The result is used to obtain boundedness theorems for integral operators in the more general setting of spaces ... -
Investigating language vitality in some parts of North Eastern Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017)The main objective of this article is to investigate the level of language vitality in Botswana on the basis of patterns of language use, transgenerational language transmission, language attitudes and ethno-cultural ... -
HIV hospital admissions attributable to specific opportunistic infections and factors associated with them at a Botswana Referral Hospital
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2015-08-31)Hospital admissions among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Botswana are high. Opportunistic infections (OIs) are responsible for most of these admissions. Although leading OIs causing these admissions have been identified ... -
The burden of HIV-related admissions and mortality at Princess Marina Hospital, Botswana in 2000: a pre-combination antiretroviral therapy era
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2017-03-31)Background: human immune virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) have been recognized in Botswana for the last three decades, however, combination anti-retroviral therapy (cART) was only introduced after ... -
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in Topological Vector Spaces
(Journal of Mathematics Extension, 2017-10)We extend the notions of integration and differentiation to cover the class of functions taking values in topological vector spaces. We give versions of the Lebesgue-Nikodym Theorem and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus ... -
A case report of a giant appendiceal mucocele and literature review
(Pan African Medical Journal, http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/, 2017-10-04)A 43-year-old female presented at the accident and emergency department of Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana. She reported a deep dull aching pain of two years duration in the right iliac fossa that has been ... -
Spontaneous splenic infarcts and rupture presenting as massive haemoperitoneum
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/pula, 2017)Spontaneous rupture of a normal spleen without a history of an evident blunt abdominal trauma is a rare clinical entity and can occur in both histologically normal and diseased spleen. Non-traumatic spontaneous splenic ... -
Right congenital diaphragmatic hernia associated with abnormality of the liver in adult
(Pan African Medical Journal, http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/, 2017-09-22)A Bochdalek hernia (BH) occurs when abdominal contents herniate through the postero-lateral segment of the diaphragm. The right side is affected considerably less commonly than the left. Most BHs present are diagnosed early ... -
Leydig cell tumor of the testis presenting with gynaecomastia due to hyperprolactinemia after orchiectomy
(Sciedu Press, http://web.sciedu.ca/, 2017-10-10)Leydig cell tumors (LCT) are rare and represent 1% to 3% of all tumors of the testis. LCTs can either be benign or malignant with clinical presentation varying from testicular mass associated with endocrinal manifestations ... -
Restrictions on the attachment of verbal extensions in Degema
(The Joongwon Linguistic Society of Korea, http://submission.jwl.or.kr/sobis/jwl.jsp, 2016)This paper discusses restrictions observed in the attachment of verbal extensions to all verb bases in Degema. Kari (1995) discusses verbal extensions in Degema focusing on the number, underlying forms, and phonological ... -
An appraisal of the quality of Botswana’s institutions in supporting the privatisation programme
(Botswana Notes and Records, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr, 2016-08-31)This paper examines whether Botswana’s institutions of property rights are strong enough to promotepositive outcomes of the country’s privatisation programme. International experience has shown thatwhere institutions are ... -
Introduction - special issue on Botswana economy
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2013-07-05)Botswana’s economic performance from the 1970s has been one of the best in Africa, comparable with the performance of some East Asian countries. This is mainly because of the development strategies and policies adopted by ... -
Voices of the University of Botswana Social Work graduates in community development
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2015-12-01)Community development (CD) is one of the integral methods of SocialWork practice. Its goal is to empower individuals, groups, organizationsand communities to improve the economic and general social welfare ofpeople in ... -
Is literacy key to community development? Analyzing two groups of adults’ involvement in development projects in Northern Nigeria
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2015-12-01)This paper investigates the influence of adult literacy on grassrootspeople’s involvement in community development (CD) projects in Nigeria.It examines the differences in the level of involvement in CD projects byparticipants ...