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Curdlan-Conjugated PLGA Nanoparticles Possess Macrophage Stimulant Activity and Drug Delivery Capabilities
(Springer, 2015-03-28)Purpose There is significant interest in the application of nanoparticles to deliver immunostimulatory signals to cells.We hypothesized that curdlan (immune stimulating polymer) could be conjugated to PLGA and nanoparticles ... -
Current State of Modern Biotechnological-Based Vaccines for Aquaculture: A Systematic Review.
(Hindawi, 2019-07-29)This systematic review describes what "the cutting edge vaccines for are". The focus is on types of high tech biotechnological based vaccines, target gene or antigen in developing these vaccines, and challenge model fish ... -
Current Status of Cashew Leaf and Nut Blight Disease (Cryptosporiopsis spp.) and Screening of Elite Cashew Hybrids Developed in 1996 and 1998 against the Disease in Eastern and Southern Tanzania
(Research in Plant Disease, 2018-12-31)Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) is an export crop and source of income in Tanzania. However, its productivity is challenged by insect pests and diseases. Cashew Leaf and Nut Blight Disease (CLNBD) caused by Cryptosporipsis ... -
Current status of textile wastewater management practices and effluent characteristics in Tanzania
(IWA Publishing, 2021-04-05)Textile wastewater from wet processing units is a major environmental problem. Most chemicals, including dyes, are only partly consumed, resulting in highly colored wastewater containing a variety of chemicals released ... -
Current Trend and Future Perspectives of Paratuberculosis in Tanzania
(Journal of Advanced Veterinary Research, 2022-06-27)Paratuberculosis prevalence, economic and public health significance in animal populations is well docu- mented in most of the developed countries. In African countries however, information on paratuberculosis is sparse ... -
Cyanotoxins occurrence in drinking waters and risk of exposure to human in Ukerewe district Mwanza, Tanzania
(2020-04)There is global concern regarding the increase of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in freshwater and their potential effects on human health. This study was conducted to determine the occurrence of cyanotoxins and assessed ... -
Cytotoxicity activity of some wild mushroom species from Southern Highlands of Tanzania
(American Journal of Research Communication, 2014)The crude extracts from six wild mushroom species (Russula cellulata, Afrocantharellussymoensis, Lactarius sp, Lactarius denigricans, Russula kivuensis, Amanita muscaria and Amanita phalloides) collected from the Southern ... -
A data analytic module for nutrition screening of children under five years in Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2016-04)Malnutrition is one of the major health problems in the world, and more prevalent in developing countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that malnutrition is associated to half of all deaths of children ... -
Data Balancing Techniques for Predicting Student Dropout Using Machine Learning
(MDPI, 2023-02-27)Predicting student dropout is a challenging problem in the education sector. This is due to an imbalance in student dropout data, mainly because the number of registered students is always higher than the number of dropout ... -
Data driven approach for predicting student dropout in secondary schools
(NM-AIST, 2020-06)Student dropout is among the challenges that face most schools in developing countries particularly in Africa. In Tanzania alone, student dropout in secondary schools is pronounced to be around 36%. In addressing the ... -
Data exchange framework to support interoperability among multiple e-health records through a single mobile application: the case of Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2019-03)Electronic Health (eHealth), particularly in the form of electronic health records (eHRs), has proved to greatly provide to the health sector, a number of benefits such as real time receipt of health-care information and ... -
Data from the batch adsorption of ciprofloxacin and lamivudine from synthetic solution using jamun seed (Syzygium cumini) biochar: Response surface methodology (RSM) optimization
(Elsevier, 2023-02)This dataset expresses the experimental data on the batch adsorption of ciprofloxacin and lamivudine from synthetic solution using jamun seed (JS) (Syzygium cumini) biochar. Independent variables including concentration ... -
Data Synthesis Technique for Categorical Pestes Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Data Using CTGAN Model
(Pre prints,org, 2023-05-11)Data scarcity is a significant challenge in the field of Machine Learning (ML), as data collection can be expensive, time‐consuming, and difficult, particularly in developing countries. This challenge is exaggerated on ... -
Data visualization tool for student dropouts in Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2020-03)Education is a crucial sector and key component of many governments’ agenda. Despite that, students dropout has been among the persisting challenges in education, being experienced from basic education levels to colleges ... -
Database Privacy: Design of User Privacy Preserving Central Bank Digital Currency: A Case of Tanzania
(Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee), 2024-03-04)Objectives: This work aims to contribute towards Tanzanian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) users’ privacy preservation. It proposes the design of a privacy preserving CBDC which might be issued by Tanzania’s Central ... -
Dataset of banana leaves and stem images for object detection, classification and segmentation: A case of Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2023-06-16)Banana is among major crops cultivated by most smallholder farmers in Tanzania and other parts of Africa. This crop is very important in the household economy as well as food security since it serves as both food and cash ... -
Decentralized Environmental Governance: A reflection on its role in shaping Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania
(Tropical Conservation Science, 2015-12-01)Decentralised environmental governance has become a catchy solution to environmental problems caused by the failure of traditional centralised environmental governance. It promises to transfer power and authority, improve ... -
Decline in maize and beans production in the face of climate change at Hai District in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how climatic change in Africa is expected to lead to a higher occurrence of severe droughts in semiarid and arid ecosystems. Understanding how crop productions react to such ... -
The decline in phytoplankton biomass and prawn catches in the Rufiji-Mafia Channel, Tanzania
(African Journals Online, 2016-11-27)The world’s oceans have seen significant declines in phytoplankton-the primary food source in the marine environment. This decline in primary producers is likely to impact the food chain and functions of most coastal and ... -
A deconvolutional Bayesian mixing model approach for river basin sediment source apportionment
(Scientific Reports, 2018-08-30)Increasing complexity in human-environment interactions at multiple watershed scales presents major challenges to sediment source apportionment data acquisition and analysis. Herein, we present a step-change in the ...