The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology: Recent submissions
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Integrating Traditional Knowledge and Modern Technologies for Renewable Energy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Advancing Climate Resilience and Carbon Reduction Strategies
(Global Academic Journal of Economics and Business, 2024-11-25)This paper explores the potential of reducing carbon footprints and greenhouse gas emissions in climate-sensitive regions of Sub-Saharan Africa by integrating traditional knowledge with modern renewable energy ... -
Economic Development Through Strategic FDI and Technology Adoption: An Econometric Analysis for Sustainable Revenue Growth in Tanzania
(Global Academic Journal of Economics and Business, 2024-11-22)This study proposes a robust strategy for bolstering the country’s economic development. Leveraging an econometric approach model, the research incorporates additional factors and extrapolates predictions based on historical ... -
Brucellosis testing patterns at health facilities in Arusha region, northern Tanzania
(Plos one, 2022-03-23)Background Brucellosis is listed as one of six priority zoonoses in Tanzania’s One Health strategic plan which highlights gaps in data needed for the surveillance and estimation of human brucellosis burdens. This study ... -
Prevalence and risk factors associated with subclinical mastitis in lactating dairy cows under smallholder dairy farming in North East Tanzania
(Academic Journals, 2021-03-01)A cross-sectional survey was carried out between October 2016 and May 2017 to determine the prevalence of subclinical mastitis (SCM), associated bacterial pathogens and risk factors under smallholdersmall holder dairy farms ... -
A Review on NLP Techniques and Associated Challenges in Extracting Features from Education Data
(International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 2024-08)There has been a significant increase in academic processes to ensure the quality of educational resources such as curricula, examinations, and educational content. This has drawn attention to studies exploring the use ... -
Characterizing Water Users through Frequent Patterns and Association Rules by Using Apriori Algorithm: A Case of Pangani Basin Tanzania
(IJST, 2024-12-07)Objectives: To identify the hidden patterns in the K-means clustered dataset for the Pangani Basin using the Apriori algorithm through frequent patterns and association rules to enrich cluster characteristics. Methods: ... -
A Deep Learning Model for Classifying Black Sigatoka Disease in Banana Leaves Based on Infection Stages
(IJST, 2024-10-04)Objective: This research study aims to develop an efficient deep-learning model to detect and classify stages of Black Sigatoka disease in banana plants. Methods: In this study, deep learning techniques, specifically the ... -
Uncovering service gaps and patterns in smallholder dairy production systems: A data mining approach
(Science Direct, 2024-09-17)Traditional clustering algorithms have often been used to categorize farmers but tend to overlook the underlying reasons for these groupings. Typically, clusters are formed based on common metrics such as dispersal and ... -
Biopesticides Potential to Protect Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Production from Early Blight Disease (Alternaria solani) and Leaf Miners (Tuta absoluta)
(preprint, 2025-01-03)Early blight disease (Alternaria solani) and leaf miners (Tuta absoluta) pose significant biotic constraints to tomato production, causing 80 -100% yield loss. A study involving laboratory, screen house and field experiments ... -
Flea Burden on Rodents and Its Associated Determinants in Plague-Endemic Localities of Karatu District, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Wiley, 2024-06-22)Background Fleas infest rodents and other small mammals, serving as vectors for zoonotic diseases such as plague. This study investigates the flea burden on rodents and its associated determinants within the plague-endemic ... -
Pattern and composition of wildlife roadkill across urban-rural gradient in an African expanding city
(Springer Nature Link, 2024-10-02)Urban roads are known to affect wildlife fauna but most assessments of the impacts of roads have been done in cities of the developed world with comparable studies still lacking from sprawling cities of the developing ... -
Review of the Current Status on Ruminant Abortigenic Pathogen Surveillance in Africa and Asia
(MDPI, 2024-09-12)Ruminant abortion events cause economic losses. Despite the importance of livestock production for food security and the livelihoods of millions of people in the world’s poorest communities, very little is known about the ... -
Seroprevalence and risk factors for brucellosis amongst livestock and humans in a multi-herd ranch system in Kagera, Tanzania
(Frontiers, 2024-11-01)Background: Brucellosis remains a significant health and economic challenge for livestock and humans globally. Despite its public health implications, the factors driving the endemic persistence of Brucella at the ... -
Livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania reveals disease priorities and importance of timely collection of vaginal swab samples for attribution
(eLife Sciences Publications Limited, 2024-12-16)Lack of data on the aetiology of livestock diseases constrains effective interventions to improve livelihoods, food security and public health. Livestock abortion is an important disease syndrome affecting productivity and ... -
N-acetylcysteine modulates markers of oxidation, inflammation and infection in tuberculosis
(Elsevier, 2025-01-03)Background Half the global tuberculosis health burden is due to post-tuberculosis lung disease. Host-directed therapies have been proposed to reduce this burden. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) provides the conditionally essential ... -
Extinction and persistence of lumpy skin disease: a deep learning framework for parameter estimation and model simulation
(Springer Nature Link, 2024-12-31)Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) of cattle, an infectious and fatal viral ailment, poses a significant challenge to the farming sector due to its economic impact. A deterministic Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered-Susceptible ... -
Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable
(Nature Publishing Group UK, 2024-06-03)Although invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the status, trends, drivers, impacts, management and governance ... -
Assessing the Ethnobotanical Uses, Harvesting Practices, and Conservation Awareness of Warburgia ugandensis in Northern Tanzania
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2024-12-09)Warburgia ugandensis is unsustainably harvested commercially, threatening its survival and potentially leading to local extinction in its native range areas in Northern Tanzania. Our study aimed to assess the extent of ... -
Multiporate Poaceae pollen grains observed in the recent fossil record from the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem and Lake Victoria region
(Elsevier, 2025-02-01)The analysis of fossil pollen from sediments is used to understand past vegetation and land cover variability. The observations of multiporate Poaceae pollen from sediments have received little attention in the literature ... -
Roles of Maasai Alalili Systems in Sustainable Conservation of Fodder Species of East African Rangelands
(Elsevier, 2025-01-01)Alalili systems are among the indigenous rangeland management strategies that face pressures from unsustainable land use practices and impacts of climate change. We aimed to establish the vascular fodder plants' composition ...
