• The complete mitogenome of the fairy shrimp Streptocephalus cafer (Lovén, 1847) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from an ephemeral pond in Botswana, southern Africa 

  Tladi, Murphy; Dalu, Tatenda; Rogers, Christopher; Nyamukondiwa, Casper; Parbhu, Shilpa Pradeep; Teske, Peter; Emami-Khoyi, Arsalan; Wasserman, Ryan John (Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-01-14)

  Fairy shrimps (Anostraca) constitute an important component of seasonally aquatic habitats, but few complete mitochondrial genomes have been published for this group. Here, we report the mitoge nome of a common southern ...
• Neuronal firing and DNA dynamics in a neural network 

  Etémé, Armand Sylvin; Tabi, Conrad Bertrand; Ateba, Jean Felix Beyala; Ekobena, Henri Paul Fouda; Mohamadou, Alidou; Kofane, Timoléon Crepin (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2018-12-18)

  We study the mutual effects of neuronal electrical activity and DNA dynamics in a network of electrically coupled neurons with nearest neighbors communication. For that we develop by means of the coupling function method, ...
• Zinc oxide nanowire field effect transistor used as a pH sensor 

  Ditshego, Nonofo M.J. (International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Telecommunications, 2022-03)

  An ion sensitive field effect transistor can outperform conventional ion-selective electrodes. Thus, a zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowire field effect transistor (NWFET) pH sensor was fabricated and measured. The sensor contained ...
• The Topp Leone-G Power Series class of distributions with applications 

  Makubate, Boikanyo; Rannona, Kethamile; Oluyede, Broderick; Chipepa, Fastel (Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 2021-12)

  We present a new class of distributions called the Topp-Leone-G Power Series (TL-GPS) class of distributions. This model is obtained by compounding the Topp-Leone-G distribution with the power series distribution. Statistical ...
• Effect of Cd precursor on structure and optical properties of spin coated Zn0:9Cd0:1O films for optoelectronics applications 

  Arora, Isha; Kumar, Praveen; Sathiaraj, T.Stephen (Sciendo, 2021-09-01)

  The development of transparent conducting oxide materials has gained an increased interest in the scientific community for developing efficient low cost optoelectronic devices. The effect of Cd precursor on structural and ...
• Hierarchical multilevel optimization with multiple-leaders multiple-followers setting and nonseparable objectives 

  Zewde, Addis Belete; Kassa, Semu Mitiku (EDP Sciences, 2021-09-18)

  Hierarchical multilevel multi-leader multi-follower problems are non-cooperative decision problems in which multiple decision-makers of equal status in the upper-level and multiple decision makers of equal status are ...
• Loss-tolerant prepare and measure quantum key distribution protocol 

  Mafu, Mhlambululi; Sekga, Comfort; Senekane, Makhamisa (Elsevier B.V. on behalf of African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2021-11-07)

  We propose a modified version of the Bennett–Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution protocol intended to tolerate losses, certain forms of noise, and the so-called photon number splitting attack. These are the issues ...
• Critical assessment of mechanistic pathways for chemical remediation techniques applied to Pb impacted soils at shooting ranges – a review 

  Dinake, Pogisego; Kelebemang, Rosemary (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-09-13)

  Shooting ranges continue to pose environmental and human health risk due to the accumulation of toxic Pb emanating from munitions. Remediation of Pb pollution at shooting ranges has been carried out through application of ...
• Pollution status of shooting range soils from Cd, Cu, Mn, Ni and Zn found in ammunition 

  Dinake, Pogisego; Maphane, Onneetse; Sebogisi, Karabo; Kamwi, Obed (Taylor and Francis Group, 2018-09-18)

  Evaluation of concentration of heavy metals found in shooting range soil is important in assessing the pollution risk posed to biota. Soil samples from five shooting ranges found in Botswana were used in this study. All ...
• Relative gottlieb groups of embeddings between complex grassmannians 

  Gatsinzi, Jean Baptiste (Hindawi Limited, 2021-11-15)

  Let Grk,n be the complex Grassmann manifold of k-linear subspaces in ℂn. We compute rational relative Gottlieb groups of the embedding i:Grk,n Grk,n+r and show that the G-sequence is exact if r≥kn-k.
• Crystal Structure of Pyridin-4-ylmethyl 4-Nitrobenzoate, C13H10N2O4 

  Matshwele, James.T.P.; Odisitse, Sebusi; Mazimba, Ofentse; Nareetsile, Florence; Julius, Lebogang; Dalitso, Keitumetse (Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 2022-01-10)

  The structure of pyridin-4-ylmethyl 4-nitrobenzoate was determined by the single-crystal X-ray diffraction method. The compound crystallized in a monoclinic system, P21/n, and the unit cell parameters are, a = 9.981(2), b ...
• Synthesis of bismuth oxyhalide (BiOBrz I (1-z)) solid solutions for photodegradation of methylene dye 

  Gembo, Robert Ouko; Aoyi, Ochieng; Majoni, Stephen; Etale, Anita; Odisitse, Sebusi; King'ondu, Cecil (F1000 Research Ltd, 2021-08-23)

  The removal of textile wastes is a priority due to their mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. In this study, bismuth oxyhalide was used in the removal of methylene blue (MB) which is a textile waste. The main objective ...
• Suicidal ligature strangulation utilizing doubled cable ties - A case report 

  Mugoma, Shathani; Phokedi, Gothatamang Norma (Elsevier B.V., 2020-05-07)

  The Botswana Police Pathology unit records show that a total of 368 cases of suicide were reported between 2016 and 2019. A total of 367 of these cases were suicide by hanging while only 1 was of suicide by self-strangulation. ...
• The carbonate-catalyzed transesterification of sunflower oil for biodiesel production: in situ monitoring and density functional theory calculations 

  Nyepezi, Maipelo; Mbaiwa, Foster; Oyetunji, Olayinka; Dzade, Nelson Yaw; de Leeuw, Nora Henriette (The Scientific Electronic Library Online, 2021)

  Biodiesel has emerged as a promising alternative fuel to replace dwindling fossil-based resources, particularly in view of its added environmental merit of reducing additional air pollution. Its specific attraction stems ...
• Modeling the effects of information-dependent vaccination behavior on meningitis transmission 

  Buonomo, Bruno; d'Onofrio, Alberto; Kassa, Semu Mitiku; Workineh, Yetwale Hailu (Wiley, 2021-08-21)

  We propose a mathematical model to investigate the effects of information–dependent vaccination behavior on meningitis transmission. The information is represented by means of information index as early proposed by d'Onofrio ...
• Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel: mathematical model 

  Tripathi, Dharmendra; Jhorar, Ravindra; Be ́g, Anwar; Shaw, Sachin (Springer, 2017-11-20)

  A theoretical study is presented of peristaltic hydrodynamics of an aqueous electrolytic non-Newtonian Jeffrey bio-rheological fluid through an asymmetric microchannel under an applied axial electric field. An analytical ...
• Vector dissipative light bullets in optical laser beam 

  Djazet, Alain; Tabi, Conrad B; Fewo, Serge I; Kofané, Timoléon C (Springer Nature, 2020-04-03)

  The dynamics of light bullets propagating in nonlinear media with linear/nonlinear, gain/loss and coupling described by the (2+1)-dimensional vectorial cubic–quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau (CGL) equations is considered. ...
• Cabbage or ‘pesticide’on the platter? Chemical analysis reveals multiple and excessive residues in African vegetable markets 

  Machekano, Honest; Masamba, Wellington; Mvumi, Brighton M; Nyamukondiwa, Casper (BioMed Central, 2019-02-02)

  Overuse of pesticides in vegetables and related fresh products raises serious public health concerns. However, the recognition and assessment of the magnitude of public health risk remains a low priority in low income ...
• Determining real permittivity from fresnel coefficients in GNSS-R 

  Savi, Patrizia; Bertoldo, Silvano; Milani, Albert (Electromagnetics Academy, 2019-03-15)

  Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSSR) can be used to derive information about the composition or the properties of ground surfaces, by analyzing signals emitted by GNSS satellites and reflected from the ...
• A review on wingtip devices for reducing induced drag on fixed-wing drones 

  Makgantai, Boitumelo; Subaschandar, N.; Jamisola, Rodrigo S. (Science Press, 2021)

  This review paper presents and analyzes previous studies on wingtip devices mainly to reduce induced drag on fixed-wing aircraft and drones. Some of the parameters discussed are the different types of winglets, cant angles, ...

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