The work must be original creative work done by member of BIUST student and staff. Both published peer reviewed and pre-prints research articles will be provided.
Shomana, Thapelo; Botha, Daniel, E.; Agachi, Paul, S.(Dama Research Center limited, 2020-05-14)
Crop farming in Botswana is very modest and of high risk compared to its neighboring countries because of significant dependency on reduced and unreliable rainfall and as a result of soils with poor water holding capacity ...
Fermentation remains an important food preparation technique of health, cultural and
economic importance throughout the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa, traditional alcoholic fermentation of cereal and non-cereal based ...
Lebele, Ayanda Agnes(University of Toronto, 2020-10-19)
In the quest to develop more innovative customer-focused library services, the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) Library embarked on the development of robust initiatives that involved the ...
Some of today’s modern life challenges include addressing the increased waste generation and energy deficiencies. Waste tyres have been identified as one of the key environmental concerns due to their non-biodegradable ...
Biomass torrefaction has gained widespread attention due to its benefits as a standalone process to improve biomass properties to be at par or similar to those for coal in electricity generation or as a pretreatment step ...
Suglo, Raymond S.; Szymanski, Jozef K.(Hilaris Publisher, 2014)
The working conditions in oil sand mines in Northern Alberta, Canada, are greatly affected by the climate and geology. The ground is very hard and competent in winter but very soft during ...
Thibanyane, Ntebogang; Agachi, Paul Serban; Danha, Gwiranai(Elsevier B.V., 2019)
Pyrolysis is one of the prospective processes that can be utilized to obtain high value chemicals and energy from coal and biomass. Coal-biomass co-pyrolysis presents a green, low-risk, cheap, sustainable, renewable energy ...
Balopi, Babusi; Agachi, Paul Serban; Danha, Gwiranai(Elsevier B.V., 2019)
In a highly competitive world of commercial production of methanol, it is critical to understand and get methanol (CH3OH) synthesis chemistry and process engineering aspects of methanol production correctly. Methanol ...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is the next generation network architecture with exciting application prospects. The control function in SDN is decoupled from the data forwarding plane, hence it provides a new centralized ...
In the current technology driven era, the use of devices that connect to the internet has increased significantly. Consequently, there has been a significant increase in internet traffic. Some of the challenges that arise ...
Zingiber officinale, commonly known as ginger, has been used as a medicinal plant for decades for medical and culinary purposes. This study aimed to determine the antimicrobial potential of ginger root extracts using the ...
Kolobe, Lone; Sigweni, Boyce; Lebekwe, Caspar K.(Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES), 2020-06)
LoRa is a communication scheme that is part of the low power wide area network
(LPWAN) technology using ISM bands. It has seen extensive documentation and use
in research and industry due to its long coverage ranges of ...
Research has shown that a huge portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is underutilized. Over the years, cognitive radio has been demonstrated as an efficient dynamic spectrum management technique. Energy detection is one ...
Babalola, Bukola Joseph; Maledi, Nthabiseng; Shongwe, Mxolisi Brendon; Bodunrin, Michael Oluwatosin; Obadele, Babatunde Abiodun; Olubambi, Peter Apata(Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University, 2020-03)
An investigation was carried out to evaluate the isothermal oxidation behavior of nickel based superalloys at 1100 °C for 120 h. The alloys which were microstructured and nanostructured were developed by spark plasma ...
Teaching English language revolves around the four language skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading. Although the Botswana General Certificate School Examination (BGCSE) syllabus covers the above four skills, ...
Nkabiti, Kabo; Galani, Malatsi; Zungeru, Adamu Murtala(International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 2017-09)
Even though usability testing of software applications has been studied for decades, little empirical researches have been conducted in Agriculture domain, especially in comparing the usability of none- immersive virtual ...
The increasing population growth, depletion of natural recourses from mining and similar activities, and consequent insistent climate change have triggered diverse environmental challenges. It is well known that acid mine ...
In this article we review the different methods that are used for the desulphurization of pyrolysis oil obtained from used tyres. A lot of research has been done on desulphurization of crude oil and its derivatives, mostly ...
The use of solar energy is in the upswing due to its environmental friendliness and abundance. That notwithstanding, efficiency remains a major problem in many of the applications. Mitigation is normally in the form of ...