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Improved gasification of rice husks for optimized biochar production in a top lit updraft gasifier
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014)
Biochar is a solid material obtained from the carbonization of biomass. If properly produced, it is useful for soil application to enrich plant values. Rice husk (RH) waste, an abundant agricultural by-product, was gasified ...
Population dynamics of fruit flies (diptera: tephritidae) in mango growing areas of Luwero and Wakiso Districts, Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2014-06)
Population dynamics of major fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) infesting mango orchards were monitored for 12 months using methyleugenol, trimedlure, terpinyl acetate and protein-baited traps in 2011 in Luwero and Wakiso ...
Barriers to implementation of Uganda’s national industrial policy: A case study of the Steel Mills Industry
(Makerere University, 2014-12)
This research is a descriptive study of Uganda’s national industrial policy implementation state. The study was conducted in the Steel mills industry with a major aim of assessing the process of implementing Uganda’s ...
Ethnobotanical, phytochemical and antiplasmodial studies of Neoboutonia Macrocalyx L
(Makerere University, 2014)
Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity due to resistance of the parasite to the cheap and available antimalarials. The need for effective new and cheap alternative antimalarials is therefore of ...
L-band and VHF response to scintillation activity during the ascending phase of sunspot cycle 24 in the Equatorial Region of East African
(Makerere University, 2014-05)
Ionospheric scintillation is the rapid change in the phase and or the amplitude of a radio signal as it passes through small scale plasma density irregularities in the ionosphere. These scintillations, not only can they ...
Determination of levels of selected antibiotics in the waters of the Nakivubo Channel, Kampala (Uganda)
(Makerere University, 2014-12)
Antibiotics are one of the most successful forms of chemotherapy developed by modern science, many lives have been saved and diseases or infections that would cause death of humans and pets or lead to poor crop performance ...
Using trace metals, peroxide, acid and iodine values to characterize oils bleached using clays from Central and Eastern Uganda
(2014)
The decrease in content of iron in the bleached oils was highest for all oils bleached. The content of copper showed the smallest change. The decrease in copper content for palm oils decreased from 0.2ppm to 0.1ppm when ...
The political and institutional dimensions of agricultural extension reform process in Uganda: Experiences of the National Agricultural Advisory Services
(Makerere University, 2014)
Agricultural extension reforms initiated in the 1990s were an offshoot of a global movement for reforming the national extension systems in developing countries, which started late in the twentieth century, an era characterized ...