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Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on the Dynamics of Rift Valley Fever

Luboobi, S .Livingstone (Hindaw, 2014)

A deterministic SEIR model of rift valley fever (RVF) with climate change parameters was considered to compute the basic reproduction number and investigate the impact of temperature and precipitation on . To study the ...

Students and Scientists Connect with Nature in Uganda, East Africa

Johnson-Pynn, Julie S.; Johnson, Laura R.; Kityo, Robert; Lugumya, Douglas (International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2014)

We studied the impact of environmental education (EE) workshops on Ugandan youth’s (N = 84) perceptions of their relationship with nature, self efficacy, and civic attitudes and skills. Two nature-related measures and two ...

The geochemical signature of rare-metal pegmatites in the Central Africa Region: Soils, plants, water and stream sediments in the Gatumba tin–tantalum mining.

Nieder, Rolf; Weber, Tobias; Paulmann, Inga; Muwanga, Andrew; Owor, Michael; Naramabuye, Francois; Gakwerere, Francis; Biryabarema, Micheal; Biester, Harald; Pohl, Walter (Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2014)

We studied trace elements in soils, plants, water and stream sediments in the Gisuma–Kibilira catchment of the Gatumba area of western Rwanda which has a long tradition of artisanal to small-scale tin–tantalum mining from ...

Water Resources of Uganda: An Assessment and Review

Nsubuga, Francis N. W.; Namutebi, Edith N.; Nsubuga-Ssenfuma, Masoud (Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2014)

Water resources of a country constitute one of its vital assets that significantly contribute to the socio-economic development and poverty eradication. However, this resource is unevenly distri- buted in both time and ...

Assessing the spatio-temporal climate variability in semi-arid Karamoja subregion in north-eastern Uganda

Egeru, Anthony; Osaliya, Richard; MacOpiyo, Laban; Mburu, John; Wasonga, Oliver; Barasa, Bernard; Said, Mohammed; Aleper, Daniel; Majaliwa Mwanjalolo, Gilbert-Jackson (International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2014)

Semi-arid areas show climatic variability on a spatio-temporal scale. There are few studies on the long-term trends and intensity of this variability from East Africa. We used National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration ...

Essential oil and composition of Tagetes minuta from Uganda.Larvicidal activity on Anopheles gambiae

Mugumya Kyarimpa, Christine; Böhmdorfer, Stefan; Wasswa, John; Kiremire, Benard T.; Omolo Ndiege, Isaiah; Kabasa, John David (Industrial Crops and Products, 2014)

As the search for alternatives to synthetic medicine goes on, several plants have been identified as possible natural insecticides, among which is Tagetes minuta. In this study essential oil from T. minuta was obtained by ...

Coping with Firewood Scarcity in Soroti District of Eastern Uganda

Egeru, Anthony; Kateregga, Eseza; Mwanjalolo Majaliwa, Gilber Jackson (Open Journal of Forestry, 2014)

This study investigated how rural households cope with firewood scarcity in dryland areas of Eastern Uganda. A household survey was conducted in December 2008 to January 2009, where 490 respondents were randomly interviewed. ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls and hexachlorocyclohexanes in sediments and fish species from the Napoleon Gulf of Lake Victoria, Uganda

Ssebugere, Patrick; Sillanpää, Mika; Kiremire, Bernard T.; Kasozi, Gabriel N.; Wang, Pu; Sojinu, Samuel O.; Otieno, Peter O.; Zhu, Nali; Zhu, Chaofei; Zhang, Haidong; Shang, Hongtao; Ren, Daiwei; Li, Yingming; Zhang, Qinghua; Jiang, Guibin (Science of the Total Environment, 2014)

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) were analyzed in surface sediments (b30 cm depth) and two fish species: Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). The samples ...

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sediments and fish species from the Murchison Bay of Lake Victoria, Uganda

Ssebugere, Patrick; Sillanpää, Mika; Wang, Pu; Li, Yingming; Kiremire, Bernard T.; Kasozi, Gabriel N.; Zhu, Chaofei; Ren, Daiwei; Shang, Hongtao; Zhang, Qinghua; Jiang, Guibin (Science of the total environment, 2014)

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PCDD/Fs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were analyzed in sediments and fish from the Murchison Bay of Lake Victoria by high resolution gas chromatography/ high ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments and fish species from the Murchison Bay of Lake Victoria, Uganda

Ssebugere, Patrick; Sillanpää, Mika; Wang, Pu; Li, Yingming; Kiremire, Bernard T.; Kasozi, Gabriel N.; Zhu, Chaofei; Ren, Daiwei; Zhu, Nali; Zhang, Haidong; Shang, Hongtao; Zhang, Qinghua; Jiang, Guibin (Science of the Total Environment, 2014)

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in sediments and two fish species collected from the Murchison Bay in Lake Victoria, using high resolution gas chromatography coupled to a high resolution mass spectrometer. Total ...