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• 2021

  Rhizosphere properties and heavy metal accumulation of plants growing in the fly ash dumpsite, Morupule power plant, Botswana

  Gajaje, K., Ultra, V. U., David, P. W. & Rantong, G., Jan 6 2021, In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Coal Ash
  • Power Plants
  • Rhizosphere
  • Botswana
  • Heavy metals

• Security requirement management for cloud-assisted and internet of things⇔enabled smart city

  Tariq, M. U., Babar, M., Jan, M. A., Khattak, A. S., Alshehri, M. D. & Yahya, A., 2021, In: Computers, Materials and Continua. 67, 1, p. 625-639 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Internet of Things
  • Smart city
  • Internet of things
  • Requirements
  • Internet

• Self-organizing map artificial neural networks and sequential Gaussian simulation technique for mapping potentially toxic element hotspots in polluted mining soils

  Kebonye, N. M., Eze, P. N., John, K., Gholizadeh, A., Dajčl, J., Drábek, O., Němeček, K. & Borůvka, L., Mar 2021, In: Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 222, 106680.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Self organizing maps
  • artificial neural network
  • Soils
  • Poisons
  • Neural networks
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• SERS assisted monitoring of catalytic reduction reaction using silver-magnetic nanocomposites

  Mazhani, M., Alula, M. T. & Murape, D., Jun 1 2021, In: Materials Chemistry and Physics. 265, 8 p., 124487.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Silver nanoparticles
  • Raman spectroscopy
  • Silver
  • Nanocomposites
  • nanocomposites

• Shear augmented microvascular solute transport with a two-phase model: Application in nanoparticle assisted drug delivery

  Roy, A. K. & Shaw, S., Mar 1 2021, In: Physics of Fluids. 33, 3, 031904.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Solute transport
  • Drug delivery
  • drugs
  • Nanoparticles
  • delivery

• Sludge to energy recovery dosed with selected trace metals additives in anaerobic digestion processes

  Matheri, A. N., Ntuli, F. & Ngila, J. C., Jan 2021, In: Biomass and Bioenergy. 144, 8 p., 105869.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • energy recovery
  • Anaerobic digestion
  • anaerobic digestion
  • sludge
  • trace elements
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Split equality variational inequality problems for pseudomonotone mappings in Banach spaces

  Boikanyo, O. A. & Zegeye, H., 2021, In: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Mathematica. 66, 1, p. 139-158 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Pseudomonotone
  • Variational Inequality Problem
  • Equality
  • Banach space
  • Prior Knowledge

• Techniques for Modelling and Optimizing the Mechanical Properties of Natural Fiber Composites: A Review

  Mulenga, T. K., Ude, A. & Chinnasamy, V., Jan 14 2021, In: Fibers. 9, 1, 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Natural fibers
  • Mechanical properties
  • Composite materials
  • Synthetic fibers
  • Fiber reinforced materials

• Temperature and RF Power Effect on the Morphology and Structural Properties of TiC Thin Film Grown by RF Magnetron Sputtering

  Abegunde, O. O., Akinlabi, E. T. & Oladijo, O. P., 2021, p. 583-590. 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • titanium carbide
  • Titanium carbide
  • Magnetron sputtering
  • Structural properties
  • Thin films

• The exponentiated odd weibull-topp-leone-g family of distributions: Model, properties and applications

  Chamunorwa, S., Oluyede, B., Makubate, B. & Chipepa, F., 2021, In: Pakistan Journal of Statistics. 37, 2, p. 143-158 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Weibull
  • Odd
  • Linear Representation
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimate
  • Family

• Thermosolutal Marangoni Impact on Bioconvection in Suspension of Gyrotactic Microorganisms over an Inclined Stretching Sheet

  Kairi, R. R., Shaw, S., Roy, S. & Raut, S., Mar 1 2021, In: Journal of Heat Transfer. 143, 3, 10 p., 031201.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Microorganisms
  • microorganisms
  • Stretching
  • Suspensions
  • ecosystems
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• The split common fixed point problem for η-demimetric mappings in banach spaces

  Shahzad, N. & Zegeye, H., 2021, In: Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis. 21, 11, p. 2589-2603 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Banach spaces
  • Fixed Point Problem
  • Common Fixed Point
  • Hilbert spaces
  • Banach space

• The spread of COVID-19 outbreak in the first 120 days: a comparison between Nigeria and seven other countries

  Adebowale, A. S., Fagbamigbe, A. F., Akinyemi, J. O., Obisesan, O. K., Awosanya, E. J., Afolabi, R. F., Alarape, S. A. & Obabiyi, S. O., Dec 2021, In: BMC Public Health. 21, 1, 8 p., 129.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Nigeria
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Statistical Models
  • Ghana
  • Egypt
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Treatment of Sulphate Rich Process Effluents using Coal Fly Ash

  Lekgoba, T., Ntuli, F. & Mosweu, B., Mar 10 2021, In: E3S Web of Conferences. 241, 01002.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Effluents
  • Sulfates
  • Fly ash
  • fly ash
  • Coal

• Unsteady 3D micropolar nanofluid flow through a squeezing channel: application to cardiovascular disorders

  Sastry, D. R. V. S. R. K., Kumar, N. N., Kameswaran, P. K. & Shaw, S., Jan 18 2021, In: Indian Journal of Physics.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • compressing
  • micropolar fluids
  • disorders
  • drugs
  • fluids

• V1241 Tau and GQ Dra light curves

  Ulusoy, C., 2021

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

• Vegetation trends, drought severity and land use‐land cover change during the growing season in semi‐arid contexts

  Akinyemi, F. O., Mar 1 2021, In: Remote Sensing. 13, 5, p. 1-20 20 p., 836.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • growing season
  • land cover
  • drought
  • vegetation
  • trend

• Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control Application in Islanding Detection for Grid Integrated Distributed Generation: A Review

  Tshenyego, O., Ravi, S. & Mtengi, B., Apr 15 2021, In: Measurement and Control. p. 1-33 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Distributed Generation
  • Monitoring
  • Distributed power generation
  • Electric power systems
  • grids
• 2020

  3D Bioconvective multiple slip flow of chemically reactive Casson nanofluid with gyrotactic micro-organisms

  Nayak, M. K., Prakash, J., Tripathi, D., Pandey, V. S., Shaw, S. & Makinde, O. D., Jan 1 2020, In: Heat Transfer - Asian Research. 49, 1, p. 135-153 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • slip flow
  • organisms
  • Boundary layers
  • Thermophoresis
  • Brownian movement
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• 3D modeling of additive manufacturing process: The case of polymer laser sintering

  Zhang, L., Boutaous, M., Xin, S. & Siginer, D. A., 2020, Fluids Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), (ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE); vol. 10).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • 3D modeling
  • 3D printers
  • Lasers
  • Polymers
  • Powders

• A ~2.051 Ga anatectic event and peraluminous leucogranite from the Mahalapye Complex, northern edge of the Kaapvaal Craton: Record of an effect of Bushveld mafic magmatism

  Rajesh, H. M., Safonov, O. G., Belyanin, G. A. & Vorster, C., Dec 15 2020, In: Lithos. 378-379, 19 p., 105805.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • leucogranite
  • Melting
  • craton
  • magmatism
  • biotite

• Accumulation of organic carbon in various soil aggregate sizes under different land use systems in a semi-arid environment

  Okolo, C. C., Gebresamuel, G., Zenebe, A., Haile, M. & Eze, P. N., Aug 1 2020, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 297, 106924.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • soil aggregates
  • aggregate size
  • sieving
  • soil aggregate
  • arid environment
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• A Comprehensive Study of the Eclipsing Binaries V1241 Tau and GQ Dra

  Ulaş, B., Gazeas, K., Liakos, A., Ulusoy, C., Stateva, I., Erkan, N., Napetova, M. & Iliev, I. K., 2020, In: Acta Astronomica.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • light curve
  • radial velocity
  • diagram
  • diagrams
  • filters

• Adsorption of lead ions from wastewater using nano silica spheres synthesized on calcium carbonate templates

  Manyangadze, M., Chikuruwo, N. M. H., Narsaiah, T. B., Chakra, C. S., Charis, G., Danha, G. & Mamvura, T. A., Nov 2020, In: Heliyon. 6, 11, 13 p., e05309.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • calcium carbonates
  • templates
  • silicon dioxide
  • adsorption
  • hollow
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Advances in Nanoscale Study of Organomineral Complexes of Termite Mounds and Associated Soils: A Systematic Review

  Eze, P. N., Kokwe, A. & Eze, J. U., 2020, In: Applied and Environmental Soil Science. 2020, 9 p., 8087273.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • organomineral complexes
  • termite mounds
  • systematic review
  • termite
  • soil

• Advances in powder-based technologies for production of high-performance sputtering targets

  Mwema, F. M., Mwema, F. M., Akinlabi, E. T., Oladijo, O. P. & Baruwa, A. D., May 29 2020, In: Materials Performance and Characterization. 9, 4, 15 p., MPC20190160.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sputtering
  • Powders
  • Thin films
  • Coatings
  • Powder metallurgy

• A formal analytical modeling and simulation of wireless sensor home network

  Gaboitaolelwe, J., Zungeru, A. M., Chuma, J., Ditshego, N. & Semong, T., Jan 1 2020, In: International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems. 13, 3, p. 56-68 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Home networks
  • Energy utilization
  • Sensors
  • Wi-Fi
  • Communication
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Age at the onset of tobacco smoking in South Africa: a discrete-time survival analysis of the prognostic factors

  Fagbamigbe, A. F., Desai, R., Sewpaul, R., Kandala, N. B., Sekgala, D. & Reddy, P., Dec 2020, In: Archives of Public Health. 78, 1, 128.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tobacco Smoking
  • South Africa
  • Survival Analysis
  • Age of Onset
  • Smoking

• Age Structured Mixture Model for Early COVID-19 Spread: A Zimbabwean Risk Factor Analysis

  Mufudza, C., Gudoshava, M. & Showa, S., Jul 31 2020, In: Journal of Contemporary Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health. 1, 1, 8 p., ep20003.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Zimbabwe
  • Statistical Factor Analysis
  • Imported Communicable Diseases
  • SARS Virus
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Algorithm for compressing/decompressing sudoku grids

  Nedev, Z., Zungeru, A. M., Khov, S., Dy, D. & Sov, K., 2020, In: Journal of Computer Science. 16, 9, p. 1319-1324 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Linearization
  • Internet

• A Method for Solving Some Class of Multilevel Multi-leader Multi-follower Programming Problems

  Zewde, A. B. & Kassa, S. M., 2020, p. 589–599.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Operations research
  • Game theory
  • Economics

• A methodology for assessing rock mass damage in underground mining

  Adoko, A. C. & Zhalel, M., 2020, Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development- Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, ISRM 2019. da Fontoura, S. A. B., Rocca, R. J. & Mendoza, J. F. P. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, p. 947-954 8 p. (Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development- Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, ISRM 2019).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Rocks
  • damage
  • methodology
  • Excavation
  • rock
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• A multifractal study of al thin films prepared by rf magnetron sputtering

  Mwema, F. M., Akinlabi, E. T., Oladijo, O. P., Akinlabi, S. A. & Hassan, S., Sep 2020, p. 687-694. 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Magnetron sputtering
  • Thin films
  • Fractal dimension
  • Substrates
  • Carbon steel

• Analysis of a mathematical model for the transmission dynamics of human melioidosis

  Terefe, Y. A. & Kassa, S. M., 2020, In: International Journal of Biomathematics.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Analysis of the mitigation strategies for COVID-19: From mathematical modelling perspective

  Kassa, S. M., Njagarah, J. B. H. & Terefe, Y. A., Sep 2020, In: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 138, 16 p., 109968.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Strategy
  • Backward Bifurcation
  • Model
  • Immunity
  • Vaccination
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• An efficient image analysis framework for the classification of glioma brain images using CNN approach

  Samikannu, R., Ravi, R., Murugan, S. & Diarra, B., Apr 2020, In: Computers, Materials and Continua. 63, 3, p. 1133-1142 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Image Analysis
  • Brain
  • Tumor
  • Tumors
  • Image analysis
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• A new generalized log-logistic Erlang truncated exponential distribution with applications

  Oluyede, B., Jimoh, H. A., Wanduku, D. & Makubate, B., 2020, In: Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis. 13, 2, p. 293-349 57 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Truncated Distributions
  • Logistics
  • Probability density function
  • Exponential distribution
  • Density Function

• An integrated use of induced polarization and electrical resistivity imaging methods to delineate zones of potential gold mineralization in the Phitshane Molopo area, Southeast Botswana

  Sono, P., Nthaba, B., Shemang, E. M., Kgosidintsi, B. & Seane, T., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of African Earth Sciences. 13 p., 104060.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • induced polarization
  • imaging method
  • electrical resistivity
  • gold
  • mineralization

• An overview of key technologies in physical layer security

  Sanenga, A., Mapunda, G. A., Jacob, T. M. L., Marata, L., Basutli, B. & Chuma, J. M., Nov 2020, In: Entropy. 22, 11, p. 1-34 34 p., 1261.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Radio transmission
  • Jamming
  • Wireless Communication
  • Wireless Networks
  • Communication
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• An overview of potential liquid insulation in power transformer

  Raj, R. A., Samikannu, R., Yahya, A. & Mosalaosi, M., 2020, In: International Journal on Energy Conversion. 8, 4, p. 126-140 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Mineral oils
  • Power transformers
  • Insulation
  • Liquids
  • Oils and fats

• An RMR-based stability analysis for empirical design of underground excavation spans

  Adoko, A. C. & Alipov, A., 2020, Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development- Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, ISRM 2019. da Fontoura, S. A. B., Rocca, R. J. & Mendoza, J. F. P. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, p. 671-677 7 p. (Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development- Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, ISRM 2019).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Excavation
  • stability analysis
  • excavation
  • logistics
  • Logistics

• Application of coal fly ash for treatment of wastewater containing a binary mixture of copper and nickel

  Lekgoba, T., Ntuli, F. & Falayi, T., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Water Process Engineering. 101822.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Coal Ash
  • Coal
  • Waste Water
  • Binary mixtures
  • Nickel

• Approximating solutions of the sum of a finite family of maximally monotone mappings in Hilbert spaces

  Wega, G. B., Zegeye, H. & Boikanyo, O. A., May 1 2020, In: Advances in Operator Theory. 5, 2, p. 359-370 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Monotone Mapping
  • Hilbert space
  • Nonlinear Mapping
  • Strong Theorems
  • Family
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Approximation of a common f-fixed point of f-pseudocontractive mappings in Banach spaces

  Zegeye, H. & Wega, G. B., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo. 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pseudocontractive Mapping
  • Fixed point
  • Banach space
  • Legendre function
  • Converge

• A preliminary survey of the abundance, diversity and distribution of terrestrial macroinvertebrates of Gcwihaba cave, northwest Botswana

  Mazebedi, R. & Hesselberg, T., Jul 2 2020, In: Subterranean Biology. 35, p. 49-63 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Botswana
  • macroinvertebrates
  • caves
  • macroinvertebrate
  • cave
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• A review of municipal solid waste data for harare, zimbabwe

  Nhubu, T., Mbohwa, C., Muzenda, E. & Patel, B., 2020, Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019. Vilarinho, C., Castro, F., Gonçalves, M. & Fernando, A. L. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, p. 367-374 8 p. (Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • municipal solid waste
  • waste management
  • temporal variation
  • province
  • planning
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• A review on Botswana coal potential from a pyrolysis and gasification perspective

  Makoba, M., Botha, D. E., Rapoo, M. T., Szabó, L. Z., Shomana, T., Agachi, P. Ș. & Muzenda, E., 2020, In: Periodica Polytechnica Chemical Engineering. 65, 1, p. 80-96 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Coal
  • Gasification
  • Pyrolysis
  • Raman spectroscopy
  • Bituminous coal

• A review on control and maneuvering of cooperative fixed-wing drones

  Elijah, T., Jamisola, R. S., Tjiparuro, Z. & Namoshe, M., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Dynamics and Control.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Drones
  • Fixed wings
  • Rotor
  • Review
  • Tail

• Are vulnerable communities thoroughly informed on mosquito bio-ecology and burden?

  Buxton, M., Machekano, H., Gotcha, N., Nyamukondiwa, C. & Wasserman, R. J., Nov 1 2020, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17, 21, p. 1-16 16 p., 8196.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Ecology
  • Culicidae
  • Disease control
  • Pathogens
  • Public health

• Artificial intelligence-based load optimization in cognitive Internet of Things

  Yao, W., Khan, F., Jan, M. A., Shah, N., ur Rahman, I., Yahya, A. & ur Rehman, A., Jan 1 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Neural Computing and Applications.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Internet of things
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Engines
  • Throughput
  • Resource allocation
  3 Citations (Scopus)