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Investigating the occurence of contaminants of emerging concern in urban slum areas: a case study of Bwaise, Kawempe division, Kampala-Uganda
(Kyambogo University(Unpublished work), 2021-05)
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are defined as chemical compounds discovered in water or environment that are not currently monitored or regulated but are thought to cause adverse effects on the ecosystem and human ...
Contributions of human activities and climatic variability to changes in river Rwizi flows in Uganda, East Africa
(MDPI, 2021-09)
This study employed Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to analyze the impacts
of climate variability and human activities on River Rwizi flows. Changes in land use and land
cover (LULC) types from 1997 to 2019 were ...
Changes in precipitation and evapotranspiration over Lokok and Lokere catchments in Uganda
(Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology volume : Springer Link, 2021-03-24)
This study analysed long-term (1948–2016) changes in gridded (0.25° × 0.25°) Princeton Global Forcing (PGF) precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data over Lokok and Lokere catchments. PGF-based and station ...
Impacts of climate variability and changing land use/land cover on River Mpanga flows in Uganda, East Africa
(Environmental Challenges : Elsevier, 2021-12-09)
We analyzed River Mpanga Catchment (RMC) land use/land cover (LULC) types based on Landsat images for 2000, 2008 and 2014. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was driven by daily meteorological data from 2000 to 2011 to ...
Investigating false start of the main growing season: a case of Uganda in East Africa
(Heliyon, 2021-11-19)
False start of the growing season (Fsos) is a component of the onset variability related to agronomic drought that adversely impact on agricultural production and productivity. In the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where agriculture ...
Assessing the applicability of earned value management Technique in enhancing performance of construction Projects in Uganda: a case of Kampala city
(Kyambogo University, 2021-07)
Monitoring is the most important component in project management. It deals with
measuring performance of a project at certain time intervals and reports that
performance to the organization for process control. Any project ...
Water availability trends across water management zonesin Uganda
(Atmospheric Science Letters, 2021-06-21)
This study assessed trends in gridded (0.25° × 0.25°) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and precipitation minus PET (PMP) across the four water management zones ...
Investigating implementation strategies towards elimination of structural failure of buildings in Uganda: a case study of Kampala city
(Kyambogo University, 2021-08)
In Kampala City, the failure of buildings has occurred frequently leading to increase
in the spate of building collapse that have claimed many lives of people. In the past
three years, Kampala has recorded quite a number ...