Child growth and development represent essential life stage in human beings. Monitoring growth of children has been recommended as a simple, cheap and affordable method of detecting early growth and help in taking measure ...

The accumulation of extreme rainfall events over the catchment trigger floods which impact on society and lead to loss property and life. Therefore, reliable analysis of extreme rainfall has importance for heavy precipitations ...

Despite efforts deployed by the Republic of Rwanda to increase the national water supply rate from an approximate of 50% by 2000 to 100% by 2020, Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda is facing a challenging problem of water ...

Soil is a natural three-dimensional body, which varies in space and time. Expanding environmental concern has increased the interest for regional land use analysis and in Rwanda, the rapid growth of population has testified ...

Rwanda is rapidly developing after the 1994 genocide. This development is highly concentrated in the Nyabugogo catchment where Kigali City is located. Water resources planning and management is an important component of ...

The objective of this thesis is a study of sequential activation of metabolic pathways using optimal control theory. In particular, we study the statements made in [10] and give an alternative proof of the main results ...

In this century of accelerated development in various domains, some African countries are still facing a challenge of lack of power due to its scarce in some places, where by the main source of power (generation of ...

Background: In Rwanda there are large numbers of child-headed households – more than 65,000 households, consisting of more than 300,000 children in total, are living without adult care and supervision. As a solution to ...

In this thesis, we were aiming at investigating the small area estimates of the malnutrition indicators. For this, we rst studied the small area estimation technique using Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (ELL) method. This ...

The family of sets with the Baire property of a topological space X, i.e., sets which differ from open sets by meager sets, has different nice properties, like being closed under countable unions and differences. On the ...