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Affect-aware intelligent thermal comfort environments

KIZITO N, Nkurikiyeyezu (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, 2020-02-15)

Despite almost a century of research on thermal comfort, its provision is still based on fundamentallyﬂawedassumptions, achievesalacklusterperformance, and requires excessive energy to operate. Indeed,the leading thermal ...

Analysis of Change of the Marshland Value in Rwanda: Case Study of Muvumba P8 irrigation scheme, Nyagatare District

Rutagengwa, Alexis (University of Rwanda, 2016-06)

The Government of Rwanda considers marshland as a valuable resource for the intensification of agriculture, which is required to achieve the goals of food security and poverty reduction as targeted in the agricultural ...

The application of therapeutic nanoreactors and novel treatment strategies to overcome multi-drug resistance in cancer therapy

MUKERABIGWI, Jean Felix (University of Science and Technology of China, 2020-06-04)

Abstract Cancer disease persists to dramatically increase in humankind and sophisticated therapeutic strategies are urgently needed to achieve efficacious therapeutic effect than ever before. This thesis entitled “the ...

Assessment of effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and its potential implication for sustainable development in Rwanda

Ngaboyamahina, Theogene (University of Rwanda, 2013-03)

Environment and Climate Change have been selected as cross cutting issues for the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS II), as Rwanda gears towards longer-term targets like the Vision 2020 and the ...

The assessment of environmental impacts of renewable energy technologies used in Rwanda

HAKIZIMANA, Eustache (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2022-11-07)

In Rwanda, the development of renewable energy technology projects tends to be large-scale and also applicable in rural and remote areas, where energy is often critical for human development because energy services have ...

Assessment of Solar Radiation Intermittency on Grid-Connected PV with storage system

NDAYISENGA, Patrick (University of Rwanda, 2020-10)

- Grid-tied distributed photovoltaic system has brought a significant use energy generated from solar, but it has proven to have a serious impact on the load characteristics in terms of quality, line losses, and power ...

Avoiding ecological sustainable development trade-offs with renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa

KATUNDU, Imasiku (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2020-09)

This dissertation study seeks to understand the challenge of balancing economic growth, social wellbeing, and environmental sustainability. It looks at how most nations in subSaharan Africa (SSA) are governed by traditional ...

Bilinear and Trilinear Regression Models with Structured Covariance Matrices

Nzabanita, Joseph (Linköping University Electronic Press, 2015-05-21)

This thesis focuses on the problem of estimating parameters in bilinear and trilinear regression models in which random errors are normally distributed. In these models the covariance matrix has a Kronecker product structure ...

Boolean complexes of involutions and smooth intervals in coxeter groups

UMUTABAZI, Vincent (Linköping University, 2022)

This dissertation is composed of four papers in algebraic combinatorics related to Coxeter groups. By a Coxeter group, we mean a group W generated by a subset S ⊂ W such that for all s ∈ S, we have s2 = e, and (ss )m(s,s ...

Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Afromontane Tropical Forests at Different Successional Stages.

Nyirambangutse, Brigitte (University of Gothenburg, 2016)

To date, studies of the carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical montane forests have been restricted to a few, mostly neotropical, sites. This thesis investigated the carbon and nutrient cycling of early (ES) and late ...

Carbon stock and fluxes in Nyungwe forest and Ruhande Arboretum in Rwanda

Nsabimana, Donat (Göteborgs universitet. Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, 2009-11-20)

Conservation and sequestration of carbon in forest ecosystems are potential strategies to reduce or stabilize the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and mitigate climate change. Estimating the degree to which forest ...

Characterization and comparison of microbial communities in biofilms on different substrates in tropic lakes and hot springs of Rwanda

MANIRAKIZA, Benjamin (Hohal University, 2022-11-07)

Biofilms are complex and dynamic structures, mainly composed of viable cells (bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, protozoa, and other metazoans) embedded in a self-produced hydrated extracellular polymer substance (EPS) matrix ...

Chemical and Biological Characterization of Air Particulate Matter in Japan, New Zealand and Rwanda as case studies

Kalisa, Egide (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)

Particulate matter in the air is recognized as the largest environmental cause of premature human mortality worldwide. Their health risk arises largely from carcinogenic chemical components (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ...

Citizen science for malaria vector surveillance in Rwanda

MURINDAHABI, Marilyn Milumbu (University of Wageningen, 2020-08-26)

Despite the implementation of a number of interventions aimed at controlling malaria, Rwanda is experiencing a countrywide resurgence of malaria cases over the past five years. To support malaria control, mosquito surveillance ...

A Combined Classifier of Neural Networks with Decision Fusion for Age and Gender Classif

James, Rwigema (Chung - Ang University, 2020-02)

Age and Gender are identified as very important attributes in human identification and these attributes are used in various fields of Human and Computer Interaction (HCI) such as security systems, video-surveillance systems, ...

Conservation ecology of the golden monkeyscercopithecus mitis kandti and their habitats in Rwanda

TUYISINGIZE, Deogratias (University of Rwanda, 2022-07-20)

Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to primate populations globally. Many primate species exhibit great flexibility to adapt to habitat change through alterations in multiple aspects of their behavioral ecology. ...

Design and implementation of predictive models and a decision support system for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients management based on the pulse oximetry protocol

ABINEZA, Claudia (2023-10-22)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic lung disease characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation, often leading to exacerbations which can have severe consequences if not ...

Development of an internet of things (IoT) Based four chamber smart fridge for proper storage of different pharmaceutical products based on their labeled storage conditions

HABIYAREMYE, Joseph (College of science and Technology, 2022-08-29)

The general goal of this thesis is to present the findings of research done on an efficient way of managing temperature-sensitive medical products with the help of the internet of things (IoT) and machine learning (ML). ...

Dissolved organic carbon in tropical watersheds: Linking field observation and eco-hydrological modelling

Rizinjirabake, Fabien (2019-05-23)

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a general description of the organic material dissolved in water. DOC is an important source of energy, carbon, and nutrient transfers from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. The export ...

E-goverment service evaluation in Rwanda: A design perspective

MUKAMURENZI, Solange (Örebro University, 2020-10-19)

for the single-phase inverter. It is in this chapter that the state of art is deeply identified. The third chapter proposes a topology that is based on a design of an inverter using a topology that replaces an electrolytic ...

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