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Effect of Window Size on PAPR Reduction in 4G LTE Network Using Peak Windowing Algorithm in Presence of Non-linear HPA

Maniraguha, Fidele; Hanyurwimfura, Damien; Nizeyimana, Eric (IEEE, 2020-03)

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) was endorsed in recent digital communication technologies such as 4G-LTE to cope with multipath fading channel, and respond to increasingly high data rate demand. Despite ...
Optimized energy and SLA-aware virtual machine placement strategies in Cloud: study

Thiam, Cheikhou; Thiam, Fatoumata; MBaye, Mamadou (IEEE, 2020-04-20)

Pay-as-you-go is the latest trend for most of the business applications and to suit it precisely a process should be followed which might be the Service Level Agreement (SLA). Cloud computing requires a clear agreed SLA ...
Salinity Stress Effect on the Germination of Three Cereals: Maize (Zea mays), Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and Rice (Oriza sativa)

Souleymane, Sanogo; Brahima, Camara; Tchoa, Kone; Seydou, Tuo; Adjata, Kamara; Daouda, Kone; Michel, Zouzou (International Journal of Plant & Soil Science, 2020-05)

In Africa, cereals are major staple foods for the majority of the population. The cereal crop is not immune to the problem of salinity, which could threaten 10% of its world harvest. This work was undertaken to study the ...
Access to Credit, Farm Productivity and Market Participation in Ghana: A Conditional Mixed Process Approach

Alhassan, Hamdiyah; Musah Abu, Benjamin; Kwame Nkegbe, Paul (Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 2020-05)

This study tests the hypothesis of whether credit impacts productivity, and whether productivity in turn impacts market participation under a simultaneous modelling framework of credit, productivity and market participation, ...
Molecular Diversity and Pathogenicity of Ralstonia solanacearum Species Complex Associated With Bacterial Wilt of Potato in Rwanda

Sharma, Kalpana; Kreuze, Jan; Abdurahman, Abdulwahab; Parker, Monica; Nduwayezu, Anastase; Rukundo, Placide (APS Journal - Plant disease, 2020-07)

Bacterial wilt (BW), caused by Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC), leads to substantial potato yield losses in Rwanda. Studies were conducted to (i) determine the molecular diversity of RSSC strains associated ...
An Energy-Efficient VM migrations optimization in Cloud Data Centers

Thiam, Cheikhou; Thiam, Fatoumata (IEEE, 2020-07-07)

Nowadays more attention focuses on VM management strategies in a variety of scenarios. The problem of virtual machine placement and migration is an optimization problem aiming for multiple goals. The efficiency of a data ...
Genetic profile of African swine fever virus responsible for the 2019 outbreak in northern Malawi

N. Hakizimana, Jean; G, Kamwendo; J. L. C., Chulu; O., Kamana; H. J., Nauwynck; G., Misinzo (BMC Veterinary Research, 2020-08)

Background: African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious transboundary animal disease which causes high mortality, approaching 100% in domestic pigs and it is currently considered as the most serious constraint to domestic ...
Failure of Stretchable Organic Solar Cells under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading

Oyewole, Oluwaseun; Oyewole, Deborah; Oyelade, Omolara; Adeniji, Sharafadeen; Koech, Richard; Asare, Joseph; Agyei-Tuffour, Benjamin; Soboyejo, Winston (Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2020-09)

Results of experimental and computational studies of failure of stretchable organic solar cells (SOSCs) are presented here. The SOSCs are produced by the deposition of poly(3,4?ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate ...
A superior technology to control Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) in Rwanda

Rietveld, Anne; P, Dusingizimana; Guy, Blomme; S.V., Gaidashova; W., Ocimati; J., Ntamwira (CGIAR - CGSpace, 2020-10)

In this brief we discuss a new and promising technology to control xanthomonas wilt of banana, commonly referred to as BXW. We describe why this disease is a threat and what has been done to control it in the past. We also ...
Genetic Analysis of African Swine Fever Virus From the 2018 Outbreak in South-Eastern Burundi

N. Hakizimana, Jean; Nyabongo, Lionel Nyabongo; B. Ntirandekura, Jean; Yona, Clara; Ntakirutimana, Désiré; Kamana, Olivier; Nauwynck, Hans; Misinzo, Gerald (Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020-11)

African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious viral disease that causes high mortality, approaching 100%, in domestic pigs and wild boars. The disease has neither a cure nor a vaccine, and it is caused by an ASF virus (ASFV), ...
Assessment of stability of a Himalayan road cut slope with varying degrees of weathering: A finite-element-model-based approach

Gbetoglo Komadja, Charles; Sarada Pradhan, Prasad; Amulya Roul, Ratna; Babatunde, Adebayo; Jean Habinshuti, Baptiste; Luc Glodji, Adissin; Azikiwe Onwualu, Peter (Heliyon, 2020-11)

Slope stability assessment is essential for safe and sustainable development widely applied in mining, civil, and environmental engineering projects around the world. This study aimed to conduct a stability analysis of a ...
Use of relative extra citation counts and uncited publications to enhance the discriminatory power of the h-index

Mohammed, Shaibu; K. Nyantakyi, Emmanuel; Morgan, Anthony; Anumah, Prosper; Sarkodie-kyeremeh, Justice (Scientometrics, 2020-11-19)

Although the conventional h-index attempts to combine a researcher’s publications and citation-based impact, it requires threshold citation counts and cited papers to award a score. The consequence is that the h-index fails ...
Studying Abroad during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Three African Women PhD Students

Munganyinka, Jeanne Pauline; Thiam, Fatoumata; Wairimu, Sylvia; Fisher, Monica; Skilton, Robert; Osiru, Moses; Achoka, Pauline; Abdulle, Sagal (The Advance Journal, 2020-12-04)

International students have faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This essay shares three stories from African women doctoral studentswho are scholarship recipients under the Regional Scholarship and ...
Synthetic gut microbiome: Advances and challenges

A.Mabwi, Humphrey; Kim, Eunjung; Song, Dae-Geun; ShinYoon, Hyo; Pan, Cheol-Ho; Komba, Erick.V.G.; Ko, GwangPyo; HyunCha, Kwang (Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020-12-24)

An exponential rise in studies regarding the association among human gut microbial communities, human health, and diseases is currently attracting the attention of researchers to focus on human gut microbiome research. ...
Cowpea Seed Innovation Platform: A Hope for Small Seed Producers in Mali

Kouyate, Zoumana; M. Dao, Kléouforo; Togola, Oumar; Karim Malle, Abdoul; Malle, Oumar; Diakite, Kaly; Traore, Abdoulaye (Springer Link, 2021-01-12)

Cowpea is a food crop of great importance to the people of Mali due to its contribution to food security, improvement of producers’ incomes, a price that is higher than that of cereals, and an important role in social ...
Trends towards Effective Analysis of Fluorinated Compounds Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)

Lorivi Moirana, Ruth; Kivevele, Thomas; Mkunda, Josephine; Mtei, Kelvin; Machunda, Revocatus (Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, 2021-02-03)

Increased demand for monitoring and identification of novel and unknown fluorinated compounds (FCs) has demonstrated the need of sensitive fluorine-specific detectors for unknown FCs in both biological and environmental ...
Pressure-assisted fabrication of perovskite light emitting devices

S. A. Adeniji; J. Cromwell; J. Cromwell; D. O. Oyewole; O. V. Oyelade; Koech, Richard; D. M. Sanni; O. K. Oyewole; B. Babatope; W. O. Soboyejo (AIP Advances, 2021-02-05)

This paper presents the results of pressure-effects on performance characteristics of near-infra-red perovskite light emitting diodes (PeLEDs) using a combination of experimental and analytical/computational approaches. ...
Structural diversity consistently mediates species richness effects on aboveground carbon along altitudinal gradients in northern Ethiopian grazing exclosures

Noulèkoun, Florent; Birhane, Emiru; Mensah, Sylvanus; Kassa, Habtemariam; Berhe, Alemayehu; Mulaw Gebremichael, Zefere; Mohammed Adem, Nuru; Seyoumh, Yigremachew; Mengistu, Tefera; Lemma, Bekele; Hagazi, Nigussie; Abrha, Haftu (Science of The Total Environment, 2021-02-14)

Grazing exclosures have been promoted as an effective and low-cost land management strategy to recover vegetation and associated functions in degraded landscapes in the tropics. While grazing exclosures can be important ...
African Swine Fever Virus Circulation between Tanzania and Neighboring Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

N. Hakizimana, Jean; Yona, Clara; Kamana, Olivier; Nauwynck, Hans; Misinzo, Gerald (Viruses, 2021-02-15)

For over 100 years after the description of the first case of African swine fever (ASF) in Kenya, ASF virus (ASFV) cross-border spread in eastern and southern Africa has not been fully investigated. In this manuscript, we ...
Energy-Efficient Multihop Routing Framework for Cluster-based Agricultural Internet of Things (CA-IoT)

Effah, Emmanuel; Thiare, Ousmane; Wyglinski, Alexander (IEEE Xplore, 2021-02-15)

In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient multihop routing framework that is based on the total communication costs metric (E TER,min ), and implement it in a multihop clustering-based Agricultural Internet of Things ...

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