2015 Research Publications

Semiyaga, S., Okure, M. A., Niwagaba, B. C., Katukiza, A. Y., Nyenje, P., Kansiime,F., 2015. Decentralized options for faecal sludge management in urban slum areas of Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of technologies, practices and end-uses. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Volume 104, Part A, November 2015, Pages 109–119.

Hering, J. G., Sedlak, D. L., Tortajada, C., Biswas, A. K., Niwagaba, C., Breu, T., 2015. Local perspectives on water. Science 349 (6247), 479-480.

Nakagiri, A., Kulabako, N. R., Nyenje, P. M., Tumuhairwe, J. B., Niwagaba, B. C., Kansiime, F. 2015. Performance of pit latrines in urban poor areas: A case of Kampala, Uganda. Habitat International 49, 529-537. 

Fuhrimann, S., Stalder, M., Winkler, S. M., Niwagaba, B. C., Babu, M.,  Masaba, G., & Narcis B. Kabatereine, B. N., Halage, A. A., Schneeberger, H. H. P.,  Utzinger, J., Cissé, G., 2015. Microbial and chemical contamination of water, sediment and soil in the Nakivubo wetland area in Kampala, Uganda. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 147(475), 1-15. 

Kinobe, J. R., Gebresenbet, G., Niwagaba, B. C., Vinnerås, B., 2015. Reverse logistics system and recycling potential at a landfill: A case study from Kampala City. Waste Management 42, 82-92.

Kinobe, J. R., Bosona, T., Gebresenbet, G., Niwagaba, B. C., Vinnerås, B., 2015. Optimization of waste collection and disposal in Kampala city. Habitat International 49, 126-137.

Tove, A. L., Gebauer, H., Gründl, H., Künzle, R., Lüthi, C., Messmer, U., Morgenroth, E., Niwagaba, B. C., Ranner, B., 2015. Blue Diversion: a new approach to sanitation in informal settlements. Journal of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Development, 5(1), 64-71.

Kinobe, J. R., Niwagaba, B. C., Gebresenbet, G., Komakech, A. J., Vinnerås, B., 2015. Mapping out the solid waste generation and collection models: The case of Kampala City. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 65(2) 197-205.

Katukiza, A.Y., Ronteltap, M., Niwagaba, C. B, Kansiime, F., Lens, P.N.L., 2015. Grey water characterisation and pollutant loads in an urban slum. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 12(2), 423-436. 

Bakamwesiga H., Mwakali J. and Thelandersson S., 2015. Prioritizing maintenance of  Highway Bridges in Uganda.  International Journal of Technoscience and Development (IJTD), 2 (1), 64-75, ISSN 2001-2837.

2015 Lubwama, M., Corcoran, B., Kirabira, J.B.,  Sebbit, A., and Sayers, K.(2015). Improving reliability and functional sustainability of groundwater handpumps by coating the rubber piston seals with diamond-like carbon. pp 125 – 137. Fagan, G.H., Linnane, S., Mcguigan, K.G. and Rugumayo, A.I. Water is Life- Progress to secure safe water provision in rural Uganda. Practical Action Publishing Ltd. The Schumacher Centre, Bourton on Dunsmore, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV23 9QZ, UK.

2015 John Baptist Kirabira, Hillary Kasedde, Matthäus U. Bäbler and Thomas Makumbi. (2015) Phase Developments during Natural Evaporation Simulation of Lake Katwe Brine Based on Pitzer’s Model. British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 11(4): 1-7, 2015, Article no.BJAST.20598 ISSN: 2231-0843 SCIENCEDOMAIN international www.sciencedomain.org

2015 Makumbi, T., Kirabira, J.B., Sebbit, A. and Björn, P. (2015). Investigating the Opportunities for Environmentally Benign Options in the Refrigeration Industry of Uganda. British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 10(1): 1-24, 2015, Article no. BJAST.18033, ISSN: 2231-0843. www.sciencedomain.org

2015 Makumbi, T., Kucel, S.B., Kirabira, J.B., and Sebbit, A. (2015). Design of a sustainable Energy System for an EcoVillage: A Case Study of Bulindo Village. Journal of Scientific Research & Reports, 5(4): 326-343, 2015; Article no. JSRR.2015.100 ISSN: 2320-0227.www.sciencedomain.org

Bwambale, B., Bagampadde, U., Gidudu, A. And Martini, F. 2015. Seismic Hazard Analysis for the Albertine Region, Uganda – A Probabilistic Approach, South African Journal of Geology, Vol 118.4 pp 411 – 424 doi:10.2113/gssajg.118.4.411

Sjöberg, L.E., Gidudu, A., Ssengendo, R.,  2015. The Uganda Gravimetric Geoid Model 2014 Computed by The KTH Method. Journal of Geodetic Science. Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 35–46 ISSN (Online) 2081-9943, DOI: 10.1515/jogs-2015-0007, May 2015

Ssengendo, R., Sjöberg, L.E., and Gidudu, A. 2015. The Gravimetric Quasigeiod Model over Uganda. In proceedings of FIG Working Week 2015 “From the Wisdom of the Ages to the Challenges of the Modern World” in Sofia, Bulgaria May 17-21, 2015

Mazimwe, A., and Gidudu, A., 2015. Towards Interoperability: Has theoretical knowledge of Ontologies and Semantics had any impact on Geospatial Applications in the last two decades of GI Science?International Journal of Technoscience and Development (IJTD) Vol 2, Issue 1, 2015, ISSN 2001-2837 Pp 14 – 27 

Arineitwe, J., Okure, M. A.E., Fakhrai R., Sebbit, A. CFD modeling of a producer gas burner with swirl flow and continuous air staging., International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering, 2015, Kochi, India.  8 – 14 August 2015. Paper No.  1570134305  

Turinayo, Y. K., Okure, M. A.E.. Techno-Economic Viability of Husk Powered Systems for Rural Electrification in Uganda: Part I: Sustainability and Power Potential Aspects. International Conference on Energy, Environment and Climate Change (ICEECC 2015), Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius, 8 – 9 July 2015. Pages 1 – 12

    Okure, M. A.E., .Turinayo, Y. K.,Kucel, S.B.. Techno-Economic Viability of Husk Powered Systems for Rural Electrification in Uganda: Part II: Economic and Policy

    Aspects. International Conference on Energy, Environment and Climate Change (ICEECC 2015), Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius, 8 – 9 July 2015. Pages 13 – 24

    Kakitahi, J. M., Alinaitwe, H. M,  Landin, M. and Mudaaki, P. S. (2015) A study of non-compliance with quality requirements in Uganda. Proceedings of the ICEManagement, Procurement and Law, Vol, 168(1), 22 – 42. 

    Mulolo, F., Alinaitwe, H. and Mwakali, J. A (2015) Choice of Alternative dispute resolution process in Uganda’s Construction Industry. International Journal of Technoscience and Development, Vol  2(1), 28 -39 

    Mhando Y. B, Mlinga, R. S. and Alinaitwe, H. M (2015) Factors Influencing Variations in Public Building Projects. In F. Emuze(editor) Conference Proceedings of the Fourth Construction Management Conference held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa from 30th November to 1st December 2015, pp 162 – 170. 

    Ssengendo, R, 2015, A height datum for Uganda based on a gravimetric quasigeoid model and GNSS/levelling, PhD Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), Sweden.

    Ssengendo, R., Sjöberg, L.E, Gidudu, A., 2015, A new height datum for Uganda. Presented at the 3rd Advances in Geomatics Research Conference, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 6-7 August, 2015.

    Michael Lubwama, Brian Corcoran and Kimmitt Sayers, Chap. 10: Functional sustainability of hand pumps for rural water supply. In. Water and Development: Good Governance after Neoliberalism, pp. 198 – 209; (Ed.) Ronaldo Munck, Narathius Asingwire, Honor Fagan and Consolata Kabonesa, Zed Books, London, UK, 2015. 

    Michael Lubwama, Brian Corcoran, John Baptist Kirabira, Adam Sebbit, Kimmitt Sayers; Chap. 9: Improving reliability and functional sustainability of groundwater handpumps by coating the rubber piston seals with diamond like carbon; In. Water is Life: Progress to secure safe water provision in rural Uganda, pp. 125 – 137 (Ed.) Honar Fagan, Suzanne Linnane, Albert Rugumayo, Consolata Kabonesa, Kevin McGuigan, Practical Action Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015.

    M. Lubwama, B. Corcoran, K. Sayers, (Review or Critical Assessment) DLC films deposited on rubber substrates: A review, Surface Engineering 31 (2015) 1 – 10.

    Michael Lubwama, The potential for Si-DLC as anti-reflective coatings for solar cells, Poster Presentation, International Summer School for Young Scientists: Renewable Energies for Africa (1) Solar energy and its applications, Nelson Mandela Africa Institute of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, July 13 – 18, 2015

    David Martin Warsinger, Vicky Lee, Sarah Van Belleghem, Priyanka Chatterjee, Andrea Carnie, Michael Lubwama. VapZap: Nanotechnology-enhanced Evaporation and Thermoelectrics to Power UV Purification, Poster Presentation, MIT Water Night, March 5th 2015, Stratton Student Center, MIT Building W20-202, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Won Best Poster Mention).

    Michael Lubwama, Development of bio-composite polymers using rice and coffee husk agricultural wastes, International Selection Conference within the Africa Initiative of the Volkswagen Foundation “Knowledge for tomorrow – Cooperative research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa; Postdoctoral Fellowships for African Researcher in the Engineering Sciences, April 26th – 29th, 2015, Nairobi-Kenya.

    Peters-Klaphake, K.: The subversive potential of micro-histories. Contemporary And, May 27th, 2015. Available at http://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/thesubversivepotentialofmicrohistories/

    Peters-Klaphake, K.: Art in Kampala At Work 012, in: Pinther, K., Nzewi, U.C., Fischer, B. (eds.) New Spaces for Negotiating Art and Histories in Africa. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2015, pp. 52-71.

    Peters-Klaphake, K. and Kućma, A.. Motifs of Modernization and Urbanization in Paintings from the Collection of the Makerere Art Gallery /HCR in Kampala. Third TextAfrica, Volume 4, ‘East Africa’, 2015, pp. 73-89.

    Naturinda D. N., Kerali A. G., and Tindiwensi D. (2015), The structural behavior of pozzolan-lime cement as a potential substitute to Portland cement in low-strength construction applications; Proceedings of the 1st Symposium of Knowledge Exchange for Young Scientists (KEYS), June 8 – 12, 2015, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, German.

    Naturinda D. N., Kerali A. G. and Tindiwensi D. (2015), An Examination of Compressive Strength Variation of Pozzolan-Lime Cement with Pozzolan Particle Size; Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ICAESAM’2015), March 23 – 24, 2015, London United Kingdom. 

    Naturinda D. N. and Kerali A. G. (2014), An examination of natural pozzolans in Uganda for low-strength construction applications; Proceedings of the First International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures, November 24 – 26, 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa. IOS Press Amsterdam.

    P.W. Olupot,  A. Candia, E. Menya, R. Walozi,  “Characterization of Rice Husk Varieties in Uganda for Biofuels and Their Techno-economic Feasibility in Gasification” (Article in Press), Chemical Engineering Research and Design. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2015.11.010

    Elwidaa E. A., and Nnaggenda-Musana A.,  “Boundary-less Living”, International Journal of Technoscience and Development (IJTD). Vol 2, Issue 1, 112-120, ISSN 2001-2837. It can be found at http://technoscience.se/ijtd/vol-2-issue-1-2015/

    Okello, Dorothy, Wilson Wasswa, Peter Mukasa, Derrick Sebbaale, and Mark Kagarura. “eInfrastructure: Next generation wireless broadband networks for Uganda 2020.” In ISTAfrica Conference, 2015, pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2015.

    Bwambale, B., Bagampadde, U., Gidudu, A., Martini, F. (2015). Seismic Hazard Analysis for the Albertine Region, Uganda – A Probabilistic Approach. South African Journal of Geology, 118(4), pp. 411 – 424.   

    Mwesige, G., Farah, H., Bagampadde, U., Koutsopoulos, N. H. (2015). Effect of Passing Zone Length on Operation and Safety of Two-Lane Rural Highways in Uganda. Submitted to Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

    Mwesige, G., Bagampadde, U., Farah, H., Nissan, A. (2015). Operational Characteristics of Passing zones on two-lane rural highways in Uganda. (In press) Journal of Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.

    Mwesige, G., Farah, H., Bagampadde, U., and Koutsopoulos, H. (2015). “A Model and Its Applications for Predicting Passing Rate at Passing Zones on Two-Lane Rural Highways.” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, (In press) 10.1061/(ASCE)TE. 19435436.0000820 , 04015049.