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2020 Faculty of Science and Technology

A narrative review on the basic and clinical aspects of the novel SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19

Joseph Hokello, Adhikarimayum Lakhikumar Sharma, Girish C. Shukla, Mudit Tyagi

2020 | Annals of Translational Medicine. | Pp. 1-19

The novel SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for causing the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease19 (COVID-19), a systemic infection in humans. Ever since it was first detected in December 2019, thenumber of confirmed cases has continued to increase. Within a short...

2020 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

A CASE STUDY OF IDENTIFYING THE MAINTENANCE SIGNIFICANT ITEMS FOR A MECHANICAL VIBRO FEEDER

M. PRAKASH RAJASEKARAN R, MILON SELVAM DENNISON ** MALIK MOHAMED UMAR

2020 | Journal on Mechanical Engineering

A vibratory feeder is a machine that uses both vibration and gravitation to feed material to the machine. Each component of this machine undergoes continuous stress due to dynamic load acting on it for producing a vibratory effect. Due to this cyclic stress,...

2020 College of Economics and Management

Comparing the Effects of Chinese and Traditional Official Finance on State Repression and Public Demonstrations in Africa

Afa'anwi Ma'abo Che

2020 | http://www.sais-cari.org/publications. | Pp. 1-33

There is little, non-biased, existing literature on the effects of Chinese official finance on state repression and public demonstrations. As such, this paper employs standard multiple regression analysis to assess how different attributes of Chinese and trad...

2020 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

An application of Taguchi method for fabrication factors optimisation of banyan aerial root fibre reinforced polymer composite

Milon Selvam Dennison, Rajasekaran R

2020 | Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering | Pp. 1-11

Composite materials have always attracted interest from researchers as well as end-users at the same time, due to its flexibility and low cost. Our present study deals with the possible usage of natural fibres extracted from the banyan tree (Ficus Benghalensi...

2020 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Survey on general awareness, mental state and academic difficulties among students due to COVID-19 outbreak in the western regions of Uganda

M. Abisha Meji , Milon Selvam Dennison

2020 | Heliyon | Pp. 1-9

This academic research is carried out to access the general awareness, mental state and academic difficulties among different age groups of students studying in various schools, colleges, or Universities during this lockdown period due to the COVID-19 crisis...

2020 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Data-set collected during turning operation of AIS I1045 alloy steel with green cutting fluids in near dry condition

Milon Selvam Dennison,Abisha Meji M,Malik Mohamed Umar

2020 | Elsevier Inc | Pp. 2-8

This work is to explicate the data collected during the turning of AIS I1045 alloy steel components in near dry condition with emulsified cutting fluids prepared from cooking oils such as Palmoil and Peanut oil. The base oils are tested for its relative densi...

2020 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Design and Implementation of an IP Camera Tracking Robotic System using Raspberry Pi 3B

Enerst Edozie

2020 | International Journal of Engineering and Information Systems | Pp. 103-108

Security systems are increasing everyday to protect life and valuable resources, many advanced method of providing security have been developed and are in use in the last few decades. In security risk areas, people often install different kinds of security sy...

2020 Faculty of Biomedical Sciences

Boswellia dalzielii-Mediated Silver Nanoparticles Inhibited Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Kasumi-1 Cells by Inducing Cell Cycle Arrest

Ismail Abiola Adebayo, Adamu Ibrahim Usman, Fatimah Bukola Shittu, Noor Zafirah Ismail, Hasni Arsad, Taoheed Kolawole Muftaudeen, and Mohammed Razip Samian

2020 | Hindawi Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications Volume 2020, Article ID 8898360, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8898360 | Pp. 1-11

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) persists to be a major health problem especially among children as effective chemotherapy to combat the disease is yet to be available. Boswellia dalzielii is a well-known herb that is traditionally used for treatment and manage...

2020 Faculty of Science and Technology

CBF-1 Promotes the Establishment and Maintenance of HIV Latency by Recruiting Polycomb Repressive Complexes, PRC1 and PRC2, at HIV LTR

Adhikarimayum Lakhikumar Sharma, Joseph Hokello, Shilpa Sonti, Sonia Zicari, Lin Sun, Aseel Alqatawni1, Michael Bukrinsky, Gary Simon, Ashok Chauhan, Rene Daniel and Mudit Tyagi

2020 | Viruses 2020, 12, 1040; doi:10.3390/v12091040 | Pp. 1-22

The C-promoter binding factor-1 (CBF-1) is a potent and specific inhibitor of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 LTR promoter. Here, we demonstrate that the knockdown of endogenous CBF-1 in latently infected primary CD4+ T cells, using specific small ha...

2020 School of Law

A Critical Overview of Gender –Based Violence in Uganda

Peter Ocheme, Shajobi-Ibikunle Gloria and Namaganda, Zuwena

2020 | American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vo1. 8, No. 1, 2020, 1-15 DOI: 10.11634/232907811806914 | Pp. 1-15

Sexual and Gender based violence against women including refugees in Uganda is a cause for serious concern. The Second World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993 and the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1994 gave priority to this issue, which jeopa...