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Building capacity for HIV/AIDS program leadership and management in Uganda through mentored Fellowships
(Co-Action Publishing, 2011)Background: Around the world, health professionals and program managers are leading and managing public and private health organizations with little or no formal management and leadership training and experience. Objective: ... -
Capitalism and peasant agriculture in Africa.
(1984)The inability of capitalism to destroy pre-capitalist relations of production in African agriculture, or its co-existence with such relations of production has led to various theories purporting to explain the manner in ... -
A case for acceleration rather than extension of time on construction projects in Uganda.
(2011-09)The Construction industry in Uganda is one of the fast growing industries in the Economy due to the increased volumes of investment in the country. However like in many other construction industries world wide, the ... -
The challenges of advocating for open access through institutional repository building: Experiences from Makerere University, Uganda
(IFLA, 2009)This paper was perceived as a result of the slow response in populating an institutional repository at Makerere University, launched in 2006 under the umbrella name “Uganda Scholarly Digital Library (USDL)”. Having heard ... -
Characterization of penicillin intermediate serotypes of streptococcus pneumoniae carried by human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults and healthy children in Uganda
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2007)There are little data on the genetic relatedness between antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal isolates colonizing the Ugandan population. Penicillin-intermediate pneumococci of serogroups or serotypes rarely or not previously ... -
Classical ligands interact with native and recombinant tubulin from Onchocerca volvulus with similar rank order of magnitude
(Elsevier, 2007)The α- and β-tubulin genes from Onchocerca volvulus were individually expressed for the first time in Escherichia coli (DH5α). The recombinant tubulins were purified, renatured and reconstituted into oligomers, probably ... -
Co-allocation with communication considerations in multi-cluster systems
(2008)Processor co-allocation can be of performance benefit. This is because breaking jobs into components reduces overall cluster fragmentation. However, the slower inter-cluster communication links increase job execution times. ... -
Computational resource optimization in Ugandan Tertiary Institutions
(Fountain Publishers, 2007)Insufficient computational power, caused by limited budgets is a big challenge to high quality research and education in developing countries. Some institutions suffer acute shortages while others enjoy comparatively more ... -
A consumer based model for adoption of E-Tax Services in Uganda
(IST-Africa, 2012-05)The benefits of e-tax services are linked to its adoption and usage. E-tax adoption rates in developing countries remain low and so its benefits are not fully realized. This is because governments have focused largely on ... -
The contribution of research in advancing health care in Uganda
(2005-11)This is a book of abstracts of the first annual scientific conference organised by the Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University on "the contribution of research in advancing health care in Uganda" at Imperial Beach Resort ... -
Coping with health challenges in the 21st Century
(2006-09)This is a book of abstracts of the second annual scientific conference organised by the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Public Health, Makerere University on "coping with health challenges in the 21st century" at ... -
Cultural diversity and the role of traditional authority in local self governance: the case of Mozambique in Southern Africa
(1993-08-30)We will begin this article with the subject ''cultural diversity" and, in this context, examine the role traditional authority can play in the process of good governance. Therefore our principal focus will be this local, ... -
Cultural diversity and the role of traditional authority in local self governance: the case of Mozambique in Southern Africa
(1993-08-30)We will begin this article with the subject ''cultural diversity" and, in this context, examine the role traditional authority can play in the process of good governance. Therefore our principal focus will be this local, ... -
Cultural information access and utilisation by rural women : A framework for Uganda
(Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), 2004)Uganda is well endowed with cultural diversity that critically needs to be harnessed because of its potential to improve the quality of life of the Ugandan people. Issues such as language and literary arts, indigenous ... -
Dairy industry development project: UNDP/FAO PROJECT UGA 84/023
(2006-04-21)A report summarising a review of the pasture research and development work carried out in Uganda in the past and elsewhere under similar environmental conditions. The output of the project was meant to help in formulating ... -
Developing sustainable agriculture in Africa: main challenges for small farmers in Uganda
(2009-11)Conceptually, the principles of sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD) enunciated in the den Bosch Declaration (FAO 1996) constitute the foundation for achieving food security in Africa and indeed in the world ... -
Disability and ICT in institutions of higher learning: Values and options for persons with disabilities
(2011)The topic for this paper presents both a challenge and an opportunity for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) wishing to enter the digital world. It is a challenge because the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ... -
Diversity and utilization of selected edible indigenous fruit trees in Northern Uganda
(Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, RUFORUM, 2016-10)Tropical fruit trees constitute important biological resources in the global agro-biodiversity context. Unlike the tropical fruit trees of American and Asian origin, indigenous fruit trees (IFTs) of tropical Africa have ...