Usman, Ibe Michael; Agbon, Abel Nosereme; Ivang, Andrew Ekpeyong; Akwu, Bala Peter; Afodun, Adam Moyosore; Okesina, Akeem Ayodeji; Fischer, Victor; Sunday, Bot Yakubu; Aigbogun Jr., Eric Osamu; Onanuga, Ismail; Asekenye, Caroline; Kasozi, Keneth Iceland(Elsevier B.V., 2023-01)
Background: Tamarindus indica (TI) extract is known to possess important phytochemical composition. The study aimed to assess the effects of ethyl acetate fraction of TI leaves (EATI) on memory and learning, traced element ...
Ayebare, Justin; Kaweesi, Muhamadi(The National Council for Higher Education, 2022)
Internationalisation of the curriculum has created changes to the traditional
curriculum but little attention in research has been paid to the student perspective
on these changes, and how they experience them. This paper ...
Okwakol, Mary N.; Ujeyo, Margaret Stella Suubi; Atibuni, Dennis Zami; Biira, Saphina; Waako, Paul(The National Council for Higher Education, 2022)
The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDG 4 and 5) provide for the attainment
of quality education for all, including women. Africa Agenda 2063, Uganda
Vision 2040, the Third National Development Plan (NDP III) similarly ...
Ujeyo, Margaret Stella; Najjuma, Rovincer; Bisaso, Ronald(The National Council for Higher Education, 2022)
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) play an important role in
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), one of the multiple approaches
advanced in the last two decades to address the global sustainability ...
Muhumuza, Asaph Keikara; Mbabazi, Fulgensia Kamugisha; Nalule, Rebecca Muhumuza; Mwasa, Abubakar; Kyomuhangi, Annet; Kadedesya, Stephen(The National Council for Higher Education, 2021)
University rankings have become a standard criterion of characterising higher
institutions of learning irrespective of their specialisation, be it social sciences,
natural sciences, health sciences or technology. The ...
National Council for Higher Education(The National Council for Higher Education, 2022)
The Uganda Higher Education Review: Journal of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE)
provides a visible outlet for definitive articles that discuss the theory, practice and policies relating
to the role, ...
Atim, Christine Atoku; Nekaka, Rebecca; Kagoya, Enid Kawala; Ssenyonga, Lydia V. N.; Iramiot, Jacob Stanley; Tegu, Crispus(Elsevier Inc., 2022)
Background: Families of children and adolescents living with sickle cell disease face several challenges ranging from psycho-social to social-economic challenges. This study aimed to explore psycho-social challenges ...
Namenkere, Monkya Samuel; Ayaa, Mary Stella; Sukuku, Linda; Kharono, Juliet; Mugabi, Charles; Chelangat, Benina; Olwedo, Mary Abwola; Nabasumba, Carol; Oboth, Paul; Osele, Julius; Nekaka, Rebecca; Iramiot, Jacob Stanley(f1000research, 2022-12)
Background: Uganda has made progress in reducing its HIV prevalence from 7.3% in 2011 to 6% in 2017, however, more needs to be done to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) target of 95% of the population knowing their ...
Water storage tanks are usually utilized in water distribution systems (WDS) to meet the water demand fluctuations. Chlorine is the most common disinfectant used to disinfect water supplies. However, variations in the rate ...
Otim, Daniel; Smithers, Jeffrey C.; Senzanje, Aidan; van Antwerpen, Rianto(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2020)
Design of conservation structures includes both hydrologic and hydraulic designs. Hydrologic design involves the estimation of design floods which are required for the sizing of the hydraulic structures. The minimum ...
Otim, Daniel; Smithers, Jeff; Senzanje, Aidan; van Antwerpen, Rianto(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2019-01)
This paper contains a critical review of the norms employed in the design of soil and water conservation structures in the South African sugar industry and highlights research needs in order to update them. Sugarcane in ...
Otim, Daniel; Smithers, Jeff; Senzanje, Aidan; van Antwerpen, Rianto(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2020-04)
The Agricultural Catchments Research Unit (ACRU) model is a daily time step physical-conceptual agrohydrological model with various applications, design hydrology being one of them. Model verification is a measure of model ...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the gold standard in the machine learning (ML) community. As a result, most of the recent studies have relied on CNNs, which have achieved higher accuracies compared with traditional ...
Otim, Daniel; Smithers, Jeffrey C; Senzanje, Aidan; van Antwerpen, Rianto; Thornton-Dibb, Sean L C(University of KwaZulu-Nata, 2021-12)
Sugarcane in South Africa is grown on wide-ranging soils, sometimes in non-ideal climates and on steep topographies where soils are vulnerable to erosion. Sugarcane fields are protected against erosion through, inter alia, ...
Otim, Daniel(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2020-02)
Sugarcane in South Africa is grown on wide-ranging soils, sometimes in non-ideal climates and on steep topographies where soils are vulnerable to erosion. A consequence of unsustainable soil loss is reduction in field ...
The increasing interest in human resource practices is driven by the hypothesis that
employees and their management are critical to the success of an organization. Small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly ...
Dried cassava chips have varied applications by end users that include breweries,
confectionaries, starch and flour for food. In Uganda, over 80% of Cassava farmers dry
their products by open sun drying and direct passive ...
Although different technologies are developed and used by both men and women, less
has been done in the analysis of gender consideration during technology development.
As economies reposition themselves to compete in the ...
Mathematical models are believed to achieve good results in the prediction of disease prevalence. The progression of an infection within a host determines the capacity of a pathogen to spread to new hosts and to sustain ...
Infectious diseases have become problematic throughout the world, threatening
individuals who come into contact with pathogens responsible for transmitting
diseases. Pneumoccocal pneumonia, a secondary bacterial infection ...