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Documenting and disseminating agricultural Indigenous knowledge for sustainable food security in Uganda
(Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, 2016-10)Indigenous Knowledge (IK) has for long been an integral part for maintaining and strengthening sustainable livelihood opportunities in rural communities. Indigenous Knowledge is socio-economically affordable, sustainable, ... -
Does interactive learning enhance education: for whom, in what ways and in which contexts?
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2007)To get a balanced view, we review the body of research during the past three decades that has investigated interactive learning in a variety of forms ranging from the earliest days of mainframe-based computer-assisted ... -
Dryland husbandry in Uganda
(Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), 1999-12)This publication contains two research-based articles on Dryland Husbandry in Uganda. The first is on Research and Pastoral Resource management and the second is an Economic Assessment in Pastoral management. Both researches ... -
The effect of cultural differences on software development
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)This study investigates the cultural issues concerning software development in which the United States (US) and Europe outsource their Information Technology (IT) offshore to emerging countries. Though the benefits of ... -
Effect of Rhizobium-inoculated pueraria phaseolides green manure on soil nitrogen
(Soil Science Society of East Africa, 1999)Efforts have been made to improve agricultural productivity through improving the overall agronomic practices yet yields are still below the expected potentials. This could be attributed to soil fertility exhaustion, ... -
The effects of differernt land clearing and soil management practices on soil productivity in the Lake Victoria crescent zone of Uganda
(Soil Science Society of Eastern Africa, 1998)Land clearing and the subsequent soil management practices are important steps in determining the sustainability of crop production in high rainfall areas. Soil productivity has decreased in the high rainfall zone of Uganda ... -
Enhanced master-slave time synchronization architecture for wireless sensor networks
(University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006-12-03)A number of time synchronization protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks rely on a single (master) node as source of reference time by which other (slave) nodes can be synchronized. Although the amount of overhead is greatly ... -
Ethnic pluralism and political centralisation: the basis of political conflict in Uganda
(1987-09)The paper contends that the struggle for participation and control of political power is at the centre, is one of the major causes of political conflict in this country. In the end, the paper advocates for the decentralization ... -
Ethnic pluralism and political centralisation: the basis of political conflict in Uganda
(1987-09)The paper contends that the struggle for participation and control of political power is at the centre, is one of the major causes of political conflict in this country. In the end, the paper advocates for the decentralization ... -
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict in the great lakes region.
(2000-07)This paper explains the ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in the Great Lakes region in the context of the historical backgrounds of the region. It attempts to unearth the issue from its historical, sociological, cultural and ... -
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict in the great lakes region.
(2000-07)This paper explains the ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in the Great Lakes region in the context of the historical backgrounds of the region. It attempts to unearth the issue from its historical, sociological, cultural and ... -
Evaluation of dynamic bayesian network models for entity name transliteration
(BeNeLearn 09, 2009-05-17)This paper proposes an evaluation of DBN models so as to identify DBN configurations that can improve machine transliteration accuracy -
The evaluation of information visualisation techniques using eye tracking
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)The general increase in the use of information visualisation techniques has highlighted the need for methodologies to evaluate the user interface of software system utilising these techniques. Usability evaluation techniques ... -
Evaluation of the response of rice genotypes to bacterial leaf streak disease in Uganda
(Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, 2016-10)Destructive rice diseases like bacterial leaf streak (Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola) have been reported to be on the increase. In 2014, researchers in Uganda spotted signs typical of bacterial leaf streak disease (BLS) ... -
An expert system for diagnosing heavy-duty diesel engine faults
(Springer Verlag, 2008-09)Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines (HDDEs) support critical and high cost services, thus failure of such engines can have serious economic and health impacts. It is necessary that diagnosis is done during both preventive maintenance ... -
Facilitation of rhizobium inoculant use by farmers in Uganda
(Soil Science Society of East Africa (SSSEA), 1994-11)Short shelf-life and lack of locally available stickers are constraints to inoculant use by local farmers in Uganda. Therefore two investigations were conducted to identify a method of improving the shelf-life of Rhizobium ... -
Factors influencing the location of industry in Uganda
(1966-10-07)This paper attempts to give a brief description of the factors influencing the location of industry within Uganda. It should be kept , in mind that it is not the intention of this paper to evaluate the role of the common ... -
Factors influencing the location of industry in Uganda
(1966-10-07)This paper attempts to give a brief description of the factors influencing the location of industry within Uganda. It should be kept , in mind that it is not the intention of this paper to evaluate the role of the common ...