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Cost of digital technologies and family-observed DOT for a shorter MDR-TB regimen: a modelling study in Ethiopia, India and Uganda
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2023-11)Abstract Abstract Background In 2017, the WHO recommended the use of digital technologies, such as medication monitors and video observed treatment (VOT), for directly observed treatment (DOT) of drug-susceptible TB. The ... -
Critical success factors of Public-Private Partnerships in the education sector
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2023-11)Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to identify the factors affecting the implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the education sector. Design/methodology/approach – Based on Scopus and adopting the protocol ... -
The prevalence and Nature of Prescribing and Monitoring Errors in English General Practice: a retrospective case note review
(British Journal of General Practice, 2013)Relatively little is known about prescribing errors in general practice, or the factors associated with error. To determine the prevalence and nature of prescribing and monitoring errors in general practices in England. ... -
Reading Meaning through the Visual Images: Social Semiotic Approach to TELL Magazine in Nigeria
(New Media and Mass Communication, 2013)Several studies have been carried out on verbal communication but with the recent trends and development of communication in conveyance of meaning, the importance of the cover-pages of news magazine in the print media ... -
The Development of Writing Skills through Conceptual Writing
(Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019)The study was to examine the development of writing skills through conceptual writing among English language in Kampala District Uganda. Specifically, the study investigated the effect, significance and role essay writing ... -
SQ3R Method and Its Implications on the Reading Skills of English Language Students in Adamawa State Polytechnic Yola, Nigeria
(Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019)Reading as a basic literacy skill has continuously been referred as one of the factors responsible for students’ performance in schools. The attraction to enhancing reading skills among students calls for unceasing ... -
The Teaching of Essays, Articles and Letter Writing: Cooperative Teaching Approach
(Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2017)English Language occupies a central place in Nigeria as the official language. Today, teachers are calling for more effective methods of communicating information and assisting the students in the learning process because ... -
Speech Act Features of Select Extracts in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God: Leadership Perspective
(British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, 2015)This paper examines the speech act features of select extracts of Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God by examining the pragmatic implications of the speech acts employed and their relevance for promoting leadership in the ... -
The Implications of Performance in the Teaching of Poetry at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Nigeria
(Annals of Language and Literature, 2021)There is no doubt, the importance of the literary aspect of English Language, as stipulated in the National Board for Technical Education(N.B.T.E) Curricula for students at National Diploma and Higher National Diploma ... -
Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992–2012
(Elsevier Ltd, 2023-04)Abstract •Non-agricultural diversification is welfare improving for rural households.•Agricultural wage labour associated with lower welfare for rural females.•Access to farm income improves welfare of female headed urban ... -
Food as medicine: Making ‘better bananas’ in Uganda
(SAGE Publications, 2021-05)Abstract Cooking bananas (matooke) are a main staple in central Uganda and are very important to well-being and health. Recently, matooke have also been associated with micronutrient deficiencies among children and women. ... -
Adolescent girls’ perceived readiness for sex in Central Uganda - liminal transitions and implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-03)Young women in Uganda are at risk of negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, in part because of sex with older men. Theoretically grounded in the concept of liminality, this paper examines perceived markers ... -
Individualized Text Messages about Public Services Fail to Sway Voters: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Ugandan Elections
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-15)Mobile communication technologies can provide citizens access to information that is tailored to their specific circumstances. Such technologies may therefore increase citizens’ ability to vote in line with their interests ... -
‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement Barbara Bompani
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-03-09)Much attention has been paid to the growth of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in Uganda and the way it has shifted over the past decades from being a minority religion to influencing and shaping the Ugandan public ... -
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Uganda: The Participatory Potential of Survivors’ Groups
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-09-24)In the aftermath of the more than twenty-year armed conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government, northern Uganda has become a transitional justice laboratory. In response to widespread human ... -
“A Reason Not to Belong”: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda
(Published online by Cambridge University Press, 2022-11-22)Abim district, located in Uganda’s Karamoja region, is one of the scores of new administrative units created under the country’s decentralization policy. The establishment of Abim district in 2006, following decades of ... -
Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past
(Routledge, 2022-07)This article illustrates that development discourses are historically constructed and contingent, demonstrating the value of adopting a discursive and historical approach to development projects. It juxtaposes recent and ... -
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-09-09)Culture is a central concept in the social sciences. It is also difficult to examine rigorously. I study the oldest university in East Africa and a cradle of political elites, Makerere University, where halls of residence ... -
Triadic Constructions in Rutooro
(Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2012)In triadic constructions, we typically find three arguments, namely a subject and two postverbal arguments.1 Two formal varieties obtain, as shown in (1) for English and in (2) for Rutooro, a Bantu language spoken in ... -
The Pragmatics of kandi: A Relevance-theoretic Account
(Argumentum, 2017)The paper presents an exploratory analysis of the pragmatic functions of kandi within Relevance Theory (cf. Sperber & Wilson 1986, Wilson & Sperber 2004), a clausal coordination connective in Rutooro (a Bantu language ...
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