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Procurement Process and Performance of Construction Projects in Local Governments: A Case of Kole District Local Government
(Lira University, 2022)Background: The main purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between procurement process and construction project performance in local governments, a case of Kole District Local Government. It was to assess ... -
Procurement Process Management and Contract Performance. Case Study: Kotido District Local Government
(Lira University, 2021)The main objective of the study was to determine the effect of procurement process Management on the contract’s performance in building construction work, Kotido District Local Government. The study was conducted on ... -
Professor’s Optimal Workload Problem and His Remunerations: A General Solution from Lagrangian Function
(International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology, 2020)The author proposed a general solution to professor’s optimal workload by using Lagrange method. University Management is treated as a utility maximizer, whose objective is to efficiently utilize professor’s teaching hours ... -
Promoting Psychiatry in the medical school: "The case of Uganda"
(Psychiatry Bulletin, 2002)Uganda has a rich history of medical education Odonga, 1989) that was severely harmed by the rise of Idi Amin and the years of internal strife. It is only over recent years that the country has begun to rebuild itself ... -
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce pelvic infection in women having miscarriage surgery – The AIMS (Antibiotics in Miscarriage Surgery) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
(Trials, 2018)Abstract Background: The estimated annual global burden of miscarriage is 33 million out of 210 million pregnancies. Many women undergoing miscarriage have surgery to remove pregnancy tissues, resulting in miscarriage ... -
Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA) Relationship to Patient Age, Prostate Volume and Prostate Histology at St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor,
(East and Central African Journal of Surgery, 2014)The use of PSA for the diagnosis of cancer prostate has remained controversial as well as unreliable because many factors affect PSA levels. Included amongst the many factors that can increase PSA level are riding bicycle, ... -
The Psychological Impact of War and Abduction on Children in Northern Uganda: A Review
(International Journal of Mental Health and Psychiatry, 2015)In more than two decades northern Uganda was affected by the war between the government and the LRA. Children were abducted and affected during the war, but what is the psychological and social impact of war on the children? ... -
Public Finance Reforms and Service Delivery in Lira District Local Government
(Lira University, 2022)Background: The study sought to examine the relationship between public finance reforms and service delivery in Lira District Local government. The study sought to establish whether all three constructs of independent ... -
Public Financial Management Reforms and Service Delivery in Lira District Local Government.
(Lira University, 2022)Background: The Study was to examine the effect of Public Financial Management Reforms on Delivery of Services in Lira District Local Government. Despite these PSRP initiative with good intention, performance crisis, ... -
Public service delivery in Uganda: a reconsideration of grand corruption
(Dynamics of Politics and Democracy, 2021)Purpose: This review intends to ascertain and analyse available literature for the degree of corruption in the Ugandan public organisations and how they can be enhanced to get rid of corruption. Research methodology: ... -
Pyramiding Fusarium root rot resistance genes and validation of SSR PVBR87 in common bean
(RUFORUM, 2010)This study determined effectiveness of pyramided Fusarium root rot (FRR) resistance genes and validated association of SSR PVBR87 marker with FRR resistance in common bean. A double cross (DC) involving four resistance ... -
QTL-seq for the identification of candidate genes for days to flowering and leaf shape in pigeonpea
(Heredity, 2022)To identify genomic segments associated with days to flowering (DF) and leaf shape in pigeonpea, QTL-seq approach has been used in the present study. Genome-wide SNP profiling of extreme phenotypic bulks was conducted for ... -
Qualitative study on stigma as a barrier to emergency contraceptive pill use among university students in the Lango subregion, Uganda
(BMJ Open, 2024)Objective The aim of the current study was twofold: to understand the nature and extent of stigma and to learn the reasons behind the decision not to use emergency contraceptive pills among university students in the ... -
A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery
(The New England Journal of Medicine, 2019)BACKGROUND Surgical intervention is needed in some cases of spontaneous abortion to remove retained products of conception. Antibiotic prophylaxis may reduce the risk of pelvic infection, which is an important complication ... -
Record Management Practices and the Performance of Produce Dealers in Lira City
(American Journal of Strategic Studies, 2023)Purpose: The study aimed to determine the effect of record management practices on the performance of produce dealers in lira city, Uganda. Specifically, the examined record filling, record retention and record retrieval ... -
Refractory convulsive syncope in pregnancy: a rare presentation of Takayasu’s arteritis - a case report and literature review
(African Health Sciences, 2021-06-02)Background: Neurological manifestation of Takayasu’s Arteritis (TA) in pregnancy presenting as convulsive syncope is extremely rare, and poses a serious diagnostic dilemma due to other vast causes of fits in pregnancy. ... -
Regulation of GLUT4 biogenesis in muscle: evidence for involvement of AMPK and Ca2+
(Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 282, 2002)Regulation of GLUT4 biogenesis in muscle: evidence for involvement of AMPK and Ca2 . Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 282: E1008–E1013, 2002; 10.1152/ ajpendo.00512.2001.—There is evidence suggesting that adaptive increases ... -
Relationship between partnership and the sustainability of institutionalized child care in Lira City, northern Uganda
(Journal of Advanced Sociology, 2022)Purpose: This study assessed the relationship between partnership and the sustainability of institutionalized child care in Lira City, northern Uganda. Specifically, three objectives guided the study, namely; to examine ... -
The relationship between quality of instructional materials and girl-child education at primary school level in Oyam district, Lango sub-region, Uganda
(Journal of Gender Related Studies, 2022)Purpose: The main aim of this research was to determine the relationship between the quality of instructional materials and girl-child’ education in Oyam district. This thrust is significance of quality of instructional ... -
The Relationship between Skills Development Support and Self-Reliance among the Youths: A Study on Youth Livelihood Program in Lira City, Uganda
(American Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022)Uganda, being one of the youngest with a number of rapidly growing population in the world of about 3.7% annual growth rate, poses a great challenge to the government seeing that approximately one million young people enter ...