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Report: Cultural Research Centre (CRC) [PDF]

, 2010
This report arises from research carried out in Iganga and Namutumba districts in late 2006/early 2007 by the Cultural Research Centre (CRC), based in Jinja.
Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accountability in the public health care systems: A developing economy perspective

Cogent Business & Management, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of the study carried out to examine the effects of hospital board governance and managerial competencies on accountability in the health care systems in Uganda.
Lasuli Bakalikwira, Juma Bananuka, Twaha Kaawaase Kigongo, Doreen Musimenta, Veronica Mukyala   +4 more
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Lessons Learnt From WASH Action Research With Practitioners in Four Countries [PDF]

, 2016
This is the final report from the Action Research for Learning programme, a three-year initiative (2013 -- 2015), led by IRC, to improve the effectiveness of existing hygiene promotion and community empowerment programmes of selected local Dutch WASH ...
Jeske Verhoeven, Marielle Snell
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Incorporating scale dependence in disease burden estimates:the case of human African trypanosomiasis in Uganda [PDF]

, 2014
The WHO has established the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a metric for measuring the burden of human disease and injury globally. However, most DALY estimates have been calculated as national totals. We mapped spatial variation in the burden of
B Bucheton, BM Swallow, C Burri, C Nimmo, C Schmid, CD Mathers, CJL Murray, CJL Murray, CJL Murray, D Engels, D Malvy, E Hasker, EM Fèvre, EM Fèvre, EM Fèvre, EM Fèvre, Eric Fèvre, F Chappuis, F Checchi, F Checchi, F Checchi, Finola Hackett, G Priotto, I Kuepfer, J Robays, JA Fox-Rushby, JA Salomon, JA Salomon, JD Kabasa, Joseph Mathu Ndung'u, K Picozzi, L Berrang Ford, L Conteh, LE Matemba, Lea Berrang Ford, LM MacLean, M Balasegaram, M Boelaert, M Odiit, M Odiit, M Odiit, P Cattand, P Lutumba, P Lutumba, Pere Simarro, PJ Hotez, PP Simarro, PP Simarro, PP Simarro, PP Simarro, PR Torgerson, R Brun, RS Cooper, S Aksoy, SC Welburn, SC Welburn, SC Welburn, V Jamonneau   +57 more
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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Social Science Research Network, 2018
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village ...
Yao Pan, Stephen C. Smith, M. Sulaiman
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A Global Prospective Harmonization Framework for Suicidality, Anhedonia, and Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms in Psychiatric Genetic Studies: A Cross‐Continental Study Within the Ancestral Population Network

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to prospectively collect harmonized, quantitative, and dimensional psychiatric phenotypes (suicidality, anhedonia, and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms) and information on discrimination, stigma, and unfair treatment in up to 27,500 individuals across diverse ancestries and clinical populations for genetic analysis within the NIMH
Ana M. Diaz‐Zuluaga, Jacey L. Anderberg, Ana M. Ramirez‐Diaz, Andrea Horvath Marques, Catherine E. Rast, Daniel Bustamante, Deborah Jonker, Johanna Valencia‐Echeverry, Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Josselyn S. Muñoz, Kristien van der Walt, Mauricio Castaño Ramirez, Olivia Wootton, Renee M. Frederick, Rocky E. Stroud II, Ruben Gur, Sang Jin Rhee, Shaili C. Jha, Stella Gichuru, Susan Service, Victor I. Reus, Akena Dickens, Carlos Lopez‐Jaramillo, Carrie E. Bearden, Dan J. Stein, Ezra S. Susser, James J. Crowley, Jonathan Flint, Kenneth S. Kendler, Lukoye Atwoli, Michele T. Pato, Nelson B. Freimer, Roel A. Ophoff, Yong Min Ahn, Loes Olde Loohuis, Eric A. Storch, Bizu Gelaye   +36 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does responsibility accounting in public universities matter?

Cogent Business & Management, 2016
Responsibility accounting is an administrative accounting method that measures the results of each responsibility centre. The concept of responsibility accounting is vested in costs and revenues performance.
Philip Owino, John C. Munene, Joseph M. Ntayi   +2 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Preliminary Report on Herbal Medicine Use Among Patients Hospitalized at Two-Large COVID-19 Treatment Centers in Uganda

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2021
Phillip Musoke,1 Jerom Okot,2 Vivien Nanfuka,3 Pius Rwamafa,4 Joseph Masajjage,3 Ivan Kisuule,4 Brandy Nantaayi,1 Nelson Ssewante,1 Felix Bongomin1,2 1School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; 2Department of ...
Musoke P, Okot J, Nanfuka V, Rwamafa P, Masajjage J, Kisuule I, Nantaayi B, Ssewante N, Bongomin F   +8 more
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