183 research outputs found
Domestic Violence Action Research Collective Housing Study
No full textA group of researchers and practitioners—including Ms. Odongo and Dr. Nnawulezi—came together to design and implement a community-based, participatory research study led by the Domestic Violence Action Research Collective (DVARC). This DC-based collective brings together victimization researchers, advocates, and practitioners to generate an evidence base that increases survivor-responsive care with multiple systems across the city....DVARC spent the duration of the funding period designing and implementing the first phase of a multi-phase exploratory-sequential (qualitative-quantitative) mixed method, community-based research study. The aim of this study was to: (a) identify the specific assessment questions that Virginia Williams (VW) [a governmental housing entry point for families experiencing housing instability] staff used to assess whether violence was the primary cause of current homelessness; (b) understand survivors’ perceptions of the screening process; and (c) determine how the screening process influenced survivors’ future decision making. [CVRL Note: The Center for Victim Research (CVR) funds and supports local-level Research-and-Practice (R/P) Fellowships. DVARC was part of the 2018 cohort] (Author Text)https://ncvc.dspacedirect.org/handle/20.500.11990/168
Effectiveness of mentoring programs as labour market policy instruments in socioeconomic integration of immigrants: a comparative study of the mentorship model in Austria and Canada
No full textAuthor Anne Atieno OdongoMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Effectiveness of mentoring programs as labour market policy instruments in socioeconomic integration of immigrants: a comparative study of the mentorship model in Austria and Canada
No full textAuthor Anne Atieno OdongoMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Using Time-Series Data to Study Civil War Influence in a (Post-) Conflict Economy, Uganda, 1997 - 2006
No full textIt has become increasingly clear that pooled samples of time-invariant or time-averaged conflict variables used in cross-country regressions provide a misleading characterization of civil wars in individual countries. Cross-national generalisation is also hampered by the fact that the experience of each country tends to be unique; some suffer total war destruction, others only a slight disturbance. This thesis uses time-series data for the frequency and intensity of civil war violence in econometric models to explain the dynamics of Uganda's (post-) conflict political economy. Three empirical studies are performed using newly constructed monthly indicators of civil war violence reported in local daily newspapers during the period 1997:7 – 2006:6. The studies adopt a general-to-specific modelling approach using an automated model reduction and variable selection algorithm. The main findings are as follows: First, contrary to the widely held view, rebels' offensives are less severe than the government's army's 'peace-keeping' operations, which continually add to the death toll, although not so many people are killed by either protagonist as Uganda's economic performance improves.
Second, it is not easy to disentangle the way in which the intensity of the protagonists' joint force affects Uganda's industry: Civil war violence does not seem to be so relevant to the investigation of non-agricultural industry output fluctuations, but it has retardative effects on industries that process agricultural raw materials. At the aggregate level, the results suggest that Uganda's industry generally benefits when the government army appear to be winning the war. Third, the magnitudes of the frequency of protagonists' simultaneous attacks are equal though of opposite effects on the exchange rate market; the Uganda shilling depreciates against the US dollar when rebels attack, but it appreciates when the government's army retaliates. In such a cycle of violence, the government's army's military operation aimed at ending the rebel insurgency has implications for both military and economic policies. But the policy could go beyond military or judicial solutions to the conflict; these do not seem to be working. The finding that the rebels kill fewer people in response to newspaper reports about peace initiatives suggests that the conflict could be resolved non-violently. But the finding that a peaceful resolution to the conflict would retard the long-run growth of industry seems illogical, as it is not in line with prior expectations
Using Time-Series Data to Study Civil War Influence in a (Post-) Conflict Economy, Uganda, 1997 - 2006
No full textIt has become increasingly clear that pooled samples of time-invariant or time-averaged conflict variables used in cross-country regressions provide a misleading characterization of civil wars in individual countries. Cross-national generalisation is also hampered by the fact that the experience of each country tends to be unique; some suffer total war destruction, others only a slight disturbance. This thesis uses time-series data for the frequency and intensity of civil war violence in econometric models to explain the dynamics of Uganda's (post-) conflict political economy. Three empirical studies are performed using newly constructed monthly indicators of civil war violence reported in local daily newspapers during the period 1997:7 – 2006:6. The studies adopt a general-to-specific modelling approach using an automated model reduction and variable selection algorithm. The main findings are as follows: First, contrary to the widely held view, rebels' offensives are less severe than the government's army's 'peace-keeping' operations, which continually add to the death toll, although not so many people are killed by either protagonist as Uganda's economic performance improves.
Second, it is not easy to disentangle the way in which the intensity of the protagonists' joint force affects Uganda's industry: Civil war violence does not seem to be so relevant to the investigation of non-agricultural industry output fluctuations, but it has retardative effects on industries that process agricultural raw materials. At the aggregate level, the results suggest that Uganda's industry generally benefits when the government army appear to be winning the war. Third, the magnitudes of the frequency of protagonists' simultaneous attacks are equal though of opposite effects on the exchange rate market; the Uganda shilling depreciates against the US dollar when rebels attack, but it appreciates when the government's army retaliates. In such a cycle of violence, the government's army's military operation aimed at ending the rebel insurgency has implications for both military and economic policies. But the policy could go beyond military or judicial solutions to the conflict; these do not seem to be working. The finding that the rebels kill fewer people in response to newspaper reports about peace initiatives suggests that the conflict could be resolved non-violently. But the finding that a peaceful resolution to the conflict would retard the long-run growth of industry seems illogical, as it is not in line with prior expectations
Book Review: Tapping philanthropy for development: Lessons Learned from a Public-Private Partnership in Rural Uganda
No full textBook Title: Tapping philanthropy for development: Lessons Learned from a Public-Private Partnership in Rural UgandaBook Author: Lorna Michael Butler and Della E. McMillan (Eds.)2015/289 pages/LC: 2014036411. A Kumarian Press Book
Molecular analysis of the Theileria parva carrier state and genetic diversity of the parasite in cattle
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Molecular analysis of the theileria parva carrier state and genetic diversity of the parasite in cattle.
No full textTheileria parva is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes East Coast fever, a Iymphoproliferative disease of cattle in East, Central and Southern Africa. A feature of T. parva infection in cattle is that animals that have recovered from an acute infection frequently become long-lasting carriers of the parasite. These carrier animals cannot be clinically differentiated from uninfected cattle by either microscopy or serological analysis. In this thesis we report the application of a PCR assay, based on species-specific sequences derived from the T. parva p l 04 rhoptry antigen gene, which are widely conserved within T. parva, for the detection of parasite DNA in blood of cattle exposed to natural tick challenge in the field. A one-year longitudinal sampling of cattle in 4 Agro-ecological systems, each representing different epidemiological states of ECF was conducted. The p l 04 PCR assay was applied to detect the presence of T. parva piroplasms in carrier cattle, many of which have a parasitaemia far below the threshold of detection by conventional diagnostic methods. Both PCR and serological analyses revealed differences in the prevalence levels of T. parva, which were related to the levels of tick challenge and tick control practices within these different sites. By applying PCR and comparing it with a standardised ELISA technique, which indicated the presence of T. parva specific antibodies, we observed that a significant proportion of sero-positive animals had no parasites in their peripheral blood, detectable by PCR. The relative sensitivity of the p104 PCR assay and the reverse line blot (RLB) for tick-borne pathogens including T. parva, in detecting low levels of parasites in asymptomatic cattle was also compared. The p l 04 PCR assay was slightly more sensitive, and based on laboratory experimental infections of cattle, was approximately 3 times more sensitive than the RLB. The marginal difference in sensitivity between the 2 methods however had significantly different results when both methods were applied for detection of the presence of T. parva in cattle exposed to a tick challenge in field situations. RLB-PCR was able to detect and discriminate multiple tick-borne pathogens simultaneously infecting an individual animal. The work outlined in this thesis also describes the generation of a genome-wide panel of novel molecular markers in T. parva for differentiation of isolates. These constitute an important addition to the repertoire of parasite characterisation tools that are currently available for molecular epidemiological studies of T. parva in Africa. The markers were identified following a systemic search of the T. parva genome sequence, in order to identify tandemly repeated microsatellite and mini satellite sequences. 13 microsatellite and 44 informative mini satellite markers distributed in all the 4 chromosomes were identified, based on the sequence conservation in the flanking regions of these loci, and their ability to define polymorphism between different T. parva stocks. To demonstrate the utility of these markers for population genetic analysis, 36 T. parva isolates from Kenya were genotyped using a panel of 30 markers, in order to gain insight into the genetic variation and relationships between these isolates. A high genetic diversity was observed, with the mean number of alleles ranging from 3 - 11 per locus, and significant linkage disequilibrium between specific pairs of loci. This suggests that the mating pattern of T. parva in the field is not completely random. Genetic relationships between isolates were analysed using indices of genetic distance and a Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree, which demonstrated that genetic similarity between isolates was not obviously related to their geographical origin, according to these analyses. There was no significant population sub-structuring observed when the isolates were compared between the different regions from which they were obtained. Th
A comparative study of high voltage analog switch topologies
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 89).The design of electrical switches continues to develop as the demand on performance specifications increases and device fabrication processes improve. They have application in automated test equipment, variable gain feedback amplifiers, sample and hold circuits, and other switched capacitor circuits. In this document, four high voltage analog instrumentation switches were designed using different topologies. The four switches were then compared with respect to various important switch performance characteristics.by Angela N. Odongo.M. Eng
UCUDIR DSpace Technical Documentation
No full textThis document provides notes and procedures for DSpace installation and configuration of the UCU Digital Institutional RepositoryDeveloped during the EIFL Open Access Project, funded by SPIDE
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