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Impact of HIV/AIDS on Households’ Food Production in Bushenyi District, Uganda
Get PDFAIDS has had a devastating impact on Uganda and has significantly lowered life expectancy, reduced the country‟s labor force, reduced agricultural output and food security.AIDS has had a devastating impact on Uganda and has significantly lowered life expectancy, reduced the country‟s labor force, reduced agricultural output and food security. Although much research has been done on the impact of HIV/AIDS in general, relatively little research has been conducted to establish how HIV/AIDS has affected food production at the household level. The objective of the study was to investigate the extent of the HIV/AIDS impact on households‟ food production in Bushenyi district in the context of their demographic and economic backgrounds. This was a cross-sectional study that used the quantitative research design. The study applied a multi-stage cluster sampling of the administrative units; and a complete coverage of the villages was randomly selected. Results show that age, level of education of the household heads, religion, and the form of income, had a great influence on the impact of HIV/AIDS on households‟ food production
The Accreditation Process and Challenges of Private Religious Based Universities in Uganda
Get PDFThe quantitative growth in Ugandan higher education subsector has created many challenges including a drop in quality in education delivery.The quantitative growth in Ugandan higher education subsector has created many challenges including a drop in quality in education delivery. Today, there are 34 universities in Uganda (up from 26 in 2006) with over 185,000 students (up from 137,190), representing an overall growth rate of more than 15% in the last 5 years. Given this rapid expansion of higher education, some form of regulation is necessary to assure quality. Ugandan government established the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) as a regulatory agency to set standards and regulations to ensure that all public and private tertiary education institutions in Uganda create, sustain and improve the relevance and quality of higher education for all qualified Ugandans and to meet the local, national and global higher education challenges of the 21st century. In addition to sustaining and improving the relevance and quality of higher education, these religious based universities have a special mission of evangelism and discipleship and view all admissions and appointments as opportunities for ministry and service. This however, may not go well with the peer assessors and the Accrediting Agencies. Currently there are more than six recognised faith based universities in Uganda. Out of the seven fully accredited universities in Uganda, five are faith based and only two are secular. There are different views about the philosophies of these faith-based universities. Some people seem to suggest that they pay more attention to evangelism and discipleship than in provision of higher education. While others view this type of institutions as a very good model to provide good morals and education that can transform the society in a positive way. At the same time, the regulatory framework in the country must provide for an all-inclusive environment for all to participate in higher education which may pose a big challenge to these faith based institutions. This article therefore, discusses the accreditation process in Uganda and challenges of private religious based Universities in Uganda in regards to accreditation
Influence of Headteachers' Transformational Leadership Attributes on Academic Performance: A Case of Private Secondary Schools in Uganda
Get PDFSchool demographics have changed in recent decades, and so has the type of leadership needed to successfully lead the rapidly changing schools of this Century. School leadership shapes all other variables such as good curriculum, quality teaching, and academic performance. This study was carried out in selected private secondary schools in Uganda. After the realization that investment in private secondary schools exposed the decline of previously well-performing public schools and contributed to the rise of some private schools. The aim was to establish the influence of transformational leadership on academic performance in private secondary schools among other influencers of school effectiveness. A multi-leadership questionnaire was used to gather information from 276 schools, 425 teachers and Directors of studies in the central region of Uganda because this region has the majority of performing, average and underperforming schools. It also has schools in Urban, Rural and semi-urban and it is considered to be the epicentre of educational institutions in the country. Multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the influence of headteachers’ transformation leadership attributes on academic performance at UCE and UACE in private schools for the year 2017-2019. The findings indicated that the headteachers’ transformational leadership attributes of Idealized influence and Inspirational motivation influence academic performance with standard beta coefficients of 0.154 and -0.140 which suggested that that a unit increase in Idealized influence increases academic performance at UCE by 15.4% in private schools in Uganda while a unit increase in Inspirational motivation decreases academic performance at UCE by 14.0%. At UACE idealised influence and Intellectual stimulation were found to have a significant relationship with UACE performance in private secondary schools in Uganda. The standardized beta coefficients for Idealized influence and Intellectual stimulation were -0.144 and 0.129 respectively suggesting that a unit increase in Idealized influence decreases academic performance at UACE by 14.4% in private secondary schools in Uganda while a unit increase in Intellectual stimulation increases academic performance at UACE by 12.9%. The study concludes that transformational leadership has a significant influence on academic performance in private secondary schools. The study recommends that policymakers and investors in Uganda's Education System should closely monitor the school's alignment with the transformational leadership practices for sustainable academic performance in private secondary school
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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