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Prospects for Africa's socioeconomic development despite marginalisation
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)
This paper discusses the external and internal factors hindering holistic and sustainable socioeconomic development in Africa. The factors are identified as: 1) marginalization engineered by manipulation of market forces, ...
Centrality of the family in the pursuit of sustainable development
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)
The complex nature of the concept of sustainable development requires an integration of knowledge, other than basing on a particular science or model. This article widens the horizon by bringing onboard an approach based ...
Maize Response to Fertilizer and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Uganda
(American Society of Agronomy, 2012)
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important smallholder crop in Uganda. Yields are low because of low soil fertility and little fertilizer
use. Yield response to nutrient application and economically optimal rates (EOxR, where x ...
Sorghum Response to Fertilizer and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Uganda
(American Society of Agronomy, 2012)
Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is important for smallholder production in semiarid parts of Uganda. Grain yields are
low because of low soil fertility. Little fertilizer is used. Yield response to N, P, and K ...
Understanding Organic Food Qualities in the Global South: An East African Perspective
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2012)
Quality is a major component of the process of food production, delivery and consumption because it plays an
influential role in consumer acceptability of the food. It has been widely suggested that food quality consists ...
Inter-religious Discourse on Climate Change Roman Catholic and African Traditional Perspectives
(The Ecumenical Review, 2012)
The future of our planet poses many challenges for our generation, possibly more than ever before.
Overpopulation, rapid industrialization, heightened consumerism, unrestricted technologies, and
other human activities ...
Democracy and rural development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)
The research addresses the contentious link between democracy and sustainable rural economic development in post-apartheid South Africa. Historically, in 1994, the democratic state in South Africa inherited a legacy of ...
Overcoming Poverty: Accounting for Stagnation and Upward Mobility in Central Uganda
(Kisubi Brothers University College, 2012)
Poverty in Uganda has been the subject of extensive scholarship and
policy attention. Subsequently, several poverty alleviation programmes/ projects
have been implemented in the country over the last five decades. ...
An Access Control Framework for Protecting Mobile Health Records: The Case Study of Developing Countries
(2012)
Mobile health records are a good way of providing users with on-demand access to health care
data. Standard approaches of securing health records include role-based access control
(RBAC) because this is a flexible approach ...
An Energy-Efficient Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(Makerere University, 2012)
The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR) is one of the most reliable and effective protocols in the
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). It is also one of the few MANET protocols whose routing scheme
can easily be optimized. ...