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Characteristics of fairness metrics and their effect on perceived scheduler effectiveness
(2010)Parallel job schedulers are mostly evaluated using performance metrics. Deductions however can be misleading due to selective job starvation (unfairness). To choose a better scheduler, therefore, there is a need to compare ... -
Confronting HIV/AIDS in a South African village: the impact of health-seeking behaviour
(Informa Healthcare, 2007-10)Much social science research on HIV/AIDS focuses on its impact within affected communities and how people try to cope with its consequences. Based on fieldwork in rural South Africa, this article shows ways in which the ... -
A flexible biomedical ontology selection tool
(2009-10)The wide adoption and reuse of existing biomedical ontologies available in various libraries is limited by the lack of suitable tools with metrics for their evaluation by both naive users and expert ontologists. Existing ... -
ICT usage and its impact on profitability of SMEs in 13 African countries
(University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, 2007)This article reports on a small and medium enterprise (SME) survey carried out by the ResearchICTAfrica (RIA) in 14 African countries. It argues that the negative return on investment reported in the literature can be ... -
The impact of cybercafes on information services in Uganda
(First Monday, 1996)This study assessed the impact of cybercafes on the provision of information services in uganda. It focused on cafe users only. Findings revealed that 69.8% percent were in the age group of 20-39 year. Eighty-seven percent ... -
Information needs and information-seeking behavior of artisan fisher folk of Uganda
(Elservier science Inc., 2003)This article examines the information needs, information-seeking behavior, and the impact of information use on artisan fisher folk and extension agents at three major lakes in Uganda. The findings reveal that fisher folk ... -
Information seeking behaviour: a conceptual framework
(South African Journal of Library and Information Science, 2006)The concepts defining information, information needs, information seeking and information use have undergone significant evolution since they were first introduced. A number of information seeking and retrieval studies ... -
Insights into the information needs of women in the informal sector of Uganda
(South African Journal of Library and Information Science, 2002)The informal sector is a fast growing economic sector in Uganda for development and employment of most small business entrepreneurs including women in the country. This paper presents insights into the information needs ... -
Mapping information systems and services in Uganda: an overview
(Elservier Science Ltd., 2002-12)This paper aims at defining and mapping the information sector in Uganda with regard to general awareness and comparative studies. It is written from the sociological perspective and is based on a review of literature, a ... -
A Metric of fairness for parallel job schedulers
(Wiley Interscience, 2009-08-25)Fairness is an important aspect in queuing systems. Several fairness measures have been proposed in queuing systems in general and parallel job scheduling in particular. Generally, a scheduler is considered unfair if some ... -
A model for electronic money transfer for low resourced environments: M-Cash
(2008)Research shows that the majority of the population in developing countries lack basic financial services, which reduces opportunities of capital and wealth accumulation. As more service opportunities become available online, ... -
Non-traditional tree species used in the furniture industry in Masaka District, Central Uganda
(National Agricultural Research Organisation, 2006)Increased demand for timber in Uganda has caused scarcity of the earlier "well-known" and commonly used tree species in the furniture industry, leading to a shift to non-traditional tree species. A study was therefore ... -
An observational study of the information seeking and communicating behaviour of enterprenures in the informal sector in Uganda
(2008-12-05)This paper examines the information-seeking and communicating behaviour of the entrepreneurs in the informal sector of Uganda through observation methodology. The samples of six districts and 602 entrepreneurs covering ... -
Ontology model: towards bridging the gap between African traditional medicine and conventional medicine
(IOS Press, 2013)Today, Complex African Society; African Traditional Medicine (ATM) is used in parallel to Conventional Medicine (CM). Various attempts have been made to bridge the gap between African Traditional Medicine and Conventional ... -
Private camel library brings hope to pastoralists: the Kenyan experience
(Emerald and MCB University Press, 1999)Discusses an innovation in the Kenya National Library Service, the Camel Library Service (CLS) in North Eastern Province, Kenya. Highlights results of an investigation of the impact and the feasibility of the CLS pilot ... -
Production of composite bricks from sawdust using Portland cement as a binder
(National Agricultural Research Organisation, 2006)A study was conducted between October 2004 and April 2005 in Kampala District, with the objective of investigating the feasibility of making sawdust-cement composites using saw dust. A total of 48 bricks were made in the ... -
Public library politics: the Uganda perspective
(Sage Publications, 2004)Public libraries in Uganda face many problems, but their importance in the political, socio-economic and cultural life of the country has been recognized by government, which has integrated public libraries into all its ... -
A reference model for biomedical ontology evaluation: the perspective of granularity
(2011-06)There have been many attempts using ontologies to develop systems that integrate data from the domains of medicine and biology, across levels of gravity. Such integration systems have not gained wide adoption and reuse. ... -
Sources of business information and means of access used by SMEs in Uganda: the case of Northern Uganda
(Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal (LIBRES), 2008-03)This article is a result of part of the doctoral study Business Information Systems Design for Uganda’s Economic Development: The Case of SMEs in Northern Uganda. The study was conducted in 2005/06 to identify the sources ...