Makerere University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Anal cleansing practices, perceptions and barriers among refugees in Imvepi Refugee Settlement, Arua District, North West Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-12-13)Introduction and Background: Anal cleansing practices, perceptions and barriers in Imvepi refugee settlement presents a challenging hygiene problem where the adequacy of available anal cleansing materials in ensuring finger ... -
Prevalence of sickle cell traits in samples from Western Uganda and validation of one spot restriction fragment length polymorphism assay at the Central Public Health Laboratories
(Makerere University, 2023-04-12)The sickle cell trait gene in population poses a future threat of sickle cell disease in children whenever there is pairing of carrier/trait parents. Most of the patients seeking sickle cell disease and trait testing are ... -
Predicting asthma severity and control using YKL-40 biomarker at Kiruddu General Referral Hospital: a cross-sectional and retrospective cohort study
(Makerere University, 2022-12-19)Introduction: Asthma affects about 11% of Ugandans and about 67% of these have uncontrolled disease. The complexity of classifying asthma severity and predicting asthma control with the current guidelines calls for ... -
Assessment of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance markers in plasmodium falciparum samples collected from Kasagati Health Centre IV in 2016
(Makerere University, 2018)Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), commonly referred to as fansidar is an anti-folate drug that was introduced in Uganda in 2000 as a first-line treatment of uncomplicated malaria. It’s use was short lived as point mutations ... -
Fiscal policy and public debt sustainability in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2019-06)The level of Uganda’s public debt has created doubts regarding the government’s sustained ability to repay. This is because of both the rapidly increasing debt accumulation as well as share of interest payments in the ... -
The effect of fertility rate on economic growth in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01)The relationship between fertility rate and economic growth is an important subject that has remained contentious due to the divergence of results regarding the effect of fertility rate on economic growth. This study ... -
Hydrocarbon Generation, Migration and Accumulation Analysis in the Semliki Basin, Albertine Graben, Western Uganda
(Makerere University., 2022-11-16)Early petroleum exploration efforts in the Semliki basin discovered gas condensate with high concentration of CO2 gas in its reservoirs, setting scientific challenges to understand these accumulations. Being a frontier ... -
The future lawyer solving criminal and civil puzzles the evolution of next-generation intelligence
(Jescho Publishing House, 2023)The legal profession has been relatively slow to adopt new technologies. However, with the increasing complexity of legal cases and the need for faster, more accurate analysis of information, the legal industry is finally ... -
The future lawyer: Solving criminal and civil puzzles - the evolution of Next Generation Intelligence
(Jescho Publishing House, 2023)"The Future Lawyer: Solving Criminal and Civil Puzzles - The Evolution of Next Generation Intelligence" is a book that explores how the legal industry is being transformed by advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, ... -
A cyber security architecture for improving remote laboratories security: a case of Makerere University ILabs
(Makerere University, 2023-01-09)Online/remote laboratories play a very crucial role in offering practical experiments to engineering classes as a solution to offset the limitations and burdens of traditional physical laboratories. However, being online ... -
Loss to follow-up and associated factors among adult people living with HIV at public health facilities in Wakiso district, Uganda: a retrospective cohort study
(Makerere University, 2018)Background: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic is still a major global public health challenge, particularly to resource constrained countries like Uganda. The ... -
Impact of urbanization on spring water quality of Ibanda district
(Makerere University, 2023-01-23)Water resource contamination and quality is still a major concern in several regions of developing countries, especially in the Uganda in which polluted waters pose serious risks to human health and the environment. The ... -
Community and individual factors influencing healthcare use in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-04-19)Understanding key influencing factors of health service utilisation has a particular relevance as a public health and development issue. Furthermore, evidence on this subject is a good reference for public health policymakers. ... -
Genotype-by-environment interaction of yam (Dioscorea species) for yam mosaic virus resistance, dry matter content and yield in Uganda
(MDPI, 2022-08-23)Often, yam cultivars grown in different agro-ecologies show differential responses across production environments, a term known as "genotype-by-environment interaction. Such genotype-by-environment interaction makes the ... -
Phenotypic diversity within Ugandan yam (Dioscorea species) germplasm collection
(Hindawi, 2022-12-19)A proper understanding of the diversity of the available germplasm is an initial step for the genetic improvement of a crop through breeding. However, there is limited information on the diversity of Uganda’s yam germplasm. ... -
Regulatory mandate, professional ethics and sustainable housing construction in Uganda: a case of Kampala district.
(Makerere University, 2023-04)This study examined the relationship between regulatory mandate and sustainable housing construction in Kampala district, with professional ethics as moderating factor. The study was guided by two objectives; to establish ... -
Genetic diversity and population structure of Uganda’s yam (Dioscorea spp.) genetic resource based on DArTseq
(Public Library of Science, 2023-02-14)Assessing the genetic diversity of yam germplasm from different geographical origins for cultivation and breeding purposes is an essential step for crop genetic resource conservation and genetic improvement, especially ... -
Diversity and genome-wide association mapping of farmer preferred traits yam genetic resources in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-04-03)Although yam is a very important crop with the potential to address future food insecurity resulting from challenges due to climate change and increasing world population, its potential has largely remained unexploited in ... -
Examining the effectiveness of pre-financing arrangements in physical infrastructural development in Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA)
(Makerere University, 2021-04)This study examined the effectiveness of pre-financing arrangements in physical infrastructural development in Uganda National Roads Authority. The study was guided by three objectives which included examining the benefits ... -
Geomechanical modelling of subsurface formations in Palouch Oil Field, Melut Basin (South Sudan)
(Makerere University, 2022-10-25)The geomechanical issues which are related to mechanical properties of rocks and stress regimes in the area are one of the major causes of non-productive time (NPT) in oil and gas operations. In Palouch field area, this ...