Mentorship and supervision in Ugandan higher education institutions universities: challenges and prospects by John Michael, Edoru, Sanni Tajudeen, Adebayo

“…Mentoring at a higher education institution or university entails long time passing on of support, guidance and advice. …”
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Teacher rewards and their performance: a case study of selected secondary schools in southern division, Kabale municipality by Agnes, Nyinamasiko, John Michael, Edoru

“…Teachers’ performance management is a continuous process for identifying, evaluating and developing the work performance of teachers, so that the goals and objectives of the schools are more effectively achieved, while at the same time benefiting teachers. This study was carried out to establish how teacher rewards influence their performance. …”
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Concrete Production and Curing with Recycled Wastewater: A Review on the Current State of Knowledge and Practice by Tobby Michael, Agwe, Tibenderana, Philip, Twesigye-Omwe, Moses N, Abdulkadir, Sholagberu Taofeeq

“…The observations made are based on the assessment of wastewater quality parameters and their impacts on some selected concrete properties such as initial setting time and compressive strength. Due to scanty research on the impacts of varying concentrations of different ingredients in any questionable water on selected properties of reinforced concrete and its durability, thus, further research is recommended.…”
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Influence of Social Capital on Small and Medium Enterprises Performance in Wakiso District, Uganda by Mbowa ,Henry Stanley, Mbabazi,Phelix Businge, Ssemaluulu, Paul, Eton, Marus

“…Furthermore, the small sample size might limit the generalization of the study results to the entire district. In addition, time and data collection biases have implications for this study. …”
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The Interest Rate and Performance of Business Enterprises in Ntungamo District: A Case Study of Ruhama Development SACCO in Ntugamo Municipality Ntungamo District. by Tugume, Harry

“…The study results on the role of interest rates on performance of Micro Finance Institutions, the highest number of respondents mentioned that interest on savings motivates clients to save which enables the SACCO to have ready cash for clients to borrow leading to performance, the lowest number of respondents stated that interest rates on loans motivates clients to pay in time which leads to SACCO's performance, the study findings on the challenges affecting the performance of SACCOs where the highest number of the respondents mentioned that SACCO's face the challenge of competition from other financial institutions while the least number of the respondents mentioned un qualified employees of the SACCO affects its performance and the study results on the strategies to improve on the performance of SACCOs the highest number of respondents mentioned that SACCOs should minimize operation costs which is consistent with the microfinance best practices and the lowest number of respondents stated improvement of the specific infrastructure related to the daily operation of MFls like computer cables. …”
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Role of Electronic Banking on Performance of Financial Institutions: A Case Study of Pride Microfinance Limited Kabale Branch. by Kanyana, Ange Gentille

“…The study findings on the importance of electronic banking methods in microfinance institutions, the results were from; digital signature for security, convenient way of operating banking transactions, faster transfer of money, easy reliability, and eased time in banking. The study went ahead to find the types of electronic banking methods adopted in microfinance towards their performance and the responses were obtained from; mobile/SMS banking, electronic funds transfers, self-service (PC) banking, POS banking (Credit and Debit cards), internet banking and an automated teller machine and the study findings on relationship between electronic banking on the performance of microfinance institutions, the study findings revealed a correlation coefficient of 0.816**. …”
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Concrete Production and Curing with Recycled Wastewater: A Review on the Current State of Knowledge and Practice by Tobby Michael, Agwe, Philip, Tibenderana, Moses N., Twesigye-Omwe, Joel, Webster Mbujje, Sholagberu Taofeeq, Abdulkadir

“…The observations made are based on the assessment of wastewater quality parameters and their impacts on some selected concrete properties such as initial setting time and compressive strength. Due to scanty research on the impacts of varying concentrations of different ingredients in any questionable water unselected properties of reinforced concrete and its durability, thus, further research is recommended…”
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Concrete Production and Curing with Recycled Wastewater: A Review on the Current State of Knowledge and Practice by Tobby Michael, Agwe, Philip, Tibenderana, Moses N, Twesigye-Omwe, Joel Webster, Mbujje, Abdulkadir, Sholagberu Taofeeq

“…The observations made are based on the assessment of wastewater quality parameters and their impacts on some selected concrete properties such as initial setting time and compressive strength. Due to scanty research on the impacts of varying concentrations of different ingredients in any questionable water on selected properties of reinforced concrete and its durability, thus, further research is recommended.…”
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Factors Affecting Immunization Coverage for Children Under Five Years in Rwanyamahembe Sub-County, Mbarara District- Uganda. by Omia, Santos

“…Emphasis on vaccinators arriving on time and all services given to mothers without a cost.…”
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Procurement Planning and Performance of Public Entities in Uganda: A Case Study of Kisoro District Local Government. by Harerimana, Ronald

“…The study recommends that PDUs in Uganda should train and sensitize procurement and tendering/contract committee members, suppliers, bidders/ contractors on appropriate procurement procedures and practices as required by the PPDA Act, 2003 to enhance compliance with the Act, reduce costs, and enhance timely delivery. The researcher recommends further research in the areas of public procurement policy guidelines and performance, corruption in PDUs and performance, and, procurement budgeting and performance of PDUs in Uganda.…”
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Cash Flow Management Utilization and Performance of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda: A Case Study of Selected Business Enterprises in Kitumba Sub-county Kabale District. by Twongyeirwe, Marion

“…Acting with a great degree of integrity in the execution of their role to ensure the growth of our business, Upholding ethical issues in all management decisions, Following Debtors to ensure payment within an agreed time, and finally the study recommended that Business Enterprises should employ qualified staff so that financial management is handled with care to improve on the profitability and the government should support business enterprises institutions by providing loans on low Intrest, giving tax holidays among others so that businesses do not overstrain the budget.…”
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Examining the Impact of Domestic Violence on Students' Performance in Selected Secondary Schools of Buyanja Sub-County Rukungiri. by Kansiime, Mackline

“…The study results on the Causes of Domestic Violence in Buyanja Sub-county Rukungiri, the highest number of respondents mentioned parental stress, the lowest number of respondents mentioned failing to care adequately for the children and other respondents mentioned anger which leads to aggression, job-related problems also bring about fights between parents and not having food ready on time. The study results on the effects of domestic violence on children's welfare in Buyanja Sub-county Rukungiri. the highest number of respondents mentioned that domestic violence leads to absenteeism of students, the lowest number of respondents said of leads to depression and other respondents mentioned isolation from friends, and increased fear among the students, may lead to serious injury whereas and leads to poor academic performance. …”
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Attention-Based Multi-Learning Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition With Dilated Convolution by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose

“…Recurrent neural networks (RNN) like long short-term memory (LSTM), gated recurrent units (GRU) and their variants that operate sequentially are often used to learn time series sequences of the signal, analyze long-term dependencies and the contexts of the utterances in the speech signal. …”
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Creative Marketing and Financial Performance of Small Medium Enterprises in Rwanda: A Case Study of Selected Businesses in Nyamata Town. by Tenywa, Bashir

“…The results revealed that timing and credit terms has a positive and statistically significant influence on financial literacy (β =.821: p = .003) which indicates that emphasizing financial literacy through setting aside funds and handling debt will increase one's capacity to start small businesses independently, increase the purchasing power of personal belongings, be able to manage debts, be free to make financial decisions, raise one's standard of living, be able to access health and other services, and be able to take on leadership roles. …”
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Factors Influencing the Uptake of Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Rubanda District, South Western Uganda. by Tayebwa, Amon

“…Conclusions and recommendations: The uptake of SRHS in the study was low and was attributed to age, sex, and residence; and there were suggestions that it could be improved by making the health facilities comfortable for adolescents, particularly by providing separate units and time for the consultations. The study recommends strengthening access to youth-friendly reproductive health services by according the adolescents the privacy they need.…”
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Partial Replacement of Cement with Sugarcane Waste Ash in Cement Concrete. by Muhindo, Martin

“…., Sand, coarse aggregates and ash which include final and Initial setting time of cement blended.with ash, slump test on fresh concrete and compressive strength test on hardened concrete at different ages of 7, 14 and 28 days of curing. …”
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Relationship Between Performance Management Practices and Organizational Effectiveness in Kabale District Uganda: A Case Study of Stanbic Bank. by Orikiriza, Brendah

“…The study findings presented revealed that 60% of the respondents noted that performance planning creates priorities to deliver efficiently in the organization, 50% of the respondents recorded that it provides direction for work efforts and leads to less time spent in the office whereas 57% 47% agreed it leads to forecast of the success and ensures that there is alignment between committees respectively. …”
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Assessing the Role of Electronic Banking on Performance of Micro Financial Institutions: A Case Study of Pride Micro Finance Limited Kabale District. by Twagirayesu, Bertin

“…The study found that The study findings on the importance of electronic banking methods in microfinance institutions. the results were obtained from; a digital signature for security. convenience way of operating banking transactions, faster transfer, reliability, and time factor. the study went ahead to find the types of electronic banking methods adopted in microfinance towards their performance and the responses were obtained from mobile/SMS banking. electronic funds transfers. self Service (PC) banking, POS Banking (Credit and Debit cards), internet banking, and an automated teller machine the study findings on the relationship between electronic banking on the performance of microfinance institutions, the results revealed that there is a very high positive significant relationship between electronic banking on the performance of microfinance institutions that is 0.853 significant at 0.0I level of a two-tailed test with 50 degrees of freedom. …”
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Effects of Teenage Pregnancy on School Girl Education in Primary Schools in Katuna Town Council Kabale District. by Tumwebaze, Costance

“…Based on the study findings, the majority of 90 percent were still in school meaning that being in school usually safeguards teens from becoming pregnant It was also found that 82.8% of the participants indicated that early pregnancy altered their school performance by minimizing their time of study. The study is obvious that approximately 70 percent of the participants do not agree with the media's influence on early pregnancy. …”
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