FISCAL BALANCE AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by ODILI OKWUCHUKWU, OKORO KELECHI OKORO, NWANNEDIYA FAITH OTI-IBIAM

“…The ARDL results indicated that the relationship between fiscal balance and sustainable economic development followed a long-run path. The study found that fiscal balance to GDP ratio, external debt to export ratio, and public debt service to revenue ratio had negative impact on growth rate of real GDP per capita (GDPgr). …”
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Students Results Tracking Tool: A Case Study of Kabale Secondary school. by Kebirungi, Susan

“…In this study, the researcher preferred the Prototyping Model because; in case the requirements of the application are changed or modified, the researcher would easily go back and update the system. This system runs on a web browser on a computer with a well-connected network. …”
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Financial inclusion: Is it a precursor to agricultural commercialization amongst smallholder farmers in Uganda? A comparative analysis between Lango and Buganda sub-regions by Eton, Marus, Fabian, Mwosi, Mary, Ejang, Sammy, Godfrey Poro

“…Chi square procedure was run to test the hypothesis that financial inclusion does not affect agricultural commercialization amongst smallholder farmers in Lango and Buganda sub-regions. …”
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Groundwater Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment using a Dar-Zarrouk Parameter in a Proposed Aboru Residential Estate, Lagos State, Nigeria by M.A. Ayuk

“…As such, the establishment of the proposed service facilities in the study area is strongly discouraged as the nature of their operations has a high potential to contaminate and eventually pollute the sub-surface aquifers on the long-run. If however the inevitability of their establishment cannot be set-aside, then secondary measures must be taken to forestall a direct impact of their operations on the subsurface.  …”
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Conceptual and Simulated Semi-Automatic Urban Waste Management System using Global Systems for Mobile Communication and Customer Reliability Indices by L. Ogunwolu, A.D. Omiyale, O.O.E. Ajibola

“…Results obtained showed statistically insignificant differences in distribution of means of collection distance covered weekly but 13.31 volume units/km collected with this method compared with 3.08 volume units/km run of fixed routing scheme, at = 0.05. The cost saving potential and environmental benefits of timely waste disposal of this scheme is thus demonstrable. …”
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The causal effects between low back pain and cerebrospinal fluid metabolites: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Run Peng, Xiaoxin Wang, Wei Wang, Zeqin Li, Yuze Sun, Mingliang Yang

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LENDING RATE AND COMMERCIAL BANK LENDING IN NIGERIA by Lateef Adewale Yunusa, Mayowa Ebenezer Ariyibi, Kehinde Isiaq Olaiya, Tolulope Oyakhilome Williams

“…The findings revealed there is a long-run relationship among the variables of the study. …”
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Transition of farmland use system towards urban-rural integration: From localization to de-localization by FENG Dedong, LONG Hualou

“…[Objective] Farmland use transition runs through the entire process of the evolution of urban-rural relations in China, and is mutually reinforcing and complementary with the integrated development of urban and rural areas. …”
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A SuperLearner-based pipeline for the development of DNA methylation-derived predictors of phenotypic traits. by Dennis Khodasevich, Nina Holland, Lars van der Laan, Andres Cardenas

“…We found evidence for higher agreement between duplicate samples run on alternate DNAm arrays when using SL PCA clocks relative to traditional methods. …”
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Governance and Poverty Eradication Policy Performance During the NRM Administration in Uganda 1986 – 2020. by Mucunguzi, Abel, Katabaazi, Anny Bwengye

“…The idea behind this research is that if the causes of the slow progress in poverty reduction are not identified and targeted holistically through policy and inculcation of good governance at all levels of government administration, it will be difficult for Uganda to achieve significant poverty reduction and eradication in the long run. Consequently therefore, the main objective of the study was to establish whether or not a relationship exists between governance and anti-poverty policy performance in Uganda and to generate governance practices that can be applied for better anti-poverty policy performance in Uganda in the future. …”
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Design of a Waste Water Treatment System for Kampala International University-Western Campus. by Tayebwa, Gift

“…The university premises have the existing traditional systems which according to research will not be sufficient to cater for the growing population in the long run. By considering the topography of the area, a gravity collection system was considered for the design and using design equations and the data obtained from the field, to obtain the flow of each pipe section, velocity, slope pipe sizes, residual head and head losses the pipe hydraulics were obtained. …”
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Unleashing Women Entrepreneurial Potential in Uganda: Challenges Facing Women Entrepreneurs in their Quest for Business in Maziba Sub-county, Kabale Municipality, Kabale... by Murezi, Caroline Masiko, Akankwasa, Alex

“…Women conduct business and contribute to the nation’s growth as much as their male counterparts. Women own and run businesses in numbers that would have been hard to imagine a few decades ago. …”
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The Impact of Auditing on Financial Performance of Non¬governmental Organizations: A Case Study of Caritas in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ojok, Sam

“…To improve control activities, procedures and policies should be regularly revised at least annually and ensure they are communicated to the implementers, Internal audit could be enhanced in-house training programmes and control self-assessment questionnaires to create more awareness to staff of the roles and duties of internal auditors to enable audit services such as advisory services to run smoothly. and Increased operating costs affect profitability, thus the management of CARITAS together with the audit department should balance operating costs while maintaining credit risk at minimum by strengthening the monitoring system…”
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Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Kaharo Subcounty Kabale District. by Nasaasira, Blair

“…The effects of land management practices identified in the study area were; reducing soil erosion, improving soil fertility, controls crop pest and diseases, reduces soil compaction, reduce leaching of nutrients and increase soil water uptake and the farmers have knowledge about land management practices in the study area knowing that crop rotation maintains soil fertility, land management practices help in reducing land degradation covering the surface with grass or crop residues reduce and respondents noted that terracing helps us to reduce run-off and rate of erosion. The study recommends that Land management practices are currently being used by farmers but have potential to improve crop production. …”
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Governance and poverty eradication policy performance during the NRM1 Administration in Uganda 1986 – 2020 by Mucunguzi, Abel, Bwengye, Katabaazi Anny

“…The idea behind this research is that if the causes of the slow progress in poverty reduction are not identified and targeted holistically through policy and inculcation of good governance at all levels of government administration, it will be difficult for Uganda to achieve significant poverty reduction and eradication in the long run. Consequently therefore, the main objective of the study was to establish whether or not a relationship exists between governance and anti-poverty policy performance in Uganda and to generate governance practices that can be applied for better anti-poverty policy performance in Uganda in the future. …”
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Recruitment Practices and Health Service Delivery in Local Governments of Uganda: A Case of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Atuheire, Janet Joice

“…Based on the earlier discussions, the following can be recommended; conducting background checks to fight fake documents and detect panelists’ biologically related candidates, adopting contract-based employment, conducting a thorough analysis of the best suitable candidate methods, increasing the frequency of the job adverts run, Payment of adequate incentives and allowances in addition to a strict vigorous standard monitoring of the panelists and recruitment processes.…”
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Application of the Critical Path Method in Project Planning and Management. by Kateu, Victor

“…However, even when that is so, most of the projects in Uganda are run without proper planning, and if planning is done, it is often carried out using approaches that are not effective enough to guarantee accuracy. …”
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A Re-Designed Efficient Charcoal Stove. by Mwesigwa, Lourdel

“…It was found that after 4 test runs of the water boiling test; the re-designed efficient charcoal stove had a mean thermal efficiency of 30.3%. …”
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Citrus fruit farmers’ adaptation capacities to climate variability in Ngora district, Eastern Uganda by Simon Peter, Achuu, Sarah, Nachuha, Joweria, Nakizito, Henry Musoke, Semakula, Hosea Enos, Opedes

“…Conclusively, citrus growing provided an option to poverty eradication, however climate variability threatens farmer’s efforts. In a short-run farmers may be encouraged to work in groups. …”
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Citrus Fruit Farmers’ Adaptation Capacities to Climate Variability in Ngora District, Eastern Uganda. by Achuu, Simon Peter, Nachuha, Sarah, Nakizito, Joweria, Musoke, Semakula Henry, Opedes, Hosea Enos

“…Conclusively, citrus growing provided an option to poverty eradication, however climate variability threatens farmer’s efforts. In a short-run farmers may be encouraged to work in groups. …”
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