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The economic contribution of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Uganda: a case of Mubende and Buhweju districts
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2016-06)
Small-scale mining is often used interchangeably with artisanal mining, with acceptance that there is no consistent global definition for the terms. Broadly, smallscale mining refers to the exploitation of marginal or small ...
The Health and Ecological Implications of Mercury use in Artisanal Gold Extraction Process
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2018-06-12)
This paper presents findings of the study to examine the implications of Mercury use in artisanal gold mining on the ecological systems and the miners’ health. Mercury is extensively used in gold extraction ...
The Effect of ICT on Households’ Food Security in Uganda. Evidence from Acholi Sub Region in Northern Uganda
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2018-06-30)
According to the Global Food Security Report (2017), about 108 million people are food insecure all over the world, and the situation is likely to worsen. It is estimated that by 2050, 9.1 billion people worldwide will be ...
The role of University Libraries in Uganda in achieving the UN 2030 Agenda
(2018)
The full title of ‘The UN 2030 Agenda’ is, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (United Nations, 2015). The Agenda has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that seek to ...
Financial accessibility and poverty reduction in Northern Uganda, Lango Sub-Region
(Research Publish, 2019-04-01)
Access to a well-functioning financial system can economically and socially empower individuals and in particular poor people, allowing them to better integrate into the economy of their countries and to actively contribute ...
Effect of income dynamics on household food security in rural communities , evidence from Uganda
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2019)
The Objective of the study was to investigate the effect of income dynamics on households’ food security in
rural economies with evidence from Uganda. The study was completely a desk review following a descriptive ...
Employees involvement as agent of change management and performance of local governments in eastern Uganda: an empirical study.
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2020-12)
Performance of Local Governments is key in delivering essential services to the citizens of the Country. Citizen get health, education for children thus developing the human resource, roads to enable movement of people and ...
Efficacy of institutional framework in managing wild life trade in Uganda : preliminary evidence
(Makerere Business Journal, 2018)
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to report preliminary evidence on evaluating the efficacy of the institutional framework in the management of trade in wildlife products in Uganda.
Methodology: The study adopted a ...
On the structure of quasi-Keplerian accretion discs surrounding millisecond X-ray pulsars
(Springer, 2020-10-12)
In this study, we investigated the time-independent dynamics (disc structure, forces and torques) of a quasi-Keplerian disc around a millisecond pulsar (MSP) with an internal dynamo. We considered the disc around a MSP to ...
Planetary core formation via multispecies pebble accretion
(Oxford University Press, 2021-12-02)
In the general classical picture of pebble-based core growth, planetary cores grow by accretion of single pebble species. The growing planet may reach the so-called pebble isolation mass, at which it induces a pressure ...