Budgeting and Performance of Financial Institutions: A Case Study of Lyamujungu SACCO in Kabale Municipality. by Arinaitwe, Yosam

“…Results indicate that budgeting estimates, as realistic as possible, the cost of completing the objectives of the organization. …”
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Evaluation of energy generation potential from municipal solid waste in the North-West province, South Africa by Mapereka Francis Chagunda , Ruhiiga Tabukeli Musigi , Palamuleni Lobina Gertrude *

“…The results also indicate that using paper as fuel in the 240 tonnes/day WtE technology would cover more days of operation than plastics and rubber. Based on the 2020 estimated waste quantities, paper would last 234 days of generating about 6,944 GWh while plastics would last 177 days with energy output of 5, 207 GWh. …”
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Application of the Critical Path Method in Project Planning and Management. by Kateu, Victor

“…Project success can be hardly achieved without planning, scheduling, and estimating its duration for completion. 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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Challenges Faced by Refugees in Kanungu: A Case Study of Matanda Campsite in Kanungu District Uganda. by Ainembabazi, Roland

“…A descriptive survey design was adopted as it is suitable for describing group characteristics, estimating proportions, and making predictions. Using the Krejcie and Morgan table (1970), a sample size of 92 respondents was determined from a population of 120. …”
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Mobile-Commerce Usage Challenges among University Students in Uganda: A Case of Kabale University. by Phelix, Businge Mbabazi, Micheal, Tamale, Patricia, Kyomugisha

“…This study was conducted at Kabale University with an estimated population of 150 students from the faculty of Computing, library and information science, cross sectional survey method was used where data was collected using google forms and analyzed using SPSS 25 and results were statistically represented inform of tables, charts and graphs using frequencies and percentages. …”
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Experimental investigation of a cooking unit integrated with thermal energy storage system by Pamella, K. Kajumba, Denis, Okello, Karidewa, Nyeinga, Ole, J. Nydal

“…Energy balances were used to estimate the heat transfer coefficients between the hot oil and the water in the cooking pot at different flow rates. …”
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Prevalence of Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma vivax in Lira District, Uganda by Aziz, Katabazi, Adamu, Almustapha Aliero, Simon Peter, Musinguzi

“…It was thus important to estimate the burden of trypanosomiasis in the region. …”
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Performance of Household Water Treatment Methods for Microbial Removal under Household Conditions in Kabale District, Uganda by Alex, Saturday, George Lukoye Makokha, Anthony Macharia

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Factors associated with delays in seeking tuberculosis treatment among patients at Muhima district hospital, Rwanda by Mercy Nwankwo, Chinenye, Yasmin Omar, Umubyeyi

“…Methods: The study adopted descriptive cross- sectional study of 49 smear-positive TB patients derived using proportion estimation of case registry (November 2016 to January 2017) newly- diagnosed patients, first and second months treatment. …”
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Urban monitoring, evaluation and application of COVID-19 listed vaccine effectiveness: a health code blockchain study by Tao Wang, Hongyan Li, Chaoqun Li, Zheheng Li

“…Simulation finds that the higher the proportion of unvaccinated infected people who are not observed, the lower the estimate of observed effectiveness; and the lower the true effectiveness, the larger the gap between observed effectiveness and true effectiveness. …”
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Scaling and intermittent properties of oceanic and atmospheric <i>p</i>CO₂ time series and their difference in a turbulence framework by K. Robache, F. G. Schmitt, Y. Huang, Y. Huang

“…Scaling exponents are estimated through Fourier analysis, and their average quantities were considered globally for all parameters, as well as for different ecosystems such as coastal shelf, coral reefs and open ocean. …”
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Comprehensive epidemiological evaluation of ruminant brucellosis and associated risk factors in some Egyptian Governorates by Nesreen Allam Tantawy Allam, Mahinour Ezzeldin Abdelsalam, Hend I. Elsharkawy, Mai Mohamed Kandil, Amany Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed, Fatma Ali, Mohamed A. Gebely, Safaa Y. Nour, Doaa Sedky, Mona Ebrahim Hussien Abd El-Gawad, Hoda M. Zaki, Nazek Al-Gallas, Amal M. Aboelmaaty, Mona Mohamed Sobhy, Nagwa Sayed Ata, Marwa Salah Abdel-Hamid, Ghada A. Badawy

“…This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of ruminant brucellosis in six Egyptian governorates. …”
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Effectiveness of a universal film intervention in reducing violence against children and increasing positive parenting among migrant and displaced caregivers from Myanmar: a commun... by Amanda Sim, Khaing Zar Lwin, Stephanie Eagling-Peche, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Seema Vyas, Francisco Calderon, Tawanchai Jirapramukpitak, Jamie Lachman, Sureeporn Punpuing, Andrea Gonzalez, Mary Soan, Nway Nway Oo, Ivet Castello Mitjans, Greg Tyrosvoutis, Eve Puffer

“…No meaningful differences were observed for psychological violence between intervention and control groups, with imprecisely estimated effects close to zero (β 0.47, 95% CI −0.62 to 1.57). …”
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Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. by Rosemary Hiscock, Nicole H Augustin, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore

“…The main limitations are first that because we do not know the exact mechanism by which Nielsen scales up sample data to provide UK estimates, we could only use data for a set three year period during which the same adjustments are made. …”
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Cytotoxicity towards human endothelial cells, induced by neutrophil myeloperoxidase: protection by ceftazidime by M. Mathy-Hartert, G. Deby-Dupont, C. Deby, L. Jadoul, A. Vandenberghe, M. Lamy

“…In presence of H2O2 (10−4 M), this uptake was accompanied by cell lysis. The cytolysis was estimated by the release of 51Cr from HUVEC and expressed as an index of cytotoxicity (IC). …”
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The prognostic value of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio in multiple myeloma patients treated with a bortezomib-based regimen by Quane Zhang, Yifan Wang, Wenting Shi, Yue Chen, Zhengmei He, Liang Yu, Chunling Wang

“…We compared the clinical characteristics between the two groups and utilized restricted cubic splines (RCSs) in the regression model to estimate the nonlinear relationship between the initial PLR and overall survival (OS) in MM patients. …”
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Single-Port Laparoscopic Surgery Is Feasible and Safe for Hepatic Left Lateral Sectionectomy for Benign Liver Lesions by Yuan Cheng, Ze-sheng Jiang, Xiao-ping Xu, Wen-fa Huang, Guo-lin He, Chen-jie Zhou, Jia-sheng Qin, Yi Gao, Ming-xin Pan

“…There was no significant difference in the operative time, estimated intraoperative blood loss, length of hospital stay, and incidences of postoperative complications (biliary leakage, hemorrhage, and contusion at incision) between groups (all P>0.05). …”
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Study of the Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus Genotypes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Mai M. El-Daly, Arwa A. Faizo, Shahad A. Madkhali, Nashwa F. Aldardeir, Nassrin A. Badroon, Norah A. Uthman, Rahaf T. Alqawas, Ahmed A. Mousa, Safaa A. Turkistani, Esam I. Azhar

“…In Saudi Arabia, an estimated 10.7 million women aged 15 years and older are at risk of HPV-related cervical cancer. …”
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Toward the Development of Large-Scale Word Embedding for Low-Resourced Language by Shahzad Nazir, Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz Ahmad Sahi, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Muhammad Haris Aziz

“…There exist some approaches for word embedding that consider co-occurrence and word frequency, such as Matrix Factorization, skip-gram, hierarchical-structure regularizer, and noise contrastive estimation. These approaches have created mature word vectors for most spoken languages in the world, on the other hand, the research community turned their minor attention towards the Urdu language having 231.3 million speakers. …”
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Roofing Highways With Solar Panels Substantially Reduces Carbon Emissions and Traffic Losses by Hou Jiang, Ning Lu, Jun Qin, Ling Yao, Xu Lian, Jijiang He, Tang Liu, Chenghu Zhou

“…Here, we combine solar PV output modeling with the global highway distribution and levelized cost of electricity to estimate the potential and economic feasibility of deploying highway PV systems worldwide. …”
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