Contextualizing the Christian concept of God among the Baganda in Uganda

Master's thesis in global studies. School of Mission and Theology, May 200

Social media effectiveness on youth purchasing behaviour of soft drinks in Tanzania: a study of University of Dar es Salaam students

The article assesses social media effectiveness on youth purchasing behaviour of soft drinks in Tanzania. With the help of the AIDA Model and Media Theory, the article focuses on the content, attitude and awareness of social media as they affect youth purchasing behaviour of soft drinks. A structured questionnaire to gather data was distributed to 80 conveniently sampled non PhD University of Dar es Salaam youth students. More so, 3 purposively selected key informants were interviewed for in-depth information. A mixed method approach was used for data analysis, where quantitative analysis was primarily utilised and complemented by in-depth interviews from key informants. Multiple regression analysis aided by SPSS Version 20 was used to analyse the quantitative data. The findings indicate that of the three constructs, youth purchasing behaviour appears to be positively and significantly influenced by two predictor variables namely, content and awareness of social media constructs. A third construct of attitude towards social media had a positive, but insignificant influence on youth purchasing behaviour. The article recommends that soft drinks companies should effectively utilise social media platforms, by adopting effective use of social media content through enhanced clarity and identity of content. Moreover, companies should capitalise on awareness opportunities created through ease of social media use and the level of knowledge of youths as means to recruit new consumers as well as retain existing ones

Salient Attributes to Employee Compliance with Mobile Operation Ethics in Tanzania: A Case of Vodacom Tanzania Plc

This paper on determinants of employees’ compliance with mobile operation ethics in Tanzania was motivated by reports of numerous unmitigated accesses to customer information and transactions on the mobile money platform, and the need to control these transactions using effective and practical measures to sustain the service. Specifically, it sets out to establish the employees’ working environment, determine the employees’ wants and examine the employer/employee relations vis-à-vis their influence on employees’ compliance with ethics. This explanatory study collected quantitative data using a questionnaire survey that contained structured questions. Though largely quantitative, the study findings were complemented by information from interviews held with 3 key informants. Descriptive statistics was used to present the profiles of the respondents whereas multiple regression analysis was used to ascertainthe pattern of relationship between study variables. Findings indicate that the two independent variables— ‘working environment’ and ‘employer-employee relations’—were positively and statistically significant on employees’ compliance with ethics. Though, the employees’ wants were found to be positive, they were statistically insignificant in influencing employees’ compliance with ethics. This implies that employees’ compliance with ethics on mobile operations is materially influenced by the work environment and employer-employee relations. Managements must therefore play their roles pertaining to the provision of amenable work environment and enhance good relations with their employees

The influence of user participation attributes on e-government implementation success in developing countries: a study of Uganda

This paper examined the influence of user participation attributes on e-government implementation success in Uganda. The quantitative data were collected through a survey of 277 employees from three Ministries (ICT, Finance and Works) in Uganda and was analysed using PLS-SEM aided by Smart PLS3. Using Stakeholder theory as a primary theory for addressing user participation who are key stakeholders and UTAUT to capture the technology usage of egovernment users. Findings revealed that user participation attributes have a significant positive influence on e-government implementation success in Ugandan context. Findings from the Smart PLS assessment measurement model portended that user participation attributes have a statistical positive relationship on e-government implementation success in Uganda. Therefore, policy makers, managers, Information System developers, electronic service providers, and egovernment implementers should consider involving end-users in active e-government implementation process. This ensures accountability, transparency, trust in electronic-services and online-information from the central government to the users, among other benefits. These findings contribute to sparse literature of user participation in e-government implementation success in developing nations hence providing empirical foundation for future academia. More so, all stakeholders of e- government implementation work towards curbing the factors affecting and hindering end-users from active participation in e-government implementation in Uganda

A Study on Moodle (Learning Management System) Language Pack for Elementary School Students

大学での授業等において，学習管理システム（LMS）を用いることが一般的になりつつある．特にオープンソースとして開発されているMoodle は多言語化がされており，日本語を含む様々な言語での利用が可能なように言語パックが提供されている．しかし，今後小学校等におけるMoodle の利用を想定する場合，ユーザーインタフェース（UI）に関連した様々な点が，利用上問題になることが予想される．その一つとして，メニューやボタンなどの選択項目を児童が読めなかったり理解できなかったりする点が挙げられる．そこで，小学生用の日本語言語パックを作成し，小学校へのMoodle の普及へとつなげたい．本稿ではそのために検討した事項について述べる

E-logistic Practices and Health Care Supply Chain Management for Public Referral Hospitals in Uganda

This paper examined e-logistic practices and health care supply chain management in the context of Ugandan public referral hospitals. The prime objective was to examine the relationship between e-logistics operations and performance of health care supply chain management. A quantitative research approach was utilized to gather data from public referral hospitals respondents using structured survey questionnaires.  For data analysis, descriptive statistics and Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling were utilised, aided by SmartPLS 3. Findings showed a positive significant relationship between e-logistics operations and performance of health care supply chain management in the context of Ugandan public referral hospitals. This study implies that the key e-logistics operations in relation to the performance of health care supply chain management, are central management of drugs, the correct order picking of drugs given to the right patients for quality control, and presence of an electronic system to update stock daily. Additionally, the findings designated that, e-logistics operations are related to the performance of health care supply chain management in terms of ICTs tracking systems and data transparency. The practical implication to the health sector- stakeholders, is to consider ICT-tracking systems and data transparency for e-logistics operations and performance of health care supply chain management

Preliminary study on the visual sensitivity of Oreochromis niloticus using LED light source for the aquaculture development in Uganda

The visible threshold of Oreochromis niloticus responded to high light intensity under short wavelengths, whereas the response to low light intensity under long wavelengths was low, with a minimum visual threshold of 574 nm of LED lights. Movement distance of O. niloticus was dropped at 31°C and increased abnormally at 37°C under natural light. Comparing movement distance under red (622 nm) and green (518 nm) lights of LED, movement distance and swimming speed under red and green lights were higher than under natural light. However, the movement distance decreased rapidly at 31°C under red light and lowest at 33°C under green light. After that, there was a tendency to adapt to high water temperatures gradually. Consequently, red and green lights may be recommended for O. niloticus’s aquaculture because the red and green lights have a positive effect on growth performance, survival rate, and metabolism, as shown in previous studies. It is necessary to control the water temperature below 32°C because abnormal behavior above 32°C revealed under red and green LED lights and natural light

Modeling the support factor (P) as a function of socio-economic factors for improved erosion prediction on the hillslopes of Lake Victoria Basin of Uganda

A major challenge to erosion prediction using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) is the uncertainty in parametrizing the support factor (P). This P factor is usually regarded as 1 in areas with no structural management practices. However, in agrarian landscapes which are dominated with agronomic management practices, the P factor is difficult to parameterize. Moreover, the agronomic practices are usually the most simplest and affordable soil and water conservation technologies for mitigating runoff and soil losses in many developing countries. Our objective was to model the support factor (P) as a function of socio-economic factors for adoption of management practices in order to improve erosion prediction. Our methodology involved four (4) steps; namely, (a) estimating potential erosion using RUSLE; (b) establishing the socio-economic for adoption of management practices using Probit regression analysis; (c) integrating socio-economic factors with biophysical parameters to form a Systems Dynamic (SD) model for soil erosion; and (d) validating the Systems Dynamic (SD) model at watershed level using empirical data and RUSLE as the baseline model.  Validation results showed that on Acric Ferralsols at slope gradient 10-15% the potential erosion as predicted by RUSLE model ranged between 120-140 t ha-1yr-1.  On the other hand, soil loss as predicted from the Systems Dynamic (SD) model, based on the same slope gradient and soil condition as the case in RUSLE, ranged between 11-50 t ha-1yr-1. This accounted for about 67-90% decrease in soil loss. Model outputs were calibrated and validated by field data measured using Un-bound runoff plots (Gerlach Troughs). The results showed that in sole banana soil loss increased step-wise with increasing gradient in the measured and predicted data (P < 0.05); while in sole coffee contradicting results were achieved. We concluded that modelling the support factor (P) as a function of socio-economic factors provides a pragmatic solution to the uncertainty in its parameterization. Generalizing the support factor (P) as one (1) even in areas with agronomic management technology tends to over-estimate the risk of soil erosion. Thus, it can potentially stand out as a dis-incentive that undermines farmers’ efforts to mitigate runoff and soil loss in degraded watersheds. Key words: 1. Erosion, 2. Geo information science, 3. System Dynamics, 4. Support factor, 5. Uganda Funding was by SIDA SAREC Project 377 under Makerere University for the period 2016-2022. DOI: 10.7176/JEES/13-3-06 Publication date: May 30th 202

Quality assurance of health management information system in Kayunga district, Uganda

Background: An efficient health management information system (HMIS) improves health care delivery and outcomes. However, in most rural settings in Uganda, paper-based HMIS are widely used to monitor public health care services. Moreover, there are limited capabilities and capacity for quality HMIS in remote settings such as Kayunga district. Objectives: The quality assurance practices of HMIS in health centres (HCs) in Kayunga district were evaluated. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used to assess the quality of HMIS at 21 HCs in Kayunga district. Data were collected through in-depth interviews of HMIS focal persons as well as document analysis of HMIS records and guidelines between 15 June 2010 and 15 July 2010. The main outcomes were quality assurance practices, the HMIS programmatic challenges and opportunities. The practice of HMIS was assessed against a scale for good quality assurance practices. Qualitative data were coded and thematically analysed, whereas quantitative data were analysed by descriptive statistics using SPSS v22 software. Results: All the 21 HCs had manual paper-based HMIS. Less than 25% of HCs practised quality assurance measures during collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of HMIS data. More than 50% of HCs were not practising any type of quality assurance during analysis and dissemination of data. The main challenges of the HMIS were the laborious and tedious manual system, the difficulty to archive and retrieve records, insufficient HMIS forms and difficulty in delivering hard copies of reports to relevant stakeholders influenced quality of data. Human resource challenges included understaffing where 43% of participating HCs did not have a designated HMIS staff. Conclusion: The HMIS quality assurance practices in Kayunga were suboptimal. Training and support supervision of HMIS focal persons is required to strengthen quality assurance of HMIS. Implementation of electronic HMIS dashboards with data quality checks should be integrated alongside the manual system

炎症性腸疾患と唾液中α1,2-フコースの免疫病理学的関連性

学位の種別: 課程博士審査委員会委員 : （主査）東京大学教授 藤尾 圭志, 東京大学准教授 近藤 健二, 東京大学教授 佐藤 伸一, 東京大学講師 川合 一茂, 東京大学教授 三宅 健介University of Tokyo(東京大学