Research articles: Recent submissions
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A Framework for Locating Prescribed Medication at Pharmacies
(Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 2023)Introduction: Accessibility of available medication at pharmacies is one of the core problems in the health sector of developing countries. The mechanism for optimally accessing the available drugs in pharmacies is unclear. ... -
Algorithms for the Generation of an Electronic Customized Answer Booklet for Universities
(Indonesian Journal of Innovation and Applied Sciences (IJIAS), 2023)Academic institutions in Uganda are accustomed to using pen-on-paper exams where students are given an answer booklet at the time of the exam. Universities frequently use customized answer booklets which help to lower the ... -
A Systematic Review on the Application of Ontologies to Improve Career Guidance
(Indonesian Journal of Innovation and Applied Sciences (IJIAS), 2023)The review discusses students’ challenges as they move between educational levels and the labor market, mainly due to the lack of effective, efficient, and timely career guidance. The review suggests that using ontologies ... -
Behavioral Predictors of Intention to Use a Text Messaging Reminder System Among People Living With HIV in Rural Uganda: Survey Study
(JMIR Human Factors, 2023)Background: The expansion of cellular phones in sub-Saharan Africa spurred the development of SMS text message–based mobile health (mHealth) technology. Numerous SMS text message–based interventions have attempted to ... -
Real Time Inventory Tracking Model in the Distribution Supply Chain of Airtel Airtime
(International Journal of New Technology and Research (IJNTR), 2020)This research considers designing and developing a Real Time Inventory Tracking Model (R.T.I.T.M) in the Business Supply Chain (SC) for an Airtel Authorized Distribution Company (DC) called Private Marketing and Trading ... -
Enhancing Bring Your Own Device Security in Education
(Journal of Science & Technology, 2022)Background: The acceptance and use of personal devices at educational institutions is on the rise, resulting in the education sector's adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). The institutions benefit from cost reduction ... -
Enhancing Tuberculosis Care in Southwestern Uganda: Facilitators and Barriers to Utilizing Mobile Health Technologies
(Global Implementation Research and Applications, 2022)Although mobile health technologies are low-cost approaches that can enhance tuberculosis care, there is a dearth of research about the facilitators and barriers regarding their utilization in enhancing the public–private ... -
Secure and Efficient Mobile Personal Health Data Sharing in Resource Constrained Environments
(In 2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2015)Personal health record (PHR) systems are widely used in the developed world, but little has been done to explore the utility of these PHR systems in the developing world. A key reason for this is that many developing world ... -
The Future of Intelligent Networks in Developing Countries
(2022)Telecommunication networks have become important not only for the academic community but also for users in business and industry. As globalization takes shape, this trend applies to both developed and developing countries. ... -
The role of mobile health technologies in promoting COVID-19 prevention: A narrative review of intervention effectiveness and adoption
(Digital Health, 2022)Background: Researchers have found innovative ways of using mobile health (mHealth) technologies to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, fewer studies have been done to determine their adoption ... -
Towards People Crowd Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks
(European Journal of Technology, 2022)Objective: The objective of this study was to examine and propose the use of wireless sensor networks for people crowd detection in resource constrained environments such as developing economies. Methodology: A systematic ... -
Patients’ Health Records Management in Ugandan Hospitals: A Case of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital
(International Journal for e-Learning Security (IJeLS, 2020)Personal health record (PHR) is considered as an emerging patient-centric model of health information exchange, where people can share their health information to other people, however most health facilities in Uganda have ... -
Environmental Factors: Examining the Analytical Power of Its Dimensions in Explaining the Adoption of a Unified Identification System of MDAs in Uganda
(International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 2020)The use of the unified identification system (UIDS) can undoubtedly result in increased effectiveness and efficiency, improvement in the quality of life, reduction of crime, enhanced transparency, and good government. This ... -
An Empirical Study of Bugs in Eclipse Stable Internal Interfaces
(arXiv preprint arXiv, 2022)The Eclipse framework is a popular and widely used framework that has been evolving for over a decade. The framework provides both stable interfaces (APIs) and unstable interfaces (non-APIs). Despite being discouraged by ... -
Usage and Security of Examination Modes of Assessment: A Survey of Two Universities in South Western Uganda
(American Journal of Online and Distance Learning, 2021)Introduction: Academic institutions are faced with challenges related to usage and security of existing modes of assessment. Security issues include confidentiality, integrity and availability while usage issues include ... -
The Submarine Cable Connection: What should it means for Rural Africa?
(2014-09-02)This paper focuses on the implication of the Indian Ocean Submarine Cable Connection at East African coast to Africa's economies. It looks at the current Wide Area Networks (WAN) technologies. With the connection of the ... -
Ry/Rk-Lex: A Computational Lexicon for Runyankore and Rukiga Languages
(In Swedish Language Technology Conference and NLP4CALL, 2021)Current research in computational linguistics and NLP requires the existence of language resources. Whereas these resources are available for only a few well-resourced languages, there are many languages that have been ... -
A review of privacy and usability issues in mobile health systems: Role of external factors
(Health informatics journal, 2019)The increased penetration of mobile devices has created opportunities in the health sector and led to emerging of mobile health systems. As much as the mobile health systems have registered tremendous progress, they have ... -
Understanding Patterns of Social Support and Their Relationship to an ART Adherence Intervention Among Adults in Rural Southwestern Uganda
(open access at Springerlink.com, 2006-09-26)Abstract SMS is a widely used technology globally and may also improve ART adherence, yet SMS notifications to social supporters following real-time detection of missed doses showed no clear benefit in a recent pilot ... -
Issues Affecting Health Research Collaborations based on Cloud Computing
(International Journal of New Technology and Research (IJNTR), 2018-09-09)Research in science and technology is multifaceted with data sharing as a crucial issue among others. The issues are prevalent in collaboration based setups with significant interest in public health and medical where ...
