ABSTRACT This paper examines the climate change effect on inclusive growth and the possible moderating role of adaptive capacity in climate change/inclusive growth in the long and short-run. The study employs temperature change anomalies (with 1951-1980 as the baseline climatological year) and CO2 emissions (metric ton per capita) as variables for climate change and a set of variables as indicators to measure inclusive growth. These set of indicators are adopted from the Asian Development Ban...
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ABSTRACT Music is an integral part of youth culture; Music is now the most popular form of entertainment worldwide with the established fact that music is very persuasive on the thoughts, action behaviour and ideology of people especially youths. The aim of this study was to examine youth’s perception of Nigerian hip-hop music “a study of the social media narratives of Olamide’s science student song". Four research objectives and questions guided this study: To examine the extent to whi...
Abstract Patatte is a simple social network that helps people to find and collaborate with informal and semi-formal experts. This project’s aim is to solve the ‘expert finding+ problem’ which is the problem of finding an unknown expert (for any purpose including hiring, working with or questioning the expert) by searching through real world or online social networks with skill or interest keywords. The system is designed to be simple and intuitive to use. This is because some of the tar...
ABSTRACT Life satisfaction, identified as one of the important components of quality of life, is generally low in Nigeria. Most studies on life satisfaction have been focused on the effects of psychological factors to the neglect of the importance of house-ownership and neighbourhood effect. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of house-ownership, religious commitment, self-esteem, social support, personality factors and the moderating effect of neighbourhood on life satisfaction...
ABSTRACT This research studied the factors causing gender disparity in executive positions in KCG. To achieve this, the study was guided by four objectives which include; establishing how political factors, regional balance, social-cultural factors and education influence the recruitment process of executive officers in KCG. The theory was hinged on the Equity Theory, Feminist Theory, Social Gender Theory, Structural Functional theory and Social Cognitive theory. The case study research desi...
ABSTRACT This study was based on Labour turnover and organizational performance in telecommunication industry in Mogadishu, Somalia. The following were the objectives of the study: (i) To establish the effect of voluntary turnover on organizational performance in telecommunication industry in Mogadishu- Somalia, (ii) to determine the effect of involuntary turnover on organizational performance in telecommunication industry in Mogadishu- Somalia, (iii) to assess the effect of functional turnov...
ABSTRACT This paper is a study of the possible impact of gender in the societal attitudes towards rape, rape victims and perpetrators. Under the subject of Gender and Sexualities, this paper seeks to find new ways to eradicate the problem of rape by studying the impact of societal attitudes through gender and gender role stereotyping, and their influence on sex and sexuality. A study of a possible rape culture is also an examination of the deeply embedded power structures that create inequal...
Nowadays the internet has gained paramount importance in the education arena. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of social networking sites (SNS) on growing up adolescent girls in KCC. To identify the nature of browsing the internet, to find out how social sites help to increase the knowledge level, to know the impact of using a social networking site. The study was conducted through a survey research design. For this study, purposive sampling was used. Samples were co...
Nowadays the internet has gained paramount importance in the education arena. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of social networking sites (SNS) on growing up adolescent girls in KCC. To identify the nature of browsing the internet, to find out how social sites help to increase the knowledge level, to know the impact of using a social networking site. The study was conducted through a survey research design. For this study, purposive sampling was used. Samples were co...
ABSTRACT This research involved explaining how the use of Facebook has affected the face-to-face communication. The goal was to ascertain if it influences it negatively or positively. This will be achieved through inquiring of information from students. It is no doubt that the social media has been a key communication platform for most youths and there has been worry that it is greatly affecting their face-to-face communication skills. This research highlights the dangers posed by excessive u...
ABSTRACT This study examined the effects of social transfer programmes in facilitating access and utilization of health care services and its implications in attaining universal health coverage in Dodoma Region, Tanzania. A cross-sectional survey of 402 household beneficiaries of social transfer programmes was carried out using interviewer administered questionnaire. In addition, 18 focus group discussions were carried out with community members and 12 in-depth interviews were held with prog...
ABSTRACT The media play a central role in disseminating information with the aim of creating awareness of topical issues, including legal issues. Various studies have also established that news from the media is the popular source of information on current events. Similarly, public knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards legal systems are largely shaped by the media information they receive, thus, the need for examining the content and nature of information being disseminated by the media. C...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the Social Darwinist ideology, racism and conflict in selected Hollywood films about Africa looking at the case study of Tears of the Sun, Hotel Rwanda and Blood Diamond. The aim of the study was to interrogate the interaction of Social Darwinist ideology, race and conflict in selected Hollywood films about Africa with sub-objectives of establishing perceptions, determining conflict interpretations, assessing racial perspectives, identifying filmic techniques use...
ABSTRACT Purpose of the research study was to investigate the relationship between Communication and Employee Commitment in Kampala International University (KIU). Though KIU’s employees usually exchange socio and work oriented communication among themselves and sometimes between employees and management using different communication media, they are not strongly emotionally attached to the university, have no costs at all associated with leaving the university and have no feelings of obliga...