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The study title is project risk management strategies and performance of Kimisagara - Kivumu road construction project implemented by Horizon Construction Ltd in Nyarugenge District, Kigali- Rwanda. With this introduction, it included negative individual attitudes and informal organizational culture, low levels of technical expertise, poor disaster risk management procedures, poor planning activities, low levels of capital formation to manage recovery efforts and poor linkages with national agencies and technical support to institutions such as the universities. In the problems of the construction industry, it continues to experience significant cost overruns, schedule delays and poor-quality output, resulting in poor time, cost and quality performance. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between financial resource risk management strategies and performance of Kimisagara - Kivumu road construction project, to assess the relationship between project risk response strategies and performance of the road construction project and to establish the relationship between human resource risk management strategies and performance of Kimisagara - Kivumu road construction project. In the study, research descriptive design was used to determine sample size of 136 respondents; the data analysis used was SPSS (version20) for statistical analysis. Based on the findings,project risk response strategies indicated that the respondents strongly agreed there are strategic or alternative plans that can be identified and used to assess risks that can challenge the project in future for example like transferring the risks, have a contingency plan, accepting the Risk and to reduce the impact of the risk.
Vocabulary plays an important role in studying a language. Every high school student has his or her own strengths and weaknesses in a particular skill as well as their own vocabulary acquisition. It goes without saying that implementing a useful technique to teach vocabulary becomes more essential to both instructors and learners. Among a wide variety of approaches, teaching vocabulary with context has been claimed to be an effective strategy. With an aim to contribute my voice to the existing literature, this paper attempts to examine the effect of learning vocabulary with context clues on Vietnamese high school students as well as investigate their attitudes towards the learning of vocabulary with context clues. Eighty students from two Grade 11 classes in An My high school with nearly six years of studying English as a foreign language participated in this study. The population selected in the study was 80 students in total The study employed just quantitative method. Quantitative data was collected from a range of instruments that can be listed as pre-test and post-test, together with a closed-ended-question interview, and a Likert-scale-based questionnaire survey. The findings reveal that learning vocabulary with context clues benefited participants and helped them improve reading comprehension with higher scores. In addition, the results indicated that the students’ attitudes towards applying this technique in high school curriculum instead of traditional learning vocabulary were extensively positive.
This study aims to determine: (1) the effect of Regional Original Revenue (PAD) on local government financial performance; (2) the effect of Balance Fund on local government financial performance; (3) the effect of Capital Expenditure on local government financial performance; (4) the effect of Population can moderate the relationship between Regional Original Revenue (PAD) on local government financial performance; (5) the effect of Population can moderate the relationship between Balance Fund on local government financial performance; (6) the effect of Population can moderate the relationship between Capital Expenditure on local government financial performance. The population in this study were 17 regencies and cities in Southeast Sulawesi Province. The analysis method used is quantitative analysis, with multiple linear regression models. The results showed that Regional Original Revenue (PAD), Balance Fund, and Capital Expenditure simultaneously had an influence on the financial performance of local governments. However, the partial test results show that Regional Original Revenue (PAD) has a positive effect on the financial performance of local governments in the Regency / City of Southeast Sulawesi Province. While the Balance Fund and Capital Expenditure have a negative effect on the financial performance of local governments in the Regency / City of Southeast Sulawesi Province. The Total Population variable as a moderating variable is able to moderate the relationship between Regional Original Revenue (PAD) on the financial performance of local governments in the Regency / City of Southeast Sulawesi Province. However, it is not able to moderate the relationship between Balancing Funds and Capital Expenditures on the financial performance of local governments in the Regency / City of Southeast Sulawesi Province
The administrative building in the university is the centre for the operational responsibilities of the institution and contains several units and departments. Functional spaces, building materials (both external and internal), the location of the building elements, windows, landscape, communication and corridors, access to light, vulnerability to noise, and how it is managed, play a significant role in determining the sustainability which in turn affects user’s level of comfort. Empirical and conceptual works have established a strong correlation between building, health status, comfort, and the efficiency of users with different parameters having an influence on the users. The air quality influences the evaluation of the overall indoor environment with thermal comfort being ranked in the majority of cases to be of slightly greater importance for overall comfort than acoustic, visual comfort, and satisfaction. Hence, this research evaluated the user’s comfort with the University of Lagos Senate building but the study did not measure the variable objectively. The indicative post-occupancy evaluation was adopted in gathering data. The result showed 41.4% of users indicated that they are comfortable with the thermal environment, 14.6% were neutral, and 43.9% were uncomfortable. The acoustic respondents affirmed 56.1% were often disturbed by external sound while 43.9% indicated otherwise. With respect to visual comfort, 68.3% were positive against 31.7% being negatively impacted. Findings revealed that the buildings perform well in terms of visual but acoustic and thermal comfort was slightly different. The study, therefore, established that the administrative building was not totally designed with sustainable architecture standards in mind. It has become essential that sustainable architectural principles should be incorporated into the existing structure to avert long-term health and comfort-related challenges for the occupants. Keywords: Administrative Building, Federal University, Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), Post-occupancy, Sustainable standards
Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the inflammatory disorders of the urinary tract caused by the abnormal growth of pathogens. Urinary tract infection is known to cause short-term morbidity in terms of fever, dysuria, and lower abdominal pain (LAP) and may result in permanent scarring of the kidney. The presence of bacteria in the urine, known as bacteriuria, may be indicative of infection or colonization of the urinary tract, but it may also be due to bacterial contamination occurring during collection of a specimen. Aim: The present study was done in order to identify the bacteria causing urinary tract infections. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted on female patients who were attending Ruhengeri Referral Hospital in a period of two months from October to November 2021. Urine samples were collected from patients who were requested to urinary test with respect to standard procedures. Samples were processed and analyzed at INES-Ruhengeri microbiology laboratory where gram stain and culture as well as biochemical test were performed in order to make microbial identification. From the results patients who were found with UTI, their structured questionnaire was taken into consideration in order to determine the associated risk factors. The data on risk factors were collected using questionnaire that were designed in the preferred language. Data were collected and analysed using statistical package for social science, Microsoft excel, and the presentation of results was done using tables. Results: The outcomes of the study indicated that E.coli, K. pneumonia, P. aeruginosa, Enterobacter ssp and S. saprophyticus were isolated from patients urine sample where E. coli is more present in patients sample where it has been found at 60%(18) samples. The least isolated bacteria in patients samples are Enterrobacter spp and S. saprophyticus at frequency of 2(6.7) per each bacteria. The risk factor associated with urinary tract infection in female patients attended Ruhengeri referral hospital in a period of study, the results indicated that douching in secret parts twice a day is associated with urinary tract infection with P-value equivalent to 0.001. Conclusion: This study was intended to assess the urinary tract infection among female patients attending Ruhengeri referral hospital. The study findings indicated that E.coli, K. pneumonia, P. aeruginosa, Enterobacter ssp and S. saprophyticus are more likely to be found in urinary tract of female patients. The study finding has indicated also that poor hygienic life style increase the risk of being infected by urinary tract infections.
This paper aims to analyse the influence that Project Planning Practices have on the cost Performance of Local Government Projects in Rwanda, data for the study were collected on the performance of developmental projects carried out in Rutsiro Districts located in the Western Province of Rwanda. For many consecutive years, different project continued to fail achieving their goals and it became costly to the government of Rwanda. Project planning was found to be the key in resolving those problems. The model presented in this paper was based on literature review and the author’s experience in project management. The results showed that project planning practices contribute significantly to the cost performance of Rutsiro district projects. The results based on OLS models show that influence of project planning on the project’s cost performance was statistically significant and positively related to projects’ cost performance.
This research was aiming generally to assess the factors affecting procurement practices in organization performance of public institutions in Rwanda; with case of Rwanda Governance Board. The present study’s specific objectives including: To assess the factors affecting procurement planning in organization performance of public procuring entities in Rwanda; to assess the factors affecting procurement practices in organization performance of public procuring entities in Rwanda and to assess the factors affecting procurement transparency in organization performance of public procuring entities in Rwanda. This study was carried out of in all Rwanda Governance Board. This study considered the agency theory that is having relation with procurement system including the procurement planning, the neoclassic theory that is related to procurement transparency and the theory of regulatory compliance where organization performance was based on. The entire population was 120 persons from different departments: the procurement departments, the finance departments and from the customer service departments. Specifically, the target sample size of this study was comprised of 94 persons who were selected purposively from the departments of procurement, finance and customer service. The questionnaires and documentation research techniques were also used during data collection. The findings reveal that in long run, the organization performance in public procuring entities is explained by probability of 0.0124 for procurement planning; by probability of 0.007 for procurement practices; by probability of 0.0139 for procurement transparency and that respectively expected to 1.24% & 0.7% & 1.39% and of probabilities, which are less than 5%. Basing on simple regression theories each factor of procurement practices is presenting the good fitness variability by each probability that is less than 5%. The R2 =0.9904 and Adjusted R2 =0.9901, show the goodness of fit of the estimated model. Up to 99.04% of long run appreciation in organization performances influenced by changes in procurement planning; procurement practices; procurement ethics as implemented by public procuring entities. Therefore, the researcher can conclude by saying that the research hypotheses including: H1: Procurement planning has statistical effects towards organization performance; H2: procurement practices has statistical effects towards organization performance; H3: Procurement transparency has statistical effects towards organization performance” all were tested, verified and then they are confirmed referring to the statistical (regression analysis) findings. This leads to confirm that there is significant relationship between procurement practices with their observed indicators (factors) and organization performance in public procuring entities in Rwanda.
Movement of money from one person to another or from one account to another for making payment, helping families and friends is common in societies. Mobile Money, as a new financial system, is a cheaper, faster and more efficient way of carrying out financial transactions in the area, which also has an impact on Financial Security. The main objective of the study is to design the extender security model for Mobile Money exchange. The specific objectives of this study are: to examine the influence of infrastructure on mobile money exchange delivery, to inspect the influence of data flow on mobile money exchange delivery, to establish the effects of security on mobile money exchange delivery, and finally to evaluate the novel security model for mobile money exchange delivery. The target population was 250 individuals. The sample size of 153 respondents has been drawn from the target population. Data for the study have been be collected from the selected transport company and its different customers through a self-administered questionnaire. This study presented an assortment of findings start with demographic findings. A great number (54.25%) of the respondents employed in this study were female and most of them (51.63%) and most of the respondents were in middle age between 20 and 25 years of age. 26.80% of respondents were Bank teller. Furthermore, the majority of respondents (50.98%) had A2 level. The main technologies currently employed for mobile money mobile money transfers are: SMS, STK, USSD, and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). SMS technology: SMS is that the most ordinarily used application in mobile cash transfers in developing countries for low-value payments as a result of it's easy to use and is compatible with a spread of phones as well as low-end devices. STK technology: STK is a standard from GSM which has been used since 1998 to secure mobile phone applications, especially for mobile banking and privacy. The researcher has used different network devices to design the model below. Among those tools include computers, switches, routers, file servers, web servers, as well as firewall. The researcher used a firewall for security purpose because a firewall monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on an organization's previously established security policies. At its most basic, a firewall is essentially the barrier that sits between a private internal network and the public Internet. To simulate the model, researcher has used the Packet tracer 8.1.1 software to test the data flow from outside network to inside network. The mobile money exchange are understood as the services whereby customers use their mobile device to send and receive monetary value or more simply put, to transfer money electronically from one person to another using a mobile phone. The nodes from different network can communicate and packet have successfully flowed through the firewall which is configured to allow some packets and restrict others from any outside network. Keywords: Security; Mobile Money Exchange Delivery
To identify different types of precipitates and their composition, analytical atom probe tomography analysis on a needle-shaped sample prepared by focused beam microscopy and electrochemical etching was performed. Three-dimensional chemical maps from each element in a LiFePO4 are acquired and the resulting elemental maps are jointly reconstructed by using reconstruction soft wear module. Since analytical atom probe tomography data suffers from noise, generalized variation regularization is used to improve the reconstruction quality compared to conventional reconstruction techniques i.e electron microscopy. Atom probe tomography analyses the influence of regularization parameters on these reconstructions in terms of elemental and quantities quantification using UV laser mode which is difficult to measure by using other elemental quantification method.
Climate change is increasingly having a stronger and longer-lasting impact on people, which can directly or indirectly affect their mental health. However, Mitigation and adaptation strategies are therefore necessary for effective management of the impacts of climate change on mental health for sustainable development and economic growth. Groups that are especially vulnerable to the mental health impacts of climate change include children, the elderly, and women. In this study, we look at the effect of climate change on vulnerable populations and provide mitigation measures in addressing these challenges. These mitigation measures includes, the use of public transport to lower greenhouse gas emissions and reducing symptoms of depression and stress and also by the use of renewable energy technology like wind, solar and other clean energy to reduce particulates and pollution in the air. We also provide adaptive measures through policy-making, surveillance, and monitoring, community-based initiatives, building upon global commitment, and a multisectoral community base approach. It concludes with the recommendation that information about climate adaptation and mitigation should be made the target of the society and the world at large. Keywords: Climate change, Mitigation, Adaptation, Population, Mental health, Impact, Vulnerable
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