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Postgraduate Graduation Book of Abstracts MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH AND GRADUATE TRAINING POSTGRADUATE BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 27th Graduation Ceremony 24th April 2021 1 Table of contents FORWARD................................................................................................................................................. 14 1.0 POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS ........................................................................................................ 15 2.0 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY .............................................................................................................. 17 2.1 FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES ....................................................... 17 2.1.1 Credit Facilitation Decisions for Financial Performance: The Case of Agricultural Cooperatives’ in Kamwenge and Sheema Districts in Uganda ......................................................... 17 2.1.2 Contractor Selection, Monitoring and Performance of Road Infrastructure Projects in Uganda ................................................................................................................................................... 18 2.1.3 Promotions, Information Asymmetry and Consumer Usage Behaviour of Traditional Medicine Users in Central Uganda...................................................................................................... 19 2.1.4 Time-based manufacturing practices and performance of small and medium factories in Uganda ................................................................................................................................................... 20 2.1.5 Artisanal Gold Mining and the welfare of Miners in Buhweju and Mubende Districts in Uganda ................................................................................................................................................... 20 2.1.6 Human Resource Management Practices and Performance of Small-Scale Enterprises in Uganda ................................................................................................................................................... 21 2.1.7 Change Management Practices and Performance of Selected Local Governments in Eastern Uganda ................................................................................................................................................... 22 2.1.8 Financing advantage, Price discrimination, Transaction costs and Trade credit supply among Manufacturing Firms in Uganda ............................................................................................ 23 2.2 FACULTY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ............................................................................ 23 2.2.1 Women’s Land Rights and Household Food Security in Uganda; a Case of Bushenyi District .................................................................................................................................................... 23 2.2.2 Intra-Household Gender Relations in Accessing Agriculture Extension Services for improved Livelihood: The Case of the first beneficiary households of NAADS in Kabale District ................................................................................................................................................................ 24 2.2.3 Integrating Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge into Modern Agricultural Practices for Sustainable Rural Household Food Security in Uganda ................................................................... 25 2 2.2.4 Oil Discovery and Land Compensation: Risks and Vulnerabilities to Women Livelihoods and Agency Response in Albertine Graben, Uganda ......................................................................... 26 2.3 FACULTY OF MEDICINE ................................................................................................................. 27 2.3.1 Tuberculosis sputum smear completion and treatment success rate in the Teso region, rural eastern Uganda ...................................................................................................................................... 27 2.3.2 Barriers and facilitators to the integration of mental health services into primary healthcare: a case study of Mbarara district, southwestern Uganda ............................................... 29 2.3.3 Chemical Characterization and Property-Based Structural Modification of Potential Anticancer Drug Leads from Eichhornia crassipes ........................................................................... 30 2.3.4 Antibacterial effect and safety of extracts from Echinopskebericho Mesfin TUBER ........... 30 2.4 FACULTY OF SCIENCE .................................................................................................................... 31 2.4.1 Modeling Peculiar Plasma Structures in Accretion Discs around Magnetized Neutron Stars ................................................................................................................................................................ 31 2.4.2 Gas Giant Planet Formation via Pebble Accretion ................................................................... 32 2.4.3 Searching for Coronal Mass Ejections on M stars: A potential Threat to Terrestrial Planet Habitability ............................................................................................................................................ 33 2.4.4 Irregular Plasma Densities and Scintillations at Low Latitudes: The Case of Satellites and Ground-based Stations ......................................................................................................................... 34 2.4.5 Modeling the Total Electron Content and vertical E×B drifts over the African low latitude region ...................................................................................................................................................... 35 2.4.6 Jackfruit (Artocarpus Heterophyllus) Varieties, Nutritional Content and Utilization In Uganda ................................................................................................................................................... 36 2.4.7 Tungiasis predisposing factors, prevalence and evaluation of methanolic plant extracts for potential Tungapenetrans control in Busoga sub region, Eastern Uganda ..................................... 37 2.4.8 Freshwater molluscs of Congo River Basin: evolution, biogeography and biodiversity ....... 38 3.0 MASTERS PROGRAMS ..................................................................................................................... 39 3.1 FACULTY OF MEDICINE ................................................................................................................. 39 3.1.1 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN ANESTHESIA .................................................................................. 39 3.1.1 Seven day outcome of resuscitated post cardiac arrest patients at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ................................................................................................................................... 39 3 3.1.2 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN DERMATOLOGY ............................................................................ 39 3.1.2.1 Prevalence, etiology and clinical presentation of annular skin lesions among Patients attending the skin clinic at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital .................................................... 39 3.1.2.2 Prevalence, clinical presentation and factors associated with seborrheic dermatitis among patients attending skin clinic at Mbarara Regional referral Hospital ............................................. 40 3.1.2.3 Prevalence, etiology and clinical presentation of annular skin lesions among Patients attending the skin clinic at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital .................................................... 41 3.1.3 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN EAR, NOSE & THROAT ................................................................. 42 3.1.3.1 Proportion and factors associated with Globus Pharyngeus among adult patients with throat symptoms attending the ENT clinic at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ..................... 42 3.1.4 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN GENERAL SURGERY .................................................................... 43 3.1.4.1 Indications and factors associated with short term treatment outcomes of tube Thoracostomy among patients presenting at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ...................... 43 3.1.4.2 Correlation between Morphological Patterns and Histological Types of Esophageal Cancer among Patients at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ..................................................... 44 3.1.4.3 Indications, patterns and short-term outcome of intestinal stomas at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ................................................................................................................................... 44 3.1.4.4 Aetiology, Clinical Presentations and Short-Term Treatment Outcome of Extrahepatic Obstructive Jaundice at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ........................................................ 45 3.1.4.5 Patterns and short-term outcome of children with major congenital anterior abdominal wall defects at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital ......................................................................... 46 3.1.5 MASTER OF MEDICINE IN INTERNAL MEDICINE .................................................................. 47 3.1.5.1 Clinical Characteristics and Predictors of good Treatment Response
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