Sona Shah
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Validation of the safety and performance of a clinical vital signs monitor on infants and neonates: A pilot study
REFNo: HS420ES
1. To assess the safety of the Neopenda wearable vital signs monitor (neoGuard) in healthy infants (aged 8 to 16 weeks) and stable neonates (aged 0-28 days)
2. To determine the performance accuracy of neoGuard device in comparison to a gold standard monitor comparable to the Edan M3A Vital Signs Monitor
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USA |
2019-09-19 |
2022-09-19 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Mary Namubiru
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Meet Your Future Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
REFNo: SS338ES
Jobseekers in developing contexts face a number of search barriers to quality employment. The most recurring ones in the literature range from liquidity constraints for travel costs (Abebe et al. 2017a) to high opportunity cost of search-time due to job availability in the informal sector (Franklin, 2017). In addition to these, young jobseekers often do not know how or where to search for jobs, might not understand their skills in relation to what employers want and are likely to have distorted expectations of wage levels and working conditions (Babcock et al. 2012). Importantly, these barriers are magnified right in the most vulnerable phase of a career: the transition into the labor market (Becker 1994, Pissarides 1994). This study seeks to investigate (i) how barriers in access to information affect search efforts, labor outcomes and aspirations of young jobseekers taking their first step in the job market, (ii) how can career-coaching and job search assistance from “the future you†help influencing their expectations and labor market trajectories and (iii) how does the trainees’ degree of identification with “the future you†affect the way in which they interpret somebody else’s experience with respect to their own future. The experimental setting is that of Vocational Training Institutes (VTIs) in Uganda and “the future you†is an alumnus of the VTI, who successfully entered the labor market after receiving the training.
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Uganda |
2019-09-19 |
2022-09-19 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Wyatt Brooks James
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Community Lending and Outside Capital (CLOC)
REFNo: SS339ES
To measure the impact of community lending and outside capital on SILC members’ returns and default rate behavior, levels of liquid savings, and change in livelihood.
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USA |
2019-09-19 |
2022-09-19 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Fabien Schultz
ID: UNCST-2023-R008622
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Self-medication in wild chimpanzees and mountain gorillas
REFNo: NS104ES
Observation of novel medicinal plants used for self-medication by wild chimpanzees and mountain gorillas:
The fieldwork at the field stations in Bulindi, Kibale Forest National Park, Budongo Forest Reserve, and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park will result in the documentation of potentially novel medicinal plant species used by great apes in Uganda, which will be reported in our publications.
Comparison between self-medication behavior in chimpanzees at different locations:
The study will generate a comparison between plants and self-medication techniques used by Bulindi chimpanzees (a highly disturbed habitat shared with humans) and Kibale/Budongo chimpanzees (less disturbed habitats).
Impact on modern medicine:
Through this study, we seek to integrate behavioral data with novel pharmacological screenings of plants. Without doubt, the evolution of self-medicative habits from the great apes to early hominids and modern humans has important implications for modern medicine. This project would significantly advance previous research on zoopharmacognosy (or “ape-pharmacognosyâ€).
Discovery of new plant and insect species and first-time pharmacological investigation of medicinal natural remedies:
I estimate that around 60% of all plant and insect species in the dense rainforests of Western Uganda and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remain undiscovered. As such, this project could result in the discovery of novel species, but most likely in the documentation and evaluation of novel medicinal uses in known plants. The majority of plant species used in self-medication by wild chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in the tropical rainforests of Uganda have never been screened for pharmacological activity in a lab or investigated with regard to their chemical composition.
Conservation of biodiversity:
Wild mountain gorillas are classified as Critically Endangered and chimpanzees as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Both great apes are highly threatened by human encroachment, forest degradation, regional political instability and disease. Through our workshop within local communities, we aim to raise awareness of the importance of protecting these creatures as well as local medicinal plants.
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Germany |
2019-09-19 |
2022-09-19 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Christine Wiltshire Sekaggya
ID: UNCST-2019-R000578
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The utility of urine Lipoarabinomannan as a Tuberculosis treatment monitoring tool.
REFNo: HS432ES
To describe the temporal changes of urine LAM during the first 2 months TB treatment of TB-HIV co-infected patients.
To determine the correlation between urine LAM and microbiological response measured by sputum culture among TB-HIV co-infected patients receiving anti-TB treatment.
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Uganda |
2019-09-10 |
2022-09-10 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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