This paper represents an investigation into the classification of Ugandan culture using the five dimensional model of Geert Hofstede. Uganda was not one of the countries included in Hofstede’s original studies, and no evidence of a subsequent study of Uganda has been found in the literature. While Hofstede and others did study some countries in Africa, there is a lack of empirically-based research on the cultural classification of Uganda. The results of this study indicate that Uganda is a low power distance, masculine, collectivist culture that is relatively high in uncertainty avoidance, whose people who have a short-term orientation towards time. The paper compares Ugandan culture with those of other countries in Africa, as well as with select cultures from other regions. It also explains how these cultural differences impact the practice of management in Uganda.

Today, attributable to the vulnerability of normal authentication system, crime has accumulated among the past few years. Identity authentication in web banking depends on biometric feature like face, iris, voice, hand mathematics, handwriting, retina; fingerprints can significantly decrease the fraud. in order that they unit being replaced by biometric authentication mechanisms. Among natural science, fingerprint systems square measure one among most typically researched and used. Its trendy attributable to their simple accessibility. Throughout this paper we tend to tend to debate the elaborate study of varied finger implementation techniques therefore on determine the problems associated in FPR and outline innovative constructive technique for fingerprint recognition.

Seat functions for public seats, such as those in railway vehicles, have been designed to assure a comfortable sitting posture. However, the importance of these functions is not widely understood. Public seats are used in a variety of conditions because users have diverse physiques and sitting postures. Thus, design solutions that consider only standard conditions, physiques, and sitting postures are insufficient. The objectives of this study are 1) to clarify the relative importance of seat functions in assuring a comfortable sitting posture and 2) to optimize important seat functions in diverse conditions. First, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) clarified that the forward tilt function of the seatback and seat swing function are necessary to assume a comfortable sitting posture because they contribute to the fitness of the seatback and prevent the hip sliding force, respectively. However, there is trade-off between satisfying the fitness and preventing the hip sliding force. Second, the seat swing function with a forward tilt function was optimized. The solution is the optimal relationship between the seatback and the seat cushion angles adjusted by the seat swing function to prevent the hip sliding force considering diverse conditions and the forward tilt angles. Finally, a sensory experiment confirmed the effectiveness of the optimized design solution.

The notion of human wellbeing itself is more broadly conceived to include, not only consumption of goods and services but also the accessibility of all sections of the population, especially the deprived and those who are living below the normative minimal poverty line, to the basic necessities of a productive and socially meaningful life. Analysis of data from the World Values Surveys demonstrates that the linkage between individual resources, emancipative values and freedom rights is universal in its presence across nations, regions and cultural zones. A specific focus on these aspects of development is necessary, as experience shows that economic prosperity measured in terms of per capita income. It does not always ensure enrichment in quality of life reflected in broader dimensions of well-being like in indicators on longevity, literacy or, for that matter, environmental sustainability. Attainments in these dimensions of welfare are desirable in themselves; hence, they are socially valued. This study demonstrates that socio-economic development, emancipative cultural change and democratization constitute a coherent syndrome of social progress – a syndrome whose common focus has not been properly specified by classical modernization theory.

airy industry is alarmingly developing in the present day economy due to its contribution to the economy and rural poor people by providing an opportunities to uplift them by generating additional income. Since ages, Dairy industry has been practiced as a rural cottage industry. Among the 70 million rural population in India during 2001, 37% are landless. These landless and small farmers are having 53% of livestock in their possession and Produced 52% of the total milk production. Government of India is providing various programmes for upliftment of the small rural milk producer as well as under privileged urban consumers. There is an enormous growth in expenditure on dairying from the I PLAN (1951-56) of 78.1 million rupees to IX PLAN (1997-2002) is 21425.00 million rupees as per Economic survey 2002, of planning commission of ministry of agriculture, Govt. of India. The value of output has also increased manifolds. In the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-2012) The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries had launched a scheme titled ‘Integrated Dairy Development Project (IDDP) in Non – Operation Flood, Hilly and Backward Areas’ on 100% grant-in-aid basis during the 8th Plan period and continued during 9th Plan to 11th Plan period.

Several studies in recent years have considered the use of mobile elements for data gathering in wireless sensor networks, so as to reduce the need for multi-hop forwarding among the sensor nodes and thereby prolong the network lifetime. Since, typically, practical constraints preclude a mobile element from visiting all nodes in the sensor network, the solution must involve a combination of a mobile element visiting a subset of the nodes (cache points), while other nodes communicate their data to the cache points wirelessly. This leads to the optimization problem of minimizing the communication distance of the sensor nodes, while keeping the tour length of the mobile element below a given constraint. In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing the mobile elements tours such that the length of each tour is below a per-determined length and the number of hops between the tours and the nodes not included in the tour is minimized. To address this problem, we present an algorithmic solution that consider the distribution of the nodes during the process of building the tours. We compare the resulting performance of our algorithm with the best known comparable schemes in the literature.

This paper examines the various determinants of civil society or NGOs success in the international development project. Civil society is a broader concept that consists of all the social groups and social relationships in which humans are embebbed, including family, community, social movements, religious organizations, schools, ethnic groups, clubs, professional associations, PTAs, etc. It refers to the quality of people’s social life which includes safety, improved healthcare, mortality, civility, respect for diversity, and so forth. Several scholars have identified various determinants for civil society success, notably in developing nations. These include NGOs’ intermediary role; serving as a source for feed-back and integration; and cooperation among competing organizations. Others attribute the success to accountability; collaboration with international activist groups; diffusion of ideas through rapid communication carried out and advanced by certain ‘rooted cosmopolitans;’ and availability of funds from international donors. The article examines scholars’ centripetal and centrifugal on the subject matter and highlights some implications. It concludes that civil society contributes to the international development project through ensuring democracy by mobilizing the public, creating awareness, political participation, advocacy campaigns, and struggle for political rights. It finally posits that, the determinants for civil society/NGO success in international development project are multidimensional, advocating for a development model that recognizes the role of religious organizations as civil society actors in order to have a meaningful, compatible, and sustainable development model.

In Nigeria, an issue that is discussed less is intertemporal income mobility – who is getting ahead, who is falling behind, who is standing still, and why. This article examines the effects of remittances on rural households’ income mobility. We used the living standard survey (NLSS), Harmonised living standard survey (HNLSS) and balance of payments on remittance data set produced by the government of Nigeria to help track Inequality and income mobility progress. The unit of analysis was the household, upon which information on remittances was analysed. Average Quintile Immobility Rate (AQIR) and the Average Quintile Move Rate (AQMR) were estimated to determine the status of intertemporal income mobility with and without remittances while the progressive index (P-value) was estimated to ascertain whether income mobility has contributed to long-term income equality. From the results, remittances pushed up rural households’ income mobility and had long-term contribution to income equality.

Service quality has been the subject of considerable interest by both practioners and researchers in recent years (Parasuraman et al 1985). An important reason for the interest in service quality by practitioners results from the belief that this has a beneficial effect on bottom-line performance for the firm. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the SERVQUAL research on service quality in the following areas: (1) definition and measurement of service quality, and (2) reliability and validity of SERVQUAL measures.

The Proposed System Analyses the scopes introduced by Web 2.0 and collaborative tagging systems, several challenges have to be addressed too, notably, the problem of information overload. Recommender systems are among the most successful approaches for increasing the level of relevant content over the “noise.” Traditional recommender systems fail to address the requirements presented in collaborative tagging systems. This paper considers the problem of item recommendation in collaborative tagging systems. It is proposed to model data from collaborative tagging systems with three-mode tensors, in order to capture the three-way correlations between users, tags, and items. By applying multiway analysis, latent correlations are revealed, which help to improve the quality of recommendations. Moreover, a hybrid scheme is proposed that additionally considers content-based information that is extracted from items. We propose an advanced data mining method using SVD that combines both tag and value similarity, item and user preference. SVD automatically extracts data from query result pages by first identifying and segmenting the query result records in the query result pages and then aligning the segmented query result records into a table, in which the data values from the same attribute are put into the same column. Specifically, we propose new techniques to handle the case when the query result records based on user preferences, which may be due to the presence of auxiliary information, such as a comment, recommendation or advertisement, and for handling any nested-structure that may exist in the query result records.