The study seeks to assess the effect of public procurement contracting on organizational overall performance in Auditor General’s office in Kampala, Uganda. It used to be guided by means of three precise objectives, that included; to have a look at the impact of procurement Contracting in State owned enterprises in Uganda, to study the impact of moral public procurement contracting on organizational overall performance in Government, employed a descriptive research sketch to describe the variables, the questionnaire and interview information have been used as the research instruments, chapter one looked at the back ground of the study, statement of the problem and significance of the study. Chapter two consists of literature review, the different sources of information related to the topic under study. Chapter three looks at different methods and approaches with the researcher used for collecting data, the sample size and population, data processing and analysis problem encountered and the area of study. Chapter four consists of presentation of findings, discussion, interpretation and analysis of data. Chapter five consists of discussions, conclusion and recommendations.

The study was carried out at Ministry of Health Central Registry. The aim of the study was to enhance the automated record system of Ministry records, in order to prevent delay of Ministry records processing and management. The researcher used a qualitative and quantitative research designs and this sought to describe the finding in details. The researcher collected data from 5 respondents. Several data collection methods where used and these include interviews, questioners and observation. The efforts being made in the implementation of EMR in Health Facilities of Uganda is encouraging. Although there exist various challenges in the operationalization of the EMR systems, feedback from healthcare providers indicated an unstoppable will to move on with EMRs. The challenges and opportunities are summarized below. In the area of EMR implementation practices, the study noted challenges concerning the planning of activities from pre-implementation, implementation and postimplementation stages. In the planning stage, the key challenges included lack of master plan for EMR, overreliance on limited government funding and low exploration of alternative funding methods for EMR sustainability, low awareness on the existing National EMR standards, lack of information policy at the facility level, and a disconnect between initial planning by strategic managers and actual activation of the activities. Such a disconnect indicates a gap in user involvement and is likely to negatively impact on the process. These challenges are likely to affect evaluation and monitoring of the EMR implementation process. Despite confirmation by strategic managers that users were being involved, the actual responses from EMR users indicated user involvement gaps in the EMR preparatory stages, choice of technology for medical data capture and analysis, EMR sensitization, testing and piloting. Such gaps are likely to affect EMR ownership and acceptability levels. As earlier stated, successful EMR should allow access to the patient record 24 hours a day, prevent medication error by providing decision support, support ongoing education for healthcare professionals, timely and effective care, improved hospital revenue, reduced patient-turn-around time, and sharing of information by authorized people. This potential has not been realized in Uganda public Health Facilities. Some of the challenges contributing to 43 this include concurrent operation of manual, hybrid and electronic medical records system meaning that one has to rely on all for patient care and follow-up. Feedback from the respondents indicated no improvement in doctor patient time, nurse patient time, and patientturn- around time. Feedback from doctors and nurses indicated EMRs inability to provide information for use during their day to day operations. Lack of such information indicates a gap in the maximization of EMR systems information management opportunities in the Health Facilities. The general usability of EMR for querying, availability of system help, and it speed received low ratings from the users. However, user interface screens, and retrieval of information were acceptable by a significant number of users. Although the strategic managers had confirmed installation of clinician’s modules, the EMRs coverage of doctor’s processes, such as monitoring of vital signs, prescription, drug administration was rated low. A similar case was noted with nursing where EMR coverage of nursing processes was also rated low. Feedback from health records and information officers indicated that the EMRs do not cover records management functions such as authentic creation of medical records, electronic signatures, retention and disposal of medical records. These gaps indicate a challenge in the identification of EMR requirements in the respective hospital functional areas. 5.3 Conclusions Public Health Facilities in Uganda face many challenges that are unique to the healthcare providers working there. The importance of the existing electronic medical record systems has at least been recognized despite the challenges being encountered. The conclusion drawn according to the research findings of the study most of the respondents agreed that hhealth ffacilities may need to build on the existing EMR modules which have already been shown to work, then add only relevant modules to the system depending on their priorities. The Facilities should identify the most appropriate technology for their EMR due to funding challenges or where possible explore other sources of EMR funding.

This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Science, like its predecessors, aims to provide school and first-year university students with accurate explanations of any unfamiliar words they might come across in the course of their studies, in their own or adjacent disciplines. For example, students of the physical sciences will find all they are likely to need to know about the life sciences, and vice versa. The dictionary is also designed to provide non-scientists with a useful reference source to explain the scientific terms that they may encounter in their work or in their general reading. At this level the dictionary provides full coverage of terms, concepts, and laws relating to physics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, palaeontology, and the earth sciences. There is also coverage of key terms in astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, biotechnology, and computer technology. In addition, the dictionary includes: • over 160 short biographical entries on the most important scientists in the history of the subject • ten features (each of one or two pages) on concepts of special significance in modern science • ten chronologies showing the development of selected concepts, fields of study, and industries • eight Appendices, including the periodic table, tables of SI units and conversion tables to and from other systems of units, summary classifications of the plant and animal kingdoms, and useful websites. For this sixth edition nearly 700 new entries have been added to the text, incorporating recent advances in all the major fields and increased coverage of astronomy, forensic chemistry, and computing. In compiling the dictionary, the contributors and editors have made every effort to make the entries as concise and comprehensible as possible, always bearing in mind the needs of the readers. Particular features of the book are its lack of unnecessary scientific jargon and its extensive network of cross-references. An asterisk placed before a word used in an entry indicates that this word can be looked up in the dictionary and will provide further explanation or clarification. However, not every word that is defined in the dictionary has an asterisk placed before it when it is used in an entry. Some entries simply refer the reader to another entry, indicating either that they are synonyms or abbreviations or that they are most conveniently explained in one of the dictionary’s longer articles. Synonyms and abbreviations are usually placed within brackets immediately after the headword. Terms that are explained within an entry are highlighted by being printed in boldface type. Where appropriate, the entries have been supplemented by fully labelled line-drawings or tables in situ.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between employee engagement, organisational citizenship behaviour and employee performance among employees of Centenary Bank. The objectives of the study were; to examine the relationship between Employee Engagement and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour among employees of Centenary Bank; to determine the relationship between Organisational Citizenship Behaviour and Employee Performance among employees of Centenary Bank; to ascertain the relationship between Employee Engagement and Employee Performance among employees of Centenary Bank. The researcher used the correlational research design and the quantitative approach to the conduct the study. The study population comprised 250 employees of Centenary Bank who sit at the headquarters in Kampala City. A sample of 139 respondents (91.5% of the target sample of 152) was used. A closed ended self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information from respondents. Data analysis was done using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).Frequency-percentage tables were used to analyse bio data while Pearson Correlation Coefficients (r) were used to test the three study hypotheses. The first findings indicated there are statistically significant positive relationships between; employee engagement and organisational citizenship behaviour (r = 0.684, p < 0.01); organisational citizenship behaviour and employee performance (r = 0.431, p < 0.01); and employee engagement and employee performance (r = 0.245, p < 0.05) among employees of Centenary Bank. Organisations need to establish job characteristics that are supportive to employee engagement as a well as awork environment that can promote exhibition of citizenship behaviours if they are to elicit and sustain high performance levels.