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2026 Faculty of Business and Management

Ethics of Deepfakes in Historical Reconstruction for Film and Museums

Kato Nabirye H.

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES (NIJLCL) | Pp. 53-57

The emergence of deepfake technology has introduced both transformative opportunities and profound ethical challenges for historical reconstruction in film and museums. Powered primarily by generative adversarial networks (GANs) and related machine-learning t...

2026 Faculty of Education

Disability Studies and Aesthetics: Representation versus Access in Cultural Texts

Kakungulu Samuel J.

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES (NIJLCL) | Pp. 44-52

This study examines the relationship between disability studies and aesthetics by exploring the tension between representation and access in cultural texts. While disability representation has historically focused on visibility, narrative construction, and th...

2026 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Digital Identity Systems: Privacy, Access, and State Capacity Outcomes

Kabiga Chelule Kwemoi

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES (NIJEP) | Pp. 1-10

Digital Identity Systems (DIS) have emerged as transformative infrastructures that reshape interactions between citizens and the state by influencing access to public services, privacy protection, and governmental capacity. This study examines the relationshi...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Diabetes-Associated Decline in Antioxidant Networks: Consequences for Immune Surveillance and Tissue Integrity

Ivan Mutebi

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (NIJBAS) | Pp. 23-29

Diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, exerts broad systemic effects that extend beyond glucose dysregulation. Central to these effects is an imbalance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and the body’s an...

2026 Faculty of Education

Decolonial Historiography: Evidence, Ethics, and Archive Politics

Kakungulu Samuel J.

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES (NIJLCL) | Pp. 35-43

This paper examines decolonial historiography through the interconnected dimensions of evidence, ethics, and archive politics, emphasizing the need to challenge colonial epistemological structures that continue to shape historical production. It argues that c...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Context-Dependent Toxicity of Antioxidants: When Protective Molecules Become Harmful

Mpora Kakwanzi Evelyn

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (NIJBAS) | Pp. 48-53

Antioxidants are traditionally viewed as beneficial agents that defend cells against oxidative damage by neutralizing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS). However, accumulating evidence demonstrates that their impact is highly co...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Community Health Worker Interventions for Diabetes Self Management in Low-Income Urban Populations

Muhindo Anitah

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (NIJBAS) | Pp. 111-114

Diabetes mellitus represented a major public health challenge globally, with a disproportionate burden observed among low-income urban populations where social, economic, and structural barriers compromised effective disease management. Diabetes self-manageme...

2026 Faculty of Education

Climate Migration: Drivers, Adaptation, and Governance Evidence

Kakembo Aisha Annet

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES (NIJLCL) | Pp. 26-34

Climate migration has emerged as one of the most significant consequences of climate change, driven by a complex interaction of environmental, economic, social, and political factors. This paper examines the key drivers of climate migration, including environ...

2026 Faculty of Education

Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) and Public Imagination: Themes and Reception

Kakembo Aisha Annet

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES (NIJLCL) | Pp. 18-25

Climate fiction (Cli-Fi) has emerged as a significant literary and cultural genre that explores climate change and its socio-environmental consequences while shaping public understanding and engagement with ecological crises. This study examines the relations...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Citizen Science and Inequality: Participation, Access, and Benefits

Mukisa Ian Mugaiga

2026 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (NIJBAS) | Pp. 106-110

Citizen science has emerged as an important approach to expanding public participation in scientific knowledge production, enabling non-professionals to contribute to research activities across diverse disciplines. However, despite its potential to democratiz...