A System is an integrated set of interoperable elements, each with explicitly specified and bounded capabilities, working synergistically to perform value-added processing to enable a User to satisfy mission-oriented operational needs in a prescribed operating environment with a specified outcome and probability of success.

It contains all the notes related to database and database management systems.

The purpose of the course is to discuss the concepts that are essential to the subject of natural resource and environmental management and relate them to gendered understanding of environmental challenges and solutions. We hope that you will find this module exciting, educative, and engaging.

Supply chain is the network of organizations that are involved through upstream and downstream linkages, in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of product and services in the hands of the ultimate customers.

Notes on IT projects, development and their management

HIV and AIDS is acknowledged as a global health crisis, for health workers, policy makers, and ordinary citizens in Africa and parts of Asia. Managing and coping with the reality and burden of HIV and AIDS is a never ending struggle. It has become part of everyday conversation in homes, working places, and social gatherings; it has also crept into lectures class notes and hence propelled itself to the top of the social economic and political agendas.

Human behavior plays a key role in most of the disease condition in life. a) Socialization; is a life long process through which individuals in a society develop an awareness of social norms and values; achieve destine of self. b) Norms: Rules and expectations conduct which either prescribes a given type of behavior, or forbid it. c) Values: Culturally defined standards held by human individuals or groups about what are desirable, proper, beautiful, and good or bad that save as broad guidelines for social life. d) The individualistic interpretation of disease places emphasis on the individual as responsible for his or health status. Health compromising behavior by individual is the main factor in health.

Environment-surrounding The surrounding conditions which influence behaviour and development of living things. Environmental science therefore is the study of the environment, its living and non-living components and their interactions.

This module develops an agenda for Gender, Project Planning, Development and Management, with particular emphasis on local priorities, poverty eradication and gender equality. It extends the argument that project planning and development should enhance the capabilities of women and girls, so they are able "to lead the lives they value and have reason to value” (Sen, 1999).

Ethics refer to the principles of right and wrong that individuals who act as free moral agents use to make choices that will guide their behavior. Although protecting personal privacy and intellectual property are on the spotlight, there are other pressing ethical issues brought about by the widespread use of information systems. This is because ICT can be used to commit crime or to threaten social values.