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This study aims to examine the effect of the different forms of attitudes on the behavioural intentions to adopt solar energy technologies (SETs) in Uganda. Although commonly examined, the effect of attitudes on people’s behavioural intentions to adopt SETs ought to be more distinctively examined to have a clear picture of how each of the identified sets of attitudes influences the adoption of SETs.

Based on a sample of 360 households from three urban districts in Uganda sampled using a multi-stage sampling technique, data were collected using a self-administrated structured questionnaire. The data were then analysed using partial least square–structural equation model with SmartPLS 3.0 software.

The study establishes that more specific attitudes affect behavioural intentions to adopt SETs than general pro-technology attitudes. Results reveal that both pro-environment and application-specific attitudes matter for behaviour intentions to adopt SETs amongst households. However, the general pro-technology attitudes are not significantly associated with behavioural intentions to adopt SETs.

The results are important for producers and promoters of solar technology to craft appropriate promotion campaigns intended to increase the acceptance and usage of SETs. This means focussing on creating positive attitudes specific to particular applications and popularising specific uses of solar technologies.

The study provides an alternative approach to the general representation of the attitudes–intentions relationships by examining the differences in the attitudes developed towards the different aspects of these technologies as a substantial source of variations in adoption behaviour, which is rarely addressed.

Leadership is basically about influence and ability to cultivate followership. This chapter examined the nature of indigenous socio-political leadership in Africa using Zimbabwe, Sudan and Nigeria as caselets and compared this with the post-colonial or modern-day leadership realities. A survey was conducted among senior executives at Lagos Business School, Nigeria, with a sample size of 200 persons, to find out their perception of the African indigenous leadership system. An overwhelming 90% believe that culture plays a big role in shaping African leadership style. However, two-thirds of the respondents agreed that Africa lacks proper institutional structures to support good leadership, thus encouraging corruption (97% of the respondents) and non-accountability among the leaders. Also, only 5% thought cultural orientation was the reason why the African followers do not hold their leaders accountable. In other words, it is not in the African culture not to hold leaders accountable for their actions. So, what went wrong? We attempted a deeper look at the effect of colonial rule and the attendant militarisation of the African continent. Our conclusion is that the colonisation of the continent by Europe brought significant distortion to the traditional African indigenous leadership institutions and the psyche of the African leader and the followers alike. Post-colonial Africa has witnessed 133 recorded coups d’etat between 1952 and 2016. This chapter is recommended to all those who seek a deeper understanding of the nature of the African indigenous leadership practices and the factors that have shaped these over the years.

The front bearing mount structure in an aero engine has been severely loaded under the fan blade off (FBO) event since imbalance forces at high amplitude but low frequency is transformed to the engine front mount structure. The bearing mount structural forces are estimated by an integrated implicit-explicit analysis process of whole engine model of an aero engine. Since there are many dependent factors which are governing those predicted loads, experimental evidence on FBO is becoming necessary to validate the model used for the load prediction which is more expensive and also time consuming. This paper aims to discuss the above mentioned issues.

The current paper deals with the high impact but low probability nature of FBO load prediction on the bearing mount structure by stochastic approach which could be replaced for FBO experiments which is highly essential for current economic conditions. Several influential factors on the predicted loads have been chosen in the stochastic model and sensitive analysis has also been performed to bring down the variation involved in the predicted load.

The predicted load by proposed stochastic model is then compared with the experimental results. The conclusion on the predicted load with various dependent influential factors is matching well with certain value of damage factor from planned FBO test event.

Limitation of this paper could be that it does not cover with range of load amplitude and is only applicable for civil small and medium engines.

The high amplitude but low frequency load pattern is assessed with impact condition by stochastic model.

Combining experimental and probabilistic load prediction was never done before and read across from previous engine test program could be effectively performed with stochastic model approach.