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Hypertension is a serious problem across the globe because of its mortality rate per year. High blood pressure (BP) has no warning signs nor symptoms, and many people do not know they have it. Measuring the BP level is the only way to know about a person's BP status. Many solutions geared toward managing hypertension have been successful, but the condition still persists across the...
The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), originating from Wuhan China, has spread rapidly among people living in other countries, and is approaching approximately 12,245,417 cases worldwide according to the statistics of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDP). There are a limited number of COVID-19 test kits available in hospitals due to the increasing cases daily. Therefore,...
There is now a greater need for individuals to access and understand their own personal health information. This knowledge is important and enables one to understand and participate in managing their own health and well-being. Efforts have been made towards making this possible. However, challenges are also experienced. The non-medical users, those without any medical training background, have...
Neonatal postprandial hypoglycaemia occurs when blood sugar level (BSL) is too low to cause symptoms of impaired brain function among newborn babies. This is generally accepted as a BSL <2.6mmol/L. When this condition is not detected early and treated, it can result to long term neurological damage, seizures, unconsciousness, and possibly permanent brain damage or death.
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Healthcare information is not only private, but also proprietary and requires higher security and adherence to medical standards and policies by health facilities and providers. A secure system for sharing patients’ medical records across health facilities and practitioners is required. Cultural, organizational, regulatory and technological challenges have affected confidentiality, integrity,...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2020 report Coronavirus COVID-19 is a pandemic infectious disease caused by a newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 virus; and very quickly spread throughout the world. The challenge is delivering up-to-date information to the rural population of Ethiopia and Health Extension Workers (HEW) where the mainstream media like TV and radio are not their main...
Nowadays it is easy to find thrift stores and thrift sales at any nook and corner in this world as fashion has become a great trend disregarding the age limit and gender. All thrift store owners and thrift vendors are relying on their customers who visit the stores and stalls to fulfill their own need for getting second hand items. This is seen in developed countries such as the United states...
Driving in Kenya is one of the most hectic situations ever especially if you live in the city the number of vehicles ranging in shape, size, color and make, never ceases to amaze. Although all the vehicles are always in transition from time to time you come across a broken vehicle, with a triage stop requesting for mechanical help. The number of times we experience this is ridiculous high,...
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In today’s highly competitive business environment, organization is striving to achieve effectiveness, cost, efficiencies and economies of scale. In order for an organization to survive and be effective in meeting their market demand the organization must be cognizant for its supply chain management for better performance and sustained survival. The general objective of the study was...
This study is part of an ongoing Ph.D. thesis; the objective is to design a data science system to help in utilizing the limited medical resources by assigning priority of treatment. The system is designed to work on the emergency department to serve as a diagnostic intelligent system that uses machine learning models to check COVID-19, diabetes complications, and diabetes DKA, this system...
MICRO-CONTROLLER BASED MODEL FOR OVERLOAD DETECTION AND CONTROL IN VEHICLES
1.0 Background of the study.
Throughout the world, roads are shared by cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles, pedestrians, animals, taxis, and other travelers. Road traffic injuries cause 1.3 million deaths and up to 50 million injuries each year. One of the major causes of the accidents included overloading. Vehicles...
Various institutions in Kenya have adopted e voting systems in order to have efficient and reliable voting processes. However, e voting systems have proved to be susceptible to slow HTTP attacks since the 20th century. This proposal aims to address the shortcomings that current e voting systems in Kenyan institutions have. These include the fact that the security systems in place operate...
The proposed system is an online food ordering application which will resolve natively on GPS enabled mobile device .the major problem encountered occurs when a customer has ordered a meal and takes long to be delivered or not delivered at all .it’s due to improper road directions leading to wrong places .sometimes it’s difficult to get your balance once you have given out your payment .with...
Demand and supply forecasting for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya is crucial in ensuring that the SMEs stock the right quantities of products at the right time to increase sales and minimize losses through dead or slow-moving stock. This study modeled a forecasting model based on an auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) to forecast the daily demand and supply...
Real-time identification of vehicle license plate has become more practical within the last decade in many applications such as; storage and retrieval of vehicular inflow records, automatic toll collection, parking fee payment, traffic monitoring, tracking of moving vehicles, recovery of stolen vehicles etc. A lot of researches have been carried out on license plate detection being the most...
One of the weaknesses in Location-Aided Routing (LAR) is the latency due to partial flooding of data packets throughout the ad hoc network during route discovery. Systematic literature review indicates that very little or no studies conducted to seek a solution to this routing weakness in LAR. This study proposes introduction of periodic updates of location information among the nodes as a...
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The study sought to fill the existing gap on issues surrounding the implementation of Server virtualization technology, which have received relatively little attention.. The study investigated the implementation of server virtualization technology by companies listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange. It employed a correlational research design and targeted the IT and Operations...
The Stadium Ticketing System (SeTS) is an application system design proposal set to allow for modern day entry into stadiums providing a virtual stadium ticketing management system. In Kenya, there are several stadia namely the Moi International Sports Centre – Kasarani, Nyayo Stadium, City Stadium, Afraha Stadium, and Kenyatta Stadium among many other stadia that host football matches where...
Background
According to the WHO (2019), cancer causes more mortality than Malaria, TB and HIV combined globally. 70% of the global Cancer burden is in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) (Joan, 2019) such as Kenya. In Kenya, as of the year 2019, cancer was rated the 3rd leading cause of death generally and second among non-communicable diseases. According to Max & Hannah (2018),...
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Billions of money is lost by mobile phone users every day due to SMS spam, a social engineering skill attempting to obtain sensitive information such as passwords, Personal identification numbers and other private data by masquerading as a trustworthy entity through Short message service. The design of efficient feature engineering techniques is the key to reducing these financial...
Remote environmental analysis is currently trending around the world especially in Europe, Americas and Asia as it has been used to assess climate action for a sustainable green world. The impact of pollution from an array of technological innovation and activities has impacted negatively on the growth and sustainability of Africa as relevant environmental studies are not done extensively to...
