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Mapping Population Densities and Waste Management Systems in Mombasa County
(International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, 2024)Mombasa County is one of the five counties along the coastline of Kenya. Currently, Mombasa County has a human population of 1.2 million people, and the population is rapidly increasing through rural-urban immigration ... -
A Systematic Review of Computer Science Solutions for Addressing Violence Against Women in Educational Institutions
(International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research, 2024): Approximately one in three women worldwide experience physical, mental, or sexual violence, making violence against women (VAW) a serious public health emergency. One of the main issues in educational institutions is ... -
A Machine Learning Model to Predict Suicidal Thoughts among Adolescent Girls with Access to Social Media. A Review of Literature
(International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research, 2024)Suicidal thoughts is one of the leading factors that cause deaths among the adolescents and young adults. Suicidal thoughts have been ranked as the major cause of deaths among adolescents in Kenya. This paper presents a ... -
Technology Acceptance Model- Based Usability Testing of a Fingerprint Attendance Register System
(International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research, 2024)Institutions of higher learning in Kenya have traditionally used paper-based attendance registers, which have been seen to lack validity for decision-making. There is a trend to adopt Biometric attendance registers in a ... -
Unraveling Synergies: Exploring the Intersection of Transformative Quality Education and Generative Artificial Intelligence, A Review of Literature
(IJASRE( International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering), 2024-08)In the quickly changing field of education, there exists a need to explore and understand the intricate interplay between transformative quality education, and generative artificial intelligence. Despite increasing attention ... -
Deep learning models for the early detection of maize streak virus and maize lethal necrosis diseases in Tanzania
(International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, 2024-08-16)Agriculture is considered the backbone of Tanzania’s economy, with more than 60% of the residents depending on it for survival. Maize is the country’s dominant and primary food crop, accounting for 45% of all farmland ... -
Towards Prediction of Students’ Academic Performance in Secondary School Using Decision Trees
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS), 2009-10)Abstract - Prediction of students’ academic performance with high accuracy is useful in many contexts. Institutions would like to know which students are likely to have low academic achievements or need assistance in ... -
Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for Circle Bin Packing Problem
(2020)We address a new variant of packing problem called the circle bin packing problem (CBPP), which is to find a dense packing of circle items to multiple square bins so as to minimize the number of used bins. To this end, ... -
Adaptive simulated annealing with greedy search for the circle bin packing problem
(Pergamon, 2022)We introduce a new bin packing problem, termed the circle bin packing problem with circular items (CBPP-CI). The problem involves packing all the circular items into multiple identical circle bins as compact as possible ... -
Adaptive large neighborhood search for solving the circle bin packing problem
(Pergamon, 2021)We address a new variant of packing problem called the circle bin packing problem (CBPP), which is to find a dense packing of circle items to multiple square bins so as to minimize the number of used bins. To this end, ... -
Tackling Data Related Challenges in Healthcare Process Mining using Visual Analytics
(IJCAT, 2018)Data-science approaches such as Visual analytics tend to be process blind whereas process-science approaches such as process mining tend to be model-driven without considering the "evidence" hidden in the data. Use of ... -
A SITUATIONAL METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
(International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 2018)Healthcare business processes are complex due to the many decisions and procedures captured, are highly dynamic, increasingly multidisciplinary and ad hoc which makes it difficult to achieve any meaningful improvement ... -
Machine Learning Application in Solid Waste Management
(The International Journal of Engineering and Science (IJES), 2022)In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of research dedicated to applications of machine learning in Solid waste management. The works analyzed were categorized in classes of three generic categories; namely, prediction ... -
E-Business Adoption Framework in the Hospitality Industry
(Business Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), 2013)While the hospitality industry in the Kenyan Coast has adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT), application of the same is limited to internal operations and control. The industry’s e-business adoption ... -
Adoption Strategy for Cloud Computing in Research Institution
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2023)Currently, Kenyan research institutions Information Technology operations use external storage, within or without institutional network environments. This study presents a structured literature review of a cloud computing ... -
A Framework for E-Learning Implementation in Developing Countries
(2012)Institutions of higher learning in developing countries have lagged behind those in the developed world in e-learning (eL) adoption, mainly due to cost and poor Internet infrastructure. Introduction of eL in such ... -
Challenges in Achieving Interoperability in Distributed Systems
(International Journal of Emerging Sciences, 2012)As need for collaboration and distributed systems among organizations increase, there is the challenge of different standards in almost all communication issues. This calls for scrutiny of systems used by different ... -
A Blockchain-Based Conceptual Model for Curbing Institutional Academic Certificate Fraud
(International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research, 2022)There is need of certificate authentication mechanism in Africa, specifically in Kenya that will solve internal fraud activities. This is because there are many fake certificates in circulation that appear to be genuine ... -
Status of e-Learning Quality in Kenya: Case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Postgraduate Students
(International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018-02)There is a substantial increase in the use of learning management systems (LMSs) to support e-learning in higher education institutions, particularly in developing countries. This has been done with some measures of success ... -
Factors affecting asynchronous e-learning quality in developing countries
(International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2018)Despite the potential of Learning Management System (LMS) supported asynchronous e-learning to improve asynchronous e-learning system quality by enhancing learning effectiveness and academic achievement of HEIs , several ...