Abstract In this mini thesis, we study the application of Lyapunov functions in epidemiological modeling. The aim is to give an extensive discussion of Lyapunov functions, and use some specific classes of epidemiological models to demonstrate the construction of Lyapunov functions. The study begins with a review of Lyapunov functions in general, and their usage in global stability analysis. Lyapunov’s “direct method” is used to analyse the stability of the disease-free equilibrium. More...
ABSTRACT This research project is an assessment of built-up expansion in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto from 2007 to 2015. Data for this research project was collected from both primary and secondary sources. The primary source of data include field observation, interview and satellite imageries. While secondary data include relevant published materials such as textbooks, journal articles, dissertations, reports, and the internet. The method used is satellite image processing, image clas...
ABSTRACT Due to the pivotal role of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF1) and Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 (IGF2) in growth regulation of poultry, the IGF1 gene (gIGF1) and IGF2 gene (gIGF2) in guinea fowl were examined as candidate genes for early growth in helmeted guinea fowls (Numida meleagris) from three populations of Northern Ghana (TPNG). Keets hatched from eggs collected from 32 sample locations comprising 11 subpopulations across three main populations located in Upper East Region, U...
ABSTRACT Background Maternal mortality has seen a significant decline in Ghana over last decade. Stakeholders and government continue to invest in strategic policies aimed to further decrease the ratio of maternal mortality. To achieve the desired results, interventions must be tailored toward specific factors in order to further strengthen the remedy to this health menace. Even though, there has been a decline over the years, international target and standards yet to be achieved. Method Ana...
ABSTRACT The resurgence of lymphatic filariasis (LF) infection after several rounds of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) has been the main reason behind constant monitoring of treatment. The MDA is designed to interrupt transmission by reducing microfilaraemia in a community to a threshold that local vectors may not be able to pick up microfilariae (MF) during a blood meal. The current study has been carried out to determine whether transmission had actually been interrupted following stoppage o...
ABSTRACT Molecular studies of ESβL-producing bacteria isolated from clinical samples was determined as well as the effects of medicinal plants on the isolates. The study was conducted from September 2013 to September 2015. A total of 480 bacterial isolates (250 from urine, 110 from wound swab & 120 from HVS & US) were used. The knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of health workers in Imo State towards multiple antibiotic resistant bacterial isolates and extended spectrum beta-lacta...
ABSTRACT Over the previous years finite element method (FEM) has become a powerfully tool to approximate solution of differential equations and prove their existence. The purpose of this research is to introduce and describe a number of the finite element method (FEM) technique applied to problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) with special attentions to the hyperbolic problems in case of wave and damped wave equations. Another aim is to study the one boundary value problem (BVP) ...
ABSTRACT In this study, a Genetic Algorithm approach coupled with an internal Heuristic Search strategy is applied to attempt automation of course-teaching timetable generation for the University of Dodoma while trying to make the solution as general as possible. In designing the algorithm, course timetabling constraints of the institution are identified and a general encoding scheme is used to represent the problem. Then, a Genetic Algorithm is designed and implemented with a two-point cros...
ABSTRACT Data mining is the process of determining patterns, discovering correlations, trends or relationships in the area with large data sets Information Technology, medical science, biology, education, and human resources. In Healthcare, DM is useful in medical data to anticipate novel, useful and potential knowledge that can save a life, lessen treatment cost, increases diagnostic and prediction accuracy as well as save human resources. Data mining contains several techniques such as ano...
ABSTRACT Background: Wound infections mostly caused by Pseudomonas are on the increase in hospitals in Ghana. Most of these infected wounds are very difficult to treat with available antibiotics. This failure of treatment has resulted in increased need for healthcare, undue financial burden on both hospitals and patients and finally death of many of these patients. This has become a source of worry for both patients and healthcare providers in Ghana. General Aim: The main aim of this study w...
ABSTRACT (' V ) Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from adult Onchocerca volvulus was extracted in either 5OmM Tris-HCl, containing Triton X-100 (detergent buffer) or plain 50mM Tris-HCl (lowsalt buffer) Gel chromatography on Sephacryl S-300 column, of both the detergent buffer and the low-salt buffer extracts gave two components each./ The two components of the detergent buffer gave purification factors of 12 and 13 folds and yields of 22 and 23% respectively; those of the low-salt buffer had puri...
ABSTRACT Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) of parabolic type arise naturally in the modeling of many phenomenon of in various fields of physics, engineering and economics. The main aim of this research is to study finite difference methods with numerical solutions of this class of equations. Both one and two dimensions have discussed in this research. I have investigated stability and convergence analysis of different schemes and obtained convergence error estimates. It is important to n...
ABSTRACT Viterbi Algorithm Decoder Enhanced with Non-transmittable Codewords is one of the best decoding algorithm which effectively improves forward error correction performance. HoweverViterbi decoder enhanced with NTCs is not yet designed to work in storage media devices. Currently Reed Solomon (RS) Algorithm is almost the dominant algorithm used in correcting error in storage media. Conversely, recent studies show that there still exist low reliability of data in storage media while the ...
ABSTRACT State owned teachers‟ colleges in Tanzania have been teaching ICT to student-teachers in an environment that is more or less the same to all teachers‟ colleges. However, little is known about what exists in the ICT teaching and learning environment in the diploma teachers‟ colleges. This study assesses the ICT teaching and learning environment to see whether it matches the aims of introducing ICT to teacher training. The study used 280 respondents from five teachers‟ college...
ABSTRACT Grammar checker is a writing assistance tool developed for checking rules of the Natural Languages automatically. Every natural language has a set of rules which are used to guide users of that language. Swahili is one of the most widely spoken languages in the East African countries and specifically in Tanzania. Efforts have been made so far towards the development of the tool. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no assistance tool developed and reported for detecting th...