ABSTRACT Malaria is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in children under 5 years and pregnant women. The use of Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is a combination of a fast-acting artemisinin derivative and a relatively slow-acting partner drug, is used for malaria treatment in disease-endemic areas. The ACT partner drugs in Ghana are lumefantrine (LUM), amodiaquine (AQ), and piperaquine (PQ). Plasmodium falciparum isolates wi...
ABSTRACT According to the Radiotherapy Risk Profile report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the major causes of severe radiotherapy incidents are due to human errors. The real danger is when the error in administration goes undetected during cancer treatments. This may lead to radiation damage to normal tissues, and may be lethal to the patient. The aim of this work was to develop a transit dosimetry calculation model using C++ and vb.net codes for verifying patient radiation doses us...
Abstract The problem of property crime exists on university campuses worldwide. There is also difficulty in monitoring and determining the location of items. Organizations have sought to rely on tracking devices to curb this issue. However, these devices are either too expensive, require high power consumption or are bulky and cannot be used to track small devices. In this project, an affordable and portable system is developed that monitors devices and alerts users once their items cross bou...
Abstract The rapid generation of data by businesses has created a unique and exciting opportunity for management and employees to explore relationships in their data and make informed decisions based on these insights. However, limited sets of tools exist for businesses with no programming and data analysis skills for them to explore this opportunity. This paper proposes a new and improved web-based platform based on a desktop application, INFER, developed by Songhai Group. This application t...
ABSTRACT In the quest to reduce customer churn rate and retain existing customers, organizations have resorted to investing fortunes in their customer care services, which proves to be a relatively cheaper means of staying in business. In this regard, this project sought to explore a less costly way of providing quality customer care services to an organization’s clients in order to keep them satisfied. As it stands today, there is a growing number of digital customer care owing to the fact...
ABSTRACT Containerisation has gradually become a dominant method of moving , cargo the world over sin~e its introduction in the 1960s and so has investment in container terminals. Container terminals form a central part ofthe transport infrastructure and its development leads to the overall development ofthe port system. The appointment of the Ghana Port Services Consortium (GPSC) to own and manage the container terminal under a 20 year build operate and transfer scheme (BOT) scheme will imm...
Abstract Over the years, many means of cashless payments for goods and services have been implemented in Ghana. Although these systems claim diversity given the vast number of services that can be paid for on their respective platforms, they lack an avenue for the payment of transportation. This project attempts to fill this gap by developing a means of paying for transportation in a cashless fashion. In this project, technology such as NFC, QR codes and smartphones is employed to implement a...
Abstract This project is a review of several MySQL database storage engines. It shows what engines are available and the features they have. It also investigates the compilation and extension of these storage engines and it finally discusses and demonstrates how to add a customized engines.
Abstract Teacher absenteeism has become a canker in our society and it needs urgent measures to be put into place to curb it. There have been many attempts at monitoring teacher attendance using both traditional and technological approaches. This project proposes an application that uses an indirect approach to monitor attendance. On this platform, parents are allowed to submit an attendance status of the teacher of their children after they have inquired from the child as to whether the teac...
Abstract The smartphone market is steadily increasing all over the world, as such, most mobile device users are gradually shifting from feature phones to smartphones, tablets and portable computing devices. However, in emerging markets, majority of the mobile device users still use their feature phones, presenting an opportunity for OEM’S and operating system manufacturers to produce a phone that would suit this market. Mozilla, the company that popularized the open source browser Firefox, ...
ABSTRACT Avocado (Persia americana Mill) is a nutritious economic tree crop with cultivations scattered all over the country. A study was conducted to assess its distribution, uses and the morphological and genetic diversity of the crop in the Ashanti and Central Regions of Ghana. An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in 14 districts, while morphological and genetic diversities were determined among the accessions in eight districts. Microsatellites markers were used for genetic diversity...
Abstract Road accidents are estimated to be the ninth leading cause of death across all age groups globally. 1.25 million people die annually from road accidents and Africa has the highest rate of road fatalities (WHO, 2015). Self-driving technology has the potential of saving over a million lives lost to preventable road accidents world-wide. Africa accounts for the majority of road fatalities and as such would benefit immensely from this technology. However, financial constraints prevent vi...
ABSTRACT The introduction of agriculture technology in any country improves the annual production. Agriculture technology changes farming by reducing the amount of man power needed and increasing yield Connecting farmers from any farming community to buyers at any place can be very challenging for both parties (farmers and buyers). Farmers after every farming season run at a loss due to lack of buyers of their farm products. Also, poor prices offered by few buyers who have been transacting bu...
Abstract The consequences of a patient’s health record not being available at the time of treatment can be very cataclysmic. Accidental human deaths have occurred by the interference of certain medications with some undisclosed health conditions of patients due to the absence of their medical history not being available at the time of treatment. The purpose of this capstone project is to build and test the effectiveness of web-based inter-operable software which enables the global transfer ...
Abstract Producing software compels programmers to have in-depth knowledge of several programming languages, tools and frameworks. This time-consuming process demands dedication and mastery which are typically the foremost reasons most novice programmers give up a little into the software development process. This project seeks to eliminate learning programming languages and tools to create Android applications and reduce the time used in creating Android applications. This paper presents a c...