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Trust Aware Recommender System for Social Coding Platforms (GitHub Case Study)
(2017-11-12)
Social networking systems have found their way into all sectors of life. With the advent of social coding platform like GitHub, networks of developers can be inferred based on the projects they participated in. When a new ...
A Predictive Model for Electricity Consumption in University Campuses Using Artificial Neural Networks (A Case Study)
(2017-12-09)
Energy efficiency is paramount in the quest to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century. Statistics in recent research have shown that in many sectors in any nation’s economy, which include buildings, industries ...
Observatory System for Monitoring Road Accidents in Nigeria
(2017-11-12)
Road Accidents are on the rise due to the high amount of migration from the rural area to the urban areas, Urbanization people are now finding it easier to own cars and use it for their day to day activities. Due to that ...
Spiking Neural Network Architecture Design and Performance Exploration towards the Design of a Scalable Neuro-Inspired System for Complex Cognition Applications
(2017-12-09)
Research into artificial neural networks (ANNs) is inspired by how information is dynamically and massively processed by biological neurons. Conventional ANNs research has received a wide range of applications including ...
A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Modelling Preferences of Users in Multi-Criteria Recommender Systems
(2017-12-09)
Recommender systems are web-based platforms or software that use various machine learning methods to propose useful items to users. Several techniques have been used to develop such a system for generating a list of ...
Sweet Corrosion Inhibition of Carbon Steel Using a Blend of Palm-Jatropha Leaf Extract in 3.5% Nacl Solution
(2017-12-12)
This research focused on studying the suitability of a blend of plant extracts for sweet corrosion inhibition on carbon steel in 3.5% NaCl solution. A comparative study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of sweet ...
Carbon Soot as a Potential and Sustainable Source of Porous Nanostructure for Energy Storage
(2017-11-13)
There is a need for efficient energy storage to meet the world’s continuous demand for energy. The electrical energy storage devices available are conventional capacitors, electrochemical supercapacitors, batteries and ...
Characterization and Stabilization of Laterite for Sustainable Construction Applications
(2017-12-12)
Laterite is an eco-friendly construction material that has the ability of being re-cycled indefinitely. The research is aimed at achieving the effective utilization of laterite as a sustainable construction material by ...
Technical Assessment of Mining Site and Barite Quality in Nigeria
(2017-12-16)
Barite is an exceptional non-metallic mineral composed of barium sulphate and it is used mainly by the oil and gas industry as drilling mud in deep drilling, where high pressure is encountered. The specific gravity of ...
Utilisation of Rice Husk Ash (RHA) in the Production of Magnesium Oxide (MgO)-BASED Cement
(2017-10-23)
The use of Magnesium oxide (MgO) cement as a full replacement and viable alternative for Ordinary Portland Cement was studied. Rice husk, an agricultural waste, was calcined and synthesised to be used as a source of silica ...