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Investigating prediction modelling of academic performance for students in rural schools in Kenya
(2016)
Academic performance prediction modelling provides an opportunity for learners' probable outcomes to be known early, before they sit for final examinations. This would be particularly useful for education stakeholders to ...
Design and optimisation of a low cost Cognitive Mesh Network
(2016)
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been touted as the most promising wireless technology in providing high-bandwidth Internet access to rural, remote and under-served areas, with relatively lower investment cost as compared ...
Augmenting security event information with contextual data to improve the detection capabilities of a SIEM
(2017)
The increasing number of cyber security breaches have revealed a need for proper cyber security measures. The emergence of the internet and the increase in overall connectivity means that data is more easily accessible and ...
Towards an interactive mobile lecturing model a higher-level engagement for enhancing learning
(2013)
The use of mobile devices has grown in recent years and has overtaken the proliferation of desktop computers with their dual affordances of small size and easy connectivity in diverse fields. The usage of these devices has ...
Developing locally relevant applications for rural South Africa : a telemedicine example
(2005)
Within developing countries, there is a digital divide between rural and urban areas. In order to overcome this division, we need to provide locally relevant Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to these ...
Telecommuting in the developing world: a case of the day-labour market
(2012)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in general, and mobile phones in particular, have demonstrated positive outcomes in the various social transformation and human development dimensions. As a result, many ...
Digital reconstruction of District Six architecture from archival photographs
(2007)
In this thesis we present a strategy for reconstructing instances of District Six Architecture from small sets of old. uncalibrated photographs that are located in the District Six Museum photographic archive. Our ...
A methodology for analyzing power consumption in wireless communication systems
(2004)
Engergy usage has become an important issue in wireless communication systems. The energy-intensive nature of wireless communication has spurred concern over how best systems can make the most use of this non-renewable ...
Presence and co-presence in collaborative virtual environments
(2001)
Presence in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) can be defined into personal presence and co-presence. Personal presence is having a feeling of "being there" in the CVE yourself. Co-presence is having a feeling that ...
Link prediction and link detection in sequences of large social networks using temporal and local metrics
(2006)
This dissertation builds upon the ideas introduced by Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg in The Link Prediction Problem for Social Networks [42]. Link prediction is the problem of predicting between which unconnected nodes in a ...