African University of Science and Technology: Recent submissions
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Decision tree classifiers for incident call data sets
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2017)Information technology (IT) has become one of the key technologies for economic and social development in any organization. Therefore the management of Information technology incidents, and particularly in the area of ...
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Investigating mobile graphic-based reminders to support compliance of tuberculosis treatment
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2017)The phenomenon of rapid increment of the mobile phones can be utilized through supporting patients, such as those who have tuberculosis, for treatment adherence. This utilization will enable these patients to directly ...
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Large-scale stability and astronomical constraints for coupled dark-energy models
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2018-02-26)The physics of the dark energy and the dark matter is still an open issue in cosmology. The dark energy occupies about 68.5% of the total energy density of the universe today [1], and is believed to accelerate its observed ...
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APIC: A method for automated pattern identification and classification
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2017)Machine Learning (ML) is a transformative technology at the forefront of many modern research endeavours. The technology is generating a tremendous amount of attention from researchers and practitioners, providing new ...
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Improving Pan-African research and education networks through traffic engineering: A LISP/SDN approach
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceFaculty Science: ICTC4D, 2017)The UbuntuNet Alliance, a consortium of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) runs an exclusive data network for education and research in east and southern Africa. Despite a high degree of route redundancy in ...
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An Approach Towell Placement and Productionin a Green Field – A Case Study
(2016-06-20)Reservoir development planning and well placement significantly affect hydrocarbon recovery. Therefore, strategic well placement and development techniques are essential to minimize the risk of unproductive drilling and ...
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Enhancing digital heritage archives using gamified annotations
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2017)In the context of digital heritage archives, we find heritage objects having intrinsic contextual and historical information. Capturing all that information is difficult, especially if that effort is left only to the ...
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Privacy and Security Risks for National Health Records Systems
(2018-01-24)A review of national health records (NEHR) systems shows that privacy and security risks have a profound impact on the success of such projects. Countries have different approaches when dealing with privacy and security ...
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Assessment of Iron Ore Mining Gangues in Itakpe for Secondary Recovery of other Metal Values
(2017-01-17)Due to rapid industrialization, the demand for heavy metals is ever increasing, but the reserves of high-grade ores are diminishing. Therefore there is a need to explore alternative sources of heavy metals. Ore mine gangues ...
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Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation of a Solar Drying System for Crops
(2017-03-22)This research presents the design, construction, and analysis of the performance of a mixed-mode solar dryer for crops. A mixed-mode solar dryer utilizes direct solar radiation from the sun as well as input heat ducted ...
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Effect of Annealing Temperature on the Formation of Methyl Ammonium Tin Tri-Iodide Perovskite Thin Film
(2016-07-12)Organic-inorganic perovskite photovoltaics (PVs) have attracted a lot of attention as high- efficiency thin film PVs which are relatively cheap and easy to fabricate. Lead halide perovskites have shown a rapid rise in power ...
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Environmental Effect of Iron Ore Mining Operations in Itakpe, Kogi State
(2016-03-15)Topsoil stripping, drilling and blasting extraction, waste rock dumping, loading, and unloading, crushing and screening, and materials transport are among other activities involved in iron ore mining. These activities ...
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Effect of Sintering Time on Mechanical Properties of Porous Ti-6al-4v Implant
(2016-07-12)Titanium alloy is popular in biomedical application owing to its low density, good biocompatibility (i.e. biological and chemical inertness) and excellent mechanical properties. Due to the high disparity between the implant ...
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Activated Carbon from Plant-Biomass Waste Materials as Electrodes for Supercapacitor Applications
(2016-06-20)This work is aimed at studying activated carbons as supercapacitor electrode materials derived from plant biomass waste materials. The activated carbon raw materials are sourced from coconut shell, pine cone and rice husk ...
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Adsorption of Dissolved Ions in Mine Wastewater with Laterite and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
(2016-06-20)This work studies the adsorption capacity of laterite and iron oxide nanoparticles for dissolved ions in solution and therefore its ability to reduce conductivity of mine waste effluent. Three laterite samples were prepared ...
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Structural and Mechanical Properties of Termite Soil as a Partial Replacement to Cement
(2016-03-22)Materials selection is done regarding to the availability, cost and performance of the candidates. In buildings, cement is the material that is widely used, even though it is releases co2 (estimated about 7% of the worldwide ...
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Effects of Prodigiosin on Breast Cancer Cell Viability
(2016-07-22)The Luteinizing Hormone-releasing Hormone (LHRH); also known as a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone can be utilized for targeted therapy with cytotoxic analogs, in which prodigiosin is linked to the [D-Lys6] LHRH. Our studies ...
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Phytoremediation of Crude Oil Contaminated Soil Using Cowpea and Indole-3-Acetic Acid as a Growth Hormone
(2017-03-22)One of the unintended impacts of crude oil exploration is the pollution of agricultural land and aquatic resources when there is accidental oil spillage. The environmental effect of this has resulted in untold hardship to ...
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A Hybridized Recommendation System on Movie Data Using Content-Based and Collaborative Filtering
(2016-05-20)In recent times, the rate of growth in information available on the internet has resulted in large amounts of data and an increase in online users. The Recommendation System has been employed to empower users to make ...
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Adaptive Learning Framework
(2016-05-20)Many Institutions offer on-line courses to people from all around the world. Learning Management Systems provides a convenient learning environment for on-line courses. Each learner has individual needs and characteristics ...













