African University of Science and Technology: Recent submissions
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Morphology Analysis of Lead Iodide- and Lead Acetate-Based Perovskite Layers for Solar Cell Application
(2018-12-09)Organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells have shown success as light absorbers in photovoltaic cells due to their efficiency increasing from 3.5% to over 20% within only five years. However, pinhole formation and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Fracture Toughness and Resistance-Curve Behaviour of Laminated Bamboo
(2017-12-12)In this study, the fracture toughness and resistance curve behaviour of laminated panels, produced from the tropical Nigerian bamboo species Bambusa vulgaris, were investigated to assess its potential for use as an alternative ...
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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 ...
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Investigation of Stress Corrosion Cracking of Storage Tanks used to Store Methanol for Gas Hydrate Inhibition
(2018-12-07)Methanol is normally used in the oil and gas industries for inhibiting gas hydrate. Before use, the methanol is normally stored in tanks often made of carbon steels and stainless steels, and these tanks are prone to corrosion ...
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Study of Scalable Deep Neural Network for Wildlife Animal Recognition and Identification
(2019-06-16)Recently, deep learning techniques have been used significantly for large scale image classification targeting wildlife prediction. This research adopted a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) and proposed a deep scalable ...
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Classification of Breast Cancer Using Logistic Regression
(2019-06-16)Breast cancer is a prevalent disease that affects mostly women, an early diagnosis will expedite the treatment of this ailment. In recent times, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been employed in biomedical and informatics ...
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Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning Object Oriented Programming Language
(2019-06-16)Taking Nigeria as a case study, most educational institutions, be it at the primary, secondary or tertiary level are faced with the challenge of over population of student’s in a single classroom. Also, the teacher who ...
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Text Mining of Twitter Data: Topic Modelling
(2019-06-16)Access to the Internet is becoming more affordable especially in Africa and with this the number of active social media users is also on the rise. Twitter is a social media platform on which users post and interact with ...
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Comparative Study of Annotation Tools and Techniques
(2019-06-16)A huge amount of data is generated on daily basis. The generated data can be both structured and unstructured data. The sources from which most of the unstructured data are found are the dailies, social networks (posts ...
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Prediction of Heart Disease using Bayesian Network Model
(2019-06-16)The Heart Disease according to the survey is the leading cause of death all over the world. The health sector has a lot of data, but unfortunately, these data are not well utilized. This is as a result of lack of effective ...
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Fast and Accurate Feature-based Region Identification
(2019-06)There have been several improvement in object detection and semantic segmentation results in recent years. Baseline systems that drives these advances are Fast/Faster R-CNN, Fully Convolutional Network and recently Mask ...
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Sentiment Analysis Based on Social Media Data
(2019-06-16)Sentiment analysis has proven to be one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Many AI systems have been developed which can detect the polarity of a sentence (degree of positivity, neutrality ...
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Observatory System for Monitoring Hepatitis C Development in Nigeria
(2019-06-16)Hepatitis C development is a public health concern globally; hence eliminating it has become a major public health goal by various countries. In Nigeria, monitoring Hepatitis C development with the view to eliminate it has ...
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Hardware Emulation Study of Neuronal Processing in Cortex for Pattern Recognition
(2017-11-12)Artificial Neural network (ANN) is an area of computing that is modeled after the neural network of the biological brain and over the last few decades, has experienced huge success in its application in areas such as ...
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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 ...
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Machine Learning Text Analyzer – Text Classification using Supervised and Un-Supervised Algorithms
(2019-06-16)Text analysis is a branch of data mining that deals with text documents. This project brings to light the classification of texts into their various categories. The structured and unstructured data seems to on a high rise ...
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Design of a Neural Network Architecture for Traffic Light Detection in Autonomous Vehicles
(2019-06-16)Over the ongoing years, innovatively propelled nations have kept on joining the quest for growing completely self-sufficient driven vehicles. This Autonomous vehicles intend to address issues of driver profitability and ...
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Smart Multimedia Learning System for Automata Theory
(2017-11-12)Education is a vital ingredient for a sustainable economy where “knowledge is power”. M- learning initiatives can lessen the digital divide in education and promote a knowledge-based economy. The high saturation of mobile ...