ABSTRACT Hospital is an essential welfare of society. It provides management of illnesses through treatment and prevention interventions by medical and health professionals. Due to growing population and rise in chronic diseases, there is an increased demand for health care services. This causes congestion and overcrowding in most hospitals. Hospital overcrowding is a major problem to patients, hospital administration and to the general health workers. Hospitals in many jurisdictions struggle...
ABSTRACT With the progressive decline of capture fisheries and human population upsurge worldwide, aquaculture is expected to play a great role in ensuring sufficient fish in the market. Thus, aquaculture is promoted by world food production agencies and governments, and has experienced significant growth. However, for African countries such as Kenya, aquaculture production is disproportionately lower than capture fisheries. Thus, there is urgent need to improve aquaculture production in thes...
ABSTRACT This project concentrates on developing the Save the Children Sponsorship Management system which was seen necessary after it was discovered that the command prompt system that was being used for sponsorship child records management had weaknesses. Poor communication through the use of multiple communication mediums led to difficulties in tracking the support tickets raised by users at Zimbabwe Power Company. The current system shows a lot of bureaucracy and old fashioned way of runn...
ABSTRACT The ultimate goal of this project was on developing an Internet of Things (IoT) based air pollution monitoring system. This document gives stage by stage procedures that the developer undertook in coming up with the system. The developer undertook an assessment and the results showed that air pollution has alarming effects. Its effects cause a lot of human diseases which include respiratory and heart conditions amongst other body threats. The objectives of this project are to monitor...
ABSTRACT Convulsion is a chronic neurological disorder that develops in up to 5% of the world’s population with prevalence of nearly 88% occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, prompting serious medical, social, health related stigma and discrimination. Although a number of antiepileptic drugs (AED) are available for patients, most of the drugs have been associated with adverse side effects, dose-related neurotoxicity and teratogenic effects besides the AED therapy failures reported in approximate...
ABSTRACT The core aspect behind developing Electronic Energy Meter Management System (EEMMS) was a result of inefficiency of the manual system that was used at the organization. The main aim was to develop a computerized system that will curb the problems currently encountered by using the existing manual system by integratinginformationsystemsprocess. The instruments which were used to come up with the system include MySQL database, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, SMTP email service and Apache server...
ABSTRACT Subclinical vitamin A (VA) deficiency (VAD) continues to be a global problem widely affecting children within 1,000 days of life. Western Kenya experiences high infant mortality partly attributable to VAD. A community based cross-sectional survey among children 6-23 months was undertaken in Western Kenya. Socio-demographic and dietary intake information were collected. Analysis of retinol-binding protein (RBP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) was undertaken to estimate VA and sub-clinica...
ABSTRACT Management of diabetes mellitus using conventional drugs is either unaffordable, unavailable or has undesirable side effects. Medicinal plants such as Zanthoxylum chalybeum (Rutaceae) have found prominence in management of diabetes and previous studies showed the efficacies of aqueous root and stem bark against in vivo alloxan and streptozotocin–induced diabetes in rats. However, the phytochemical evidence for these activities was never established. Therefore, this study was to est...
ABSTRACT Bacterial biofilms remain a major public health burden. Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm is the predominant cause of biofilm-associated infections. Kisumu county has a high circulation of antibiotic resistance genes, which is attributable to S. epidermidis biofilm, necessitating effective S. epidermidis biofilm control. Given the high tendency of bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics, S. epidermidis biofilm control using physico-chemical disinfection is a suitable approach....
ABSTRACT This study was carried out in two phases. The first phase involved the determination of the prevalence of Aeromonas species and Plesiomonas shigelloides in patients, with and without diarrhoea, reporting at the enteric laboratory of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos; over a 12-month period of October 1986 through September 1987. In the second phase the characteristics of isolates thus obtained were exa...
ABSTRACT The Biology or Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis in rodents and the reaction of rats and nice to the infection were studied. In investigations into the course of infection of Plasmodium Yoelii nigeriansis. in rats and nice, it was found that adult nice, baby nice and baby rats were susceptible to the infection, while adult rats were totally resistant. The infection was rapidly fatal in both adult and baby mice while in baby rats, it was tolerated until the animals were 7 weeks old, after...
ABSTRACT Physiological adaptations to aestivation and osmotic regulation of the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens (Owen, 1839) (Lepidosirenidae) of Anambra River, Nigeria (Lat. 50 42‟ & 70 40‟N and Long. 60 30‟ & 70 42‟E) were investigated. Some physico-chemical parameters of Anambra River and aestivation habits of P. annectens in the river and its flood plains were also determined, as well as the seasonal changes in gonadosomatic and hepatosomatic indices, condition factor, fe...
Abstract Measurement of equatorial ionospheric absorption made by the A3 Method for quiet conditions near a period of maximum solar activity (1979 to 1981) are used for a detailed examination of Absorption of Radio Waves in equatorial Ionosphere. Assuming an index law of the form L. 1.Cos"for the absorption (x being zenith angle of the sun). the diurnal and seasonal characteristics of the variation are obtained for two frequencies (4.9 Mhz and 7.1 MHz) and compared with existing theories. Pro...
ABSTRACT The content of nitrate, nitrite and Vitamin C in eleven samples of fresh vegetables were determined. The levels of nitrate were beyond here on recommended in six of the vegetables, namely: Celosia sp. Lactuca, sativa , Amaranthus hybridus, Brassica oleracea variety acephala, Talinum sp, Spinacia oleracea. Minute quantifies of nitrite were detected in Celosia sp and Daucus carota. With accompanying high concentration of Vitamin C (a reducing agent) present in Celosia sp. this vegetabl...
ABSTRACT The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) is the causative agent of human and animal tuberculosis (TB). Complex membership signify how closely related they are clonally. Since the true nature of an organism lies within the genes, this molecular-based study explored unique regions of variation or polymorphism within the chromosomes that serve as targets for differentiaton, to improve our understanding of this unique group of bacteria. While extensive data exist for the molecular c...