ABSTRACT Cocoa kombucha (CK) is a new alcoholic beverage developed from cocoa which has many health benefits, so its antioxidant activity and anti-proliferative activity in Jurkat P9 cancer cells were determined and compared to unfermented cocoa and selected standards. The antioxidant activity of CK extract was determined by DPPH assay and total phenolic content, as well as its iron reducing power. The MTT assay was used to determine the anti-proliferative activity of cocoa kombucha. Results ...
ABSTRACT Many married couples experience their relationship changes over time. During the first years of the relationship, they had spent many evenings just talking with each other. They wanted to share joys, hurts, and hearts. There was closeness between the two of them that just made them want to get to know one another more and more. This project is about those in need, it provides information, resources and marriage counseling through an online designed base. It also helps in linking thos...
ABSTRACT This project report describes a mobile android based application which aids users in paying for the services rendered at fuelling stations. This application consists of features that makes the payment process quick, easy and seamless. The application comes with features like google maps to help users find nearby fuel stations. This dissertation also consists of the activity diagrams, application architecture, uses cases and entity relationship diagrams. The technologies used in the e...
ABSTRACT In this Thesis, The Personal Services Locator helps users to find personalized workers or “Handymen” as fast as possible. The issue of finding a person or an individual to do a certain job has always been around, even though it has been reduced with the use of adverts and various social media, it’s not as fast and as efficient at locating people. This application finds the closest person(s) with the services running depending on which personalized service the user is looking fo...
ABSTRACT The n-butanol fraction (nBF) of Desmxhvw adscendens , a plant used for the management of asthma, is' an inhibitor of NADPH-dependent cytochrcire P-450 (CYP) reactions. Its mechanism of action as an inhibitor is however net knewn. In this study, flavoprotein reductase activity, spectral changes associated with binding and spectral properties of reduced cytochrcme c and CYP were used to investigate the mode of inhibition. nBF reduced cytochrcme c but not CYP directly. In the presence o...
ABSTRACT The proposed system is a dynamic model of social media monitoring tool with sentiment analysis. Social media platforms contain a lot of data which might be considered ambiguous to businesses/organizations. Most organizations make use of social media platforms for advertisement as they reach a large crowd in a short period of time and are also more affordable compared to other options. Businesses find it difficult to have a clear vision/insight on how well their business has grown aft...
ABSTRACT Facial recognition plays a significant role in different applications such as human computer communication, video surveillance, face tracking and face recognition. Efficient face recognition algorithm is required to accomplish such task. Face recognition is one of the most active research areas in computer vision and pattern recognition with practical applications. In present networked world, the need to conserve the security of information is becoming both increasingly significant a...
ABSTRACT Over the years, paper-based system for information management has been carried out across most of business and organizational sectors. Overcoming this problem is the main focus of this project in order to reduce the risk of redundancy. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a system that will have the capability for storing related information about employees through database. The system serves as a bridge between the database and the users that helps in maintaining a...
ABSTRACT This application presents a data management system for a car rental company. This enables the administrator to keep track of all the customers information. This system increases customer retention and simplify vehicle and customers management in efficient way. The car rental management system has a very user-friendly interface. Thus, the users will feel very easy to work on it. By using this system admin can manage their rental, bookings, customer issues and vehicle issues etc. The c...
ABSTRACT Living as a human being, health is taken as a priority everywhere you go to. As the famous saying goes “Health is Wealth”. Some people are wealthy but are not healthy. A person can encounter any illness at any time. A person cannot say that him/her is over having a certain illness because, when it comes you cannot take it back. People are suffering from different kind of diseases all over the world. But in this case the problem is not only the disease but knowing about the diet a...
ABSTRACT Cocoa beans are the main ingredient for making chocolate and in Ghana, it is a major contributor to the economy as it generates an annual foreign exchange of about US $2 billion. The ability to produce high quality cocoa beans free from moulds and mycotoxin contamination has therefore become critical due to the impact mycotoxins have on health of consumers and global trade. This study investigated changes in fungal growth, mycotoxin concentrations, physico-chemical properties and co...
ABSTRACT Patient‟s duration of stay at the hospital is one useful indicator many employ to assess the performance and efficiency of healthcare provided by hospitals and healthcare units. Also, patients‟ LOS and inpatient mortality are two interconnected health issues with complex outcomes, and studying the relationship between the two is not an easy task. This study therefore employed non-parametric and semi-parametric statistics in modeling patients‟ survival time to death using secon...
ABSTRACTIron deficiency is the most widespread nutritional problem in the world. It is common throughout childhood and prevalent among 6-12 month olds or 1 - 2 year olds when 70% and 50% of the respective requirements arise from the rapid rate of tissue growth. Despite large-scale iron supplementation programmes, the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia remains high especially in developing countries. Low iron intake and poor absorption or bioavailability of iron in the diet can cause negati...
ABSTRACT Worldwide, acute lower respiratory tract infections in young children are one of the leading causes of childhood mortality. The need to investigate respiratory viruses associated with acute lower respiratory tract infections, more especially all four types of human parainfluenza viruses in Ghana has become crucial due to the limited information available on these viruses. Thus the aim of this study was to detect and characterize human parainfluenza viruses in children that present wi...
ABSTRACT Verification of the output of a treatment planning system (TPS) is considered to be part of quality assurance (QA) requirement for the TPS and need to be performed during commissioning and annually, but this is not given the needed priority due to non availability of appropriate phantoms to facilitate the process. Phantoms with heterogeneities that can simulate clinical situations are needed to assess the performance of TPSs. This research work sought to design and construct such a...