Abstract Healthcare delivery continues to be a major focus for Ghana as it strives to reach the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals [1]. A major roadblock to reaching these goals has been the average long distances between the rural areas and the healthcare provision centers in the country. In order to overcome this hurdle, the Ministry of Health decided to train healthcare officers who live within these rural areas to help improve the situation. The health officers need a...
ABSTRACT Our everyday shopping lives have been significantly augmented by rapid advances in Commerce Technologies. Buying and Selling of items as well as payments are currently mostly done online using advanced technologies, which have sped up shopping activities and made lives more comfortable for consumers. In spite of the rise in e-commerce, e-business, internet communication, and payment systems, physical cash is still popularly used in buying and selling of items on the University Campus...
Abstract The advent of free recycling is largely alien and unheard of in Ghana. This is the practice of giving out unwanted but reusable items to other people who may have need of it. Freecycling is a linguistic blend of the words free and recycling which connotes the practice of giving unwanted items for free rather than discarding them in landfills. This project implements a web platform that enables local community members to advertise free items and request for free items that have been a...
ABSTRACT In this era of technological outburst and advancement, it has become very necessary for organizations and institutions to keep abreast with all developments. Technology introduced in any department of an organization goes a long way in improving all its processes. Various businesses and organizations need to keep records of their data and handle huge quantum of data, thus they therefore have the responsibility to make sure that data input and access is controlled and managed properly...
ABSTRACT Adult literacy is not given much attention in Ghana. This can be clearly seen by the low number of institutions that provide adult literacy programs in Ghana. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the literacy rate is only about 63.7%. This indicates the gap in literacy that needs to be filled in order to increase the literacy level in Ghana. Although some literacy programs exist, I believe that there must be alternative ways of providing these literacy programs to the citizens...
ABSTRACT Malaria is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in children under 5 years and pregnant women. The use of Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is a combination of a fast-acting artemisinin derivative and a relatively slow-acting partner drug, is used for malaria treatment in disease-endemic areas. The ACT partner drugs in Ghana are lumefantrine (LUM), amodiaquine (AQ), and piperaquine (PQ). Plasmodium falciparum isolates wi...
ABSTRACT According to the Radiotherapy Risk Profile report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the major causes of severe radiotherapy incidents are due to human errors. The real danger is when the error in administration goes undetected during cancer treatments. This may lead to radiation damage to normal tissues, and may be lethal to the patient. The aim of this work was to develop a transit dosimetry calculation model using C++ and vb.net codes for verifying patient radiation doses us...
Abstract The problem of property crime exists on university campuses worldwide. There is also difficulty in monitoring and determining the location of items. Organizations have sought to rely on tracking devices to curb this issue. However, these devices are either too expensive, require high power consumption or are bulky and cannot be used to track small devices. In this project, an affordable and portable system is developed that monitors devices and alerts users once their items cross bou...
Abstract The rapid generation of data by businesses has created a unique and exciting opportunity for management and employees to explore relationships in their data and make informed decisions based on these insights. However, limited sets of tools exist for businesses with no programming and data analysis skills for them to explore this opportunity. This paper proposes a new and improved web-based platform based on a desktop application, INFER, developed by Songhai Group. This application t...
ABSTRACT In the quest to reduce customer churn rate and retain existing customers, organizations have resorted to investing fortunes in their customer care services, which proves to be a relatively cheaper means of staying in business. In this regard, this project sought to explore a less costly way of providing quality customer care services to an organization’s clients in order to keep them satisfied. As it stands today, there is a growing number of digital customer care owing to the fact...
ABSTRACT Containerisation has gradually become a dominant method of moving , cargo the world over sin~e its introduction in the 1960s and so has investment in container terminals. Container terminals form a central part ofthe transport infrastructure and its development leads to the overall development ofthe port system. The appointment of the Ghana Port Services Consortium (GPSC) to own and manage the container terminal under a 20 year build operate and transfer scheme (BOT) scheme will imm...
Abstract Over the years, many means of cashless payments for goods and services have been implemented in Ghana. Although these systems claim diversity given the vast number of services that can be paid for on their respective platforms, they lack an avenue for the payment of transportation. This project attempts to fill this gap by developing a means of paying for transportation in a cashless fashion. In this project, technology such as NFC, QR codes and smartphones is employed to implement a...
Abstract This project is a review of several MySQL database storage engines. It shows what engines are available and the features they have. It also investigates the compilation and extension of these storage engines and it finally discusses and demonstrates how to add a customized engines.
Abstract Teacher absenteeism has become a canker in our society and it needs urgent measures to be put into place to curb it. There have been many attempts at monitoring teacher attendance using both traditional and technological approaches. This project proposes an application that uses an indirect approach to monitor attendance. On this platform, parents are allowed to submit an attendance status of the teacher of their children after they have inquired from the child as to whether the teac...
Abstract The smartphone market is steadily increasing all over the world, as such, most mobile device users are gradually shifting from feature phones to smartphones, tablets and portable computing devices. However, in emerging markets, majority of the mobile device users still use their feature phones, presenting an opportunity for OEM’S and operating system manufacturers to produce a phone that would suit this market. Mozilla, the company that popularized the open source browser Firefox, ...