1. EVALUATION OF ICT-BASED INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES UTILIZATION IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA
Background of the study
Library is a fast growing organization, the ancient methods of maintaining it are no longer dynamic and efficient for expeditions, retrieval and dissemination of information and better service for the students; application of modern techniques ha...
2. EFFECT OF COMPUTERISATION OF LIBRARY ON STUDENTS ACADEMY PERFORMANCE
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Library is a fast growing organization, the ancient methods of maintaining it are no longer dynamic and efficient for expeditions, retrieval and dissemination of information and better service for the students; application of mod...
3. IDENTIFICATION OF TEACHING TOPIC IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Background to the Study
Learning of mathematics developsgood knowledgeand understanding because of its application to all fields of human endeavor. It is a field of study that brings about logical thinking and reasoning toward a solution to problem that...
4. IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF AN ORGANIZATION
Background To The Study.
At independence, Nigeria joined the committee of nation with the hope for a better tomorrow. We were able to feed ourselves and were of course almost self-sufficient. Subsequently our hopes seemed unattainable. We seem to be go...
5. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
As transportation, communication, and utility networks continue to grow in complexity and size, the likelihood of two or more networks occupying a common right-of-way or intersecting each other also continues to increase. Conflicts arise when on...
6. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WIRELESS VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL
AIM AND OBJECTIVES
The primary aim of this project work is to provide lasting solution to the problem by computerizing the maintenance of record of NOKIA users to help track down user’s services and follow up provision of wireless voice overIP. To eli...
7. NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF THE USE OF ANDROID PHONES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SIERRA LEONE (A CASE STUDY OF GOVERNMENT TECHNICAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS)
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In our contemporary environment, advances in technology cause individuals all over the world to alter both their patterns of behavior and the ways in which they consume goods. As opined by Mahamud & Fordjour (2015)) the...
8. THE USE OF ANDROID PHONES, AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ECONOMICS IN SIERRA LEONE FROM 2010-2020
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In our contemporary environment, advances in technology cause individuals all over the world to alter both their patterns of behavior and the ways in which they consume goods. As opined by Mahamud & Fordjour (2015)) the use of...
9. MODELING THE EFFECTS OF CARRIERS ON TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
For certain infectious diseases, there are individuals who are able to transmit their illness but do not exhibit any symptoms. These individuals are called “carriers” and they play an important role in the t...
10. MODELLING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE BALL-ON-SPHERE SYSTEM USING BOND GRAPH TECHNIQUE
ABSTRACT
This research is aimed at the modelling and structural analysis of the ball-on-sphere system using bond graph technique. To achieve the bond graph model of the ball-on- sphere system, the various s...
11. BACTERIAL FORAGING ALGORITHM BASED TUNING OF ON-LOAD TAP CHANGING TRANSFORMER FOR VOLTAGE REGULATION IN POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORK
ABSTRACT
The control of voltage level has been identified as one of the most important operational
needs for efficient and reliable operation of power system equipment. Due to the fact
that both the utility and customer equipment are designed to ope...
12. DETERMINATION OF AN IMPROVED SPECTRUM SENSING THRESHOLD FOR COGNITIVE RADIO USING SMOOTHED PSEUDO WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION
Problem Statement
The successful operation of cognitive radios depends largely on the results of spectrum sensing. Energy detection being the simplest to implement in terms of computational complexity has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers in order to...
13. DEVELOPMENT OF A DISTRIBUTED BIG DATA FUSION ARCHITECTURE FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION USING ENSEMBLE LEARNING
ABSTRACT
This research developed a distributed big data fusion architecture for machine to machine communication using ensemble learning. This is implemented to mitigate the challenges that characterize centralized big data fusion architecture commonly adopted through the use of Hadoop...
14. DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED TOKEN BASED CONGESTION CONTROL SCHEME WITH ADAPTIVE FORWARDING FOR OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORK
ABSTRACT
This research presents the development of a modified token-based congestion control scheme with adaptive forwarding mechanism (mTBCC) algorithm for addressing congestion problems in opportunistic networks (OppNets). The algorithm addresses the limitations associated with the st...
15. DEVELOPMENT OF A PILOT ALLOCATION PROTOCOL TO MITIGATE THE EFFECT OF PILOT CONTAMINATION IN MASSIVE MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
Pilot Contamination (PC) has been considered as a majorlimiting factor of Time Division Duplexing (TDD) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) systems, as itsaturates the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) saturated. Similarly, several mitigation techniques...
16. DEVELOPMENT OF A SMELL AGENT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS
Excerpt from the Study
Combinatorial optimization involves the mathematical study of arraignment, ordering, selection or grouping of discrete objects. The complexity of combinatorial problem usually increases as the problem dimension becomes very large. Solving these la...
17. DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED APPLICATION SPECIFIC TUNELLING PROTOCOL SELECTION SCHEME FOR SITE TO SITE VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS
ABSTRACT
This study presents the development of an improved application specific tunnelling protocol selection scheme (iASTPSS) for site-to-site virtual private network (VPN). The aim is to develop an improved tunnelling protocol selection scheme for site to site VPN that is application...
18. DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMIZED ROUTING SCHEME FOR A CAPACITATED VEHICLE MODEL
ABSTRACT
This dissertation presents the development of an optimized routing scheme for a capacitated vehicle model using Firefly Algorithm (FFA). The conventional model is a formal description involving mathematical equations formulated to simplify a more complex structure of logistic p...
19. DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, ANTIMALARIAL EVALUATION AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF SOME CHALCONE DERIVATIVES
ABSTRACT
Inspired by the previous findings on the structural requirements needed for good antimalarial activity by chalcones against Plasmodium proteases, seventeen chalcone derivatives were designed and synthesized using Claisen-Schmidt condensation of appropriate aldehydes and methyl...
20. APPLICATION AND BENEFIT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
According to wikipedia (2015), artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also the name of the academic field of study in computer science which studies how to create computers and compute...
21. MODELING FOR INVERSION IN EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS
Introduction and Background
Understanding the physics of our surrounding has driven science and technology for a long time and while some part of the earth is well know and understood, its subsurface is mostly unknown. The subsurface is one of today’s most important challenges. Fi...
22. Building more performant large scale networks for the Internet of Things
Abstract
Inspired by the rise of smaller computing devices and ubiquitous network connectivity, this dissertation focuses on the dynamics of extremely large scale computer networks and mechanisms to improve their performance. Traditional networks were not designed to support the billion...
23. COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCT AND ASSESS KNOWLEDGE MAPS FOR STUDENT LEARNING
ABSTRACT
Knowledge maps have been widely used in knowledge elicitation and representation to evaluate and guide students’ learning. To improve upon current computational approaches to construct and assess knowledge maps, this thesis adopts a hybrid methodology that combines...
24. Design, Implementation, and Applications of Fully Autonomous Aerial Systems
Abstract
Fully autonomous aerial systems (FAAS) combine edge and cloud hardware with UAVs and considerable software support to create self-governing systems. FAAS complete complicated missions with no human piloting by sensing and responding to their environment in real-time. FAAS requi...
25. CONTAINER BASED MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING FOR 5G NETWORKS
ABSTRACT
The growth of the telecommunication industry is fast paced with ground-breaking engineering achievements. Despite this, portable mobile handheld devices have very low computational, storage and energy carrying capacity occasioned by the needs to satisfy portability, very small...
26. Generic Metadata Handling in Scientific Data Life Cycles
Introduction
This chapter introduces the dissertation by describing its context, the identified challenges, how the chosen challenge was met, the achieved impact, relevant publications, and how the thesis is structured. 1.1 Context In science data is the essential focal point in todays...
27. INTEGRATION OF MESSAGE QUEUE TELEMETRY TRANSPORT PROTOCOL AND CONSTRAINED APPLICATION PROTOCOL FOR DATA COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
ABSTRACT
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of micro-sensors capable of monitoring physical and environmental factors. These are often mainly made up of resource constrained sensor nodes and gateways. Networking these nodes presents several challenges because the devices have limite...
28. MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF A REFINERY FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT RISER
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this work is to model and simulate the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) riser of a refinery having Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) Kaduna as a study. The unit’s operation is cracking of heavy gasoil (VGO) to light weight oils in the pre...
29. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED PREDICTION AND COOLING ENRGY OPTIMIZATION OF DATA CENTERS
ABSTRACT
Thermal management of data centers remains a challenge because of their everincreasing power densities and decreasing server footprints. Current lack of dynamic control over global provisioning and local distribution of cooling resources often result in wasteful overcooling. Th...
30. FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY INTERACTIONS IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY- A NEW KEYNESIAN APPROACH
ABSTRACT
A political economy environment typified by political corruption, poor implementation of economic policy rules and weak policy coordination, can alter the fiscal behaviour of government and how it interacts with the monetary policy of the Central Bank. This study solved and est...
31. COMPUTATIONAL INFERENCE TECHNIQUE FOR MINING STRUCTURED MOTIFS
ABSTRACT
One of the major challenges in bioinformatics is the development of efficient computational tools for mining patterns. Structured motifs, like DNA binding sites in organisms with peculiarities in their genomic sequence like malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum have not been...
32. APPLICATION OF NLP TECHNIQUES TO ANALYSE SENTIMENT AND EMOTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA DATA
ABSTRACT
This study examined the application of NLP Techniques to analyse sentiment and emotion on social media data. Sentiment analysis has proven to be one of the most challenging ...
