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Accessibility and utilization of information resources in the post COVID-19 era: A case of selected university libraries in Kenya
(KLISC Journal of Information Science and Knowledge Management, 2023)University libraries play a pivotal role in fostering teaching, research, and innovation by offering essential information resources. However, patrons often encounter challenges in using these resources. The research aimed ... -
Adoption of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in healthcare systems
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)Virtual reality (VR) and Augmented reality (AR) are the cutting-edge technological innovations that is going to shape how members of the society live and interact in future. In recent years, such technologies have been ... -
Analysis of digital contact tracing technologies employed in Covid-19 pandemic
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a worldwide pandemic that has claimed lives and negatively changed the mobility patterns of humans. Various Infection control measures have been employed for COVID-19, among them ... -
Application of The K - Means Clustering Algorithm In Medic al Claims Fraud / Abuse Detection
(International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management, 2014)This paper is about a system which applies a modified K - Means algorithm[12] to flag out suspicious claims for further scrutiny has been developed. The Java programming Language and my SQL database tools were used. ... -
Arbitration Mechanism and its Influence on Labour Relations Equilibrium in Public Education Sector in Kenya
(Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2017)The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of arbitration mechanism on labour relations equilibrium in public education sector in Kenya with a view to instil labour relations harmony to enhance labour ... -
Automatic Road Traffic Density Estimation using Image Processing Algorithms
(Proceedings of the 2016 Sustainable Research & Innovation (SRI) Conference, 2022-04-04)In the modern world, urban centres are growing at a very high rate. Growing with them is road traffic congestion. Traffic jams, especially at peak hours, have become routine. As a result, traffic management is one of the ... -
BARRIERS AFFECTING E-GOVERNMENT ADOPTION IN COUNTY GOVERNMENTS IN KENYA: A CASE OF LAIKIPIA COUNTY
(International Journal of Applied Computer Science, 2018-01)Many barriers have been cited in the adoption and diffusion of e-government services in the public sector. This study sought to investigate the barriers affecting e-government adoption in Laikipia County. To realize this ... -
Breast Cancer Classification using Local Directional Ternary Patterns
(International Journal of Computer Applications, 2020)Local texture descriptors have outperformed holistic texture descriptors in various pattern recognition applications. However, the local descriptors have limitations that can compromise ... -
Breast Cancer Detection via Mammographic Images : A Survey
(Academia, 2020)Breast cancer is a top killer disease for women globally. The long term survival rate of women can be improved through early and effective screening of breast cancer cells. Currently, a mammogram is the recommended tool ... -
Breast Cancer Detection via Mammographic Images: A Survey
(International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2020)Breast cancer is a top killer disease for women globally. The long term survival rate of women can be improved through early and effective screening of breast cancer cells. Currently, a mammogram is the recommended tool ... -
College Students' Attitude towards Computer Technology.
(University of North Texas, 2011)Recent advances in the contemporary world, especially in the area of computer technology, have heralded the development and implementation of new and innovative teaching strategies and particularly with the Internet ... -
Deep packet analysis firewall model
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)Firewall (software or hardware device that monitors traffic into and out of the network). It can be classified as stateless or stateful. The existing firewalls are only concerned with filtering packets based on the information ... -
Digital Technologies as a Driver in the Provision of Universal Health Coverage
(KABARAK UNIVERSITY, 2020)The digital revolution is affecting various sectors in the world ranging from banking, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, insurance, and Government. Technological innovations like digital health and electronic healthcare ... -
Digitalization of academic libraries, a response to the blended mode of teaching in private higher learning institutions in Africa
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)Academic libraries are being encouraged to digitalize their services. This idea has been supported with the advent of COVID-19 where health measures are encouraging social distancing and avoiding hand to hand distribution ... -
E-Readiness assessment of microfinance institutions in Kenya
(Information and Knowledge Management, 2015)The financial industry has in recent years embraced the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as e-banking for transactions, m-banking for payment channels development and ... -
Effectiveness of Covid-19 contact tracing solutions
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)COVID 19 has become a global pandemic requiring public health officials to take many measures to contain its spread. Amongst the measures is tracing those who have been in contact with infected people i.e. contact tracing. ... -
Effects of Cybercrime on Oil and Gas Industry
(Global Sciientific Journals, 2020-06)Cybercrime is among leading causes of loss to numerous offshore oil and gas companies globally. With a yearly loss of millions of monies due to damaged equipment and loss of business, experts claim that cyber-attacks ... -
An Effort Estimation Method for Service-Oriented Architecture
(JOURNAL OF Engineering Science and Technology Review, 2020-10-16)Determining size and effort of SOA systems is critical for managing SOA projects. As a consequence, a number of methods have been proposed to estimate effort of building SOA projects but the problem of estimating SOA ... -
ERP User Perceptions and Service Delivery Challenges
(IGI Global, 2020)This chapter introduces the service delivery challenges experienced by users of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) by discussing the user perceptions. The authors administered questionnaires to users of ERP systems ... -
Exploring the Input of Pharmaceutical Waste Management Disposal in Sanitation Service Chain: A Case Study of Nkubu Town, Meru, Kenya
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2023)Pharmaceutical Waste Management (PWM) has emerged as a serious issue, with both health concerns and environmental damage. The study assessed the availability of infrastructures that supports sound pharmaceutical waste ...