ABSTRACT: Shopping is one essential activity in every individual’s life. Without shopping, individuals will not have access to things they need to live comfortably. Handymen also make our lives easier by offering services we cannot provide for ourselves either due to lack of skills, time constraints or unavailability of necessary tools. Shopping and finding handymen are relatively easier in developed countries because of the ease of accessing shopping centers, and handymen. However, in deve...
Abstract This report details the findings of an applied project to design and implement a sustainable Information and Communications Technology center in the rural community of Berekuso. The project was intended to address the challenges of providing the community with access to quality education. The project design was divided into three key areas which include the establishment of the physical hardware infrastructure, the hosting of a digital library equipped with relevant educational conte...
Abstract This dissertation investigates the effect of the rise of football agency on Ghanaian football. This paper looks to highlight the different opinions on the activities of football agents and analyze its effect on football agency. The objectives of this research are to investigate the reasons for the rise in football agency in Ghana, determine how this rise in football agency is affecting football in Ghana and to recommend ways to increase the positive and decrease the negative impact o...
ABSTRACT This project seeks to apply natural language processing techniques to automate the support processes of Chalkboard Education, a startup in Ghana. The company has many users but currently has only two operations personnel responsible for responding to customer queries. Their support processes can be made easier with the use of a chatbot. The project references work from early chatbots like ELIZA and Cleverbot as well as more recent ones like MOOCBuddy and SuperAgent. The chatbot is bu...
ABSTRACT In Ghana, most of the vehicle maintenance and repair jobs are performed by wayside mechanics and they use what is termed the ‘try and error’ to repair almost all automobile. Based on this the study assesses the use of diagnostic equipment in the maintenance services of automobiles and its impact on the wayside garage in Accra Metropolis. The specific objectives of the study were to: find out the knowledge level of the wayside mechanics on diagnostic equipment, ascertain the...
ABSTRACT Fiber backbone is almost at the verge of replacing the microwave link completely owing to the high demand for capacity. To achieve this high capacity with fiber in other to reduce complaints of poor quality of service, proper deployment techniques must be employed by network operators. This project delves into the network elements, their installations and their interconnection topologies of the various fiber backbones deployed by all the network operators in Ghana. The analyt...
ABSTRACT The rationale for this write up generally enlighten the students and especially the practical lecturers and instructors to have a broader perspective about ascertaining the competencies of students performance level of conventional lathe machine usage in the Polytechnics, the various competencies and strategies adopted in teaching the practical skills and to discover the reasons for the low performance of Higher National Diploma (HND) graduate in the industries on the use ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate safety considerations in welding operations in the Sunyani Municipality. Specifically, the study investigated the health and safety hazards associated with welding operations, identified the unsafe work practices of welders, as well as examined the precautionary measures adopted by welders in the Sunyani Municipality. A survey research design was employed for the study adopting the quantitative approach to data analysis and using questionnaire a...
ABSTRACT High variety industries are characterized by low volume and high product variety. As such their production processes grow more complex with the increase in product variations. Hence, the use of tools such as project management and scheduling applications are important in ensuring efficient production runs. Though SMEs are present in such industries, they have been slow in the adoption of technology due to varied reasons. This slow adoption is often attributed to high set up costs and...
ABSTRACT Okra (Abelmoschus spp. L. Moench) is an important multi-purpose vegetable crop cultivated and consumed across all tropical and temperate regions of the world. In Ghana,it is popular in all ten regions and increasing quantities are exported to Europe in the fresh form. The crop has received little attention by way of breeding to produce varieties combining the most desirable qualities to boost local cultivation and export. Ten accessions of Abelmoschus spp., comprising two species...
Abstract According to the 2010 census in Ghana, the population of the elderly grew by 87% between 1960 and 2010 (Ghana Statistical Service, 2013). With this growth in the number of elderly people, comes a higher number of occurrences of diseases that afflict the aged, such as dementia. The objective of this thesis, is to find the care options available to the demented in Ghana, those actually being used by the families of the demented in Ghana, and ways by which technology can be used to publ...
Abstract Football is the most popular sport in the world, and many individuals have taken advantage of it to earn a living and improve upon their standards of living. Injuries are also unfortunate incidents that occur in daily life and in sports, which affect an individual’s ability to make good use of his sporting talent to earn a living for himself and his family. In this project, modifiable risk factors that affect a player’s likelihood of getting an injury are identified, and their in...
Abstract If you ask me what comes to mind when I think about the Internet, the first thing I would conceive is, “information.” It is a world of information- billions and billions of information. There is really no limit to the information available on the Internet. Today, it is very easy to find answers to questions on subjects you have little knowledge of by simply running a search on the Internet. To me, another word closely tied to information is “power.” Knowledge, they say is pow...
ABSTRACT The web has evolved from an information exchange system to a data mining, knowledge creation or Knowledge dissemination platform where the internet is viewed as a critical and vital component of success by students, lecturers and researchers in higher institutions particularly within universities and colleges. There is thus pressure on network directors managing network services within these institutions to provide regular and correct utilization of the available bandwidth. Network d...
Abstract The web is rapidly becoming the most preferred media option for entertainment, information search and many others. In light of this development, it is important that ones website is able to stand out from the other sites providing the user with the best experience possible in order to ensure customer satisfactory and retainability. Colors have been known to influence customers’ decision on a webpage and also influence a user’s decision to undertake activities on the web