Abstract: Rice is one of the most important cereal crops in Fogera Plain. Despite its potential and production in Ethiopia, its productivity varies from year to year and over locations due to seasonal and intra-seasonal climate variability and household characteristics. The objectives of this study were to identify rice farm typologies, drivers of rice yield, climate change, and adaptation strategies to analyze climate variability and trend changes, and to assess dry spell management practic...
ABSTRACT This work deals with the multi-faceted impact of gas flaring on a global scale and the different approach employed by researchers to measure gas flared and its resulting emissions. It gives an overview of methods employed by these researchers in the oil and gas industry, academia and governments in attempt to determine ways of measuring and reducing gas flaring and its emission drastically. This approach so far includes analytical studies, numerical studies, modeling, computer simul...
Abstract This thesis consists of three papers on child labour and schooling in Ghana. The first paper examines the correlates of child labour and schooling, as well as the trade-off between work and schooling of children aged 5-17 years with the 2013 Ghana Living Standard Survey data. A bivariate probit model is used since the decisions to participate in schooling and in the labour market are interdependent. The results show that there is a gender gap both in child work and schooling. In par...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, a satisfactory degree of reliability has not been attained in our power systems in recent times. The average duration of interruptions that customers experience is quite high and the degree varies from place to place. This is evident all around the nation, most especially in urban commercial cities. Previous researchers have focused on the assessment of power system reliability indices using different models. In this work, a computationally efficient modified linear con...
Performance of a solar powered irrigation systems in the Northern Ghana was evaluated in this study. Solar powered water application systems (drip, spray tube and sprinkler irrigation systems) were evaluated using performance indicators. Coefficient of variation (CV), emission uniformity (EU), emitter flow variation (Qvar) and mean application rate (MAR) were evaluated for the drip irrigation system for different water levels in the tank. Uniformity Coefficient of (CU), Distribution Uniformit...
ABSTRACT An important musical type that supports farmers’ activities at Kpandu and its environs, to ensure their welfare and survival through subsistence farming is agblehawo, a term which literally means “farmers’ music”. This study sought to explain why the s4hewo (the youth), of Kpandu up to date, cling to the performance of agblehawo in the face of other varied forms of music to which they are exposed. To explain this socio-musical behaviour of the s4hewo, the conceptual framework...
ABSTRACT This study carried out an investigation on the role and effect of management information system and performance ACT Alliance Members, Juba, South Sudan. The objectives of the study were 1) to determine the relationship between transaction processing Systems and performance. 2) to examine the relation between expert support system and performance 3) to examine the relationship between Decision Support System and performance 4) to examine the relationship between Operating Information...
ABSTRACT KMS are IT systems that manage the knowledge of organizations, these systems aid organizations generate new knowledge, record, utilize and allocate knowledge. This study examines the adoption of knowledge management systems at the American University of Nigeria. Centred on the UTAUT2 theory, this study puts forth a framework and then investigates its constructs to explain individual’s behavioural intentions to adopt knowledge management system. This work also examines the moderati...
ABSTRACT This project concentrates on developing the Save the Children Sponsorship Management system which was seen necessary after it was discovered that the command prompt system that was being used for sponsorship child records management had weaknesses. Poor communication through the use of multiple communication mediums led to difficulties in tracking the support tickets raised by users at Zimbabwe Power Company. The current system shows a lot of bureaucracy and old fashioned way of runn...
ABSTRACT Dandemutande Investments was face with a network management and tracking problem. The issues that were presented by old manual system include, missed service level agreement due to delayed response to network outages and incidences, the support team had to familiarize with several troubleshooting tools, manual compilation of system reports and the system was reactive and action to resolve network issues were only taken after the they had already occurred. The Infrastructure Surveilla...
Abstract: Six municipal solid waste management (MSWM) options (A1–A6) in Harare were developed and analyzed for their global warming, acidification, eutrophication and human health impact potentials using life cycle assessment methodology to determine the least impactful option in Harare. Study findings will aid the development of future MSWM systems in Harare. A1 and A2 considered the landfilling and incineration, respectively, of indiscriminately collected MSW with energy recovery and by...
Abstract: Climate change raises a serious threat to global entomofauna—the foundation of many ecosystems—by threatening species preservation and the ecosystem services they provide. Already, changes in climate—warming—are causing (i) sharp phenological mismatches among host–parasitoid systems by reducing the window of host susceptibility, leading to early emergence of either the host or its associated parasitoid and affecting mismatched species’ fitness and abundance; (ii) shifti...
ABSTRACT The general purpose was to develop an efficient Inventory Management System (IMS) that improves service delivery at Smart shoppers’ Masaka. The main objectives were to collect and analyze user requirements that provide the researchers with enough information of what the system users want the system to accomplish, to design an Automated Inventory Management System, to implement a prototype and to test and validate the designed prototype. The methodology used includes Interviews, Que...
AbstractHealth issues in developing countries are becoming more serious day by day, asdifferent diseases attack and infect people making the public health sectoroverwhelmed. This has made it difficult for health workers to accurately study thetrend of different diseases in many cases, thus failing to analyze the way patientsbehave after being diagnosed. At the same time there is an increased use of mobileinformation technology gadgets, which can be used as a way to minimize on thegap between ...
Abstract: Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) is a major horticultural crop that relies on insect mediated pollination. In avocado produc-tion, a knowledge gap exists as to the importance of insect pollination, especially in East African smallholder farms. In thisstudy, conducted in a leading smallholder avocado production region in Kenya, we assessed the dependence of avocado fruitset on insect pollination and whether current smallholder production systems suffer from a deficit in pollination ...