CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYAgriculture is defined as “the cultivation of land for the purpose of producing food for man, feed for animal and fibre or raw material for industrial companies. It also includes the processing marketing of crops. In other words, it embraces all activities involved in the primary and controlled production of plant and animals, such as fishing, forestry, farming, livestock, poultry and small scale industries connected with processin...
ABSTRACT This is a critical discourse analysis of how ideological domination and power were reproduced in the CNN representations of Africa and Africans in the coverage of the Ebola crisis. The research also sought to establish if the CNN could have provided a conduit for racism in its framing of the disease. The research used a qualitative research methodology. The research was theoretically informed by the theories of representation and decolonial theory. It generally emerged in this thesis...
ABSTRACT This project aimed at the design and implementation of a hotel control information system; a system to aid in the management and operation of the hotel customer service. Information systems which are not carefully designed basing on good security practices may lead to data loss, misplacement, inconsistencies and redundancies. Methods that were used to gather information about the current system include; interviews, record review and questionnaire method. It gives detailed review of t...
Abstract: Taylor and Davis total productivity model has significant advantage over the traditional and more commonly used productivity models - its holistic nature. The model incorporates elements of net sales, inventory changes, wagcs and salary, investor's contribution, working and fixed capital. This paper presents a unique approach in the determination of the total factor productivity for a manufacturing organisation. This study is motivated by the dearth of models comprehensive enough t...
This study was designed to establish farmers’ perception on climate change and weather variability and its impacts on input investments, crop yields and food security. The study was conducted in the Middleveld of Swaziland were three constituencies were selected within the region. Three communities were selected spatially from each constituency. Purposive sampling was used to select 30 households from each community to make a sample size of 270 households. Information was collected from hea...
ABSTRACTThe research focused on creating a secure Health Information Management System to enable communities to have easy access of information about their personal health records available in health centers. Lack of simple, reliable, affordable, and easy ways for accessing the personal health records is the major problem that leads to researchers conducting this project. The researchers created secure health information system application that will be used by he...
ABSTRACT A number of oil-producing countries in the World (Norway, Britain, Venezuela, Canada, Brazil, etc) have successfully implemented regulatory policies and put in place gas reinjection technologies to curb gas flaring and venting in their offshore/onshore oil fields. Conversely, since 1969 Nigeria has been battling with same gas flaring and venting regulatory regimes without success. This study therefore examines the adequacy of consultancy and utilization of indigenous science and tech...
ABSTRACT Mobile devices are becoming more important in daily lives for not just making calls, but also for information gathering, personal management and entertainment. They have also gained an increasing demand in education field, for instance m-learning, mobile timetable system and many others. The objective of this paper is to present a way to bring information to students by leveraging the availability of phones (with SMS capability), especially cell phones. I review the use of mobile pho...
ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to design a computerized information system that will replace the manual procedures of carrying out operations in the existing management information system of RENTAL SERVICES. The designed system will be able to: - 1. make entries of all transactions made. 2. Make necessary equals of relevant information about all the transaction made between the firm and the client. 3.produce reports for managerial use to make good plans, With the numerous advantages of ...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATIONAPPROVALDEDICATION iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ivABSTRACTTABLE OF CONTENTS ~.LIST OF TABLES ixLIST OF DEFINED TERMS xCHAPTER ONE 1INTRODUCTION 11.0 Background to the study I1.1 Project Overview 11.2 Problem Statement I1.3 Scope of Study1.4 Significance of Study 21.5 Aim ofthe project 21.6 General Objective 21.7 Specific Objectives 21.8 Limitations ofthe study 31.9 Research Question 3CHAPTER TWO 4LITERATURE REVIEW 41.0 Introduction 42.1 Literature Review 42.2 Information Sy...
Biotechnology research and development is moving at a very fast rate. In broad terms, Biotechnology can be defined as any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof to make or modify products or processes for specific use. This range from the use of synthetic hormones in induced breeding hybridization, production of monosex, uniparental and polyploid Molecular biology, transgenic fish to gene banking. CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION �...
Version:0.9 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000005387 StartFragment:0000000141 EndFragment:0000005347 The rate of maternal mortality in the recent time is so alarming due to weak health systems, poor doctor-patient relationship, and non-existence of e-health management system to efficiently maintain, handle the patient’s record and schedule appointments for pregnant women from the first to last trimester which will reduce unnecessary waiting line that causes stress to both the patient and...
ABSTRACT This study deals with the reliability and availability characteristics of two different systems, the second system differs from the first system due to the additional feature of preventive maintenance. Reliability and Availability analysis of system having one active unit and one warm standby unit with self-reset function and one maintenance facility. The failure unit is repaired through self-reset or maintenance according to different failure model.( Mean Time to System Failure...
ABSTRACT This study was conceived in regard to the empirical reality that farming in Enugu State, as it applies to all parts of Southeastern Nigeria, is constrained by the adverse effects of climate change. It was therefore, considered necessary to conduct an assessment of smallholder farmers’ awareness to climate change, their adaptation strategies, the associated costs and returns, underpinning, and constraints to their adoption of the identifies adaptation strategies. This study assessed...
ABSTRACT This research sought to investigate how accounting informationn systems affect decisions made by management at Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe.The information system background of the company is made up of stand-alone systems which includes Sun system the main Accounting Information System and Excel spreadsheets.The initiative was driven by the challenges that are associated with usingtwo systems such as production of erroneous reports, difficulties in consolidation of loc...