ABSTRACT The advantage of cellular communication like GSM technology is a potential solution for such remote controlling activities. GSM-SMS technology can be used to control household appliances from remote places. Remotely, the system allows the home owner to monitor and control his house appliances via his mobile phone set by sending commands in the form of SMS message and receiving the appliances status as well. This system provides ideal solution to the problems caused in situations when...
Table of contentsDeclaration IIApproval III1 INTRODUCTION ~11.1. Background of the study~ 11.1 Statement of the problem 11.2 Objectives of the Study 11.2.1 General Objective 11.2.2 Specific Objective of the study 11.3 Scope of the study 21.4 Significance of the study 2CHAPTER TWO 42 LITERITURE REVIEW 42.1 Introduction 42.2 Mailing Lists 42.2.1 Types of Mailing lists 52.3 Database system 72.3.1 Advantages of Database 82.3.2 Database maintenance 92.4 Application architecture and Development Pro...
ABSTRACT Nowadays, most of the conventional home automation systems are designed for special purposes but this system proposes an all-in-one general purpose home automation system that can be easily be implemented in new and existing homes. 'The aim is to develop a reliable, compact, fast and low cost smart home automation system, based on Arduino Uno (microcontroller). Various devices such as LEDs, DC Servo motors, passive infrared sensor have been incorporated in the system to demonstrate ...
ABSTRACT Indigenous knowledge systems have been part and parcel of the African people’s lives and they still continue to inform much of their lives. These knowledge systems have been marginalized since the colonial era. This study serves to prove the myths and realities associated with indigenous knowledge systems in curing sexual health problems in Zimbabwe, case of Bulawayo. The missionaries and colonial officers collaborated to alienate and marginalize African indigenous knowledge system...
The study aimed to analyze the socio economic determinants of the level of commercialization between male and female crop farmers in Iwo local government area of Osun state. A field survey consisting of 85 farmers were the registered arable crop farmers as other farmers specialized into other types of farming in the study area. The result of the commercialization index revealed cassava as the most commercialized crop by both farmers. Also, farming households were categorized into quintiles wi...
ABSTRACT Input loan plays a vital role on economic transformations to cotton farming households. However, their acquisition and repayment are characterized by numerous challenges, including high defaults among beneficiaries. This study intended to examine factors contributing to low loan repayment on cotton inputs; and sought to improve its supply to farmers in Bariadi district. Primary and secondary data were collected from farmers and ginners respectively. A purposive and two stage stratif...
ABSTRACT Climate change has negative implications on small scale farmers in Zhombe Communal area as evidenced by the failure of agricultural production and poor rural living standards. The farmers within the area have adopted different improvisation strategies as a way of adapting to the climatic changes. The strategies include plant staggering, stream bank cultivation, irrigation farming, organic farming, conservation farming, harnessing IKS, and growing of small grain drought resistant crop...
Abstract: Tuta absoluta feeds on solanaceous plants with preference on tomato. Management of the pest is mostly with chemical insecticides. This study identified insecticide resistant populations and predicted resistance to insecticides. Insecticide resistance development was modelled using system thinking, and system dynamics approaches. The model showed the pest resistance development is alarming with an exponential increase of the resistance strength mostly in recent years. Furthermore, w...
ABSTRACT This study examines how the BBC and Al Jazeera Online newspapers framed the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The study is underpinned by the Framing Theory. Data were gathered from 32 news and feature articles by the BBC and 63 by Al Jazeera Online newspapers. These were thematically analyzed. The findings reveal that the attribution of Responsibility frame is the most dominant. This was followed by the frames of Human Interest, Economic Consequence, Conflict, and Morality in the...
Abstract A study of Royr.!1on l1Dh::s f;-0;1. o,Tice was ca:-ried out; to uriderstand the system and determine the information rcqui:·emcnL Duri;1g the course or this study, problcns ai1cct ing the systems were identified. We then designed a new system which is computer based rulting into consideration the problems identified. This new sysl.crn will replace the olcl one. Conversion plan has been mapped out and users manual included.
ABSTRACT Reports about the huge number of children involving in fishing and its tremendous impacts should be of grave concern to all. Fishing labour market in Keta municipality is shaping children’s schooling behaviour where some pupils are combining schooling with fishing. This study investigated the effects of fishing activities on school attendance and academic performance of pupils in the area. Data was collected using questionnaires, pupils' attendance register and examination scores. ...
ABSTRACT Reports about the huge number of children involving in fishing and its tremendous impacts should be of grave concern to all. Fishing labour market in Keta municipality is shaping children’s schooling behaviour where some pupils are combining schooling with fishing. This study investigated the effects of fishing activities on school attendance and academic performance of pupils in the area. Data was collected using questionnaires, pupils' attendance register and examination scores....
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to provide a better understanding of the drivers and effects of dependency on forest resources in Masida community forest in Zambezi region, Namibia. Specifically, the study assessed the livelihood strategies and contribution of forest resources to household incomes, assessed socio-economic determinants of households‟ dependency, determined extent and consequences of dependency and examined the people‟s perception on forest dependency. A cross-secti...
ABSTRACTThis research study is a comparative analysis of computerized accounting system and manual accounting system with reference to Ama breweries plc. and African petroleum plc. all in Enugu state. It is a survey research. The study is a comparative evaluation of computerized accounting system and manual accounting system to ascertain which one is more effective and efficient than the other. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources which include the use of questionnaires, per...
Abstract Current advancement in VLSI technology allows more circuit to be integrated on a single chip forming a System on Chip (SoC). The state of art in on-chip intermodule connection of using a shared bus with a common arbiter poses scalability problems and become a performance bottleneck as the number of modules increase. Network on Chip (NoC) has been proposed as a viable solution to this problem. The possibility of occurrence of deadlocks and livelocks in a NoC requires that their desig...