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Database marketing strategies in the industry: case of Kenyan organizations
(North American Institute of Science and Information Technology, 2013-03)Problem Statement: There are several organizations in both the private and public sector that collect information about their customers but do not proactively leverage on it. In most cases, the collected information would ... -
The application of real - time voice recognition to control critical mobile device operations
(International Journal of Research Studies in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2015-07)The consistent increase in the number and ownership population of mobile device s introduces a variety of limitations. A set of this limitations revolve around interactivity. The overly dependent ... -
Afya App : the mobile personal health management platform
(IJRSSET, 2015-01)The provision of Health services in developing countries is hampered by various challenges. One area that has not been fully ventured into is formulating a holistic way to help improve health of people by enabling use ... -
Personalizing E-learning curriculum using: reversed roulette wheel selection algorithm
(IEEE, 2014-09)E-learning poses a challenge in a pedagogical perspective such as finding ways on how to motivate the students to learn in spite of the absence of a human instructor. Many researchers in the field have proposed and implemented ... -
A knowledgebase model for Islamic inheritance
(IISTE, 2014)The dotcom generation has dramatically amplified the pitch of information gathering as well as dissemination. However, not all areas are experiencing the same breeze of efficacy. For instance, in this thesis we looked at ... -
Applying reinforcement and mastery learning: how it works based on personalized e-learning curriculum?
(The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), 2014)Many researchers in the field of personalized learning or topic sequencing have proposed and implemented various mechanisms to improve the learning process with the main objectives of maximizing learning and dynamically ... -
Improving learning throughput in e-learning using interactive-cognitive based assessment
(The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), 2014)An e-learning website is not sufficient to fully attain the results of online education. There also is a need to align the educational objectives into the design of the assessment to improve and develop cognition, critical ... -
Reversed Roulette Wheel Selection Algorithms (RWSA) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for personalizing and improving e-Learning system: the case study and its implementation
(The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), 2015)Various mechanisms to improve learning process with the objective of maximizing learning and dynamically selecting the best teaching operation to achieve learning goals have been done in the field of personalized learning. ... -
Fallacies in policy and strategies to introduce sex education in the Basic Education curriculum in Kenya
Since the introduction of the 8-4-4 system of education in 1985, many Kenyans accepted the new system including religious institutions. However, the introduction of Social Education and Ethics in the curriculum was not ... -
Typicality degrees to measure relevance of the physiological signals
Physiological measures have a key advantage as they can provide an insight into human feelings that the subjects may not even be consciously aware of. However, modeling user affective states through pysiology still remains ... -
Policy gaps in Skill development in the informal sector in Kenya, challenges from a historical perspective
Before independence, the Kenyan education was based on racial segregation, in this arrangement; Africans received an inferior form of education, which was elementary and later were trained as masons, carpenters and armature ... -
Design of a fuzzy affective agent based on typicality degrees of physiological signals
Physiology-based emotionally intelligent paradigms provide an opportunity to enhance human computer interactions by continuously evoking and adapting to the user experiences in real-time. However , there are unresolved ... -
Increasing ubiquity in language learning using WhatsApp
In recent years, web-based e-Iearning, has received great attention as a possible method to increase efficiency and access to both basic and higher education in Africa. While the performance of institutional e-Iearning ... -
Student academic management mobile application: a case of Strathmore university
Over the last decade, Students in higher education around the world have been facing a number of challenges and potential threats to attain academic excellence. The major problem identified in this research was the lack ... -
A mobile-based leave application (M-La) for government institutions: the case of the Teachers Service Commission of Kenya
In government institutions in Kenya and particularly the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), leave management has been done, but little consideration has been made for the possibility of mobile leave application. With the ... -
Student academic management mobile application: a case of Strathmore university
Over the last decade, students in higher education around the world have been facing a number of challenges and potential threats to attain academic excellence. The major problem identified in this research was the lack ... -
The adoption of mobile technology as a tool for situational crime prevention in Kenya
The adoption of mobile technology in crime prevention has substantially grown across the world. However, this is not the case in Kenya, because the public still have to go from one police station to another to report crimes ... -
A pricing proposal for a QoS enabled UMTS network
Third generation networks e.g. the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) provide higher data transfer rates which enables the transport of real-time multimedia traffic e.g. streaming video. The cost of ... -
Route selection impacts on achieving enhanced IMS QoS
The different planes in the IMS interact via specific reference points to deliver multimedia services to the user. QoS provisioning for IMS communications has been standardized for access networks only, with the assumption ... -
Service outsourcing and billing in inter-domain IMS scenarios
Resource sharing in commercial mobile networks may present operators with options to cut costs and prevent network churn. In resource sharing, when the network experiences resource constraints, the operator can negotiate ...
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