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Targeted aspect-based sentiment analysis for Ugandan social media reviews
(Makerere University, 2021)
Social media has emerged as a popular sounding board for customers to express their experiences with products or services. Keeping track of all customer's emotions helps businesses to better understand customer feedback ...
Spectrum sensing for cognitive VHF land mobile radio communication networks
(Makerere University, 2021-08)
The 2015 migration from VHF Analog to Digital TV created plenty of white spaces in the entire VHF TV Band(174-230MHz)[1][2]. Spectrum bands once used for analogue TV broadcasting were completely cleared, leaving a space ...
A fusion based indoor positioning system using smartphone inertial measurement unit sensor data
(Makerere University, 2021-03)
This study presents an Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) based on Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) for localisation of pedestrians by indoor navigation applications. To improve the accuracy of the PDR algorithm, we propose ...
Design techniques for a robust wireless sensor network-based automatic weather station network
(Makerere University, 2020-11)
The operation of Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) and especially those based on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is often disrupted by harsh environmental conditions. These conditions include dust, other extreme ...
A model for adoption of mobile health technologies to improve child nutrition practices in resource-constrained environments
(Makerere University, 2021-10)
Malnutrition contributes to about half (45%) of the deaths of children under the age of five years in developing countries. Studies reveal that malnutrition is aggravated by a lack of nutritional information, particularly ...
Automated diagnosis of malaria in thick blood smear films: deep neural network approach
(Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2022-02-28)
Malaria, a mosquito-borne life-threatening disease, is one of the major health hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa. The potency of the disease is exacerbated by delayed and inaccurate diagnosis using the standard microscopy ...
Assessment of records management practices at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala
(Makerere University, 2022-03)
A study was carried out to assess records management practices at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala. The objectives of the study were; To establish the existing church records at ASCK; to find out how church records are managed ...
A framework for tracking and monitoring blood transfusion services
(Makerere University, 2022-03-23)
Blood and blood products transfusion constitute one of the most critical determinants of sophisticated health care services rendered by a healthcare institution be it private or public. In comparison to other medicines, ...
An eHealth evaluation model for assessing eHealth Interventions outcomes and impact on healthcare in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2020-12-22)
Evaluating eHealth interventions generates data as a basis for assessing whether observed changes in behavior, processes, or healthcare outcomes can be attributed to the eHealth interventions. Uganda’s eHealth Strategy ...
Ontology-based model for integrating knowledge of modern and African traditional medicine
(Makerere University, 2021-10)
In African Societies; African Traditional Medicine is used in parallel to Modern Medicine. Modern Medicine use dominated African Traditional Medicine because of it structured nature of knowledge. African Traditional Medicine ...