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A data analytic module for nutrition screening of children under five years in Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2016-04)Malnutrition is one of the major health problems in the world, and more prevalent in developing countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that malnutrition is associated to half of all deaths of children ... -
Data Balancing Techniques for Predicting Student Dropout Using Machine Learning
(MDPI, 2023-02-27)Predicting student dropout is a challenging problem in the education sector. This is due to an imbalance in student dropout data, mainly because the number of registered students is always higher than the number of dropout ... -
Data driven approach for predicting student dropout in secondary schools
(NM-AIST, 2020-06)Student dropout is among the challenges that face most schools in developing countries particularly in Africa. In Tanzania alone, student dropout in secondary schools is pronounced to be around 36%. In addressing the ... -
Data exchange framework to support interoperability among multiple e-health records through a single mobile application: the case of Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2019-03)Electronic Health (eHealth), particularly in the form of electronic health records (eHRs), has proved to greatly provide to the health sector, a number of benefits such as real time receipt of health-care information and ... -
Data from the batch adsorption of ciprofloxacin and lamivudine from synthetic solution using jamun seed (Syzygium cumini) biochar: Response surface methodology (RSM) optimization
(Elsevier, 2023-02)This dataset expresses the experimental data on the batch adsorption of ciprofloxacin and lamivudine from synthetic solution using jamun seed (JS) (Syzygium cumini) biochar. Independent variables including concentration ... -
Data Synthesis Technique for Categorical Pestes Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Data Using CTGAN Model
(Pre prints,org, 2023-05-11)Data scarcity is a significant challenge in the field of Machine Learning (ML), as data collection can be expensive, time‐consuming, and difficult, particularly in developing countries. This challenge is exaggerated on ... -
Data visualization tool for student dropouts in Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2020-03)Education is a crucial sector and key component of many governments’ agenda. Despite that, students dropout has been among the persisting challenges in education, being experienced from basic education levels to colleges ... -
Database Privacy: Design of User Privacy Preserving Central Bank Digital Currency: A Case of Tanzania
(Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee), 2024-03-04)Objectives: This work aims to contribute towards Tanzanian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) users’ privacy preservation. It proposes the design of a privacy preserving CBDC which might be issued by Tanzania’s Central ... -
Dataset of banana leaves and stem images for object detection, classification and segmentation: A case of Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2023-06-16)Banana is among major crops cultivated by most smallholder farmers in Tanzania and other parts of Africa. This crop is very important in the household economy as well as food security since it serves as both food and cash ... -
Decentralized Environmental Governance: A reflection on its role in shaping Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania
(Tropical Conservation Science, 2015-12-01)Decentralised environmental governance has become a catchy solution to environmental problems caused by the failure of traditional centralised environmental governance. It promises to transfer power and authority, improve ... -
Decline in maize and beans production in the face of climate change at Hai District in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how climatic change in Africa is expected to lead to a higher occurrence of severe droughts in semiarid and arid ecosystems. Understanding how crop productions react to such ... -
The decline in phytoplankton biomass and prawn catches in the Rufiji-Mafia Channel, Tanzania
(African Journals Online, 2016-11-27)The world’s oceans have seen significant declines in phytoplankton-the primary food source in the marine environment. This decline in primary producers is likely to impact the food chain and functions of most coastal and ... -
A deconvolutional Bayesian mixing model approach for river basin sediment source apportionment
(Scientific Reports, 2018-08-30)Increasing complexity in human-environment interactions at multiple watershed scales presents major challenges to sediment source apportionment data acquisition and analysis. Herein, we present a step-change in the ... -
Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Chicken Diseases Detection
(International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2021)For many years in the society, farmers rely on experts to diagnose and detect chicken diseases. As a result, farmers lose many domesticated birds due to late diagnoses or lack of reliable experts. With the available ... -
A Deep Learning Model for Predicting Stock Prices in Tanzania
(Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, 2023-04-02)Stock price prediction models help traders to reduce investment risk and choose the most profitable stocks. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have been applied to develop various models. As there is a lack ... -
Deep learning model for predicting stock prices in Tanzania
(NM-AIST, 2023-06)e prediction models help to provide investors with tools for making better data driven decisions. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have been successively utilized in various countries to develop these models. ... -
A Deep Learning-based Mobile Application for Segmenting Tuta Absoluta’s Damage on Tomato Plants
(Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, 2021-10)With the advances in technology, computer vision applications using deep learning methods like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been extensively applied in agriculture. Deploying these CNN models on mobile phones ... -
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Handover Management for Millimeter Wave Communication
(International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications,, 2021)The Millimeter Wave (mm-wave) band has a broad-spectrum capable of transmitting multi-gigabit per-second date-rate. However, the band suffers seriously from obstruction and high path loss, resulting in line-of-sight (LOS) ... -
Defeating Fluorosis in the East African Rift Valley: Transforming the Kilimanjaro into a Rainwater Harvesting Park
(MDPI, 2018-11-14)The high availability of fluoride in surface and groundwater in the East African Rift Valley was documented during the colonial period. Since the early 1960s, many studies have been conducted to solve the fluorosis crisis ... -
Defluoridation of Water Supplies Using Coconut Shells Activated Carbon: Batch Studies
(IJSR, 2014)Drinking water with elevated fluoride levels results in serious irreparable health problem that has attained an alarming dimension all over the world, Tanzania being one of the affected countries; techniques have been ...
