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The Impact of the Digital Health Interventions in Curbing COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Get PDFAmid ongoing research about, Digital Health Interventions (DHI) in Zimbabwe, is the largely overlooked impact of DHI to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. To contribute towards filling this knowledge gap, the study seeks to examine the DHI strategies that have been adopted to curb the inimical effects of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe. DHI such as telemedicine, use of social media, Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Mobile Health (mHealth), and Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) have been disposed to curtail the spread of COVID-19. The limitations and hurdles crippling DHI are discussed extensively. This study adopts a qualitative research design, comprising personal and targeted interviews and documentary review. Preliminary findings are that DHIs are effectively working for employing routine and innovative forms of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to address health needs. However, the research noted that various factors such as corruption lack of funding, shortage of qualified workforce and medical expertise, and weak healthcare infrastructure are militating against robust deployment of DHIs. This study includes measures that can be adopted to address these challenges
Smart Door Lock
Get PDFInternet of Things (IoT) has become a phenomenon in many researchers. A smart digital automated system based on IoT plays major role which helps in reducing human work by applying interaction technology in daily life. This research introduces the IoT Smart Door Lock where smartphone uses Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) to activate the door lock. By using Android software, the smartphone will automatically activate the door lock within a specific range. Data transmission will be done using Wi-Fi technology. So, the user does not have to worry whether the door has been locked or not because user can control it by using their smartphone within a specific range. The user also does not have to worry about losing the door key anymore because there is no device required except user’s smartphone. This project consists of hardware and software development. The main purpose on the design is to prevent the situation where the user is unable to unlock the door when the key is missing also to give a solution for users to monitor door status when they forget the door has been locked or not. This system aims to eliminate the use of keys to access the door, where the daily struggle faced to bring along a bunch of keys anywhere. Besides that, the door locking system must function efficiently. The prototype of this system is successfully done, the procedure and the software and hardware requirement has been compiled in this report
Survey on Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease using Different Types of Neural Network Architecture
Get PDFAlzheimer’s disease is a condition that leads to, progressive neurological brain disorder and destroys cells of the brain thereby causing an individual to lose their ability to continue daily activities and also hampers their mentality. Diagnostic symptoms are experienced by patients usually at later stages after irreversible neural damage occurs. Detection of AD is challenging because sometimes the signs that distinguish AD MRI data, can be found in MRI data of normal healthy brains of older people. Even though this disease is not completely curable, earlier detection can aid in promising treatment and prevent permanent damage to brain tissues. Age and genetics are the greatest risk factors for this disease. This paper presents the latest reports on AD detection based on different types of Neural Network Architectures
The Shadow Pandemic: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Zimbabwean Informal Sector in Chiredzi District
Get PDFCOVID-19 has disrupted the business sector globally, ushering developed and developing economies into an unprecedented recession beyond anything experienced in nearly a century. Governments across the globe have adopted a myriad of preventive measures. These remedial actions vary from one country to the other. Nonetheless, in Zimbabwe the government gave a blind eye on the informal sector as evidenced by the adopted preventive measures which neglected the plight of informal traders. To this end, this research interrogates the shadow pandemic in the Zimbabwean informal sector using Chiredzi District as an illustrative case study. Documentary review and key informed interviews were at the core of research methodology. The study found out that informal economy businesses are excluded from government grants, closure of businesses, failure to pay rentals, disruption of the supply chain, psychological impact and family dysfunctional are the quandaries causing a shadow pandemic. Inclusion of informal economy businesses in policies and government grants, government should negotiate with landlords, informal traders should be allowed to operate and inclusive social nets are the possible remedial actions that the government can adopted
The Relationship between Birth Weight and Neonatal Sepsis Incidence: Literature Review
Get PDFNeonatal sepsis contributes as much as 75% in increasing the neonatal mortality rate that occurs first week of birth. Neonatal sepsis is characterized by entry of bacteria in the blood that can be life-threatening. Process of neonatal sepsis can occur very quickly, if not treated with adequate treatment, death can occur within 24-48 hours. Neonatal sepsis is affected by infant factors like low birth weight (LBW). LBW in neonates can be easily infected due to immature immune formation. The study used literature review methods. Literature sourced from five databases: Biomed Central, Plus One, Pubmed, Proquest and Science Direct. Search with PICOS framework 15 journals used to analyze and obtained. Results showed the incidence of neonatal sepsis with the percentage incidence of sepsis at 16.9%-77.8%. LBW is risk of developing sepsis with the highest percentage compared to other birth weight classifications. Majority of journals stated there was a significant relationship between birth weight and neonatal sepsis (p value: 0,0131-0,001). Nurses play a role in conducting assessment begin ranging from pregnant to the birth and give a comprehensive nursing care earlier for birth babies less than 2.500 gram. It's effort decrease incidence of neonatal sepsis.
 
Legal Politics of Legislation of Regional Regulations in Indonesia
Get PDFRegional regulations are written regulations containing generally binding legal norms established by the Regional People's Representative Council with the joint approval of the Regional Head. The regional legislation program has an important and strategic position in the formation of regional regulations. However, most local regulations actually get rejection from the community until they are revoked by the government. The method used in this research is normative legal research. The process of making local regulations rarely involves the community so that local regulations that are born are often not accepted by the community. The Regional Government and the Regional People's Legislative Assembly should first prepare a regional legislation program to determine the needs of the region and the needs of the community, then make regional regulations that are in accordance with the Regional Medium-Term Development Plan or Regional Strategic Plan. Therefore, there must be political will from the Regional Government and the Regional House of Representatives to establish cooperation with universities in conducting studies on a problem so that it becomes an academic text that is ready to be ratified into a regional regulation
Fostering Innovation and Methodology through Experiential Learning for Data Structures
Get PDFFor real-life work environment, developing employability skills by the students’ community is indispensable and need of the hour. Laboratories associated with courses cultivate the ability of students to think independently and promote employability skills through experiential learning. Data structures are one such predominant course in IT/CSE domain to enhance the skill set of students for Placements/Higher studies. It provides opportunity for students to devise algorithms efficiently in an optimal manner by solving challenging problems easily thereby gaining confidence for attending placements. The purpose of this paper is to foster innovation by exploration in data structures course through experiential learning by providing coding based challenging questions as tutorials, assignment presentations and as activities during laboratory sessions and online classes are to be conducted as an essential one in the future learning perspective. Findings conclude that the experiential learning foster student’s abilities in solving the problem and thereby gaining confidence during e-learning and placement activities and the grading process are to be updated through centralized servers to the maximum extend and accuracy are to be maintained
A Comprehensive Review on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Covid-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe pandemic situation due to the emergence of Covid-19 presents various problems physically, economically and mentally for the individuals world-wide, therefore faster solutions with wider access is essential to solve the problems which aids as a support to the healthcare. This is made possible through the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to handle the situation of pandemic. This paper aims to present a comprehensive re-view of the applications employed using AI for the problems faced during Covid-19 pandemic. The AI applications involved in screening, predicting, forecasting, neighborhood contact tracing and drug discovery of Covid-19 are addressed in this review. This review also presents detailed working of AI algorithms in each application. This paper helps the researchers with vivid information of AI applications of Covid-19 pandemic
Brain Computer Interface for Emergency Virtual Voice
Get PDFBrain computer interface (BCI) is one of the thriving emergent technology which acts as an interface between a brain and an external device. BCI for speech communication is acquiring recognition in various fields. Speech is one of the most natural ways to express thoughts and feelings by articulate vocal sounds. The purpose of this study is to restore communication ability of the people suffering from severe muscular disorders like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), stroke which causes paralysis, locked-in syndrome, tetraplegia and Myasthenia gravis. They cannot interact with their environment even though their intellectual capabilities are intact. Our work attempts to provide summary of the research articles being published in reputed journals which lead to the investigation of published BCI articles, BCI prototypes, Bio-Signals for BCI, intent of the articles, target applications, classification techniques, algorithms and methodologies, BCI system types. Thus, the result of detailed survey presents an outline of available studies, recent results and looks forward to future developments which provides a communication pathway for paralyzed patients to convey their needs
Nurse Caring Attitude Relationships with Parents Patient Satisfaction Level in Public Hospitals Pambalah Batung Amuntai
Get PDFCaring is a form of nurse's concern for clients. Nurses are required to have the sensitivity and ability to support the trust and well-being of patients. Patient/Parent satisfaction is highly dependent on the caring attitude of the nurse. The better the caring attitude of the nurse to the patient, the more the patient will trust the nurse. Nurse caring behavior is one of the determinants of patient satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the caring attitude of nurses and the level of satisfaction of the patient's parents in the pediatric ward of Pambalah Batung Amuntai Hospital. Analytic research with a cross sectional approach. Collecting data using a questionnaire. Respondents in the study amounted to 28 people, using probability sampling technique. Data analysis using Chi-Square. The results show that in the pediatric ward of Pambalah Batung Amuntai Hospital, it is known that the caring attitude of nurses in the classification is not good, namely 68% and the level of satisfaction of parents of patients in the less classification is also as much as 64 % The results of the Chi-Square analysis obtained a significant value of 0.019 (p < 0.05). There is a relationship between the caring attitude of nurses and the level of satisfaction of parents whose children are cared for in the pediatric care room at Pambalah Batung Amuntai Hospital