iosr-jmca   Volume-2 ~ Issue-2 ~ May – June 2015

ABSTRACT: This study was carried out to ascertain the perception of students on the use of social media for educational purposes. It was conducted in three tertiary institutions in Rivers State. The sample comprised 200 respondents randomly selected from three tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Five research objectives and four null hypotheses were used for the study. Mean scores, ANOVA, multiple comparison test using schaffer model, and Correlational Analysis were the statistical tools used in the study. The study found that social media is used in the study. The study found that social is used for educational purposes in terms of communication, sharing and exchanging ideas with improved engagement with technology..

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ABSTRACT: As a result of continuous economic growth, urbanization and industrialization there has been increase in volume and types of solid and hazardous waste particularly in developing countries. Many Nigeria cities and towns are facing problems of effective collection of garbage from homes and streets the situation that make Nigerians to be permanently accustomed to dirt environment. Based on this background, the paper examines the waste conditions and disposal as well as the influence on the environment in term of cleanliness at Ado Ekiti in Nigeria using both primary and secondary sources of data collection which were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis.

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ABSTRACT: Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is an infrastructure where the data and the processing of data are outsourced. MCC integrates cloud computing into the mobile environment and executes the applications in the mobile device effectively by partitioning and offloading the computation intensive task to external resources (e.g. Public Clouds). The effective offloading is mainly focused on the decision maker which tells "when to offload" during execution time. Though prior decision making techniques has its own pros and cons, it doesn't support dynamic changing environment and also consumes more time and energy for training the input instances. Also while offloading there is no security for the information to be transmitted.

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ABSTRACT: Wireless medical devices with enhanced capability operating within Body Area Network (BAN) are key elements in: telehealth, and remote health monitoring systems.They help to capture process and store vital signs acquired through sensors and transfer them through communication protocols such as ZigBee and Bluetooth to aggregators. However, due to the heterogeneity of devices and manufacturers' proprietary applications, the devices lack adequate interoperability between each other and Health Information Systems (HIS), thus making it difficult to sort data and/ or make it usable to medical team. In this study we reviewed the various approaches employed to facilitate interoperability in wearable wireless Electrocardiogram (ECG) devices ranging from model driven interoperability (Information model, data models etc.); ECG format; ontology; standards and mapping of physiological data, available in literature in the last five years with respect to advancement in telecommunication.

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ABSTRACT: This study examines the object oriented programming (OOP) and its calculated measures in programming interactivity in Nigeria. It focused on the existing programming languages used by programmers and examines the need for integrating programming interactivity with OOP. A survey was conducted to measure interactivity amongst professionals using certain parameters like flexibility, interactivity, speed, interoperability, scalability, dynamism, and solving real life problems. Data was gathered using questionnaire, and analysis was carried out using frequency, percentage ratio, and mean in arriving at a more proactive stand. The results revealed that the some of the parameters used are highly in support of the programming interactivity with OOP. Keywords: OOP, Application Interface, Interactivity, Flexible Interface, Scalability

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ABSTRACT: The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) has made imperative that library holdings must be both in digital format and traditional format. Converting the analog library holdings to digital format is indeed a herculean task. This paper discusses these challenges and proffered solutions.

Keywords: Digitization, Library Resources, ICT, Analog

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ABSTRACT: With the advent of mobile network communication system, users have been offered lots of services such as ability to send multimedia messages like SMS, Video, Data files, Images e.t.c. This paper describes the design and implementation of a system (Result Alert System) that conveniently provides examination results to students with the use of Email and SMS technology via their Mobile phones and devices. Mobile phones and devices are necessary assets, most especially to students as it makes communication and the spread of information a lot easier. Result Alert System takes advantage of some of the technologies that Mobile devices provide, technologies such as the Email and Short Message Service (SMS).

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ABSTRACT:In recent years the technology in the field of wireless networks has been advanced. The mobile users are demanding access to the wireless networks at anytime and anywhere. To ensure the service continuity and to maintain the promising QoS, the decision regarding handoff is to be taken appropriately. The most common criteria for handoff is received signal strength which is not sufficient in advanced networks. Thus, this paper reviews the multi-criteria based handoff decision algorithms in wireless networks. Different techniques for multi-criteria handover are also discussed.
Keywords: Wireless networks, Handoff, Decision, MADM;

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ABSTRACT:In a large world like ours, sending packages from place to place by a third party is inevitable since package owners cannot be able to tour round all the desired destinations within the required period. The courier service systems provide the service but with less efficiency in terms of delivery, comfort, cost estimation from the users' point of view, and tracking of items in dispatch. This paper studied the courier processes and offers a mobile platform to perform all courier transactions like providing users with a platform to cost their parcel's sending service, send package, track the package and make complains in case of missing package from the comfort of their home.

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