As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes educational landscapes, ensuring ethical alignment and institutional responsiveness is essential particularly in skill-intensive sectors such as Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). In this ...
BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have improved malaria case management by enabling point-of-care confirmation of infection, particularly in low-resource settings. In addition to clinical use, RDT results recorded in health facility registers...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (henceforth HIV) is a global health problem, presently with no known cure. Africa has one of the highest incidences of HIV. Nigeria, within the West African (WA) region, is one of the largest economies on the continent. H...
BACKGROUND: The introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has expanded the parasitological confirmation of malaria at all levels of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, improving case management and surveillance. However, concerns persis...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Sep 26, 2025
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is a major oil-producing area which experiences frequent oil spills that severely impacts the local environment and communities. Effective environmental monitoring and management remain inadequate in this area due to...
Probabilistic Random Forest is an extension of the traditional Random Forest machine learning algorithm that is one of the frequently used machine learning algorithms employed for species distribution modeling. However, with the use of complex datase...
BACKGROUND: Nigeria has one of the highest child mortality rates globally, with 111 deaths per 1000 live births. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) improves infant survival by providing essential nutrients and antibodies that protect against infections an...
Flooding has increasingly significant adverse effects on global food security, and there is a lack of a framework to effectively integrate remote sensing with survey data for accurate damage and recovery assessment. Also, optical satellite images for...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Apr 11, 2025
BACKGROUND: Malaria, an infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites belonging to the Plasmodium genus, remains a significant public health challenge, with African regions bearing the heaviest burden. Machine learning techniques have shown great ...
Continuous access to up-to-date food price data is crucial for monitoring food security and responding swiftly to emerging risks. However, in many food-insecure countries, price data is often delayed, lacks spatial detail, or is unavailable during cr...
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