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Institutional Repositories: Features, Architecture, Design and Implementation Technologies
A. O. Adewumi and N. A. Ikhu-Omoregbe
Europe is the leading continent in terms of active adoption and use of Digital Libraries – particularly Institutional Repositories (IRs). Africa has not done poorly in this area with a steady increase from 19 repositories in 2008 to 46 in January, 2011 but there is need to raise awareness and channel efforts towards making IRs easily accessible to Africans through ubiquitous channels such as ha...
A Usable Operations Support for Mobile Healthcare
Nicholas A. IKHU-OMOREGBE, Slyvanus A. EHIKIOYA and Charles K. Ayo
In the last decade, mobile technologies have continued to provide enabling platforms for care providers to explore computing devices equipped with operations support systems (OSS) to enhance their performances in health care centers. However, some applications designed for health care are still faced with some obstacles, such as confidentiality, privacy of medical data, interoperability, depend...
A Formal Framework for Deployable Mobile Healthcare Applications
Ikhu-Omoregbe N.A., Ehikioya S. A., and Ayo C. K.
ABSTRACT
Background: Health care delivery in any typical hospital or health care center across African countries is usually cumbersome with enormous paper work, waste of life, time and resources, long queues, and ineffective treatment procedures [1]. The use of mobile technology devices such as Personal Digital Assistants, Cell phone, Tablet PCs etc for health care delivery promise a revolut...
E-Health Application Virtualization for Nigerian Teaching Hospitals: A Cloud Computing Approach
Desmennu Senanu Rita, Ikhu-Omoregbe Nicholas, Ayo Charles Korede
Information technology has improved operations management globally. The health sector has benefited from this revolution through the introduction of eHealth solutions. The cost-effective utilization of Information Technology and flexibility in adapting and adopting organizational changes has posed some challenges to health institutions in developing countries. In the case of Nigeria,the impleme...
Designing e-Education Support in e-Health Based Systems
Ikhu-Omoregbe, Nicholas
The inadequate availability of medical information has often made health care
services in many developing countries cumbersome with enormous paper work,
waste of life, time and resources, long queues, and ineffective treatment procedures.
The use of mobile technology devices such as Personal Digital Assistants, Cell phone,
Tablet PCs etc for health care delivery promises a revolution in mod...
Impact of Organizational Culture on Performances of Universities in OGUN State, Nigeria A Study of CU, OOU and UNAAB
Agboola, G. M.
This research project is aimed at measuring the impact of organizational culture on performances of Universities in Ogun State. In the course of this study, extensive review of relevant literature on the subject matter was embarked upon, which includes work already done on organizational culture by eminent scholars so as to know the impact it has on the performances of organizations. The objec...
Environmental Factors and Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria
Abimbola, O. H. and Agboola, G. M.
The interface between entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial environment has been given attention in entrepreneurship literature. This paper starts by placing the issue of entrepreneurial environment in theoretical context, with particular reference to Nigeria. Two major theoretical perspectives were considered; however, the work dwelt extensively on the demand side perspective, which gives p...
IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Dr. Carl, O. and Mr. Agboola, G. M.
This research study investigates the impact of microfinance on entrepreneurial development of small scale enterprises in Nigeria. Microfinance institutions world over and especially in Nigeria are identified to be one of the key players in the financial industry that have positively affected individuals, business organizations, other financial institutions, the government and the economy at lar...
IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON PERFORMANCES OF UNIVERSITIES
Agboola, G. M.
This study examines the impact of organizational culture on performances of Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to identify which element of organizational culture has the most contribution in predicting the performances of Universities, and to reveal the relationship that exists between organizational culture and performances of Universities. To determine the...
Improved Shellsort for the Worst-Case, the Best-Case and a Subset of the Average-Case Scenarios
Oyelami, M.O ., Azeta, A.A. and Ayo, C.K.***
Sorting involves rearrangement of items into ascending or descending order. There are several sorting algorithms but some are more efficient than others in terms of speed and memory utilization. Shellsort improves on Insertion sort by decreasing the number of comparisons made on the items to be sorted.
This paper presents an Improved Shellsort algorithm that further decreases the number of com...