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Building Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages: A Case of Languages in East Africa
(AfricaNLP, 2022)
Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well repre sented in the existing Natural Language Processing ecosystem. African languages
lack essential digital resources to be engaged effectively in the ...
KenSwQuAD--A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language
(arXiv preprint, 2022)
This research developed a Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset KenSwQuAD from
raw data of Swahili language, which is a low resource language predominantly spoken in
Eastern African and also has speakers in other ...
Online Assessment and Examinations practices at the eCampus of Maseno University in Response to COVID 19 lockdown
(EasyChair, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increasing demand for online learning and led to the demand for the
offer of online assessment at Maseno university. Prior to the COVID19 pandemic the institution had put in place
measures ...
Internal Capability of the State Matters in International Relations: Evidence from East African Tri-national Border Zone
(OSF Preprints, 2022)
The realist theoretical perspective suggests that the ‘inside’ of the state is not a critical variable since, unlike the anarchical international system, the domestic arena entails a sovereign entity in form of a government ...
Linking private health sector to public COVID-19 response in Kisumu, Kenya: Lessons Learnt
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2022)
COVID-19 is overwhelming health systems universally. Increased capacity to combat the epidemic is important, while continuing regular healthcare services. This paper describes an innovative Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
Refined enumeration of k-plane trees and k-noncrossing trees
(2022)
A k-plane tree is a plane tree whose vertices are assigned labels between 1 and k in such a way that the sum of the labels along any edge is no greater than k+1. These trees are known to be related to (k+1)-ary trees, and ...
Data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry in severe rheumatic heart disease (RHD) identifies a proteomic signature showing ongoing inflammation and effectively classifying RHD cases
(BioMed Central, 2022)
Background
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major source of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. A deeper insight into the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying RHD could provide opportunities for drug ...
Synthesis of a pyrrolidine derivative of a carvotacetone and monoterpenes for anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and anti-cryptococcal properties
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-05-03)
Monoterpene derivatives are of great biological relevance in the
pharmaceutical industry. In the present study, pyrrolidine deriva tive of a carvotacetone, 3-O-benzylcarvotacetone (1), and selected
monoterpenes ...
A new gnidiflavanone-flavonol dimer and other constituents from Gnidia apiculata
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)
A new 3,800-flavanone-flavonol dimer gnidiflavanone-flavonol (1)
and 10 known compounds (2–11), including four rare primula type flavones 2–5, were isolated from the roots of Gnidia apicu lata. Compounds 2–5 and 7 were ...
Enteral Feeding Practices for Very Preterm and Very Low Birth Weight Infants in Nigeria and Kenya
(Frontiers in pediatrics, 2022-05-11)
Optimizing nutrition in very preterm (28–32 weeks gestation) and very low birth weight (VLBW; 1,000 g to< 1,500 g) infants has potential to improve their survival, growth, and long-term health outcomes.
Aim
To assess ...