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Accelerometry-derived Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity Predicts Overall Survival In Patients With Cancer In The Pleural Space: 2896
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2024-10-01)To investigate the association of accelerometry-derived moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) with 3-year overall survival (OS) in patients with MPE. -
Evaluation Of A State-wide, Community-based Exercise Program In Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment: A Subgroup Analysis Of The Life Now Exercise Program : 2927
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2024-10-01)To assess the uptake and effectiveness of a community exercise program (Life Now Exercise) in patients during cancer treatment. -
Immediate Versus Delayed Exercise on Health-related Quality of Life in Patients Initiating Androgen Deprivation Therapy: Results from a Year-long Randomised Trial
(Elsevier, 2024-10-05)An array of treatment-related toxicities result from androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa), compromising function and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Exercise has been demonstrated ... -
Effects of short-and long-term exercise training on cancer cells in vitro: Insights into the mechanistic associations
(Elsevier, 2024-10-05)Exercise is a therapeutic approach in cancer treatment, providing several benefits. Moreover, exercise is associated with a reduced risk for developing a range of cancers and for their recurrence, as well as with improving ... -
The expanding role of exercise oncology in cancer care: An editorial highlighting emerging research
(Elsevier, 2024)Cancer remains a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality [1]. Despite improved survival rates, many survivors face treatment-related side effects that compromise recovery, increase disease risk, and lower quality ... -
Impact of Social Media on Student Wellbeing in Kenyan Universities
(Students who spend much of their time on social media are likely to struggle with time management and become less productive in their studies due to distractions by constant alerts, endless scrolling feeds, and the appeal of viral material. The chapter proposed to discuss, social networking sites, academic performance, social opportunities, and challenges. The findings were that social media helps university students get necessary information for their academic achievement, it creates stress, and it exposes them to cyberbullying, is addictive, causes sleep disorders and anxiety, and can help them make money online. The study recommended that the social media use at university should be restricted to academic use only and here should be provide adequate Wi-Fi hotspots within the universities., 2024)Students who spend much of their time on social media are likely to struggle with time management and become less productive in their studies due to distractions by constant alerts, endless scrolling feeds, and the appeal ... -
Strengthening Online Education Approaches in Institutions of Higher Learning
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-05-15)Online, distance, and eLearning (ODeL) continue to gain recognition as a mandatory component of delivery of education in institutions of higher learning (IHL) around the world following the outbreak of coronavirus disease ... -
PolitiKweli: A Swahili-English Code-switched Twitter Political Misinformation Classification Dataset
(Deep Learning Indaba 2023, 2023-08-30)In the age of freedom of speech, users of the social media platform Twitter post millions of messages per day. These messages are not always fact-checked resulting in misinformation which is false or misleading news. ... -
Enhancing students’ biology learning by using augmented reality as a learning supplement
(SAGE Publications, 2020-07)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of augmented reality (AR) technology on students’ learning outcomes (measured according to Bloom’s cognitive levels) and attitude toward biology. The print book was ... -
Effects of tangrams on learning engagement and achievement: Case of preschool learners
(Journal of Computer Assisted Learning ,wiley., 2020-08)The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of physical and virtual tangrams on preschool children's learning engagement and achievement. Children listened to an e‐storybook narration and solved puzzles ... -
Framework for Technology-Enriched Active Class Learning of Physics in Secondary Schools in Kenya
(IGI Global, 2021)Active learning transforms the learning process and activities from tutor focused to learner-cantered and is driven by the learner's learning ability. In other words, active learning provides an opportunity for self-directed ... -
Detecting Remote Access Network Attacks Using Supervised Machine Learning Methods
(Modern Education and Computer Science Press, 2023-04-01)Remote access technologies encrypt data to enforce policies and ensure protection. Attackers leverage such techniques to launch carefully crafted evasion attacks introducing malware and other unwanted traffic to the internal ... -
A Review of Smartphone as an Office: Security Risks and Mitigation Measures
(setjournal.com, 2023-04-24)Smartphones have become the most popular mode of communication as well as a novel mode of work, allowing users to work from anywhere and increasing their efficiency and responsiveness. However, the flexibility and convenience ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Cornell University, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(arxiv.org, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged ... -
A Software Agent for Vehicle Driver Modeling
(IEEE, 2019)The world is experiencing a paradigm shift towards intelligent agents in form of machine learning for modeling any given task or process. Human vehicle drivers are agents that operate under stochastic environments, full ... -
Social engineering based cyber-attacks in kenya
(IEEE, 2020)Cybersecurity is a major challenge especially as the world transitions to the fourth industrial revolution. Cybercriminals are always perceived to be using complex sophisticated mechanisms to launch attacks to information ... -
Fostering innovation and intercultural exchange during a global pandemic: Lessons learned from a virtual design thinking challenge in Nepal
(Springer, Cham, 2021)Countries in the majority world are widely argued to be most severely affected by the corona pandemic. To fight the outbreak of the virus and reduce risks of economic hardships and starvation these countries need an ability ... -
KenSwQuAD – A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language
(arxiv.org, 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 ... -
Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks
(arxiv.org, 2022)Indigenous African languages are categorized as under-served in Artificial Intelligence and suffer poor digital inclusivity and information access. The challenge has been how to use machine learning and deep learning models ...
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