Margaret Dumebi Okpor

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Delta State University of Science and Technology Ozoro

High blood pressure (or hypertension) is a causative disorder to a plethora of other ailments – as it succinctly masks other ailments, making them difficult to diagnose and manage with a targeted treatment plan effectively. While some patients living with elevated high blood pressure can effectively manage their condition via adjusted lifestyle and...

With the incessant outbreak of fire, the heavy loss to both lives and properties in society fire has since become a critical issue and challenge that needs our daily attention to be resolved. Loss of lives and properties to fire outbreak in 2021 alone as occurring in major Nigerian markets and residential homes was estimated at over 3 trillion Nair...

The digital revolution frontiers have rippled across society today – with various web content shared online for users as they seek to promote monetization and asset exchange, with clients constantly seeking improved alternatives at lowered costs to meet their value demands. From item upgrades to their replacement, businesses are poised with retenti...

The inherent difficulties of IP networks represent a significant turning point in the convergence of information and communication technologies. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) emerged with the introduction of 3G and IPtelephony, providing an efficient exchanging data resources amongst linked users. Supporting hardware, software, and open-sourc...

Personalized medicine has been made possible by the development of genomic research, which has opened up previously unheard-of possibilities for the identification, management, and prevention of diseases based on unique genetic profiles. On the other hand, privacy, data integrity, and consent management pose serious obstacles to the transparent and...

The increased awareness by residents of their environment to maintain safe health states has consequently, birthed the integration of info tech to help resolve societal issues. These, and its adopted approaches have become critical and imperative in virtualization to help bridge the lapses in human mundane tasks and endeavors. Its positive impacts...

With the population rising to approximately 200 million Nigerians- fast-paced, urbanization has continued to advent food insecurity with maladministration, corruption, internal rife, and starvation. These threatened the nation's unity with the lockdown of 2020; and consequently, have become the trend. Nigeria must as a nation, reexamine her methods...

User behaviour about an item is a choice predicated on their perception of the item in order to satisfy the intent of such a purchase pattern/choice as made. With virtual stores to improve consumer coverage, monetization and ease of product delivery, users' trust is lowered with the non-delivery of advertised products as items purchased are often r...

The digital market today, is rippled with a variety of goods/services that promote monetization and asset exchange with clients constantly seeking improved alternatives at lowered cost to meet their value demands. From item upgrades to their replacement, businesses are poised with retention strategies to help curb the challenge of customer attritio...

Customer attrition has become the focus of many businesses today – since the online market space has continued to proffer customers, various choices and alternatives to goods, services, and products for their monies. Businesses must seek to improve value, meet customers' teething demands/needs, enhance their strategies toward customer retention, an...

The adoption of data mining processes is urgently needed due to the everyday generation of large amounts of data at an accelerated rate. The current advancement in the area of data analytics and data science has ushered in a new paradigm shift in the use of machine learning and softcomputing approaches to a new paradigm to render a more beneficial...

The pharma-sector has maintained improved productivity and profitability via a concerted effort to address critical issues such as an unorganized regulatory system, lack of safety data, no standards in manufacture process, non-adaptation to pharma-chain, and no-harmony of inventory supports. Study proposes blockchain trace-support to ensure drugs q...

The pharma-sector has maintained improved productivity and profitability via a concerted effort to address critical issues such as an unorganized regulatory system, lack of safety data, no standards in manufacture process, non-adaptation to pharma-chain, and no-harmony of inventory supports. Study proposes blockchain trace-support to ensure drugs q...

With home entertainment, selecting the perfect movie is a pervasive challenge, amplified by many streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime. This study advances a movie recommender system with collaborative filtering approach as implemented in Python titled StreamBoostE. We used the user-based and item-based similarity schemes on feature emb...

As competitive market and globalization continue to ripple a range of issues across the asset chain (i.e. safety, quality, tracing, and overall management efficiency). Pandemics are bound to occur without warning and has revealed the unpreparedness of many nations. Thus, the Nigerian Government aiming to shore up revenue/monetization via customs ex...

The pharma-sector has maintained improved productivity and profitability via a concerted effort to address critical issues such as an unorganized regulatory system, lack of safety data, no standards in manufacture process, non-adaptation to pharma-chain, and no-harmony of inventory supports. Study proposes blockchain trace-support to ensure drugs q...

1Malasowe, Bridget Ogheneovo,, 2Okpako, Abugor Ejaita, 3 , 4Ejeh, Patrick Ogholuwarami, 5Ojugo, Arnold Adimabua & 6 1Department of Computer Science, University of Delta, Agbor, Nigeria 2Department of Cyber Security, University of Delta, Agbor, Nigeria 3Department of Cyber Security, Faculty of Computing, Delta State University of Science and Technol...

The study addressed the pressing need for robust and accurate predictive models for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) by developing an improved diagnostic system utilizing ensemble classifiers. Recognizing limitations in existing models due to inadequate datasets and weak classification methods, this work adopted an Agile methodology to create an enhanced pre...

In the modern world, there is an increased need for language translations owing to the fact that language is an effective medium of communication. The demand for translation has become more in recent years due to increase in the exchange of information between various regions using different regional languages. Accessibility to web document in othe...

Elections are the bedrock of democracy and voting is one of the electoral processes that ensure the sustenance of democracy, political growth and democratic stability of any society. We have designed an Enhanced Electronic Voting System (EnEVoS) with a Hybrid Authentication Technique, which will reduce electoral malpractices and manipulation of res...

Since the advent of the internet and the digitization of information, more individuals and organizations have gained access to the internet, leading to a significant expansion in the size of our database systems. These databases are relied upon for day-today activities by individuals and organizations. Furthermore, the advancements in technology ha...

The usefulness and meaningfulness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), cannot be overemphasized in attaining organizational growth and survivability. Several organizations have over the years benefited assiduously from the integration of ICT tools in their organizational processes. The neglect within the manufacturing sector has facil...

Customer retention and monetization have since been the pillar of many successful firms and businesses as keeping an old customer is far more economical than gaining a new one – which, in turn, reduce customer churn rate. Previous studies have focused on the use of single heuristics as well as provisioned no retention strategy. To curb this, our st...

The unauthorized use of credit card information for fraudulent financial benefits by fraudsters without the knowledge of an unsuspecting users has become rampant due to financial inclusivity of financial institutions in their bid to reach both semi-urban and rural settlers. This in turn-has continued to ripple across the society with huge financial...

Superstores are often rippled with people from a variety of the pyramid structure from lower, middle and higher-levels of the pyramid. These malls often transform onto a busy-bee hub with people wishing to explore the merits of discounted product prices and special offers. This, however causes a surge in traffic coupled with the enticing promotions...

Fraudsters increasingly exploit unauthorized credit card information for financial gain, targeting un-suspecting users, especially as financial institutions expand their services to semi-urban and rural areas. This, in turn, has continued to ripple across society, causing huge financial losses and lowering user trust implications for all cardholder...

Due to advancement and complexity of modern automobiles, fault detection has gone beyond manual or trial by error methods. The fault detection technologies in automotive industry is used to identify any potential or already existing fault in automobiles. Faults in automobiles are usually mechanical or electrical faults that may include airbag contr...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant increase in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in all areas of the education sector, particularly in developed economies as well as developing countries, regardless of preparedness. This is because, under the new normal, ICT adoption has become ubiquitous and fast-moving, ev...

Environmental factors and features often change to result in either harsh weather conditions or rainfall, which often calms the weather as well as provides fast, significant downstream hydrology known as runoff with a variety of implications such as erosion, water quality, and infrastructures. These, in turn, impact the quality of life, sewage syst...

Drugs has since become a major source of livelihood for Nigerians. It also accounts for over 85% of the total food consumed within her borders. The sector has maintained improved productivity and profitability via a concerted effort to address critical issues such as an unorganized regulatory system, lack of food safety data, no standards in agricu...

The unauthorized use of credit card information for fraudulent financial benefits by fraudsters without the knowledge of an unsuspecting users has become rampant due to financial inclusivity of financial institutions in their bid to reach both semi-urban and rural settlers. This in turn-has continued to ripple across the society with huge financial...

The unauthorized use of credit card information for fraudulent financial benefits by fraudsters without the knowledge of an unsuspecting users has become rampant due to financial inclusivity of financial institutions in their bid to reach both semi-urban and rural settlers. This in turn-has continued to ripple across the society with huge financial...

Understanding the neuron-logic and natural sense with which humans can recognize textual pattern and characters had actually called for computational artifact to mimic human behaviour. Character recognition is a key part of applying processing to safeguard transcribed data in order to recover it at a later stage, just as encouraging its method of c...

With the substantial increase in the amount of data collected all over the world form various stock markets, it has become impossible to use traditional statistic and mathematical calculation for analyzing the data and using it for predicting trends like the opening and closing prices or highs and lows of the day for a company stock. Another crucia...

Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia Solanacearum) is a bacterial which attack most plant species in different plant families resulting in numerous financial implications to farmers. The predominant symptoms includes: yellowish leaves, permanent wilted leaves, permanent upright leaves, brownish vascular tissues, dark brownish cortex and thin thread of ooze in...

Productivity refers to the physical relation between the quality produced (output) and the quantity of resource used in the course of production (input). Productivity is a relative term indicating the ratio between total output and the total inputs used therein on the other hand production is an absolute concept, which refers to the volume of outpu...