Patrick D. Cerna

• Doctor of Information Technology
• Professor (Associate) at Haramaya University

The growing demand for clean and sustainable energy sources has driven countries around the world to explore renewable energy options, including wind power. This research focuses on the use of machine learning techniques to optimize the site selection process for wind power plants in the Philippines. The study aims to address the challenge of ident...

This research focuses on the use of machine learning techniques to optimize the site selection process for wind power plants in the Philippines. It utilizes various datasets, such as wind speed and direction, topography, land use, population density, and infrastructure availability, to identify the most suitable sites for wind power plant developme...

This research aims to develop a deep learning model for identifying cholelithiasis and classifying gallstones using medical imaging data. The model can detect the presence of gallstones in medical images, differentiate between different types of gallstones, and provide a diagnosis with high precision and recall. The findings of this research are ex...

Education through schools has been around throughout history. Today, schools not only have been educating but have also been helping address students’ problems through guidance centers. However, addressing student concerns, particularly academic and non-academic-related concerns has become more difficult due to the pandemic. With this in mind, the...

Concrete blocks or hollow blocks are widely used in the community for building infrastructure, functioning as a necessity for shelter. However, the Philippines is also known to experience various natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons. Relative humidity is also high in the country causing it to have higher temperatures compared to diffe...

Phenylketonuria (PKU), also known as Følling’s disease,was first identified in 1934 by the Norwegian biochemist and physician Ivar Asbjörn Følling (1888–1973), who evaluated two siblings aged 4 and 7 years with developmental delay and an unusual urinary odor. In the modern world, Newborn screening programs identify children who are born with seriou...

Vehicle traffic accident is one of the major agenda for the government in which special attention has been given to continuously reduce its occurrence and related risks. Wolaita zone is one of the major areas in which increased vehicle traffic accident occurs. Government and concerned bodies have given special attention to reduce accident rate in t...

Ethiopian Higher Educational Institution (EHEI) established an ICT Directorate office for each public universities, colleges and institute, with the same supervisory level as Dean of Colleges, Faculty and Institute to implement and integrates ICT in all aspects of educational system from teaching, learning and research. It has been established a un...

Ethiopian Higher Educational Institution (EHEI) established an ICT Directorate office for each public universities, colleges, and institute, with the same supervisory level as Dean of Colleges, Faculty, and Institute to implement and integrates ICT in all aspects of the educational system from teaching, learning and research. It has been establishe...

KM is known as one of the most promising and advanced tools that can contribute to the creation of a sustainable competitive advantage for business today [2] which presents the most important competitive advantage factor for organizations [3]. The the study focus on KM’s issues and the possibility to implement KM between TVET and SMEs. There has be...

Mobile computing has now emerged as one of the main platform for advertising, e-commerce and integration to enterprise information system. Understanding this, A comprehensive model as an established software engineering methodology was proposed for mobile application, critical success factors and evaluation through theoretical agile process framewo...

Money is a non-negotiable, indispensable commodity in every person's life. The possession of money in itself is a resource and the usage of it can help acquire resources. Most of the things we use daily have monetary value, whether directly or indirectly. In Ethiopia, small and medium enterprises (SME) usually use a paper currency counter to put al...

Recent advancements in communication technologies, on the one hand, and computer hardware and database technologies, on the other hand, have made it easy for organizations to collect, store and manipulate massive amounts of data. As the volume of data increases, the proportion of information in which people could understand decreases substantially....

For a construction project to be completed successfully there must be an effective and efficient utilization of resources. One of these resources is human resource which includes women worker. This research focus on the effectiveness analysis of women worker in construction projects at Debre Berhan and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and analyzing its impact...

An environment of high service quality laboratory infrastructure management will greatly improve the process of teaching and learning. Haramaya University commits to achieve such major goal of excellence in teaching and learning through service-oriented and conducive learning environment facilities. Thus, this study determines that service quality...

On the occasion of twenty years since the foundation of daily rehabilitation stationary ward at Department of Phoniatrics First Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague the authors processed the medical documentation of children for the period of 2002 - 2012. The authors followed in the study from 2...

The Federal Emergency Management Information System (FEMIS) is an emergency management planning and analysis tool that is being developed under the direction of the U.S. Army Chemical Biological Defense Command. The FEMIS System Administration Guide defines FEMIS hardware and software requirements and gives instructions for installing the FEMIS sof...