ASES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SPORTS SCIENCES (ISSN: 3023-5723)

PEOPLE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING IN VIDEO FILES USING MACHINE AND DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS

LUBNA THANOON ALKAHLA, MAHER KHALAF HUSSEIN, ALHAN ANWER YONIS — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

This paper presents a people identification and tracking system for video files designed to verify the presence of persons in the video file or not. The system consists of several stages: converting the video files into a set of frames, identifying face areas using the Viola-Jones method, and extracting characteristics of these faces based on two techniques; the first technique is deep feature extraction, which is the pre-trained network VGG16-CNN. The second technique is shallow feature extraction, represented by the Principal Component Analysis method, and classifying persons based on the multilayer perceptron neural network. The system is tested on five video files of different times, and each video contains different numbers of people. The results obtained through the confusion matrix showed that the system gives a high classification accuracy and a good detection rate when using the VGG16-CNN algorithm for feature extraction. Through measures of precision, recall, and accuracy, it is found that the system is strong and has a high detection rate. The system gave a high classification accuracy of 93% ,precision of 100%, and recall of 93%.

ASSESSING BLOCK CHAIN TECHNOLOGY AS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL IN HEALTH INDUSTRY

MOSES ADEOLU AGOI, OLUWANIFEMI OPEYEMI AGOI — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The spontaneous developments experienced in health sector in the 21st century are signs brought by the evolving trends of technology. The incorporation of technology such as cloud computing, edge computing with special reference to blockchain technology have immensely impacted and improved data, information and overall record management system in health sector. A blockchain is a digital ledger of records maintained by computer networks in such a way that minimizes malicious acts. Blockchain technology makes it difficult or almost impossible to change, cheat or hack the system. The technology enhances a secure way for individuals or establishments to deal directly with each other without the intermediary of a third party. Blockchain technology allows the movement of data in real-time without exposing the channel to forgery, malice or theft. This paper is a context review of blockchain technology and its essentials in the health sector. The paper discussed the applications and benefits of blockchain technology as related to health system. In order to gather relevant information for the purpose of the paper, questionnaires were drafted and given to respondents using online Google form questionnaire instrument. Responses were collated and subjected to reliability analysis. Conclusively, recommendations were made.

METHOD OF ENGINEERING MEN'S PROTECTIVE OVERALLS

KISELEVA MARIANNA VLADIMIROVNA, SOLNYKOV NIKOLAY ANTONOVICH — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The development of technology in the modern world directly affects a person's need for overalls. Every year the machines in the workshops are becoming more powerful, working at ever higher speeds. Not only careless work with industrial machines can lead to serious injuries, but also just being in the shop without protection, since such places are high-risk zones. To reduce the risk of industrial injury, enterprises oblige workers to use personal protective equipment.
The modern range of protective men's overalls is very diverse. Protection from harmful and dangerous factors for the health of an employee in the workplace is achieved by using innovative materials in clothing, its package, and design and technological solutions. Workwear differs both in the type of protection and in the class of protection.
The analysis of the modern market of men's protective overalls was carried out. The designed product will consist of one item of clothing, and will belong to protective clothing with fire protection of the first class.
The main idea of the project is to develop working men's clothing with enhanced ergonomic qualities that meets safety requirements and preferences of the target audience.
The process of creating the image included an analysis of the modern design of working men's overalls, as well as well-known images wearing overalls. A lot of important factor was the preference of consumers in choosing the cut, functional and decorative elements, as well as the color of the product.

ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING STRATEGY ON ACADEMIC AND HEALHT RELATED PROBLEMS IN SOME SELECTED SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS WITHIN BAUCHI METROPOLIS NIGERIA

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The main aim of this study was to assess the guidance and counselling services on academic and health related problems in some selected Senior Secondary Schools within Bauchi metropolis Nigeria. The study employed a descriptive survey research design, which allowed the researchers to examine the values, systems, beliefs, physical and mental challenges of the respective respondents using the qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study also focused on the guidance and counselling managers and students (who had experience with the counselling technique). The instruments used for the study were the semi-structured interview technique and the structured questionnaire respectively. For the purposes of the very study, both quantitative and the qualitative data were collected analyzed and reported for further action. Thematic approaches were used in analyzing the interviewed data. This aided the researchers to organize the data, transcribed the data, and group them into classes, coded and define them. The findings of the study revealed that awareness of the existing counselling services is highly needed, motivating
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counsellors, training the counsellors, supporting the guidance, and counselling expert, providing the vital facilities and funds, establishing strong guidance and counselling services for student with special need and health related issues, sensitizing students on the importance of the counselling services. Actions when put in place will surely improve the guidance and counselling services in schools specifically those with health-related problems and students with special need. The study consequently concludes that deprived self-concept, inadequate support, poor conflict management, negligence in managing health problems, selecting the inappropriate career were the major areas of concern in guidance and counselling services that when properly manage, help students achieve their success in life. The study also recommends that schools ought to sensitize students on the importance of guidance and counseling services in the management of student and their daily related academic and health problems.

INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF TUBERCULOSIS AND HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AMONG TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS IN FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTRE KEFFI USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL

M. O. Adenomon , M. E. Achi — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Tuberculosis (TB), remains the leading cause of death among people with HIV and one of the top 10 leading causes of death from a single infection worldwide (WHO, 2020). In 2018, Nigeria was listed as the first in Africa and sixth among the 30 countries of the world with highest burden of TB. Over time study has shown that the emergency and spread of drug resistance TB and high burden of HIV/AIDs has contributed to the complication and wide spread of TB in Nigeria. This study investigated the dynamics of TB and HIV among TB patients in Federal Medical Center Keffi, Nigeria using Logistic regression analysis. To achieve the aim of this study, dataset on recorded patients with Tuberculosis cases were collected from the DOT center, Federal Medical Center keffi, Nigeria. The data consisted of 1606 registered TB cases recorded between January 2015 to December 2020. Out of the 1606 TB cases examined, 693 representing 43.2% were females, while 913 representing 56.8% were male gender. Findings from the study show that out of the 1606 TB cases recorded, 308(19.2%) were diagnosed with extra pulmonary TB, while the remaining 1298(80.8%) cases were diagnosed to have pulmonary TB. Also, out of the 1606 TB cases recorded in the study, 1166(72.6%) tested HIV negative, while the remaining 440(27.4%) tested HIV positive. The findings obtained from the logistic regression analysis, for HIV model it revealed that age is statistically insignificant (p-value=0.431>0.05). But according to the result from the odds ratio test for HIV, older TB patients in age are 0.2% more likely to be infected by HIV compared to younger TB patients in age. Also, from the odds ratio test carried out, we found out that male TB patients has 86% more chances of been affected by HIV than the female TB patients. The result also indicated that patients with pulmonary TB cases have a 62% greater odds of developing HIV infection compared to does with extra-pulmonary TB. Classification test of logistic regression for both HIV and TB revealed to us about 72.60% and 80.82% level of correct classification, which implies a high level of agreement for our model. Finally, the result revealed that HIV and TB affects each other in a bi-directional way.