African Social Studies. A Radical Reader

Preliminary Studies on Reader Collision

In a multi-reader environment, RFID system performance will be limited by the reader collision problem. RFID readers use different channels to minimise collision. However, with limited channels, the in-channel collision will happen. Using a path loss model, this paper predicts the safe distance between the readers before collisions occur in a same channel. This paper also explores the complicat...

Cytochemical studies with African Horse-Sickness Virus by Fluorescent Microscopy

African Social Science Review

The Government of Ghana in 1989 instituted a performance monitoring and evaluation system (PMES) in the public enterprise sector as part of a national effort to improve the performance of that segment of the economy. Among other things, the PMES was designed to provide information to make informed judgment about the performance of these enterprises. The analysis takes the position that 20 years...

The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation

Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become contributors of user-generated content by writing consumer product reviews, uploading travel photos, or expressing political opinions. Some users move beyond such individual efforts to become collaborators, ...

Social Emotion Classification via Reader Perspective Weighted Model

With the development of Web 2.0, many users express their opinions online. This paper is concerned with the classification of social emotions on varied-scale data sets. Different from traditional models which weight training documents equally, the concept of emotional entropy is proposed to estimate the weight and tackle the issue of noisy documents. The topic assignment is also used to disting...