ABSTRACT The study was to determine beneficiary community members’ expectation of the benefits of social development projects in Education Rights, Gender and Women’s Rights and Food Rights. Sixteen criteria were gotten, initially, using participatory rural appraisal. These were included in the basic information section of a questionnaire. The questionnaire also sought classification and identification information of respondents. It was administered to one hundred respondents selected thr...
ABSTRACT This dissertation is a report on efforts directed at finding the leading diseases, patterns and other characteristics of four kinds of data: Monthly Outpatient Morbidity Data, Statement Of Outpatients, Statement Of Inpatients and the Monthly Bed State Data of Kwesimintsim Polyclinic. The data spans the six-year period of 1997 to 2002. The analysis of the data relied on descriptive statistics and time series analysis. Projected values ofthe number of cases of the diseases to be repor...
ABSTRACT An assessment of Information and Communication Technology usage among teacher trainees in selected Colleges of Education in the Ashanti Region of Ghana was the main focus of this study. The population consisted of third year teacher trainees and tutors of the Colleges under the study. A sample of 123 respondents was considered for the study. These included 40 trainees and 1 tutor from each of the three Colleges under study. The instruments used for data collection were the question...
ABSTRACT Falciparum malaria and Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affect millions of people globally but the effect of the dual conditions on the cardiovascular health of the affected has not been investigated. To better understand this, a study was designed to evaluate the effect of Plasmodium falciparum malaria on levels of selected biomarkers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in diabetics compared with non-diabetic controls by measuring anthropometric indices, blood pressure (Bp), fasting levels of...
ABSTRACT This study looked at the extent to which information and communications technology (ICT) tools are used in Senior High Schools (SHS) in Tano South District. The study investigated the level of availability of ICT facilities in schools, the capacity for using ICT facilities for teaching and learning, the perceived benefits of using ICT tools and the problems affecting the use of ICT tools in SHS. Survey design was used for the study. The population consisted of all the teachers and st...
ABSTRACT The availability of numerous sources of water for consumption makes it imperative to understand the factors that influences the choice of water sources. This study seeks to determine households’ choice of water sources for domestic consumption in Dodowa and Doryumu in Shai-Osudoku, District. The study adopted the systematic and stratified sapling procedures. A sample of 300 households, 4 series of six-member focus group discussion and 5 key informants were engaged in the study. The...
ABSTRACT The application of foreign life table in Sub-Sahara Africa had been a major concern all over the world. However, assessing the error for applying the foreign life tables as well as analysing the impact of the leading causes of death on Ghanaian longevity had not been studied. This study aimed at assessing the error of applying Foreign Life Tables in Ghana and analysing the impacts of the leading causes of death in Ghana. A cohort data of 3260 were collected from the University of Gha...
ABSTRACT Cocoa beans are the main ingredient for making chocolate and in Ghana, it is a major contributor to the economy as it generates an annual foreign exchange of about US $2 billion. The ability to produce high quality cocoa beans free from moulds and mycotoxin contamination has therefore become critical due to the impact mycotoxins have on health of consumers and global trade. This study investigated changes in fungal growth, mycotoxin concentrations, physico-chemical properties and coc...
Vitamin C and Coronavirus: Not a Vaccine; Just a Humble Cure Commentary by William F. Simmons and Robert G. Smith, PhD During the pneumonia epidemic in North Carolina in the 1940's, after American soldiers returned from the war in Europe, a small-town physician used an anti-infective protocol of intravenous vitamin C to cure 42 cases of viral pneumonia. [1] During the same period, the physician used a similar treatment to cure 60 cases of viral poliomyelitis. All patients were clinically well...
ABSTRACT Daily rainfall data from Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) rain gauge network was analysed to identify extreme rainfall events in Ghana. The data was first processed in order to remove all errors in the observational time series prior to analysis. The data was then analysed by excluding all rainfall events, which fell below a pre-determined threshold in order to identify extreme rainfall event days and non-extreme event days. Inter-annual variability and trends of annual precipitati...
ABSTRACT In the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis, the crime rate has been on the ascendency, and the rate of ascendency of crime has increased since the discovery of oil in commercial quantities. One issue that has been absent from the Police Service in the metropolis and which has contributed to this rise is the lack of use of technology by the Police in fighting crime in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The research therefore employs various technological techniques to investigate the problem. A...
ABSTRACT Sea erosion, attributed to sea level rise and human activity, has become a threatening phenomenon confronting many coastal settlements worldwide.It has caused destruction to many coastal resources. Measures employed to mitigate sea erosion have been to build defence walls, groynes and revetment. However, these structures only dissipate the wave energy and cause further erosion on the coastline. The eastern shoreline of Ghana is the most vulnerable as a result of the increase in fetch...
ABSTRACT In this thesis, hot carrier relaxation dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots and quantum well structures have been investigated as the basis for improving on the efficiency of conventional solar cells to values between 40% and 60% beyond the Shockley and Queisser detailed balance limit of 30% hitherto. Two schemes have been employed to obtain the shift in efficiency: The first is multiple exciton generation which occurs in semiconductor quantum dots. The output current as a function...
ABSTRACT T-cell diversity has a great influence on the ability of the immune system to recognise and fight the wide variety of potential pathogens in our environment. The current state of art approach to profiling T-cell diversity involves high-throughput sequencing and analysis of T-cell receptors (TCR). Although this approach produces huge amounts of data, the data has noise which might obscure the underlying biological picture. To correct these errors, two computational methods have been d...
ABSTRACT The level of water pollution by heavy metals ' (Cu, Xn, Co, Ni, As, Mn, Cd, Cr. !)hi in twelve selected water Dams in Osun state were determined in order to know their distribution and possible source into the dams. Their bottom sediment and water were colIected for analysis. The result in sediment showed that .the concentration of Manganese is high in all the dams with values ranging from 21,27-775.39mgkg and it spreads across all the locations. Cobalt was detected only at one. lo...