The use of ICT has impacted to some extent on almost every facet of our daily activities. Students of today grow up with an array of technology, both at home and at school. Educators and governments have also devoted huge resources to the provision of technology in the learning environment. Despite the increase in ICT tools in Ghanaian basic schools, some teachers do not use them in their teaching. The general purpose of the study is to examine the attitude and competence level of basic schoo...
ABSTRACT E-r. year at least half a million women die from pregnancy related causes of which., 99% come from developing countries. The root cause of this situation IS due to the fact that the decision-making power women regarding the right to decide on how many children to have and when (whether) to have them, the use of contraceptives and the right to refuse sex with their husbands have been circumcised by socio-economic conditions within which they live. The study data were based on primary ...
ABSTRACT Ticks continue to facilitate the spread of pathogens globally, thereby influencing the health of both humans and animals. Ticks have been documented to infest animals including pets and livestock, transmitting bacterial pathogens including Rickettsia species. It is common to find many Ghanaian households rearing animals, thus increasing the risk of infection. It is therefore important to identify the present tick species and determine their potential to transmit diseases. This...
ABSTRACT Background: Technological progress in the construction of personal computers, has offered the possibility of conducting hearing tests with a computer program. Computerized audiometers can be designed for manual, automatic and self-administered hearing testing. Aim: The study investigated the validity of the ACEScreening device as a self-administered hearing screening test and the KUDUWave5000 audiometer as an automated diagnostic audiometer. Methods: The population for this study con...
This paper examined the impact of petroleum exploitation on the environment of the Niger Delta oil producing communities in Nigeria. This is in furtherance of the understanding that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. The paper observed that there was need for the adoption of measures that would provide a reasonable degree of protection of ecological and human environment from the activities of the oil industry in Nigeria.
ABSTRACT Five Upper Amazons cocoa clones, namely NA33, PA150, PA7, SCA6 and SCA9 were selected for this study. The objective of the study was to ascertain the resistance level of the resistance to the CSSV disease. Test parents were clonally multiplied and inoculated and the expressed leaf symptoms studied. The difference observed in the parents were used to initiate hybridization. Mentor pollen technique was used to induce self-fertilization. Clonal multiplication was done by budding...
ABSTRACT Competitive Binding Assay methods have been used to determine the serum levels of 25- hydroxyvitamin D^ in healthy Ghanaians and patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and chronic renal failure. Although the assay followed fairly standard methods as used by several workers, an improvement in stability and sensitivity was obtained by the use of gelatin in the buffer; the final assay buffer being 0.02M phosphate buffer, pH 7 ,C with 0.1% gelatin. Though rachitic rat s...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to assist DBE ONE „A‟ students of St. Francis College of Education, Hohoe to improve on their conceptual knowledge of linear inequalities in one variable using the beam balance model. The entire DBE ONE „A‟ students represented the population of the study. Data was gathered through instruments such as test in the form of pre-test and post-test. Due to the large size of the population a total of 40 students which represented 20% of the 200 DBE ONE �...
Malaria and HIV co-infected mothers have an increased risk of poor birth outcome, spontaneous abortion, malaria infection and early progression of HIV to AIDS. This study examines the impact of HIV and malaria on the levels of cytokines in peripheral blood from mothers and their new borns. 149 pregnant mothers and 30 babies born to 63 HIV infected mothers were engaged in longitudinal study for 18 months in the endemic area of Saki and Ibadan. Blood samples collected from mothers and ba...
ABSTRACT This study was set out to examine the barriers to ICT integration into Mathematics teaching and learning in selected Senior High Schools in the Central Region of Ghana. Specifically, the study aimed to examine the effects of internal barriers (constructive teaching beliefs, teaching experience, attitudes toward computer and technology competence) and external barriers (access to technology use, level of training in the use of technology, time adequacy, as well as, the culture of the ...
ABSTRACT Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the brain has seen a rising clinical request during diagnosis. The ohmic heating of tissue results in rising human temperature during MRI. This may be as a result of the unintentional heating which seems to be an under-appreciated risk especially of high-field-strength MRI. This study modelled Penne‘s bio-heat equation and used Matlab programming language to predict in-vivo power deposition in brain tissues during ...
ABSTRACT Background: Undetected hearing loss in neonates and children compromises optimal speech and language development and personal achievement. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) test consists of eliciting and recording waveforms generated within the auditory nerve region to the brainstem. These waveforms are compared with normative data to determine normal and abnormal responses. The use of ABR in identifying, and managing infants with congenital hearing impairment is crucial to their aca...
ABSTRACT Choice of university education in Ghana is a competitive exercise for senior High School students. Choosing it requires consideration of various factors. The motivation for the study is to measure high school students’ perception of the University of Cape Coast. To this end, the study focuses on various factors. The objective of the study therefore is to determine the latent factors that are considered by the...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate stakeholders’ satisfaction of the Computerized School Selection and Placement system (CSSPS), with regard to information quality, system quality, service quality, technological issues and IT self-efficacy, prior, during and after the opening of the system as against the manual way of selection and placement in the Mfantseman Municipal in the Central region of Ghana. A sample size of 526 respond...
ABSTRACT Globally, climate change continues to pose a serious threat to ecosystems, food security, water resources, health and economic stability. While these climate change induced effects are well documented, albeit in varying spatial contexts, much of the debate has not gravitated towards evidence of gender differentials in the impact of climate change in recent times, especially among smallholder farmers. Against this backdrop, this study explored gender perspectives on climate change a...