ABSTRACT Land use/land cover dynamics in wetland catchments is poorly understood; even though it is an important indicator of wetland ecological health. The study was aimed at detecting and quantifying Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) changes at the Muni-Pomadze Ramsar site in Ghana. The objective was to produce LULC maps for the area, assess the LULC dynamics during a ten year period, and establish statistical relationship between the major LULC changes and biophysical factors that influence...
ABSTRACT The poor are not evenly distributed within the country and they do not share the same socio-economic and demographic characteristics. It is against this background that analysis of the characteristics that differentiate the poor from the non-poor in Ghana cannot be underestimated. Poverty indicators make it possible to analyze the likely determinants and are, therefore, essential for formulating policy interventions that may contribute directly or ...
ABSTRACT Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) are changing the way people share, use, and process information . Overtime, students’ academic performance had been used to determine excellence in teacher teaching. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between teachers’ICT competency and students’ performance in ICT in East Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It also sought to find out whether availability of ICT r...
ABSTRACT The iodine status of staff and pupils of Hillcrest Schools, undergraduates of UCC, 2016/2017 academic year and a household in Agona Swedru were determined using Titration Method, Sandell-Kolthoff Method and a Novel Method. Discriminant analysis results showed that the Novel Method correctly classified 77.4% of the original cases. The novel also had a percentage recovery of125% and a Horwitz Ratio of 0.12. Based on these, ...
ABSTRACT The non-differentiable L1-norm penalty in the L1-norm regularized least squares problem poses a major challenge to obtaining an analytic solution. The study thus explores smoothing and non-smoothing approximations that yields differentiable loss functional that ensures a close-form solution in over-determined systems. Three smoothing approximations to the L1-norm penalty have been examined. These include the Quadratic, Sigmoid and Cubic Hermite. Tikhonov regularization is then a...
ABSTRACT Technology has evolved over the years from being simple machines to complex ones which are making work easier and faster than usual. Despite the influx of the mobile technology with its functions into the Ghanaian society with about 38,305,078 (CIA Report, 2017), most people are still stuck to its voice and other basic functionalities neglecting the economic and productivity enhancement ones. It was for these reasons that this study was carried out to find out t...
ABSTRACT Cocoa is the mainstay of the economy of Ghana as it contributes about 28% of foreign exchange earnings. In recent times, cocoa has come under scrutiny because of high levels of heavy metals which are generally considered toxic. Due to the toxicity of these metals, there have been several agitations to reduce their levels as much as possible in foods; thus the setting up of stringent standards in several countries which in most cases are not supported by any scientific basis. T...
ABSTRACT The study examined the role of anthropogenic disturbances, temperature, precipitation and evapotranspiration in the range shift of aquatic plants, fish and bird communities in six wetlands. It was conducted over a 2-year period. The dominance ratio approach was used to determine the range shift of plants. Ordination techniques were used to determine the influence of environmental factors on biologi...
Abstract The use of Information and Communication Technology to collect and process large volumes of data into information has made it possible for organisations to find ways and means of making informed decisions within a short space of time. There is so much dependent on information systems to such an extent that system failure can adversely compromise the organisation’s operations. The education sector has not been left out but has instead become an information super house. The developm...
ABSTRACT This research work focused on the effect of climate change on cocoa yield in some selected cocoa districts in the Eastern, Ashanti, Western and Central Regions of Ghana. For sustainable cocoa production, weather, which is an uncontrollable variable, is an important factor whose effect on cocoa is difficult to quantify in a field environment. This research has two components; effects of climate change on cocoa prod...
ABSTRACT This research work was set out to see, if Geometer’s Sketchpad could be used to enhance the ability level of SHS 4 students of Osei Tutu II College in the location of the coordinate of the image of a point or geometrical object under Rigid Motion in a Cartesian plane. A non-probability sampling technique known as purposive sampling was employed to select the sample for the study. In all, 45 SHS 4 students comprising 34 girls and 11 boys were involved in the study. The main resear...
ABSTRACT The total investment cost of a pipeline network to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants for enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) in oil fields in Texas Gulf Coast as CO2 mitigation has been estimated. The impact of the CO2capture and transport on power generation cost, including the benefits of atmospheric CO2mitigation has also been determined. 14 power plants comprising 55.7% of installed capacity in Texas Gulf Coast were selected. Geographical-information system was used ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of blended learning on students using IBOX platform. A blended learning environment was designed to provide opportunity for integrating the learning management system “moodle” with face-to-face classroom interaction. Despite the implementation of blended learning, the poor student performance and outcomes persist. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how teaching processes ...
ABSTRACT Ozara Ukwu and its environs (the study Area) is located within the Abakaliki Basin and the Afikpo sub Basin, respectively within the Afikpo Area. Detailed geologic mapping was carried out in other todetermine the various stratigraphic lithologic units, depositional environment, provenance, age and kerogene characterization, respectively using the basic field and laboratory procedures. Based on field observations, two lithostratigraphic units of the Ezeaku Group and Nkporo Group were ...
ABSTRACT Attendance is very important in every student. a single absent make a big difference in performance in the school. Most students of high school are prone to absence from classes claiming that the class is boring. Others due to laziness fail to attend classes, having preference of going to computer shops or playing games while some students cannot refuse the prospect of a friend asking them out during class period. Some of these actions are not reported to parents or guardians because...