ABSTRACT The Niger Delta is a prolific petroleum sedimentary basin in the Gulf of Guinea and is posed with a major challenge of overpressure development in many of its fields. Integrated study, utilising 3D seismic data and well logs from four wells, namely; OBL_1, OBL_2, OBL_4 and OBL_5 was carried out in the offshore Niger Delta. The study aims at evaluation of structural influences on pressure development, detection of overpressure zones and consequently examining the risk involved in dril...
ABSTRACT Diarrhoea is among the six major diseases that causes death among children below age five worldwide. It is also a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children below age five in Ghana. Giardia lamblia is among the major enteropathogen causes of diarrhoea in Ghana. Most studies in Ghana on detecting G. lamblia use microscopy and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. There is not much data on the molecular epidemiology of Giardiasis in Ghana. This study was conducted to determine ...
ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to assess the consumption trends of grasscutter meat among consumers in Ga-West Municipality, to determine the thermal process parameters (cooking time and sterilization temperature, i.e F0 values) of canned minced grasscutter meat, to evaluate consumer acceptability of canned minced grasscutter meat and to assess the quality changes of canned minced grasscutter meat during storage. A cross sectional survey was conducted to establish the consumption ...
ABSTRACT The antimicrobial properties of plants have shown promise for development of new drugs which might aid to overcome the increasing challenge of resistance and also the toxicity of the currently available antibiotics. Hence, the aim of the study was to investigate the antibacterial activities of Sida acuta, Anthocleista nobilis, and Zanthozylum leprieurii on clinical isolates of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguis and two reference strains: Streptococcus mutans (ATCC 700610)...
Abstract Interest in Cutex qu£nque fa so i atus Say ( = f atigans Wied) has been increasing with the growth of urban areas in the tropical zones of the world because this rjmosquito is an important vector of bancroftian filariasis. When increased urbanization is accompanied: by inadequate sewage treatment, conditions are ideal for proliferation of Cm qu'inquefa&ei a t u sm No other species of mosquito has benefitted rfiore from these acute sanitary problems than has C• qu£nquefaso'£atus�...
ABSTRACT Most of the methodologies employed in analyzing stock time series data are based on the assumption of Efficient Market Hypothesis which does not assume long range memory or dependence in the data generating process. However empirical evidence from stock data fails to support the lack of dependence especially in developing countries. This study investigated the long range memory in some selected equities on the Ghanaian stock market using non-parametric and parametric methods. Using t...
The Republic of Liberia is situated on the southwest corner of the West Coast of Africa between longitudes 7o 30' and 11o and 30' west, and latitude 4o 18 minutes 8o 30' north. It covers surface areas of about 111,370 km2 (approximately 43,506 square miles). The dry land extent is 96,160 square km or 37,570 square miles. Liberia is limited on the west by Sierra Leone, on the north by Guinea, on the east by the Ivory Coast, and on the south by the Atlantic Ocean. Total land boundaries extend t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to evaluate how the inception of risk based supervisory approach has influenced the solvency positions of insurers in Ghana. The study considered 20 General Insurance Companies from 2008 – 2018. The main objectives of the study were to generate credibility risk premium values for individual claim experience to be used as an average premium regulator and develop Performance ratio thresholds for the Insurance Industry in Ghana using credibility theorie...
Abstract We show that the right derived functors of the limits of the Khovanov presheaf describes the Khovanov homology. We also look at the cellular cohomology of a poset P with coecients in a presheaf F and show by example that the Khovanov homology can be computed cellularly.
ABSTRACT Background: Dengue and malaria are two important mosquito-borne diseases. Together, both diseases are indistinguishable due to similarities in clinical and laboratory characteristics. These similarities have contributed immensely to the over-diagnosis of malaria and the under-recognition of dengue in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. No baseline study has yet been conducted in Ghana to estimate the burden of dengue. This study therefore set out to estimate the prevalence of dengu...
ABSTRACT A market- basket survey was carried out with the aim of determining the concentration levels of pesticides, in lettuce, garden eggs, pineapple and mango from some selected regions in Ghana and to assess the potential health risk associated with exposure to the pesticide residues from fruits and vegetables consumption. A total of 192 fresh samples of fruits and vegetables were randomly collected under normal purchase conditions from 12 major towns and cities in the three regions of Gh...
Version:0.9 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000005387 StartFragment:0000000141 EndFragment:0000005347 The rate of maternal mortality in the recent time is so alarming due to weak health systems, poor doctor-patient relationship, and non-existence of e-health management system to efficiently maintain, handle the patient’s record and schedule appointments for pregnant women from the first to last trimester which will reduce unnecessary waiting line that causes stress to both the patient and...
ABSTRACT The eating patterns of Ghanaians are changing due to urbanization, globalization, economic trends, as well as changes in social structure as a result of the increasing number of women working outside the home. These changes in eating patterns include higher consumption of snack foods by all age groups. A snack food is often smaller than a regular meal and normally consumed between meal times. Among cereal-based snacks, wheat and corn are the most popularly used cereals as compared to...
ABSTRACT The significance of transport costs in location of industries in Ibadan is studied through the application of comparative cost approach while spatial differential in factor costs is investigated by means of field survey and statistical methods.
Abstract The growing concern for environmental sustainability calls for the adoption of ‘greener’ techniques for remediation purposes. The application of green synthesized iron nanoparticles (FeNPs) provides a promising route in this context. This thesis reports a facile room-temperature synthesis of stable iron nanoparticles utilizing aqueous extract of peels of Musa sp. (Plantain) and Tetrapleura sp. (‘Prekese’). The extracts served as both reductants and capping agents owing to the...