1MSc. Information Technology Student, Department of Computer Science, CoS, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana 2Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, College of Science, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana 3Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, College of Science, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana ---------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------...

1 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 4 Department of Medical Biochemistry, College of Health Sciences, School of Biomedical and Al...

1 Department of Environmental Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Health Sciences Addition, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 3 Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, 4 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Water Research Institute...

this article studies the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian news website entitled modern ghana. a total of 87 articles comprising 43752 words were retrieved. van leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actors was utilised to examine the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian press. in this regard, six applicable tools were used and these include exclusion, role...

semantic strategies are a kind of discourse strategy that include the sum of language and cognitive moves which are used to reach an adequate goal of communication normally resulting in text comprehension by the reader or listener. here, the language user takes a number of steps in order to perform a complex task. semantic strategies in prejudiced talk have been examined extensively in western ...

this paper explores the effectiveness of financial literacy programs. it further seeks to establish the relationship between financial literacy and certain demographic characteristics. this study adopted a correlational research design as the framework to examine the relationship between variables without determining cause and effect. data were randomly collected from 235 petty traders in kumas...

1 West African Centre for Crop Improvement, College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, University of Ghana, P. M. B. LG 30, Legon, Ghana. 2 CSIR-Crops Research Institute, P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana. 3 Deparment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of the Professions, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia. 4 CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, P. O....

Ghana is a developing country in West Africa with a population of about 25 million. Medical illnesses in Ghana overlap with those in developed countries, but infection, trauma, and women's health problems are much more prominent. Medical practice in rural Africa faces extremely limited resources, a multiplicity of languages (hundreds in Ghana), and presentation of severe illnesses at later stag...

Land, trees, and women : evolution of land tenure institutions in western Ghana and Sumatra / Agnes R. Quisumbing. .. [et al.]. Contents Tables v Figures vii Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Summary xiii 1. Issues and Motivation for Policy Analysis 1 2. Tables 3.1. Land-use pattern, farm size, and person–land ratio in 1997 in selected villages in Ghana 27 3.2. Distribution of currently adopted in...

OBJECTIVE The growth of the older adult population in Africa demands more knowledge about their chronic health problems, such as depression. The aim of this paper is to estimate depression prevalence and identify correlates of depression among older adults in Ghana and South Africa. METHOD The WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE study) was conducted in Ghana and South Africa fro...