SUMMARY Schistosoma haematobium antigens are the least studied amongst the three major human schistosomes (S. haematobium, S. mansoni and S. japonicum), mainly because of difficulty in maintaining the life cycle of this parasite in the laboratory. As a result, work on identification of potentially diagnostic and protective S. haematobium antigens lags behind. The work reported in this thesis was aimed at characterizing monoclonal antibodies recently produced against S. haematobium antigens so...
ABSTRACT The state of Nkoransa was founded in the 1720's by migrants from the Kumase area. It was carved out of the territory of the Bono-Takyiman Kingdom after the destruction of that kingdom in 1722/23 by the Asante. The nature of the political, social and economic institutions which evolved in the Nkoransa state was determined by the circumstances out of which the state emerged, the general developments within the state and external influences in the course of time. Fundamentally, the rul...
ABSTRACT We address the single container packing problem of a company that has to serve its customers by first placing the products in boxes and then loading the boxes into a container. We approach the problem by developing and solving mixed-integer linear models. Our models consider geometric constraints which feature non-overlappping constraints, box orientation constraints, dimensionality constraints, relative packing position constraints and linearity constraints. We also consider extensi...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the level of awareness and knowledge of climate change, factors influencing risk perception pertaining to climate change and variability, and factors influencing the adoption of adaptation strategies in three communities around the MuniPomadze Ramsar site. Primary data were collected through a questionnaire survey, FGDs and in-depth interviews. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages were employed to assess the level of knowledge and awarene...
ABSTRACT Low dose rate prostate brachytherapy equipment that is newly acquired or substantially upgraded requires acceptance testing before being put into clinical service as well as Quality control after installation and when in use. Thus, quality control tests typically are periodic repetitions, partial or full, of acceptance and commissioning tests. The ultrasound system is the most important equipment used in LDR prostate brachytherapy. The AAPM TG 128 provide a set of instructions for qu...
ABSTRACT Persons with disability continue to experience stigma which often leads to marginalisation and discrimination, despite the introduction of several legal and policy interventions intended to correct that. These stigmatising experiences have been documented and are well known. However, the known experiences are often from persons who are economically and socially dependent on others for their sustenance. This sometimes makes it seem that persons with disability are an oppressed aggrega...
ABSTRACT A combined electrical resistivity and hydrogeochemical methods have been used in investigating groundwater contamination in the Ga-East municipality. Thirty five vertical electrical sounding (VES) using the Schlumberger array configuration (with a maximum of AB/2 = 500 m) and one azimuthal array resistivity sounding were conducted and analysed using the single channel Scintrex Automated Resistivity Imaging System (SARIS) and IPI2WIN software. The resistivity survey revealed mainly fo...
ABSTRACT The damage caused by Corcyra cephalonic a and Araecenus fasciculatus to cocoa beans was studied at the Research Department o f Quality Control Division o f COCOBOD, Tema. The study included breeding o f the two insects on cocoa beans to investigate the biology, fecundity and progeny production o f the two insect species. The free fatty acid level o f cocoa beans was also determined and the change in this level due to insect damage was calculated with respect to undamaged ones. The co...
ABSTRACT This study is an examination of the scientific status of Marxism. I argue that Marxism is scientific as far as Popper’s falsificationism is taken as a serious methodology of science. The method of establishing this finding involves the use of logical analysis to provide a harmonious synthesis between Popper’s falsificationism and Orthodox Marxism. The need for the attempt to harness Marxism and science is a direct response to Popper’s remarks which seem to pose an unsurmounta...
ABSTRACT Many of the conflicts in the world today, in the areas of politics, religion and ethnicity, are reflections of a dearth of understanding among cultures. Several studies have identified the need for cross cultural understanding and tried to establish a basis for it in human biological make up, the universality of emotions and lived experience. However, these attempts have not satisfactorily addressed the universal epistemological basis for cross cultural understanding, the absence of ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to carry out an experiment to determine whether or not misspellings (in the English language) on signage (the Linguistic Landscape) has a potential effect on the spelling competence of Senior High School learners of the English Language in the New Juaben Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A quasi-experimental research design was adopted for the study. Fifty (50) learners out of a population of eighty-nine (89) learners from two Senior High Scho...
ABSTRACT Climate change is causing unusual, unpredictable and extreme weather events in the Ejura/Sekyedumasi Municipal. Although this level of exposure to climate change affects everyone in the Municipality, its impacts are differently distributed between men and women. The main objective of this study was to analyse the effects of climate change on the livelihoods of both men and women smallholder farmers. The study employed both primary and secondary data. Multistage sampling techniques we...
ABSTRACT Information plays a very vital role in every aspect of life activities. Information is used at all times irrespective of the situation and circumstance. The ability of teachers to teach depends on their ability to have access to information and use it to effect change in an individual. The study sought to examine the information needs of teachers in second cycle institution in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of Ghana, how they acquire and use information using Wilson’s (1999) In...
ABSTRACT This thesis, on quest for identity and the use of resistance in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Beloved and Paradise, examines the African-American’s search for an authentic self and the various forms of resistance they resort to in their quest. In Song of Solomon, the protagonist, Milkman leaves home in search of gold that would buy him his freedom but rather ends up on a journey in search for his roots; the discovery of which eventually earns him his identity. In Beloved, Seth...
ABSTRACT Most of the literature on the affairs of Caesar that survived was either written by people who stayed under the patronage of the Roman nobles or were themselves Roman aristocrats such as Appian, Livy, Plutarch, Sallust, and Cicero. For these reasons the main motive of Caesar‟s crossing of the Rubicon was seen to be the inordinate ambition of a Roman general who wanted more for himself. This propaganda has gotten hold of scholars of classical history so much that even notable histor...