ABSTRACT Although Electronic Information Resources (EIR) have become an important part of research and learning in Universities, a growing body of literature suggests that its utilisation amongst students in especially developing countries tends to be low. It follows therefore that any evidence-based research that seeks to unravel the factors that drive this unresponsive behaviour towards EIR usage especially in private universities is of high demand. The main objective of this study was to f...
ABSTRACT The study on Adolescent Sexuality, Contraceptive Use and Reproductive Health was undertaken as part of the ongoing effort at understanding some o f the problems that confront adolescents in Ghana, With a general objective o f examining the magnitude of reproductive health-related problems pertaining to adolescent sexuality and contraceptive use, the study used a sample of 1,828 female adolescents aged 12-24 years (1,503 from Cape Coast and 325 from Mankrong) in the Central Region of ...
ABSTRACT The attacks of September 11 2001 on the United States triggered that country’s enormous efforts to counterterrorism in order to prevent the re-occurrence of that event on the soil of the United States. President George Bush Jr. responded to the attacks by excessive application of hard power with the objective of bringing the perpetrators to justice. President Obama coming into office in 2009 promised a departure from the United States excessive reliance on hard power application in...
ABSTRACT This dissertation looks at the beliefs and practices on death and the hereafter from the cultural context of the Dagaaba in northwestern Ghana and how these concepts helped them to be fully engaged in the ‘here and now’ because they were motivated to do their optimum. The Dagaaba, perceive life, death and the hereafter, as being solemnized and is socially, morally, religiously and materially integrated in the community. Therefore, beliefs and practices on death and the hereafter ...
ABSTRACT The literature has shown that fertility desires are an important indicator that can help us understand and predict the future course of fertility; however, little work has been done on its relationship to ethnicity among women in Ghana using recent nationally representative data. Therefore, this study investigates the relationship between ethnicity and fertility desires among two groups of parous women in Ghana. It critically examines the fertility desires (the desire for an addition...
ABSTRACT Research on information seeking behavior of the visually challenged students was carried out in University of Ghana, Legon and University of Education, Winneba to investigate whether the services provided by those universities accommodated the information seeking behavior of visually challenged students or not. The theoretical framework for the study was Wilson’s (1999) Information Behaviour Model. The survey method was used to collect data and 80 copies of a questionnaire were dis...
ABSTRACT Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an important result oriented tool for organizations across the world in this 21st Century. For this reason, institutions are constantly delving into some of the creative ways by which they can use ICT to increase productivity. The purpose of this research centers on the digitization of the Collections of the Ghana National Museum, Accra. The researcher visited the British Museum, the Wallace Collection and the Black Cultural Archi...
ABSTRACT Despite the huge investments made by libraries into building their collections, studies have shown that these collections remain underutilized. This situation, coupled with declining library budgets, as well as growing competition between libraries and other information providers, has compelled libraries to adopt effective marketing approaches in order to continually remain visible and relevant. The adoption of marketing in libraries has been found to bring about numerous benefits to...
ABSTRACT In an effort to ensure universal access to basic human rights, essential social facilities such as healthcare, education, justice systems and financial institutions, and the planning of an overall development agenda, there is the need to provide official documentation of legal identity for all persons. Identity registration through birth registration and certification is regarded as the first document that serves as a form of legal identity for individuals at birth. As states in the ...
ABSTRACT The use of Oral Expressions is a very important tool in the teaching and learning of a language. In a practical language class, it is through conversations that both the teacher and the student understand each other. Oral expression therefore facilitates one’s perfection of a language. We have observed that, most SHS graduates, obtained excellent grades (A1, B2 or B3) in the French language in their WASSCE examinations. But majority of these students, pursuing French at the tertiar...
ABSTRACT This study explores fundamental relationships existing in the works of two great American Scholars of the 19th century: Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It argues that, “Song of Myself”, the poetry collection in Whitman’s major literary work Leaves of Grass, echoes or re-emphasizes some of Emerson’s significant ideological and philosophical beliefs. Ralph Waldo Emerson, recognized as the founder of America’s transcendentalist movement, was a key figure in America’s i...
ABSTRACT Long-term unemployment has negative consequences for the individual, society and a country‟s economic system. People who are unemployed for a long period find it more difficult to be employed as time goes by and has effect on their behaviours when they should even secure a job. The study examined the indirect effect of unemployment on employee‟s attitude to work. The study was conducted using the staff of Aramex Ghana Limited with a population of forty (40) employees, inclusive o...
ABSTRACT Solidarity within social groups is a prominent thematic preoccupation in contemporary African literary works. Previous studies on Adichie’s three novels: Purple Hibiscus (PH), Half of a Yellow Sun (HOAYS) and AMERiCANAH (AH), have examined textual aspects such as language, context, style, and themes with little attention on discourse strategies as they evoke social solidarity in the novels. This study, therefore, examined discourse strategies in relation to how they evoked social ...
ABSTRACT This research explores the possibility of expressing and confronting trauma in the critical site of prison through the medium of poetry. Historically rooted in Holocaust studies, trauma has been conceptualized as a psychological wound that cannot be expressed nor healed through any media, least of all, literature. In response to the call of literary theorists for a theory of narrative that incorporates healing, Masterson et al. contend that the revelatory and therapeutic power of lit...
ABSTRACT The purpose of study was to understand and assess the risk management practices and their effectiveness using El-Virtues Construction Limited as a case study. The study employed the cross-sectional design and the qualitative approach to gather data from 20 employees through semi-structured interviews and with the aid of a questionnaire. The study found that there was an adequate understanding of risk management among the respondents as including a tool to facilitate the project, a sy...