ABSTRACT The study is based on the stochastic monitoring of Macroeconomic variables in Ghana. The macroeconomic variables that were considered in the study included Inflation rate and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The data covered the period from 2009 to 2017 for the monthly inflation rate and 1961 to 2017 for the GDP. All analyses were done using the R software. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test was used to test the data and the results showed that all the data were stationary after the ...
ABSTRACT Control of onchocerciasis over the past 3 decades has brought great relief to millions of people living in endemic communities, by substantially reducing blindness and other dermatological lesions. However, there are still areas where infections in human populations are high and vector transmission is ongoing, requiring a further understanding into the transmission dynamics of the disease in such communities. Furthermore the status of animal onchocerciasis is still unknown in Ghana ...
ABSTRACT Motorcyclists’ injuries and fatalities are a major recent public health concern in many developing countries, including Ghana. In Ghana, motorcycle for commercial purposes (known as Okada) is a recent development but one of the fastest transportation mode especially in the urban areas. This study focused on the perception of risk and its implications on the operations of motor taxi (Okada) in the Greater Accra region. Specifically, the study was designed to evaluate the risk pe...
ABSTRACT The Catfish, Chrysichthys Nigrodigitatus (Lacepede) is widely distributed in Nigeria.
ABSTRACT Road traffic congestion is a global phenomenon that bedevils the cities of the world.
ABSTRACT This thesis has evaluated the complimentary role water transport could play in the transport system of Lagos Metropolis.
ABSTRACT The dramatic progress of studies in human action recognition has being attributed to challenges inherent with conventional methods such as bag-of-words based description. As a result, researchers in the field of computer vision are still making efforts towards achieving structured interpretation of complex activities between multiple objects. This study proposes Pyramid of Histogram Oriented Gradients (PHOG) computed from Depth Motion Maps in a video stream as a new feature descripto...
ABSTRACT Background: Oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC) has been indicated as the most prevalent fungal opportunistic infection in individuals infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Candida albicans has been the most isolated species in OPC. However, other Candida species have been implicated as potential pathogens. Majority of these species have been found to be less susceptible to commonly administered antifungal drugs. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the distribution ...
ABSTRACT The primary objective of this study was to examine the spatial distribution of malaria incidence in the Brong Ahafo Region by using a GIS as an analytical tool. The research employed the cluster based sampling method to solicit the views of 245 households using a questionnaire. Malaria incidence indicated a variation from one household to another and from one administration district to another. Malaria clusters were determined using Getis and Ord statistic. This cluster analysis ind...
INTRODUCTION Computers have become a glamorous new adventure especially its limitless areas of application. With the society, so computer oriented literacy and application have become a must computer literacy involve knowledge of basic computer concepts that is knowing simple computer terminology, how he computer works and how it can basically be used to solve problems. The quest for computer knowledge is increasing being felt in the society, schools at all levels are vigorously acquiring co...
ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS is a public health problem that is increasingly having its toll on human resources, particularly given the fact that the most vulnerable age group is the youth. Even though tremendous achievements have been chalked through the use of antiretroviral drugs, these drugs are expensive and unaffordable by PLWHA in Ghana. Good nutrition has therefore been deemed as a complement to anti retroviral drugs for maximum benefit to this group of people. Ironically, most studies into the ...
ABSTRACT Mining companies have created the wrong impression that soils in the Tarkwa-Aboso area are infertile and not suitable for crop production. The government of Ghana therefore continues to lease concessions in the Tarkwa- Aboso area to mining companies, who not only scrape off the rich topsoils and vegetation to expose the gold ore for extraction, but also food crops are destroyed, and farming communities are displaced. Dr. Henry Obeng conducted a soil survey in Tarkwa-Iduapriem in 1992...
ABSTRACT Unwholesome water for both domestic and industrial purposes constitute a serious health risk. An assessment of the quality of water utilized in the domestic, industrial and commercial ventures, was carried out, using two approaches: (a) a survey on water utilization in food industries in Accra and Tema. Twenty food processing industries were evaluated on storage of water, the mode of cleaning of storage receptacles, quality control of water, treatment of water within the factory .and...
ABSTRACT In attempt to model tuberculosis epidemic in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, SIR and SEIR deterministic and stochastic epidemiological models with demographic characteristics were employed. Both models showed success in modeling the infection dynamics of tuberculosis in the region. These models equilibrium points were established and their stability investigated through the Routh - Hurwitz stability criterion. The models predicted tuberculosis dying out in the entire region (Disease fr...
ABSTRACT Background: Caesarean section (CS) is one of the most frequent surgical procedures performed on women worldwide. Post CS wound infection is a major cause of prolonged hospital stay, complicating 3% to 15% of CS procedures worldwide. Surgical site infections (SSI) are associated with a maternal mortality rate of up to 3%. With the continuous increase in the rate of CS procedures performed, it is expected that post CS infections will increase in parallel, hence its significance. A...