ABSTRACT One hundred and thirty-two healthy Ghanaian volunteers were randomly selected and the activation of the anti malarial drug proguanil (PG) to the active metabolite cycloguanil (CG) was evaluated in them. These volunteers were made up of 16.7% females and 83.3% males. The volunteers were phenotyped either as extensive metabolisers (EMs) or poor metabolisers (PMs) by measuring the proguanil/cycloguanil ratio in their urine following a single dose of the pro-drug. One hundred and twenty-...
ABSTRACT The tension in the city of Accra concerning the desired modernization of the city space and the existence of the perceived outmoded activity of street hawking is replicated in many cities in developing countries. By encroaching public spaces not authorized for trading, street hawkers offer various products for sale in order to eke out a living. By this act, the activity of street hawking finds itself at the wrong side of the laws governing city-space. In response, several attempts ha...
ABSTRACT The diurmal variations of the atmospheric electric parameters and meteorological parameters for the harmattan season of November 1978 to March 1979 are presented. The percentage variations of temperature are mirror images of those of vapour pressure which show pronounced depressions around noon when the little available moisture in the air near the ground is distributed over greater and greater heights by convection.
ABSTRACT An increasing number of people are turning their attention towards the gig economy, away from the traditional methods of engaging and being engaged for jobs. The Gig economy refers to an environment of technology-facilitated short-term consultative tasks that are performed on a project-by-project basis , popularly known as “Gigs”. Gigs are done in different sectors (e.g. computer and information technology, media and communications as well as transportation and dispatch sectors o...
ABSTRACT The British Bank of West Africa (B.B.W.A) now renamed Standard Chartered Bank Limited and Barclays Bank Ghana Limited were the two prominent foreign Commercial Banks first established in the Gold Coast in 1897 and 1917 respectively. In the colonial era, these British banks did not cater to their banking needs; they dealt with large businesses and did not extend credit to Ghanaian farmers. In 1953, the Commercial Bank was established as the first indigenous commercial bank to serve th...
ABSTRACT The problem of making meaning from a textbook by basic school pupils in order to maximise their learning potential in Ghana is a constant worry. Research into ways of solving this problem at such a time is of great importance to all stakeholders alike. The objectives of this project is to explore the possibility of incorporating drama in picture reading and assess the effectiveness of drama in the teaching of English comprehension through picture reading at St. Peter’s Anglican B...
ABSTRACT There are several drives, both internal and external, which influence people to act. Reason, fear, love, hate, money, and pleasure are a few of such driving forces. More often than not people are driven by the motivating forces which are not based on sound ethical reasoning. They end up disappointed or causing harm either to themselves or to others, depending on the consequences of their action. This study examines the motivations of Socrates’ ethical behavior, concentrating on th...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines the conceptual problems in equating womens body with their body within patriarchal social institutions.
ABSTRACT A cursory look at the Trade Disputes Act of 1976 shows that the Act did not specifically remove the right of workers to strike but in practical terms.
ABSTRACT This work is an analytic exposition of yoruba poetry written in the period 1848-1948.
ABSTRACT Two field experiments were conducted at the Multipurpose Crop Nursery of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong-Ashanti campus during the minor and major rainy seasons from September, 2011 to January, 2012 and April to August, 2012 respectively to verify the yield and storability of sweetpotato roots as influenced by chicken manure and inorganic fertilzer in the forest transitional agro-ecological zone of Ghana.. In both cropping seasons sweetpotato root tubers were stored for...
ABSTRACT Two main, often conflicting, approaches or theories have been provided to understand or explain human-geography relationships, namely, geographic determinism and geographic possibilism. Scholars who hold geographic deterministic views argue that geographic conditions, to a larger extent, determine human culture and development. On the other hand, the possibilists argue that humans have the capacity to arise above the dictates of the geographical environment to modify and adapt to ge...
ABSTRACT Cosmopolitan justice, the view that justice is a universal idea that should apply to all persons irrespective of nationality has generated a lot of debate among political philosophers. Earlier studies have conceived of justice either as a territorially-bounded concept or as a trans-territorial idea, which must apply globally but failed to provide a trans-culturally persuasive account of justice that would form the basis for regulating transnational relations. This study, therefore, d...
ABSTRACT Epistemic interactivism, an aspect of the epistemology of representation, is a cognitive intercourse between the subject and person-object of knowledge that underlies the conception of a person in Esan thought. Earlier studies separated the subject from the object of knowledge, and classified persons and non-persons as object of knowledge. This separation ignored the cognitive and moral values of persons, thereby creating a dehumanised relationship between the subject and person-obje...
ABSTRACT Ak[nauche, an ontological and intelligent component of the human person capable of mediating and unifying the individual‘s facets of existence, is central in maintaining social order in Igbo culture. Existing studies have addressed the idea of ak[nauche mainly from scientific and aesthetic perspectives, without adequate analysis of the concept in relation to the unity of the individual as a being of many parts, significant to the attainment of social order. This study, therefore, i...