ABSTRACT The study investigated the food handling practices of the street food vendors in Koforidua and how their practices affect the safety of the food before consumption, and consumers knowledge of food-borne diseases. The study was a descriptive survey and a sample of one hundred and fifty respondents made up of fifty food vendors and one hundred consumers were purposively and conveniently sampled respectively for the study. The data gathered was analyzed using SPSS Version 17 and convert...
The interest of Senior High School (SHS) students towards the study of science has declined in many countries across the globe including Ghana. On the 14th-15th of November, 2005 member countries of organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) met in Amsterdam to discuss the Declining Students Enrollment in sciences and technology, and suggested that graduates turn out in the sciences in some member countries showed a drop of 30%-50% over the last 8- 10years. West African Exa...
ABSTRACT The nutritional and antinutritional profiles of raw avocado seeds saoked and boiled for 10,15,20 and 20minutes were investigated.
ABSTRACT There is a growing awareness that road development has major environmental impact. The damage includes sensitive ecosystems, loss of productive agricultural lands, and resettlement of large numbers of people, permanent disruption of local economic activities, demographic change, accelerated urbanization, and introduction of disease. This dissertation presents the impact of road construction on the environment in the Kintampo Municipality of Ghana and the challenges the Environmental ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS) knowledge and sexual behaviours of adolescents in the Bechem and Ashanti schools for the deaf located in the Ahafo and Ashanti Regions of Ghana respectively. Five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study hinged on the Attribution theory by Weiner (1935) and literature reviewed based on the research questions. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The purposive, prop...
Version:0.9 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000014889 StartFragment:0000000141 EndFragment:0000014849 Experiments were conducted to evaluate the nutritional and anti-microbial effects of dietary Moringa oleifera leaf meal (MOLM) in broilers and laying hens. Proximate analysis of the leaf meal showed that it contained 23.25% CP, 13.19% CF, 6.93% EE, 6.4% Ash and 47.10% NFE on dry matter basis. In the chicken broiler experiment, five broiler starter (23% CP) and five finisher (19% CP) diets w...
ABSTRACT This long-essay discussed the topical issue on the effects of school-based violence on the academic achievements of students. It focused the phenomenon from the national and international perspectives. The theoretical framework to the problem was provided. The typologies and different forms of school-based violence were identified and succinctly discussed. They include; corporal punishment, sexual violence, bullying, cultism, fighting, arson, neglect and discrimination. The ado...
ABSTRACT Ghana has considerable problems with road safety which manifest in the numerous incidences of road accidents. In the past, road safety management was characterized by dispersed, uncoordinated, and insufficiently resourced institutional units performing isolated single functions by individual departments within the Ministry of Roads and Transport. Currently, the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Police MTTU and DVLA together with other stakeholder organizations were mandated to ...
ABSTRACT Rework is an endemic problem in building construction projects and it is an area of research that has received limited attention. Recent research has shown that rework is the primary cause of time and schedule overruns in projects and that rework levels do not significantly differ between current procurement methods despite calls from government for the use of more integrated procurement approaches such as design-and-construct to improve project performance. The study adopted a quant...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of kindergarten teachers on integration of music in the kindergarten curriculum. The theoretical perspectives of the social cognitive theory of Bandura and Gardner‘s theory of multiple intelligences were adopted for the study. The pragmatist philosophy underpins this study. This study adopted the descriptive design using mixed-methods sequential exploratory approaches. The target population for the study was the thirty-six pu...
ABSTRACT Many students in our Colleges of Education have not been exposed to explore MS Excel in solving mathematical problems. The aim of this study was, therefore, set out to explore the various ways for teaching and learning Probability, using the MS Office Excel software programme. The study has explored how tutors and students can use MS Excel to solve problems in probability. The researcher integrated both qualitative (interviews and observation instruments) and quantitative methodologi...
ABSTRACT Mental health and behavioural problems could be attributed to early childhood and the mother-child interactions. The study aimed at investigating what impact biological and foster parenting has on the adolescent’s personality, cognitive performance, self-esteem, depression and anxiety. A case study was adopted for this study and samples were selected on a randomized convenient sampling. A population of 200 students comprising 100 females and 100 males were studied of which 50 were ...
ABSTRACT Mass housing industry is highly risk prone, with complex and dynamic projects environment which create an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk. The industry is vulnerable to various technical, managerial, socio- political among other risks. The track record to cope with these risks has not been good in the industry. As a result, the people working there bear various failures such as;inadequate specifications, errors in designs etc. with the overall consequence of poor management of ris...
ABSTRACT The dissertation was an investigation of the Feok War Dance festival celebrated by the Builsa people in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study sought to establish the provenance of the Buluk state and the position of the Feok war dance festival in Builsa in contemporary Ghana, identify security concerns raised by the festival and utilize creative elements rationalized from the magical endowments as a resource to develop a scientific security training method that guarantee public s...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare the activity-based and discussion methods of teaching and learning of seed germination: a case study in Anyinasu M/A Junior High School. Thirty pupils were involved in the study. The pupils were put into two groups (Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’). Group ‘A’ of 15 pupils were taught seed germination using discussion method whiles Group ‘B’ also made up of 15 pupils, were taught the same concept using activity-based approach. The two group...