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  • Plastic wastes to pavement blocks: A signifcant alternative way to reducing plastic wastes generation and accumulation in Ghana 
    Tulashie, Samuel Kofi; Boadu, Enoch Kofi; Kotoka, Francis; Mensah, David (University of Cape Coast, 2019)
    This study explored the conversion of plastic wastes into pavement blocks in Ghana. The physical and chemical properties of the pit sand, sea sand, plastic wastes, and pavement block were determined. The FTIR identified ...
  • Plastination: a modern approach to chiropractic teaching 
    Grondin, Gilles (1998-01)
    Plastination is a unique methodfor the preservation of biological materialfor teaching and research. The plastinated specimens are dry, odorless, non-toxic and durable. They can be manipulated by teachers and students ...
  • The plight of working children at Mankessim, Ghana 
    Esia-Donkoh, Kobina; Abani, Albert M.; Esia-Donkoh, Kweku (University of Cape Coast, 2011)
    Children serve as social assets or domestic and economic activities. It is therefore not uncommon to see children in Ghana working under the instructions of their parents. In some instances, children are engaged in economic ...
  • Polarity of Sentence Recognition with Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis 
    Yussiff, Abdul-Lateef; Yussiff, Alimatu-Sadia; Abdulkadir, Said Jadid (University of Cape Coast, 2013)
    The rate of growth of Internet services has resulted in an exponential increased on Opinions on the web. The retail industry as well as all other industries needs a technique of detecting and analyzing customer’s opinion ...
  • Polarization instability shift in birefringent single mode optical fibers 
    Ishiekwene, G.C.; Mensah, S.Y.; Brown, C.S. (University of Cape Coast, 2000)
    An intensity-dependent change in ellipticity of an input light beam leads to a characteristic shift in polarization instability. The presence of dichroism gives rise to self-induced ellipticity effect in the polarization ...
  • Policing tourism: the emergence of specialist units 
    Mawby, Rob; Boakye, Kwaku; Jones, Carol (University of Cape Coast, 2016)
    Specialist tourist police units are a recent development in many countries where tourism is important to the economy and where crimes associated with tourism are recognized. However, such developments are scarcely universal. ...
  • Polite request among the Akyem speech community in Ghana 
    Totimeh, Esther Ofosua; Bosiwah, Lawrence (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    This paper investigates into various ways by which native speakers of the Akyem Twi dialect of the Akan Language of Ghana make polite request and how social variables such as age, gender and socio-economic status influence ...
  • Politics and Ghana’s pre-tertiary curriculum reform programmes: have these helped the nation? 
    Akwesi Owusu, Anthony; Adu Opare, James; Larbie, Ernestina (International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review, 2016-11)
    The study investigated policy factors (since independence) that occasion education reforms in Ghana. Specifically, it focused on pre-tertiary education reforms in Ghana with critical historical reference to literature and ...
  • The politics of citation: An analysis of doctoral theses across disciplines 
    Afful, Joseph B.A.; Janks, Hilary (University of Cape Coast, 2013)
    Citation is used as a measure to rank academics and institutions on the assumption that the more one is cited, the greater the impact of one’s research. For this reason, citations in high impact journals that appear on ...
  • The politics of curriculum design in instructional communication in Ghana 
    Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2018)
    This paper presents findings from a two-year ethnographic study that explored how institutional politics shaped the curriculum of a graduate program in instructional communication in a Ghanaian public university. Using ...
  • The politics of theorising in historical reconstruction: An examination of the views of the protagonists and antagonists 
    Adjei, Adjepong (University of Cape Coast, 2013)
    The significance of theory in research has made the formulation and use of theories a common practice in most fields of study, particularly in the natural sciences and in some social sciences. In history, however, there ...
  • Polyamide Nanofiber Membranes Functionalized with Zinc Phthalocyanines 
    Goethals, Annelies; Mugadza, Tawanda; Arslanoglu, Yasin; Zugle, Ruphino; Antunes, Edith; Van Hulle, Stijn W. H.; Nyokong, Tebello; Clerck, Karen De (University of Cape Coast, 2013)
    Electrospinning is an efficient method for the production of polyamide nanofiber membranes that are suitable for water filtration. Previous studies have shown that nanofiber membranes have high clean water permeability. ...
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Africa: a review of environmental levels 
    Gioia, Rosalinda; Akindele, Abidemi James; Adebusoye, Sunday Adekunle; Asante, Kwadwo Ansong; Tanabe, Shinsuke; Buekens, Alfons; Sasco, Annie J. (University of Cape Coast, 2013)
    Several studies have shown an increase in PCB sources in Africa due to leakage and wrongly disposed transformers, continuing import of e-waste from countries of the North, shipwreck, and biomass burning. Techniques used ...
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls in coastal tropical ecosystems: Distribution, fate and risk assessment 
    Dodoo, D.K.; Essumang, D.K.; Jonathan, W.A.; Bentum, K. (University of Cape Coast, 2011)
    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) though banned still find use in most developing countries including Ghana. PCB congener residues in sediments in the coastal regions of Ghana were determined. Sediment samples (n¼80) were ...
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(PAH) contamination in smoke-cured fish products 
    Essumang, D.K.; Dodoo, D.K; Adjei, J.K. (University of Cape Coast, 2011)
    In this study, 108 fish samples of smoke cured fish Sardinella aurita (sardines/herrings)collected from 12 major fishing communities along the coastal belt of Ghana were extracted with Soxhlet apparatus using dichloromethane ...
  • Polymorphism of the tropical butterfly, Danaus chrysippus L., in Africa 
    Gordon, I.J (The Genetical Society of Great Britain, 1984-03)
    The polymorphism of Danaus chrysippus is anomalous since it is a distasteful butterfly. In a field study of the B locus polymorphism in Ghana, significant changes in the morph frequencies were recorded over eighteen ...
  • Polymorphismof the tropical butterfly,danaus chrysippus l., in Africa 
    Gordon, I.J. (The Genetical Society of Great Britain, 1984)
    The polymorphism of Danaus chrysippus is anomalous since it is a distasteful butterfly. In a field study of the B locus polymorphism in Ghana, significant changes in the morph frequencies were recorded over eighteen months ...
  • Polyphonie dans le discours des guides touristiques 
    Bakah, Edem Kwasi (University of Cape Coast, 2012)
    La polyphonie est un phénomène discursif qui peut définir le discours de tout locuteur. Elle se manifeste à travers, entre autres, le discours rapporté, l’ironie, la négation et la reformulation. Cet article porte sur la ...
  • A portable fibre-probe ultraviolet light emitting diode (LED)-induced fluorescence detection system 
    Buah-Bassuah, Paul K; Bergmann, Hubertus M von; Tatchie, Ebenezer T; Steenkamp, Christine M (University of Cape Coast, 2008-01-14)
    A portable fibre-probe fluorescence detection system comprising a continuous-wave high-power ultraviolet light emitting diode (UV LED) emitting at 365 nm as excitation source, a bifurcated fbre probe with a six-around-one ...
  • Positive periodic solutions for neutral functional differential systems 
    Yankson, Ernest (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    We study the existence of positive periodic solutions of a system of neutral diferential equations. In the process we construct two mappings in which one is a contraction and the other compact. A Krasnoselskii’s fixed point ...

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